{"id":566,"date":"2009-01-11T20:26:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/?p=566"},"modified":"2009-01-11T20:26:25","modified_gmt":"2009-01-11T12:26:25","slug":"hatyai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/2009\/01\/11\/hatyai\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatyai"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following morning after early Christmas celebration with Sia family<\/a>, my mom, youngest sis, 3rd sis and family, me and Jonathan boy (Darling\u00a0couldn’t take leave)\u00a0travelled down to Hatyai in a fully-loaded Avanza. 3rd BIL’s sister stay in Hatyai so we got ourselves free accomodation, free food, free transport and free translator \ud83d\ude1b .<\/p>\n

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We enjoyed sitting on the uncovered pick-up truck.<\/p>\n

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If it wasn’t for 3rd BIL’s nieces (on the left and right, center is my\u00a0youngest sis)\u00a0who can converse in Thai, we will be talking cats and dogs, pointing and showing signs.<\/p>\n

Purpose of the trip was not\u00a0for a last minute Christmas shopping but targeted shopping for bags, shoes and pyjammas. That was our target but only 1 out of 3 targets achieved…BAGS.\u00a0 I got my handbag at RM50 and I think it is not really cheap as compared to branded bags on 50% – 70% sales over here. It’s either we are not good in bargaining or the prices really gone up. Zebra’s\u00a0cookware\u00a0cost\u00a0so much\u00a0more compared to few years ago. Pyjammas selling at pasar malam here is cheaper than those selling in Hatyai. Youngest sis got a travel suitcase at RM110 which I think is a good buy. We didn’t go for much Thai authentic food as 3rd BIL’s sis rarely eat out.<\/p>\n

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None of us dare to try the well-known fried insects or worms.<\/p>\n

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Mom found home made ice lolli which she used to enjoy when she was a kid. They pour carbonated drink into the iron rod and soak it in salted ice water. Within few minutes, you got the ice lolli at just 30 cents.<\/p>\n

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We have seen this bottle before in KL but just didn’t know why we got attracted to it and start camwhoring with it. Silly us… \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

We went to hypermarkets like Tesco and Makro. Milk powders there\u00a0are few dollars cheaper but I wonder if it is of the same formula so ended up not buying as I rather not take any risk. The diet of Malaysian babies maybe different from Thai babies. We bought a trolley of Lay’s potato chips. They are real cheap. I saw a Malaysian tourist bought a trolley full of it.<\/p>\n

Mom not forgetting to bring home some Thai fragrant rice for Dad. I’m not a picky eater so I can’t differentiate local and Thai rice. We changed for around\u00a04000 baht and all gone after spending 3D 2N there. Nothing much we have bought but mostly spent on the food.\u00a0 Food there are not cheap though. All broke and\u00a0so time to\u00a0go to\u00a0Penang to replenish our vitamin “M”.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan sitting happily on his car seat at the back of the Avanza stuffed with lots of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following morning after early Christmas celebration with Sia family, my mom, youngest sis, 3rd sis and family, me and Jonathan boy (Darling\u00a0couldn’t take leave)\u00a0travelled down to Hatyai in a fully-loaded Avanza. 3rd BIL’s sister stay in Hatyai so we got ourselves free accomodation, free food, free transport and free translator \ud83d\ude1b . We enjoyed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":670,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bondedtogether.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}