The Hungry (Greedy) Hippo: Phuket randoms

Ok, so I wasn't at a remote Thai island...it was Phuket and despite being the off-season, it was still terribly crowded. We stayed at the Chedi at Pansea Beach, which was separated from Surin Beach by a little cliff. Even though the hotel was a little old compared to the other newer ones at Surin like Twin Palms, it was worth it since the Chedi had its own private beach and was much more affordable compared to its more prestigious neighbour the Amanpuri (which we sneaked into as well).

Some gastronomic highlights of the trip:

Fried rice at a random restaurant at Surin Beach

Beef noodles and beer at the same place

Beef noodles at the foodcourt at Junkceylon shopping centre at Patong Beach - these were really good, and cost 50 baht.

Som tum at the same place - another 50 baht

The wide array of jams at the Chedi breakfast buffet...the mango and papaya jam was really good!

Breakfast on day 1: gravalax and caprese salad

Close up of the salmon and cottage cheese on rye bread

We had mozzarella cheese with tomato and basil every morning....ate it happily until it was coming out of my ears

The cheese platter was pretty good...with lots of emmental cheese which went really well with the cold cuts on top of rye bread....

We also found this place at Surin Beach called the Catch Beach Club, which was a really nice place for sundowner drinks. Not cheap though, at 240 baht per pop when all the other places were having their happy hour special at 99 baht.

The view was free

Catch has a BBQ buffet on Tuesdays and Fridays, and it costs 1490 baht per person with a bottle of wine per couple. Since we already had our evening drinks, we took the teetotaller option of paying 1190 baht per person for the buffet only.