Saturday, January 29, 2011

COCOA-NUT

Street Restaurant
Thai cuisine is known for being spicy. Thai food is known for its balance of the five fundamental taste senses in each dish or the overall meal: hot (spicy), sour, sweet, salty, and (optional) bitter . Cocoa-nut is a street restaurant on Bangla Road (Phuket) . It was bright , colorful , clean , and the most important part was Service . Service was Zuper .




Though there was very less time to explore restaurants in Phuket since all our day packages were booked along with complementary Lunch . However , I was left with only Dinner to serve my apetite  to explore .




After completing our City Tour , which was very well organised we came out for Dinner . I wanted to eat Vegetarian that day and hence arrived at COCOA-NUT .


Fied Rice With Chilli Sauce

HOW TO REACH THERE : The restaurant is on Bangla Road , which is the most happening place of Phuket .
We came out of resort "Deewaana Patong Resort" and walked about 200 m . The street restaurants spans for about 2 km . One among them was COCOA-NUT .



HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST - Street restaurants are quite fairly priced . They are not at all costly .
I think our first day Dinner would have come around 175 -200 baht for both of us .Being hygiene conscious We took only 2 vegetarian dishes the first day .




1) Fried Rice with Chilli Sauce - 59 baht
2) Stir Fried Morning Gloride (which mean Rice Covered with Vegetables) - 100 baht 
3) Coke 


Stir Fried Morning Gloride
Rest of the days we took a variety of dishes , but I forgot the cost factor for the same .




HOW ABOUT THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE :-


I am a big Foodie . I and my wife liked most of the Thai Food we had during our stay :-
First day Dinner was chosen very carefully .We didnot wanted to be disappointed with the Thai Food and Hence I tried ordering those dishes , which has very less margin of Going Wrong . In that sense I fully met my Expectations .Chili Sauce, which we got with the Fried Rice  was awesome .
Even the other Dish - Stir Fried Morning Gloride was very nice .




Second Day Dinner was quite experimental :-
We first had a look on all sort of Sea Food available and then we finalized 
Chicken Soup - which was good in taste and Jumbo in Quantity .
Barbecued  Tiger Prawns  - which I must say were awesome 




Shells Curry - We were suppose to take out the Worms from the shells and Eat them .I found the dish interesting but quite average . However my wife found it tasty .




Third Day Dinner was also quite interesting - 
We had stuffed our stomachs in our resort ,in the evening after returning form James Bond Island . When we went for some shopping at night , our stomachs were tight . While returning we felt little space in our stomach .To our surprise , after buying some beverages we found "Make Your Own Burger" in the General Food Store.They have kept 1 Chicken Salami and Unlimited Veggies for the same .We packed 2 Burgers and came to our Resort .




RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food : 7.5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 2
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 7 

Mint Flower



Hotel Mintflower in Sultan Bathery Waynad has a In-house Restaurant . I feel it is the best restaurant of Sultan Bathery .


HOW TO REACH THERE - The Restaurant is on Main Highway will leads to Kallepetta .

ADDRESS : Chungam,Mysore Road, Sulthan Bathery,Wayanad Kerala-673592
Phone : PHONE : 04936 227179, 227181, 227182 , 09447218346



HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST - Our bill came around Rs 520 for 5 of us .
Take a Look at the Menu from the Pics .
1) Paneer Butter Masala - Rs.110 .
2) Butter Chicken - Rs. 110 .
3) Fish Fry - Rs. 100 .
4) Nan - Rs. 12 / piece
5) Butter Nan - Rs. 22 / piece
6) Sweet Lime SOda


HOW MUCH TIME WOULD IT TAKE FROM MUTHANGA WILDLIFE SANCTUARY - The plcae is about 20 km from muthanga wildlife sanctuary .I didnot took us more than 35 minutes to reach this place from Muthanga Wildlife sanctuary .There is a toll chungi in between which might create some 10 - 15 min delay .


HOW WAS THE OVERALL EXPERIENCE : The overall experience was good . I made a choice of eating out because we were not impressed with the starters we ordered in our Hotel - Issac Regency .
The Restaurant of hotel Issac Regency was almost Full that day .The staff told us that they cannot manage Alacart ,and only Buffet Dinner is available .


Hotel Mint Flower was just 2-3 km from our Hotel Issac Regency . The in-house restaurant seems to be up-market retaurant for people of Sultan Bathery . Good one to go with the Family .They had seperate Halls , one with AC and the other without AC .Sitting arrangement was quite good .


Fish Fry was best amongst the Lot .I remember other dishes were equaly good .Sweet Lime Soda was quite good . Over all experience was quite satisfying .


RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food  : 5
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 4
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 4.5

If I have to rate this restaurant according to the City Sultan Bathery :-

RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Food  : 9
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Ambience : 8
RATE THE RESTAURANT OUT OF 10 in Overall Experience : 8.5
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