43: Dangerous Indulgence
I conclude Koh Samui is potentially dangerous 😉
I could get used to this… Sun, White Sandy Beach, Turquoise Waters and excellent Restaurants on the Beachfront which serve food all day and night.
During the day plenty of retailers pass you to sell BBQ’ed Fish, Chicken or Pork Skewers. BBQed Corn on the Cob is also very popular and then there are the fruit and ice cream sellers that have everything from fresh pinapple and mango to deliciously refreshing coconouts (for drinking rather than eating since they are green coconut and pretty much only coconut water… Hmmm.. Trouble is it’s so easy to be lazy and get eveerything brought to you whereever you aer lying on the beach that there is great danger of giving up all travel plans and simply enjoy life on Koh Samui 🙂
Well.. no worries I won’t but it is definitely a nice change to the hectic Bangkok experience.
Turns out I was lucky with staying at the Big Wave Resort since I have now found Marine Resort and it does not look very impressibve at all and is quite a bit further up north where the beach is not as nice.
Also I tried the Beach Restaurant at Big Wave and it’s the best Thai food I had sofar!
Their Tom Yum Soup with Prawns is awesome and for main course I chose a BBQed Red Snapper. Uh Oh Yum Yum 😀 It was incredible! For a start the fish was HUGE!!!. Never seen such a big red snapper before and I reckon it was between 30cm long but big&fat as well. Two people could have easily eaten that one without anything extra and I seriously struggled to finish it. It was BBQ’ed but not charred. Actually I was surprised how little it looked BBQed, it tasted fantastic though. You could realy taste the freshness.. very different from the Red Snapper back home. It came with a Lemon&Garlic Dip and some Tartar sauce which I tried briefly but I decided the fish tasted way too good to spoil it with any sauces.
Thanks to Rose I knew how to eat this for a start (For some reason my famuily never cooks fish at all so I had no idea what to do with fish until Rose showed me:-) Rose would be proud of me: I learned well and even dared to eat the little meat on the fish head 🙂
Anyway so by now you surely believe me that the Restaurant and the Seafood is pretty darn good 😉
So what’s to moan (Since I’m known for moaning..)?
Well not much… it gets dark too early on Koh Samui. Sun is down by 18:30 at the latest. Very strange since for me Hot Sun = Summer = Bright until Late so it being pitch black by 19:00 just seems odd. But I can live with it 🙂
And of course Koh Samui and the Beaches and all is really a bit too romantic to spend time here on my own.. the long evenings don’t help I guess and it’s a little strange going to restaurants on my own. Bangkok was easy since I used street vendors or street restaurants. Never anything fancy. The places here are a little bit more on the romantic side so it feels a bit strange.
Nevermind thought I will get used to it. In fact I could really get used to this place and spend more time on these islands than I initially planned. Once I get my Dive Course sorted and see all the amazing marine life firsthand I might struggle to leave the islands 😉 Eeek.. maybe I should go to the north first and then come back here to do the PADI Dive course…
PS: Weather is nice of course. It seems to rain during the night a bit but sofar by the time I get up it is all sunny and warm again. During the day sometimes it gets a bit cloudy but it does not matter as it’s still very warm (around 28C I reckon) .
Tags: Koh Samui, Thailand
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