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ing and stand-alone restaurants. Try Lena Restaurant, where 1kg of succulent grilled
prawns will set you back 300B, a splash-out meal for Thai.
Tianzi Tea House
(Th Kamphaeng Din; mains 80-250B; 10am-10pm)
Such hard-core health food is usually found in
dirt-floor hippy shacks, but Tianzi has adopted the ascetic's meal to an aesthetic surround-
ing. Pretty open-air pavilions are decorated with flowers and dappled with sunlight. Din-
ers can enjoy a range of organic and macrobiotic dishes, such as Yunnanese tofu cheese.
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FOR THE LOVE OF PORK
Chiang Mai reveals its Chinese heritage with its devotion to pork products, most obvious in the northern Thai
speciality of
sâi òo·a
(pork sausage). Good quality
sâi òo·a
should be zesty and spicy with discernible flavours of
lemongrass, ginger and turmeric. Here are a few well known purveyors.
80B; 8am-8pm) , a famous sausage stall in Talat Warorot's dried goods section, by the crowd of people
gathered around it. Further out of town are
Mengrai Sai Ua
(Th Chiang Mai-Lamphun) , near the Holiday Inn on
the east bank of the river, and our favourite
Sai Ua Gao Makham
(Rte 121) , a small stall in Talat Mae Huay
(Mae Huay market), which is a few kilometres south of the Night Safari on the way to Hang Dong.
Riverside & Elsewhere
Past Saphan Nakhon Ping is Th Faham, known as Chiang Mai's
kôw soy
ghetto. Situated
kà·nŏm rang pêung
(literally beehive pastry, a coconut-flavoured waffle),
Khao Soi Samoe Jai
each place to select their favourite.
Huan Soontaree
( 0 5387 2707; 208 Th Paton; mains 160-200B; 4pm-midnight; )
Visiting Bangkok Thais make
the pilgrimage to this rustic restaurant, partly for the food but mainly for the owner,
Soontaree Vechanont, a famous northern singer popular in the 1970s. She performs at the
restaurant from 8.30pm to 9.30pm Monday to Saturday. The menu is a pleasant blend of
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