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BYD Lofts
( 0 7634 3024;
www.bydlofts.com
; 5/28 Th Rat Uthit; apt 4900-19,500B; )
If style and comfort
are more important to you than the beachfront (although it's only a minute's walk to the
beach), look no further. Urban-style apartments with lots of white (floors, walls, blinds)
and sharp lines feel angelic compared with the seedy world of Patong on the streets below.
There's a day spa, a rooftop pool and an excellent restaurant on the premises.
HOTEL
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Eating
Patong has stacks of restaurants: the trick is to steer around the abundant watered-down
Thai and poorly executed Western kitchens. The most glamorous restaurants are in a little
huddle above the cliffs on the northern edge of town.
Bargain seafood and noodle stalls pop up across town at night - try the lanes on and
Uthit; meals 100-200B;
4pm-midnight)
once the sun drops.
Chicken Rice Briley
( 0 7634 4079; Patong Food Park, Th Rat Uthit; meals 35-45B; 9am-3pm)
The only diner in the
Patong Food Park to offer sustenance when the sun shines. Steamed chicken breast is
served on a bed of rice with a bowl of chicken broth and crumbled bits of meat, bone and
roast pork. Dip in the fantastic chilli sauce. There's a reason it's forever packed with loc-
als.
THAI
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Mengrai Seafood
SEAFOOD
$$
( 08 7263 7070; Soi Tun; meals 120-300B)
Located down a sweaty, dark soi off Th Bangla is a
wonderful food court serving fresh, local food. The stalls towards the end of the soi serve
daily curries that local expats swear by. This restaurant specialises in (very) fresh fish,
prawns and mussels.
Ella
INTERNATIONAL
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