Thailand again!

In less than a month, me and my super housemate have decided not to let our paid Thailand car insurance expired without another trip to our Northern neighbour.
From just travel to the sungai Golok, we made a crazy act, we drove all the way to Hatyai, the third largest city in Thailand.
As usual, we set our GPS from Rantau Panjang
We departed after had our breakfast at home at 9am, filled up the petrol to full tank. Reached malaysia-thai border in 40 minutes drive. Pass through Malaysia custom, Thai immigration office. Had the documents signed as we are driving the car, without paying any extra money.
We went through Narathiwat, to the small town of Pattani, where more thailand soldiers and checkpoints. We were stopped by the first checkpoint in pattani, asking where are we going , they must be very curious why two girls driving malaysian car to the southern thailand state. But it was just a short interview and they let us pass through.
We stopped by at a stall in Pattani town to have lunch. just a simple kuey tiaw soup and fried kuey tiaw.
Well, the taste of the food more or less like the kelantan food. most of them speak Malay in this state.








we continue our journey and reach hatyai around 130pm local time. after check in to the hotel which i book online earlier we go to the town area and had another round of makan makan..
Yes, this is the mouth watering dish that we are waiting for...it is good, a shop opposite to the hatyai merridian hotel
After so satisfied with our late lunch, we decided to walk to the market area. Sadly the kim yong market was just another version of petaling street.

We had another round of eating after come back from kim yong market, which is the bird nest.





We walk around the lee plaza hotel and also the centara hotel plaza which house a central supermarket.
First round of shopping done and we had our hands filled with clothes.
After coming out from the shopping spree, we decided to go for thai massage and spa.
And before that, the hawker area already start selling food and here what we bought for dinner...

ok we just bought the prawn, as we are planning to get a proper dinner in green way market

Greenway market is a night market just behind our hotel, we had the mango rice and also som tam for dinner on top of the fried chicken and prawn. After that we just walk around the market and there is another round of shopping. :)

The next day we went to the town area again to have our breakfast. I think next time I shall stay in the town area. We walk to the Robinson for hunting for chinese new year clothes, and again, it is a great bargain as they are having Christmas sales now.
We then walk around to the railway station to have a look. Okay, I love taking picture of railway station as it is a nostalgic for the city. For me, the best one is still Ipoh railway station.

 After a late afternoon lunch, we travel to songkla samila beach to look at the mermaid!

 We found this uncle instead.. haha
but words of wisdom!
At night we are in central festival for thai food. only thai baht 500 for the food!

Seafood tom yam

thai herbal chicken

fried kangkung

duck and some spices

Another round of shopping in the central festival before the day ends.. 

 the next day we just walk around the morning market but we are trapped in the heavy downpour for few hours. But we did manage to find a local place for lunch before heading back to malaysia.

guess what is this? it is a milk tea, it is too sweet as compared to the bangkok milk tea.

Going back was adventurous, we decided to take the takbai route instead of sungai golok
hehe, we arent expecting the ferry from takbai to pengkalan kubor can carry the car but when we see the ferry, we are sweating haha..it is just so small and only can carry 9 cars per trip.
Luckily it was just a short trip, about 5 minutes we are back to malaysia.