Places to eat in Hat Yai

Kan Eng Restaurant is one of the many Chinese restaurants in Hatyai... The restaurant is non-airconditioned but airy... it is clean and the eatery pleasant...

Favorite Dish: The restaurant specialises in Chinese and Thai food... its Tom Yum Kung is great and so are its fish dishes... but i particularly like its braised pig trotters... For those who are not conversant in Thai dishes, braised pig trotters is a speciality in Thailand and is available in most restaurants and hawker stalls...

The Sor Hueng Restaurant sells Teo Chiew porriage... It is the only porriage restaurant that I came across in Hatyai... All the dishes that go with the porriage are displayed in a large warmer for your selection... The ambience is good and the restaurant clean, with the ever attentive staff to serve you...

Favorite Dish: There are at least 30 types of dishes to go with your porriage... with the usual salted egg, salted vegetable, braised parts of pigs (such as trotters, intestines, ear, mouth etc), braised duck, chicken, fried toufu... and many more... You need only to point what you want and say how many people there are on your table... and the correct portion will be delivered to the table...

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They claim to serve more food then any other pub.
Open Daily from 11:00 am to 01:00am
SPECIAL OFFER
Express Lunch and Dinner 11:00am to 09:00pm

Example of menu:

Spaghetti Bolognese.......................70 Baht
Chicken Chop...................................70 Baht
Fried Rice or Fried Noodle.............40 Baht
Chicken and Mushroom sauce.....80 Baht
Fish and Chips.................................80 Baht
Mixed Vegetables & rice.................50 Baht

Happy Hour 09:00am to 09:00 pm
Singha beers...................................40 Baht
Chang beers....................................30 Baht
Whisky and coke.............................40 Baht
Tequila..............................................30 Baht

Listen to the music of THE PYRITE BAND (performed nightly 8.45 pm to 01:00 am) while you sit back and enjoy a drink

Favorite Dish: I ordered the Chicken with mushroom sauce and I wasnt sorry ..it was very nice....different to what I expected. Verne got the fried noodles (he loves it)

Another fantastic 'hole-in-the-wall' local restaurant.
This place is very simple. They have a very large pot of clear soup. You order a dish and select the type of noodles you want. A handful of noodles are put into a wire basket and lowered into the hot soup for a few seconds to cook. The noodles are then put into a bowl and various meats, vegetables and herbs added. A ladleful of soup is added. On the table to accompany your meal are fresh bean shoots and mint leaves and of course the Thai condiments - sugar, dried chilis, vinegar with chilis etc.
Average cost is about 30 baht.

Favorite Dish: Noodle soup with chicken or shrimp.

As there are many muslims, particularly from Malaysia visit Hatyai, the city has many muslim restaurants and outlet... One such example is the marati muslim food court located diagonally opposite the Hatyai railway station... There are also many muslim hawkers selling food along the shopping and entertainment area around the three Niphat Uthit 1, 2 and 3 Roads...

Favorite Dish: The speciality hawker food seems the ever popular fried chicken, fish and crab... Nasi campur (mixed rice) is also widely available here...

I can't remember the name of this restaurant. The restaurant do sell bird nest soup, shark fin soup, and you can also order other food. In this restaurant we can see their female workers processing the bird nest, picking tiny bird feathers from the bird nest. Bird nest is very expensive delicacy, I bet you won't eat it if you know the bird nest come from the saliva of swiftlets.

Anyway, we are here to eat their TomYam and fried pineapple rice. Both are very good.

If you've perused my other reviews of "Songkhla" then you've seen my restaurant review of the Vietnamese restaurant "Tongfoon" which is actually in Hat Yai...

When I started these restaurant reviews, I had trouble trying to maneuver these site pages, so now I think I've finally gotten things straight...

Cello, is a tiny restaurant with a BIG taste. It is literally hidden, on the corner next to the Tongfoon restaurant and the Gusto Pub.

Cello might be tiny, but the quality they dish out is out of this world!

Nice, pleasant atmosphere with featured artwork, plants, comfortable chairs, air-con, clean bathrooms, etc...tiny, address book-size menus that prove to be extremely diverse, offering up Neo-Thai dishes as well as a few Western delights to calm the feverish palate.

Just basically a really nice feel to this place, which, if you ask me, is a better choice than the Vietnamese restaurant next door.

Favorite Dish: On my first go-round, I sampled:

Golden fried appetizer baskets
Roast Duck in Green curry
BBQ Duck in Sweet and Sour Sauce
Pork Ribs in Marmalade Sauce

*Please excuse the fact that these were NOT the EXACT descriptions on the menu...only what I could remember hours later!

Verdict?

Absolutely delicious.

You gotta try this place. Their Thai food is not the conventional Thai food that you get in every other Thai restaurant throughout Hat Yai...it's a step different...in the GOOD FOOD direction!

My rating?

EXCELLENT...a hidden delight.

One of the thing that i wanted to eat in Thailand before i actually go there is GREEN CURRY. Once i was in Hat Yai, it is hard to find a restaurant serving green curry, or maybe i don't really know what they called it. But then i came across a pub with live band, offering Green Curry. Without wasting any time, i straight away went into it.
I like their green curry very much... it was very nice (if you like to eat hot & spicy food).!!! yummy.... some more they have live band after 10pm.... our timing was so nice that we can relax after the meal, listening to the live performance from the locals.

Favorite Dish: Green Curry is the BEST! beside, i also tried their pineapple fried rice, honestly it was not good as what i expected.