Morning Market and Breakfast in Hatyai

On the last day in Hatyai, morning call was 6 am.

Then we gathered outside the hotel to be taken for breakfast.

It was still dark!

 Early morning roadside vendors were already doing a roaring trade.

 This girl sold Chiengmai peanuts...

others sold pulut rice and glutinuous rice wrapped in leaves.

 the dimsum breakfast place was still closed to us..

 and chef was busy preparing the food for us

 dim sum!!

 table setting

 the calm before the storm!!!

FOOD ATTACK!!!!!

Wow!!!! everybody was hungry!!!

 Bak Kut teh

 Plenty of choices!!!

 This meal is free from the tour group!!!

After gobbling down breakfast, we hurried to the market!!!

For last minute shopping!!!

 Have you seen such happy and smiling sales people???

 taufu in soya sauce

 chwee kueh

 tau sar phneah and crispy sesame bread, RM2 per packet

 offerings for Nine Emperor Festival the next day

 well stocked stall

 all sorts of food for economy rice (chap fan)

 Like Malaysian Indian garlands!

 crackling pork skin for sale! I haven't seen or tasted chee yau char

ever since polyunsaturated fats became in vogue

 she had packets of soup and mee too

 I don't know what.....just looked like a nice photo opportunity to me

 I bought these and ate them one per day, Emelda steamed it for me in the electric rice

cooker, she said the wrapping leave and oil from the pulut imparted a nice fragrance to the rice she cooked.

 Roses! Like Petaling Street

 so much kueh!! I wonder what time she got up to cook and pack them

 more garlands for praying

 Everywhere there are young girls making offerings and asking penance from the roadside monks

 grilled fish like our ikan bakar

 she has to buy the tray shown in one of the pics above and offer them to the priest monk

 you feel safe from pickpockets or worse, purse snatchers like in KL with the presence of these

security men at street corners

 what is she making???

 Yau Char Kwai!!! (dough cruets)

 Hatyai version is short and cute and totally crispy and chewable!!

We had them in the bus!!

 She fried them right here on the roadside.

 Happy aunties! Shop till they drop!!!

 Everything on us are from Hatyai!!

people busy shopping, I? Busy snapping photos and posing!!!

 So fun!!!

 Roadside fashion!!!

 Sandwich seller

 If not for the dimsum breakfast, I would not mind trying these.

 Spoilt for choice....

 Happy Hatyai Aunties

 Do you like street fashion? Ha ha ha...I bought a simple blouse, I am not into these colourful, flamboyant flouncy and frilly style!!!

 Tut tut in front of Hatyai building in Hatyai town

 Not chicken....pigeons?

 like our pasar malam

 Still choosing, one for grandma, one for aunt, one for granddaughter....

 this grandma had a cute sidewalk titbits stall

 and created an oasis of green with lotus in earthenware pot and an easy chair

 RM10 and Rm20 only...cheap cheap cheep cheep cheep...

Sorry no trying!!! You need  a reed-thin figure to fit into these!!!
Only RM30 for each dress!