Bangrak Cafe, Bangrak, Koh Samui

The Bangrak Cafe is just the place if you’re looking for good-value, tasty English Cafe style food including Full English breakfasts and a good choice of sandwiches, rolls, baguettes, main courses and Thai food You won’t find luxurious surrounding or views but you will find tasty food.

The Bangrak Cafe is located on Bangrak’s beach road, opposite Saboey Resort and next to the hyperbaric chamber and Cafe Uno (closed at time of posting).

Antica Locanda Italian Restaurant, Bangrak, Koh Samui

Antica Locanda is a well established Italian restaurant in Bangrak, Koh Samui which is well-known to local ex-pats for offering fantastic Italian cuisine at good value prices. Recommended dishes are pizza, ravioli and the sensational Tiramisu. Well recommended.

Pizza take-aways are also available though there is no delivery service.

Antica Locanda is located on the Bangrak beach road just 100 meters from the 7-11 situated on junction with Bon Gai Road.

Antica Locanda is open Tuesday - Sunday mid-afternoon till late and closed on Mondays.

**UPDATE July, 2013*** The front of the restaurant was recently renovated giving the restaurant a more open feeling with more tables including some outside tables to the front of the property. Best of all a wood-burning stone pizza oven has replaced the gas-burning pizza oven making Samui’s best pizzas even better. See pic of new restaurant front below;

Akbar Indian Restaurant, Choeng Mon, Koh Samui

Akbar Indian restaurant serves up tasty authentic Indian cuisine and is a well-known favourite with the ex-pat community on Koh Samui. Located on the Cheong Mon beach road, the restaurant is owed by Binod who has been in the restaurant business in Mumbai, India for many years and still owns two restarants there.



Those looking for a Western style Indian meal, may leave disappointed, but if you enjoy a more authentic style then you will be in for a treat. Prices are very affordable with most curried dishes costing around 200-300 THB. Located on the Cheong Mon beach road on left hand-side as you drive into Choeng Mon town from the Bophut area.

Peerapat Villa, Koh Samui Launches Monthly Newsletter Aimed at Agents and Travel Partners

A 4-bedroom seaview holiday pool villa situated in convienient Bangrak on tropical Koh Samui Island, Thailand, popular Peerapat Villa has now launched a monthly newsletter to its Thailand based and international Travel Partners.

Peerapat Villa's Newsletter contains upcoming availability information, updates and more.

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Peerapat Villa, Koh Samui Wins Flipkey Top Vacation Rental Award 2012

Peerapat Villa, a 4-bedroom private seaview pool villa located in Bangrak, Koh Samui, has been awarded Flipkey's Top Vacation Rental Award for 2012 in Koh Samui.

Flipkey.com, affiliate website of Tripadvisor.com, recently announced the award, based on traveller's reviews, and the winning award badge is proudly displayed on the villa's homepage. This follows a 2011 award from Flipkey for Top Property Manager of 2011 which was awarded to Bob Johnston, owner of Peerapat Villa and owner of Samui Holiday Villa Rental, an online Koh Samui villa booking website.

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Koh Samui Flight Guide | Koh Samui Airport | Surat Thani Airport

Both Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways are the only flight carriers who fly to and from Samui International Airport with around twenty daily Bangkok flights arriving and departing each day from 6am until 10pm. Both Bangkok Air and Thai Air also operate daily domestic flights to various destinations within Thailand.

Please note that Bangkok has two international airports, Don Mueang Airport and the newer Suvarnaphumi Airport. Since the start of 2012 all Thai airlines flying to Koh Samui or Surat Thani have operated from Suvarnaphumi Airport.

UPDATE... September, 2012... Air Asia and Nok air move back to Don Muang Airport and now operate all flights from this airport.

There are also daily direct international flights from Hong Kong, Kuala Lumphur and Singapore.

Another domestic option is to fly to Surat Thani Airport, on the Thai mainland with bus and boat transfer to Nathon, in Koh Samui. Flight carriers to Surat Thani airport are Nok Air, Air Asia and Thai Airways with flight prices often around 50% or more cheaper than flights direct to Koh Samui Airport.

Domestic Flights to Koh Samui Airport

Domestic flights to and from Koh Samui Airport are operated by both Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways. Destinations are Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Trat, Phuket, Sukhothai, Pattaya (U-Tapao) and Krabi.

Daily flights from Bangkok to Koh Samui operate between 6am and 10pm with flights every forty minutes or so. Be sure to take advantage of the Bangkok Airways lounge in Bangkok airport which offers complimentary snacks, refreshments and WiFi.

For further information on flight times to destinations other than Bangkok, please visit the Bangkok Airways and Thai Airways websites by clicking the provided links at the top of this page.

International Flights to Koh Samui Airport

Bangkok Airways operate direct international flights to Koh Samui from Singapore and Hong Kong with indirect flights via Bangkok to Bangladore, Dhaka, Luang Prabang, The Maldives, Mumbai, Phnom Pen, Siam Reap and Yangon.

