Set near a beautiful lake, this sprawling restuarant has little huts set on the perimeter of the lake, and a main restuarant area for those who prefer to sit on chairs. In the huts, one would have to sit cross legged, but have the option to lie down too. Popular with families, it is a lovely place to lie back and chill out with friends too.

The menu is mainly in Thai, but contains many photos of the hot favourites and some English words too. Mid priced,  my meal was a total of 1030 baht.

Star of the night! Actually I can't decide which I like more, the Tom Yam Pla or this deep fried fish in light batter with green mango salad. I can't really eat spicy food, so I ate the portion without the spicy mango strips.

Deep fried pork in a light coating of flour. Deliciously crunchy.

Skip the prawn - totally forgettable. Too much batter and too little (pun intended) prawn.

This has to be the best Tom Yam Fish I have ever tasted. With a strong and slightly sweet tomato base, chilli, ginger, lime, purple onions and lemongrass flavour the amazing soup. Bubbling gently in a charcoal aluminium steamboat, it is filled with mushrooms and chunks of the fresh water Mekong river fish, the snakehead.

Sliced pork noodles are extremely popular with the locals and you often see people at all times at the shop.


Open from 6am till late, the soup is a hearty broth made from pork bones and it is tasty and salty with a strong meat flavour.


My noodles cost only 40 baht and look at how much sliced pork is packed in my bowl! 


I tried doing a takeaway, and was impressed all everything was individually packed. I also got to bring home an assortment of condiments, vegetables and herbs packed separately. 


It is quite a ritual customizing your own bowl of noodles. Choose the vegetables that will go into your noodles soup from cabbage, basil, mint and bean sprouts first, before tossing in condiments like sugar, fish sauce,  vinegar and chili powder. 


Toss everything together as if it is a salad, and the resulting will taste different from your friend's!

6 day trip to the Issan Region, in Northeastern Thailand, 5th May 2013 - 10 May 2013
In 5 days, I was taken to amazing temples with gorgeous views and was given a "blind" Issan tour, finding out where I am only at arrival, Being a Christian, I wasn't able to fully appreciate to prayers and wishes granted by each monk or buddha at each of the visited temples, but the architecture was certainly very beautiful. There was good food along the way, interesting experiences like eating ant eggs and flowers, wonderful friends who took pains to explain whatever I was curious about and a memorable alcoholic sunset all thrown in.

If you would like to be able to find the same Temples or places that I visited, all you need to do is to click the map and zoom in to the pins. You should be able to get to the same location. When possible, I have also included the thai name, so that if all else fails, just show the photo or the description.  Trip Color Application REVIEW
I've decided to record my 5 day trip with " Trip color ", the app available for iphone users as I had amassed a whopping 800 photos in the 5 day trip, and couldn't remember where I went to, as all the places I went to were in Thai. This app helped by geotagging the photos ( putting a location to each photo ) and I was able to retrace my trip. Do check out the review to find out more.