Somtamchaba — Restaurant in Songkhla Province

We were on foot searching for this restaurant at night and it was tucked in a quite a quiet not brightly lighted road. The restaurant looks a seasoned and woody setup with a stage for live band..... that is neat ! Looking at the crowd they were mostly locals and on that night we were the only non-locals. We sat ourselves nicely not too near the stage speakers and started ordering our thai foods. We had Chang beers to start with.... refreshing after the beer went down our systems. We ordered the "red" fish coated with salt and grilled, man !! it was awesome, fresh fish and the complimentary fresh vegetables and 2 types of "nam chim", ie dippng sauce went very well with the grilled fish. Squids with lemony sauce was another delicious food, fresh squids. We had others like local vegetable fried with prawn, the "tang hoon" in claypot with prawns. The aroma of this dish when we stirred it, escaping into the air around us was awesomely mouth watering and the taste lingered in our taste buds were just out of this world. Love it ! Our timing was just perfect, upon entering the restaurant a solo singer was singing Thai songs, then the solo singer started switching to English numbers as if he knows non-locals walked in, ha ! A change of band took place after 2 English songs was delivered by the solo singer. 2 guys and 1 lady singer walked on to the stage and performed. We requested 1 thai song and followed by the thai lady did a Teresa Teng's " Moonlight represents my heart" number. She did justice to her song, was sung quite well and pronunciation was perfect in Mandarin, bravo to her !! We left this restaurant with satisfied stomachs, happy heart ( also means prices were reasonable at the restaurant ) and a lovely memory to bring back home. For it to turn into another travel itch to come back to this restaurant again. Do check out this place the next time you come to...

Reached here before 7pm and not seated until 730pm, the staff took very long to take order. After ordering only one omelette came after one hour! Tomyam was served without ladle! Very untrained staff they kept serving table that came after us! We go and ask for the order record status at 910pm, they promised to serve the remaining dishes within 5 minutes. End up they serve within 5 minutes but the tomyam was cold and the prawn was not fresh. From 7pm until 930pm, total ordered 5 dishes but only 3 came! The staff didnt tell us one of the dishes was running out until we asked the staff. Very disappointing experience! Worst still, no apologies and compensation and the boss still can act like nothing! 😡😡😡 Would not come again and do not recommend to other people. Suggestion to the shop: stop receiving big table if you cannot cope with amount of...

Worst experience ever! We waited half an hour to get a table, half an hour to get staff to come order food. After ordering only one omelette came, the rest of the dishes we had to keep asking them to serve. Very untrained staff they kept serving table that came after us. Ordered 5 dishes only 3 came, one vege was sent to different table and pork shoulder was not served at the end until we asked the staff only then she told us it was out of stock. Saw many good reviews before coming but turned out to be very disappointing experience. Worst still, no apologies or compensation. If you cannot cope with the amount of customers please stop receiving big tables, not to keep other customers to wait for their food and left still feeling hungry. Definitely not the way how you should do a business. Overall everything was bad and we would definitely...