The daily Bangkok Air flight to Singapore leaves Samui at 4.30pm with a flight time of two hours and the returning flight is at 8.10pm each day.

The daily flight to Hong Kong departs Samui International Airport at 11.35am with a flight duration of three hours twenty minutes with the returning flight leaving Hong Kong at 5.05pm.

For flight times to other international destinations, please visit the Bangkok Airways website by clicking provided link above.

Surat Thani Airport Domestic Flights

Air Asia, Nok Air and Thai Airways all operate daily services to Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok from Surat Thani Airport with both Air Asia and Nok Air offering combined plane, bus and boat tickets enabling transfer to Koh Samui from Surat Thani.

Air Asia have two daily one-hour flights departing Surat Thani at 8.45am and 4.05pm with the return flights leaving Bangkok at 7am and 2.20pm.

Nok Air have three daily flights from Surat Thani to Bangkok at 9.10am, 1.10pm, and 9.15pm with returning flights departing Bangkok at 7.30am, 11.30am and 7.35pm.

Thai Airways operate two flights to Bangkok leaving Surat Thani at 11.55 am and 7.55pm with the return flights departing Bangkok at 10.00am and 5.50pm.

Thai Airways also operate domestic flights fom Surat Thani Airport to Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hat Yai, Khoen Kaen, Krabi, Phuket, Ubon Ratchathani and Udon Thani. Please click provided links above to visit their websites for more information.

Surat Thani Airport International Flights

The only international flight operated from Surat Thai Airport is Air Asia's short daily flight to Kuala Lumphur which departs Samui at 12.20pm each day with the returning flight departing Kuala Lumphur each day at 11.20am to arrive in Koh Samui at 11.50am



Article source: Samui Flights

Koh Samui Vets | Animal Clinics, Hospitals and Veterinarians | Koh Samui Guide

Find Koh Samui vets, veterinarians, animal hospital and animal clinics listed below with addresses, location, opening hours and contact details.


S.P. Veterinary Clininc
Located in Chaweng town just after last turn (Haad Chaweng 1) for Chaweng Beach Rd when driving south
Tel 077 413 313
Open each day 9am-8pm. Wednesdays open 12noon - 8pm

Samui Animal Clinic
Situated in Chaweng town opposite Chaweng Post Office
Tel 077 230 600
Open Monday - Friday 9.30am - 8pm and Saturdays 9.30am - 6pm. Closed Sundays.
(Sterile room facilities allow surgury to be performed here)

M.A Vet Clinic
Located in Bophut opposite Big C
Tel 089 650 9387
Open each day 9am - 8pm. Closed Thursdays.

Young Num Pet Hospital
Situated in Bophut between Bophut traffic lights and Big C supermarket.
Tel 077 962 435 - Open every day, except SOME Sundays 9am - 7pm.

Bang Rak (Big Buddha) Pet Clinic
Situated just after fishing market and before the Big Buddha temple
Tel 085 882 2334
Open every day except Thursdays 9am - 6pm.
　

Lamai Pet Clinic
Located just before Grandmother/Grandfather Rock south of Lamai
Tel 086 881 7756
Open each day 9am - 8pm. Closed Thursdays.

Samui Dog Rescue
Main vet centre is situated in Taling Ngam, but Chaweng Centre is open Mondays / Wednesdays / Fridays 4.30pm - 6pm.
Tel 077 413 490

Som Tam (Thai Papaya Salad) | Thai Food Recipes

Som Tam is a spicy salad based on unripened papaya with added Thai spices and ingredients originating from the NE of Thailand and the bordering country of Laos. This dish really is the basic, staple diet of millions of rural Thais and is enjoyed across Thailand by Thai people in all walks of life. In the northeast, pickled fresh water crabs are added to the dish and an extremely pungent fermented, raw fish sauce known as 'Baraa' which would be extremely offputting to most westerners. However typically Thai people in other parts of the country and foreigners prefer Som Tam Thai which  is much more digestable.

SomTam Thai - Spicy Papaya Salad

Som Tam is typically eaten with sticky rice or rice noodles and is often eaten as a side dish to barbequed chicken.


Ingredients

1 cup raw unripened papaya (or carrots or cucumber or mixture) chopped and sliced into long thin slices
1/3 cup long green beans about 4cm long
3 cherry tomatoes cur in half
1/4 cup roast (unsalted) peanuts
1 1/2 tbsp. dried tiny fresh water shrimps
2 tbsp. fish sauce
3 tbsp. frsh lime juice (don't use lemon - it's just not the same)
2 tbsp. palm sugar or 1 1/2 tbsp. cane sugar
3-10 small red/green hot chillies (in Thailand hottest chillies are known as Prik Kii Noo or 'mouse poo chillies'!)
2 cloves garlic (not peeled)

Som Tam prepared in large mortar with pestle

Preparation

Pound the chillies and garlic in a large mortar until completely crushed.

Add the green beans, peanuts, shrimps and pound gently with pestlewhile stirring with a spoon.

Add fish sauce, lime juice, sugar and mix well.

Add the papaya and tomatoes, and mix gently.






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