Phuket.com Magazine

November 2007 - Thai Experience

Dusit Laguna's restaurant

Welcome to Phuket.com’s November issue. This month we explore a Thai theme and cover dining out at Panwa House, a beautiful old Colonial-style mansion and China Inn, a Chinese shop-house converted into a marvelous Thai restaurant, a medium in Phuket’s world-famous Vegetarian Festival, amulets for sale downtown and our hotel reviews follow suite.

Dusit Laguna Resort has been a favourite among visitors to the island for an amazing 37 years now and its Thai-style hospitality and architecture is as distinctive as it was then. In contrast, At Panta Phuket, situated in the island’s ancient capital Thalang, is a newcomer but a very winsome one with its ‘Lanna’ Northeast Thai-influenced teakwood architecture and design. Find out what it’s like to stay at these places.

Keep abreast of the island’s news and developments with our monthly news and discover Rawai’s Art Village. There’s all this and more in our November issue. We hope you enjoy it.

The Editor
editor@phuket.com

Thai Buddha Amulets Centre

In a tiny alley off Rassada Rd in Phuket City, just a few steps from Salvatore’s Italian restaurant, is the Phuket Buddha image and amulet centre, a specialised market that attracts many local and overseas Buddhists.
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Phuket November News

The fifth Phuket International Marine Expo (Pimex) will take place from December 6 to 9, this time at the Royal Phuket Marina in Koh Kaew.
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Dusit Laguna Resort Phuket

The Dusit Laguna Resort has been consistently wowing visitors for more than 37 years and is situated on Bang Tao Beach on Phuket’s west coast.
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Spirit medium
of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival

There are fascinating scenes in the streets of Phuket in late October or early November every year when local people, mainly Thais of Chinese blood, dress in white for the nine days of the Vegetarian Festival. Streets are festooned with yellow flags, a symbol of the festival. Food stalls are set up along the sidewalks and this is a great time to try out a huge variety of Phuket-style vegetarian dishes. Phuket.com talked with a mah song, Uten Tengkan, about what it is like being a vessel for a god.
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At Panta Phuket Hotel

The instant you enter At Panta’s grounds the tranquility is almost tangible. By the lobby entrance stands an old rickshaw as if to say, ‘Take it easy; you won’t be needing a car for as long as you’re here.’ This resort is almost exclusively designed in the ‘Lanna’ style of fifteenth-century Northwestern Thailand and the accent is on teakwood floors, furniture and walls.
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Phuket Hotel Updates

It’s not so secret anymore. The opening of the Secret Cliff on Phuket’s west coast gives diners yet another sunset-watching option. Visitors looking for their ‘own’ property here can take heart; Laguna Phuket Holiday Residences offer just that. Meanwhile, Phuket’s east coast has a brand new hotel, the Best Western Premier Supalai Resort and Spa. Indigo Pearl Resort and Spa are proud to announce that May Palmer features at the hotel’s Rebar lounge. Read more...

Bamboo Rafting & Elephant Trekking

It’s nine o’clock on a sunny morning and here comes the minivan to take us bamboo rafting at Khao Lak. Apart from the bamboo rafting today is all about animals. Hawksbill and Ridley Turtles, elephants, crocodiles, lots of fish, gibbons and of course, Thailand’s wonderful birdlife.
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Rawai Art Village

A quiet, laid-back area at the south end of the island, Rawai has a reputation as the most relaxed place in Phuket. Over the past few years, it has also gained a name as an art community, with a growing group of artists getting together and staging collective exhibitions under the name Rawai Artists.
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Panwa House and China Inn Café

This month, we’re keeping strictly to our Thai theme. Sam Wilkinson visits two uniquely Thai restaurants, Panwa House and China Inn. These beautifully kept restaurants are redolent of the time when tin was king in Phuket, when a worldwide demand for the ore precipitated a boom in the island’s economy. This was a time when tin barons lived like kings in palatial mansions like Panwa House and when Chinese traders kept shop in houses like China Inn Café. Read more...

Seafood Phad Thai by Chef P. Kaoropwongchai

Pairoj Kaoropwongchai has been a chef for about 25 years. He joined the Hilton Phuket Arcadia Resort & Spa in 2004 when the hotel was rebranded, and helped launch the resort’s new Thai Thai restaurant. Originally from Bangkok, Chef Pairoj learned to cook both Thai and Chinese food from many people.
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Loy Krathong Festival

Loy Krathong is probably the most romantic festival in Thailand and can be traced back to the 13th century in the Sukhothai period. It is held on the night of the 12th full moon which this year is in the month of November (22nd - 24th November, 2007). The main purpose of the festival is to pay respect to the God of the river. When people float their krathong, they make a wish for good luck, happiness and wealth. Read more...

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