Dalah Restaurant Muak Lek

Daron was the one who suggested we go to Dalah Restaurant. Before going to the MSML, we actually planned to dine at Dalah but it was closed. However we insisted to go again and this time were we glad it was open and we were the only customers (you know ML!)!













Located not too far away from Muak Lek town (about 3km), Dalah is just next to a big open space go-cart track. According to sources, the owner of Dalah owns the track entertainment biz and have another restaurant biz somewhere around Thailand. Hmm, no wonder Dalah looked a lil' bit pricey for a small town. A "little" bit pricey it is but the food I can testify is just so scrumptious! With delectably Thai and American cuisine, who can resist from not coming back?? In Dalah, it's like you're surrounded by nature. Houseplants, ferns, Chinese evergreen...as if the owner knows how to zen up diners who are looking for a nice and quite place to enjoy their noon lunch and evening dinners...



A choiceful menu toppled with a friendly smile from a lady made us felt more than welcomed and at ease. As I browsed through, I thought I wanted to sample most of the dishes listed and not to mention that the rest of my food buddies were speaking of mouth watering dishes of too many! Well, the lady (we guessed she must be the owner) was kind enough to suggest what we must try on the menu! One of the many that we all went gaga over was Big Fish kapong fried in Thai herbal sauce. If you happen to visit, do try this dish. The sweet sour spicy taste sure will remain until flesh is all removed from the bones! I guess I'm beginning to exaggerate! Other dishes ordered were chicken salad (came in big portion), Thai coconut milk soup (perfect taste), and mix vegetables. As we were occupied with the food, I thought we kept blurting out compliments here and there.









Truly, we really enjoyed the evening and the food. If there is one bad to confess, I have to say it's the mosquitoes! You know how a jungle like place would be do you? Yet, the repellent provided was all we needed to keep the pleasure pleasant!

Thanks Dee & Darz for a lovely evening!

Mini Swensens Muak Lek

In fact I don't even know the name of this ice cream parlor Dee & Darz took us too. It's located in Muak Lek's town. While browsing the menu we thought ah! Look...they have Earthquake just like Swensen...they even have this...and have that! That's why as for now, Mini Swensen ML it should be unless someone can help me with the name! :)

As we stepped into this small ice cream corner cafe, we could feel the pink vibe all around us. In fact, it's not all about ice cream. MSML --for short, offer quite a number of stationary and cute hair accessories for sell. If I'm not mistaken, they even sell some cute ornaments!

cute glass!

The pink vibe! Yes, we sat on a cute white-pinkish painted with flowery table for 4 and browsed through the menu. The owner of the shop, seemed to be two elderly around their 40s-50s along with their high school daughter (spoke good English) apparently were indulging Thai soap operas before they sensed that there's customers! Parents continued gluing their eyes towards the tv while daughter dear took the orders.

I forgot who ordered what but these were the ice creams we enjoyed:

It wasn't bad afterall. In fact it was good! I love the jelly-like colorful garnish on my ice cream! It seems that ML ice cream lovers don't have to drive too far after all for the real franchised Swensens because MSML serves some yummylicious flavors too! Besides, this place is a good place to hang out, equipped with a/c, quite (except when owners are watching soaps), easy-to-follow-menu and inhance a bit of a shopping mood plus ice creams are twice cheaper! One thing, they should add music to the vibe or have they? :)

* The X means either finish or out of stock

*Look familiar?

*Creative!

I'll surely visit again if I happen to be in ML! This time I'll go for the earthquake! Only 59 Baht!

Santa Fe

Hobbit and I dined at Santa Fe for several times already but never took any pictures of what we ate. Maybe we knew since this Franchise is common in Thailand, the chances of us coming back is big. Well, today we craved for some steaks and decided to pay Santa Fe a visit again. So we drove to Seacon and settled at 1st floor Santa Fe. FYI, there are two Santa Fe's around Seacon Square. One is right at the top floor (same floor as the theater) and the newly opened which is at the 1st floor.

As usual we were greeted by all the sweet voices from the waiters/waitresses and one of them brought us to our seat inside the mini train. As the waitress waited for our order, she must have heard our little discussion and decided to speak in English. As Hobbit placed his order, I was still busy flipping through the menu salivating and can't really decide what to eat. I was torn apart between fish fillet and beef steak. So at first I said fish fillet and the waitress quickly wrote it on the menu. Then suddenly I turned to the promotion leaflet and wanted beef steak then. So I politely said "Can I change?" and did the gesture of canceling the fish fillet. Next I heard was "yes" and thought she had canceled my first order to the beef steak.

As we chatted away food started coming. Hobbit got his chicken steak first. Then I thought I saw two waiters each carrying a platter of what looked like a fillet and beef steak. Funny both the platters reached our table. Then just as I was about to say "I canceled my fillet" I noticed a familiar face on one of the waiters. Quickly my head told me that it's my former student Bur the singer! I then asked him if he's a student of my school to which he replied "yes". We then talked about the miscommunication and he politely said that he will take care of the mistake. Oh, how easy peasy! Thank you Bur.

When we were done with our steaks (yummy despite of my chewing problem), Bur came to our table and collected the now empty platters and asked me calling "ma'am"!! "How is the food?" Wow! I immediately wished all the waiters in Thailand would have those courtesy and politeness to ask such questions! Well, I thanked him again before we left for the help and left some tips behind. Good food, good service!