The ladies were not very impressed with the food served at this restaurant overlooking the confluence of Ruak river and Mekong River at the Golden Triangle. This restaurant basically cater for tourists who come to visit the Golden Triangle. They told the tour guide that they would write about this place.
Personally, I did not have issue about the food. At least, the building structure impressed me. I was amazed to see such huge columns made literally from tree trunks which I believe are teak.
In this restaurant, we tried Thai pancakes for the first time.
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To assuage the "displeasure" of the ladies on food, our tour guide quickly made a few phone calls and later stopped for lunch at a road side restaurant along the way back from Chiang Rai to Chiang Mai. Beside the restaurant proper, a few huts are built just outside the main hall overlooking the Chiang Rai-Chiang Mai highway.
This is where we ate Thai Tom Yam inside Thai territory for the first time. The food was really good this time.
We also had first hand experience to see how Thai politicians do their campaign - a truck mounted with big poster and the loud speaker blasting political slogans and urging people to vote for so and so, This is very much like our recycled truck which occasionally come to the housing estate with the loud speaker turned on, and the phrase is repeated non-stop "collect old newspapers, collect old newspapers.......................".
Our Massage ladies strongly recommended us to try the Chinese restaurant which is a few doors away from their outlet and opposite our hotel, Chiang Mai Plaza Hotel. As it turned out, this is run by a Teochew family with the surname of Chia. The dish of the night - Suckling pig! Four of us ate up the whole piglet. Even the towkay ngeoh (proprietor's wife) was amazed at our appetite!!
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