Secret Paradise in Danok, Thailand

Water View Restaurant in Danok, South Thailand

I have traveled far and wide visiting a lot of remote areas around Asia sourcing for fish and I am going to tell you this.. it is most shameful of me, I never knew it existed..

It is my very 1st time in my entire life that I visited this place - Water View Restaurant which is only minutes from my office in Bukit Kayu Hitam, Kedah if not for the customs and immigration clearance at the border between Malaysia & Thailand.

It is one of the best Thai dinners I had ever had in years.
The Kaengsom fish with coconut shoots and long beans with the "killer bomb" spicy flavor, just looking at it you will sweat and one sip... mmmmm yummy you have to say "aarrrhhh" after sipping it or else you will cough hahahaha


And this is the dessert "ulam" just plain raw vegetables and a small bowl of "dynamite" sauce








and ooh the oysters, really fresh and delicious









and here is goose beaks but they call it duck beaks. Nope you are not suppose to eat the beaks but nibble like a mouse on the bits of skin remains on the beak... ya tasty..








a cool breeze and lovely scenery, gosh all these years, I didn't know it existed.. wow I will frequent this place as my friends from outstation comes,, this is the best place to take them to dine.

Those are huts where you can dine and have a couple of beers

Good food, cool weather, nice scenery and you can just relax and enjoy.

The whole lake is so big and all the huts are scattered all round the lake side, well, they have a unqiue way to serve you..."speedboats" cowboy waiters!! and making orders?... walky talky !!
No wonder our orders are so fast...
Well, that is the success story of this place...great ideas.







From our huts we could see the kitchen across the other side of the lake and you can see further down there are more huts for customers to dine. The whole place could accommodate hundreds of customers at one time..
You see the small hut beside the kitchen is the serving area where the speed boats will come and collect the dishes and speed to the huts to serve.
And there will be waitress along batches of huts to collect and serve.



Look at the size of the lake and how scattered are the huts to serve, they have found the fastest way to serve. You know what, they even serve faster then the ordinary restaurants in town. hehe





and when night falls, you can see the lovely lake with colored reflection of wriggling lights everywhere... a lovely evening at Water View Restaurant , situated in the middle of nowhere in the jungles along the Malaysian Thai border.

A secret paradise found.. :)