Food exploration: Baan Chom View Restaurant & Lobster and Prawn Restaurant

On our way up to Kata/Karon viewpoint, we stopped for brunch at Baan Chom View Restaurant. We were the 1st guests at 10.30am.
This place has nice views of the sea and from what I've read, the sunset view is even better.

We ordered Thai Fried Rice and Paad Thai (Total bill was 360B including 1 bottle of sprite)
According to hubby, the Thai Fried Rice lack belacan taste unlike the ones we've tasted in Alor Setar. We are beginning to think that maybe the food in Phuket is purposely catered for tourist's tastebuds. We Malaysians tend to like our food extra sour or super spicy...not those bland kind of food. The Paad Thai again lacked flavour but edible. Had to put heaps of chilli flakes on top to make it spicier.

For our last night dinner, we just walked in to a restaurant called Lobster and Prawn. We ordered 3 dishes: Massaman Curry, Morning Glory and Grilled Fish. Total bill was 821B.
All the dishes are were quite nice, not outstanding but okay.

Day 3: Kata/Karon Viewpoint, Nai Harn Beach, Windmill Viewpoint & Phromthep Cape

The weather forecast predicted rain and possible thunderstorm on that day. So we prayed and ask God for good sunny weather. By 9 am, it did not rain so we rented a scooter (*If you do not want to leave your original passport, you can leave a photocopy of your passport but pay 5000B as a deposit. The scooter rental is 300B for 24 hours and 80B for gasoline which was calculated when we returned the scooter)

The first place we rode to was the Kata/Karon Viewpoint. We arrived around 10am and there already so many tour busses parked there already. Most of the tourists we saw were from India and China and a handful of Thais and Europeans.
We only managed to get clear pictures taken once the crowd has left.

We rode out again at 3.30 pm towards the Windmill viewpoint and made a short stop at Nai Harn beach. This beach is much quieter than Kata beach. Had mango sticky rice for tea.

About 4.30pm, we headed over to the Windmill (a wind turbine actually) viewpoint. Apparently, this is a lesser known place compared to the famous Phromthep Cape. We almost had the whole area to ourselves. Trust me, the view of the sea is even better than that of Phrompthep Cape. We took so many photos and the selfie stick was really my best friend. I got sunburned, but for those shots it was worth it.

This man was trying to see attempt paragliding

About 5.20pm, we made our way to Phromthep cape. Throngs of people were already there waiting to catch the sunset. It was still so hot but it did not deter me from walking uphill and downhill to get some nice pictures.
I'll let you see these pictures for yourself.

I can see the wind turbine from here

Phromthep Cape

The setting sun

Sweaty and sticky but happy faces

Mom Tri's Kitchen - Wedding Anniversary Dinner

Our wedding anniversary falls on the 15th May every year. This year we decided to splurge a bit more by choosing to dine at Mom Tri's Kitchen, an award winning restaurant. I've made a reservation a month ahead informing them of this special occasion.

Mom Tri's Kitchen is a 4 minute uphill walk from our hotel. When we arrived, I was quite impressed by the landscape of this restaurant. 

Upon reaching the entrance of the restaurant, I was literally blown away by the beauty of the views in front of me. The divine setting and fabulous views of the Andaman sea took my breath away.

The highly trained staff were friendly and courteous ushering us to our table. Again, it was so nice of them to put orchid petals on our table and to select such a wonderful spot for us to dine while looking and listening to the sounds of the waves.

While waiting for our food to arrive, I head over to the piano where a gentleman was entertaining us with soft soothing music. He invited me to play and on the spot the only song I could think off was ' Scarborough Fair' - don't ask me why:)

Once back at our table,  we proceed to order our food. The list of appetizers were so appealing that we chose 4 appetizers to start off followed by 2 mains and a dessert.

Appetizers:

1. Kata Noi Crab Cakes

2. Crab Souffle

3. Gung Ravioli

4. Mom Tri Salad

Mains:

1. Barolo Risotto

2. Tempura Snapper

Dessert:

Apple crumble with vanilla ice cream

The food was awesome. I loved all the appetizers especially the Crab Souffle and Gung Ravioli. We were really satisfied and full to the brim. Totally underestimated the size of our tummies.

Before we left, they presented me with a single rose. How sweet!

We left but not before snapping more pictures of the place.

We had a lovely and romantic dinner here at Mom Tri's Kitchen.
Hopefully we will be back one day:)

Oh in case you are wondering how much the cost was...it was about 4600B.

Food exploration: Orchid Restaurant - Kata Phuket

This unassuming restaurant was not in my list of places to eat. If for not a waiter standing outside by the pavement calling out to us, we wouldn't have known it exists because it is a little deep inside.

Pictures of their menu displayed along the wall

It was quiet when we arrived. There was only a gentleman sitting alone by himself.
We looked at the menu and found the prices reasonable.

Not to overeat in order to prepare our tummies for dinner, hubby ordered pineapple fried rice and I had tomyam noodle with chicken. We also had prawn fritters.

Pineapple fried rice

Prawn Fritters

Tomyam noodle with chicken

I absolutely love their pineapple fried rice and prawn fritters. The pineapple fried rice came with generous amount of prawns and squid. Thumbs up also for the prawn fritters. Unfortunately again, the tomyam fail to pass the test. I am amnoyed as there were beansprouts into tomyam. Do they not know that beansprouts kill the taste of tomyam? No one likes sweet tomyam...gosh!

The lunch was overall pleasant nevertheless. Total bill came up to 420B.