Phuket - A short getaway

The husband and I got a discounted weekend stay at the Marriot Vacation Club in Phuket, and decided to bring the mother along as well, since the room had 2 bedrooms. It's a lovely resort that's near the airport, but absolutely cut off from all the action near Patong and Surin. So we decided not to take up the package.
We didn't eat in the resort at all since we rented a car, after reading all the Trip Advisor reviews about how ulu the resort was. But we had breakfast at the cafe outside the resort, with exhorbitant tourist prices too. Breakfast the first morning was khao tom muu. I love Thai porridge with the fried garlic bits.

We drove to Patong to spend a day there but there wasn't much to see or do. I did end up buying durians and sneaking them into the hotel triple-bagged : )
We ate dinner at a little restaurant just next to the beach near the hotel. When you're in an unfamiliar place, the safest thing to do is to look for a place with people.
We guessed that the place was run by Muslims, since they didn't serve pork and there weren't any spirit houses around.
We had the curry crab - this was superb, especially with white rice. The crabs weren't huge, but they were fresh and sweet.

The som tum was pretty good too. Good balance of sweet, sour and salty

We had a tom kha gai.
They were very generous with the chicken pieces.
And a larb gai too. This was pretty good!
The green curry was a bit thin, and came with some weird melon. This was just okay.
We had this baked seafood thing that was something like otak - pieces of different types of seafood baked in a curry-like coconutty mixture with egg. We were quite pleasantly surprised by this.
And breakfast again at the same cafe - phad thai
And khao tom goong.
And just before take off, at the Thai Airways cafeteria at the airport. Khao niaw mak muang : )