Hatyai Food Guide 合艾·美食指南

Hatyai Food guide

What come through our mind when we think of Thailand? FOOD!!! This is a 2 days 1 night trip to Hatyai with the purpose of tasting as much food as we can. As you guys know, you can taste all the food in Hatyai in just 2 or 3 days. From hawker stall to restaurants, they serve all kind of food. There are countless food selling there and the down side is our stomach space is limited. Today, we would like to recommend some of the food that we had tried out in Hatyai. If you plan to visit Hatyai, please do not hesitate to refer this as references. We are pleased to share this with you guys.

这一篇部落主题明确，花了两天一夜在泰国合艾，不为什么，是为「觅食」。大家都知道合艾美食是绝对不能在两三天就吃完的，从街道旁的小吃到店里林林总总的食物，好吃不好吃，数都数不尽，更何况我们肠胃的空间有限。今天我们推荐了一些食物，假如你有计划去合艾的打算，不妨参考参考。

MADE IN PENANG - Interactive Museum 美因槟榔

槟城的魔镜系列壁画引起了大家对古迹文化区的关注，顿时成了游客必到的热门拍照景点。到槟城游玩，没有和「姐弟共骑」或是「反应老槟城风俗的铁线漫画装置艺术」合影，旅途就好像缺少了什么。后来，越来越多的壁画开始出现，有些在餐厅，有些在自家大门，甚至有了「工程庞大」的寻找101只失踪猫咪街头艺术。艺术与发展并存是件好事，但「多」也是一种泛滥，旅客的旅行焦点从古迹观赏转移到了五彩缤纷，颜色庸俗的各类壁画。

这一股热潮至今还未停止，却衍生新的形式——十一月开张的Made In Penang Interactive Museum（美因槟榔3D博物馆），中文名字音译Made In Penang，美丽是因为槟榔屿。

As you guys know, Penang had been fill with “Mirror Georgetown” mural which aroused many attention to the cultural heritage zone. You can’t say that you had visit Penang if you did not take photo with the famous “sibling riding bicycle” or   “rail comic art”. It just feels like you are missing something else. Later, more mural began to appear, some in the restaurant, some in their own doors. Even there are 101 missing cat street arts which require you to find all those cat in the heritage area.  Coexistent of art and development is a good thing, but when it became too much, traveller’s focus will shifted from watching heritage to all the colorful mural art.  

The craze has not yet stopped, this emerge into new forms. That is Made In Penang Interactive Museum that opened at November.

客家山寨 Balik Pulau Lodge

参观客家山寨已是八月份的事，写这一篇文章是为了分享游览山寨的一些大小事，顺便成为我们部落的当头炮。山寨这个词总是让人想起山里设有栅栏围墙的少数民族村庄，里边甚至住了许多绿林好汉，也给人一种贬义的意思，让人联想到昔日的土匪住处，但这个现代山寨却别有一番风味。

山寨特色：吃在山寨、住在山寨、玩在山寨。就是冲着这个头衔，我们有了期待。和朋友约好时间，直接拨通电话联系客家山寨，预定客家午餐。

那天星期六，打开卫星导航系统，驱车嘟嘟嘟前往客家山寨，靠着仅有的一个地址出发，途中一直以为迷路，因为人烟稀少，路途波折弯曲，知道在回教堂转了个弯，进入条只允许一辆车通行的泥路，走了几十分钟，靠着对导航系统的信任，终于守得云开见月明，看见山寨的指示牌。

由于安全起见，车子是不允许上山的，所以我们便把车停在数量有限的泥地，然后等候专车接待上山闯山寨。当然你也可以选择步行山路斜坡上去，大约一公里的路程，预计三十分钟时间，我们不希望一身汗水狼狈摸样，所以事先联络负责人以便安排专车载送上山，崎岖不平的山路，像乘搭过山车那般过瘾。

Since this is our first blog post , we are going to write about Balik Pulau Lodge. Although we had been there during august, but we still feel that it is so meaningful for us. You know why?  Because their boss share our photo in her Facebook and give us a good compliment. Haha!!! For those who haven’t visit there before, they will think that it will be some sort of minority villages or even there will have some martial art master that stay in it. And with the word “山寨”, we can stop our self to think that there will be a home ground for bandit. But no worry, it is completely opposite to what you’re belief when u visits there. 

Because of their feature “吃在山寨、住在山寨、玩在山寨”, we decide to have a visit. But before that we already make reservation with them for lunch, if not lunch will not be served. Then on the Saturday morning, we depart to Hakka village with simply a GPS and their address. 

Along the road, you will feel like you are going to lost in the middle of nowhere.  The road is slowly become twist and turn and become one way after u make a turn before the mosque. At last, we feel so relief when we saw their sign board. After that, we have to park our car at the parking space that they provide and wait for their car to arrive. 

There are 2 options for you to choose: 1) sit their car to reach the village 2) by your own trusty legs. We choose to sit their car since we all are so lazy and don’t want to sweat like hell. We have to much fun during the ride because the road are so bumpy. It feels like we are riding roller coaster. If you choose to walk by your own, the distance is about 1km and you need approximately 30min to reach. 

YOLO (In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on)