Dao Thiam ดาวเทียม

Fantastic Chinese food restaurant that suits vegetarians and carnivores. My husband and I fight to find restaurants that do good meat dishes for him and veggie dishes for me, but this place has filled us both well! A quirky banknote collection lines the walls of the restaurant makes an interesting look as you wait for your food. The staff was friendly and spoke English, which was a big plus for us. We recommend you try this place for great Chinese and I can only imagine that Thai dishes are just as delicious.

Small and authentic restaurant since 1959, led by a beautiful family. The food is beautiful and comfort

We came over when the other restaurant was not open. Your café is this really old vintage with Mini Museum wall money hanging on its wall. Your food content is right for us. The price is also reasonable. Your curry is good and so is the sauce for the spring roll.

Finally a place with vegetarian options! The food was delicious, and the wall decoration was cool. The owner can communicate decently in English and Mandarin Chinese and probably also other languages.

I went into this empty restaurant yesterday mid-afternoon to try their unique dessert of black sesame rice balls in ginger broth and was fairly impressed with their take. As I turned my head towards the wall next to me upon wiping my mouth, a hundred trillion note (1E14) from the Bank of Zimbabwe stared back at me, sitting above a similar tender of only a million Zimbabwe dollars. I glanced around the room to see this museum of currency I had stumbled upon after touring nearby Lee Gardens Plaza, and my curiosity forced me to inquire from the shop owner about how she got her hands on decades-old notes ranging from North Korea's dynasty to The Third Reich (Nazi money pictured below). Of course, I had to take pictures of bills from Republic of China to see whether my parents had even seen them before. That's when the shop owner's dad chimed in on our conversation to explain how guests over the past 6 decades had given him these souvenirs as a token of their positive travel experience to Hat Yai. The shop owner's mother, who had been sitting quietly in the corner, stated in her Cantonese-accented Mandarin that they had run this restaurant since 1959, and that the elderly couple was nearly 90 years old. There are enough handcrafted frames for notes from 180+ countries to line every single wall, so you can imagine that a few dozen photos would be needed to do this place justice. Before this restaurant is turned into a historic currency museum, go pay them your own visit for coastal Chinese food at an affordable price. This was undoubtedly the highlight of my South Thailand trip.