DIY Explore In Hatyai

Eating Places

There is a wide variety of food in Hatyai to whet your appetite. You can choose from street vendors, lcoal eating shops to good class restaurants serving Thai, Chinese and International fares. From morning to past midnight, you will not have difficulty in finding eating places in this city. The listings here are collated from various forums and websites. It is not exhaustive, so don't be surprise to make your very own discovery on your gastronomical adventure there.

Western Cuisine

In Hatyai, you are able to find international fast food franchises and restaurants, as well as local restaurants serving mainly western food. Most of these them are located around the city center, where Lee Gardens Plaza is located.
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Thai Cuisine

Although not in the same league as Bangkok, typical Thai street food is abundant almost everywhere. Unlike other regions in Thailand, due to the higher ethnic mix of Malays and Chinese, Thai food in Hatyai reflects all this diversity. A dish very typical of the South is kaeng tai pla, a very hot curry made with fish stomach, green beans, pickled bamboo shoots and potato. The Chinese dish of thin rice noodles knowns as khanom chin appears here in a spicy fish curry sauce, serve with cucumber, pineapple , pickled cabbage and other fruits and vegetables. Roti, a round flat wheat bread popular with the Malays, is a real southern flavourite, totally assimilated into the local culture.
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Chinese Cuisine

Ethnic Chinese from Malaysia and Singapore make up the bulk of Hat Yai's tourists so many restaurants and hotels cater primarily for them. Large, open-air seafood restaurants are popular with Chinese visitors and the quality available in Hat Yai is good.
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Seafood

Thailand is famous for it's seafood. Due to it’s proximity to the coastline along the southern peninsula, fishing boats bring in crabs, fish, lobsters, giant prawns, scallops, mussels, shrimps and squids. All these are often prepared simply by steaming, frying, or more elaborately by cooking in a clay pot. Not to be missed are the open-air seafood restaurants like Tha-Lay Thai where the seafood are displayed openly for your selection, and you can instruct them how to prepare your seafood to your likings. .
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Muslim Cuisine

Hat Yai is one of the Thai southern provinces that has a large Muslim population, and many visitors from Malaysia are also Muslim. So finding Halal food isn't a problem in Hatyai. There are many Muslim restaurants around town. Without being specific, these are seemingly located along Niphat Uthit 1 and 2 roads and the Sois that run between them.
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Vegetarian Cuisine

Thailand is not known for its vegetarian fare, but getting meatless foods there is much easier than you might think. Amid the ubiquitous chicken, fish and tiger prawn entrees is a host of vegetarian opportunities waiting to be discovered.. Lots of people assume that since Thailand is mostly Buddhist that vegetarianism is common among the people. However, Theravada Buddhism does not prohibit or even discourage the eating of meat except as a voluntary ascetic practice. For a vegetarian, one Thai phase that you must know is "pom kin tae pak", which means “I eat only vegetables.” Women say dee chan instead of pom.
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Exotic & Other Non-Thai Cuisine

To cater to the differing taste of tourists and residents, you can also find other non-Thai cuisines like Japanese, Vietnamese and Indian in Hatyai. Exotic cuisine like snake soup is also on the offer.
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Here is a clip of a typical thai restaurant in Hatyai serving both thai and western cuisine, with a live band providing entertainment while you dine.