Sawadeeekaappp.... Chiang Mai Special 4

Cafe De Siam..

Located just around the corner from Imperial Mae Ping, Cafe De Siam became our "bus stop" during our stay in Chiang Mai. It's actually a coffee house, and the interior decor sort of reminds me of star bucks and delifrance. it's not overly crowded, and everytime we went there, we could only see foreigners frequenting the outlet. the coffee was good. i especially recommend their siam coffee shake. it's really delicious. it doesn't have that awful after taste. it's really nice.

price wise it's kinda expensive. service was good.. well depending on who's waiting your table. cause it can be slow. we missed the bus on the second day cause the server took a long time getting our bill. but they were nice. it's all that matters especially after a really long walk and your feet really hurt and you need to just relax.

i didn't try the sandwiches.. often too full from lunches or dinners.. but i did try the mocha cake. i think they put the cake in the fridge for too long, the cream hardened. otherwise the cake was very kind to my taste buds. fabulous! no wonder i developed the extra two tires when i came back from chiang mai.

for the ambience, the service and the best coffee and milk shakes, i'd give 2 thumbs up.

Camera... action.. take 2.. huhu... penat... that's me drinking the siam coffee shake.










That's blueberry banana milk shake.. loved it.. too bad i had it on the last day.. would have gotten it everyday.. if only i knew it was that good.. :P (tu yang bertambah berat sekilo tu)








normi's drinking her favorite drink at cafe de siam.. iced chocolate. it's iced chocolate three days in a row.. :P

Sawadeeekaaapppp... Chiang Mai Special 3

our third restaurant would be el-ruammit. it's right next to arabia restaurant in the anusarn market. opposite of asma. so, if you'd like to have good halal food, just go to anusarn and find these restaurants. they are in the center of the bazaar.

el-ruammit or honey chicken barbeque restaurant is a small restaurant that sells thai/chinese halal food. actually a malaysian family told us that they had dinner at el-ruammit but the fish was kinda smelly. we ordered fish but we asked the fish to be fried with garlic.. boy it was delicious.

we had a big stomach.. i mean a big feast that night. and we finished it all. . we ordered fried fish with garlic, fried chicken with chilli, broccoli with shrimp, seafood tomyam, kerabu sotong, to be eaten with plain rice. we each order iced lychee and iced longan and they only cost us 225 Baht. hehee.. the fish was perfectly fried. it didn't smell fishy at all, but the seafood tomyum was kinda sweet. and they put fish in the tomyum, not to my liking. i kinda regret it that i didn't ask for the honey bbq chicken, must've been good since they are called that. but there's always next visit right? minta2 la ek?

the location was perfect, it's about 3 blocks from the mosque, and right in the middle of anusarn. can always take the tuk tuk there. or you can always walk if u're staying at the night bazaar.

sawadeekaaapp... Chiang Mai Special 2

the next restaurant in my chiang mai special is a punjabi restaurant. it's down the street from imperial mae ping. i'm not sure what's the name of the street. but it's right next to wat chang kung. there were big signs leading to it.. halal restaurant that way.. halal restaurant this way..

anyway, the restaurant was quite.. we thought it was because it's not meal time just yet. when we arrived a punjab woman greeted us. convinced that she can provide us with halal meals, we sat down and ordered.yellow rice and my chicken in chilli,
normi's masala and white rice and some vege pakora

i ordered yellow rice and chicken with chilli, while normi had plain rice with chicken masala. we also ordered vegetable pakora. thought it would be fried vegetables, cause the description sort of gave us that idea. turned out it was jemput-jemput sayur. cehh... looked over-fried and the sauce was not good at all. the only good thing about it was that we were hungry and the food was edible.

alhamdulillah... for 260 Baht, i think asma restaurant was way better.. two thumbs down lah..

sawadeekaaappp... Chiang Mai special..

i'm gonna do it differently this entry.. not gonna tell about makan place in bangi.. instead, i'll highlight the halal restaurants we went to during our visit to chiang mai, thailand..

asma restaurant..

location: behind the peak center in anusarn night bazaar.
rating:

• taste: two thumbs up
• price: kinda high for my pocket...

this was the first halal restaurant we found in chiang mai. actually we've already googled the halal restaurants available in chiang mai, and 4 names came up including asma restaurant. we sort of stumbled upon asma restaurant, we're looking for arabia restaurant which turned out was located right opposite of asma.. but it was raining pretty heavily and we're desperately needed shelter and food. so, asma we went.

we had bombay briyani, normi and i. it's actually a chicken briyani + potato. we also had mutton curry with it. normi asked for plain water and i opted for mango lassi..

Delicious mutton curry... yumm..

they cost 225 baht, which was about RM22.50. quite an expensive deal for briyani. but we were starving, and we had plenty of baht cash at that moment of time. so, no biggie.

Bombay briyani.. chicken and potato briyani

the mutton curry was delicious. but the service was kinda awful for me. i guess when you have to pay that much for a lousy briyani and curry, you're expecting more from the waiter. so i only left them 5 baht for tips. hehe.. ok la tu got tips. the waiter was kinda rude when we asked what's their speciality.. but they were fast. kudos for that.