After about 15-20 minutes ride, we had arrived at the Central Festival Mall. The Central Festival Hat Yai which opened in December 2013 is the largest shopping mall in Southern Thailand.
It is centrally situated in the middle of Hat Yai and can be access from the train station, airport and bus terminal. The modern architecture of the mall is just like the shape of a crystals with reflection of lights in prism which combines with modern graphics.
We were hungry looking for food. We just walked in to the lower ground floor that and we just realised that all the shopping malls in Hat Yai has tight security check.
We did not expect to see the lower ground arcade can be so vibrant and filled with people!
We do not expect that there are so many Japanese food inside the Tops Supermarket! There even has fresh sashimi and the salmon looks so fresh!
All these are the sushi sets and ready to go bento sets! Looks so delicious!
Here are all kinds of salads to grab!
Here are the cut fresh fruits that packed!
Or may be I was too hungry till I see everything is so yummy and delicious!
There were a lot of tourists as we can see at the lower ground arcade, it is because due to Malaysia and Singapore school holidays and it is Christmas holidays as well.
There are numbers of kiosks selling fruits, traditional Thai food, dried seafood or meat, fresh fruits and juices too!
Here is a stall selling Som Tam which is green papaya salad.
These are fried bananas, steamed taro and steamed potatoes. These are normally eat together with the caramel dressings.
Here is another stall selling pork meat, pork fat and pork sausages. Later then I know that sometimes these can be used as ingredients for the Thai salad.
We bought 1 packet of pork sausages that cost 100 Baht. It taste so different with the sausages I bought at Village Grocer back home then.
Here are the seaweed but I do not know and do not understand what it is written up there but I know it is delicious when eat together with the Thai spicy sour sauce and it is nice to eat together with the raw salmon too!
After we had filled up our stomach with some samplings on the floor… Haha… then we started to explore to the mall itself. When it comes to food, there are plenty in the mall, but I personally feel that the lower ground is the best for us because we are looking for the authentic local food.
It is Christmas! So the mall is decorated with the Christmas decorations and there will be a New Year celebration at the mall at the eve of New Year.
Through the mall, there are crescent shaped kites which is a symbol of the South of Thailand that adds a soft touch to the shopping complex.
It is actually the Wau Bulan which is Terengganu and Kelantan’s Malays traditional folk games.
The design provide a modern and atmoshpheric blend of lights and colours within the complex.
The interior of the shopping complex has a unique combination of local culture and mordern design.
There are a lot of international brands here. It is actually just like back home the Mid Valley Megamall, or 1U or Suria KLCC or KL Pavilion Mall.
We just window shopping in the mall, then we came to the Cineplex.
The mall has a Cineplex that has 10 movie theatres of international standard and IMAX 3D theatre.
They are using the E – Ticketing system just like back at Kuala Lumpur. Purchase the movie tickets by kiosks.
The waiting area is huge and very cosy and comfortable. We did check the price of the movie ticket, compare back in Kuala Lumpur, watching a movie is way more expensive here!
Central Festival Mall also consist an ice-skating arena which is also the first in Southern Thailand, a Convention Hall, a bowling arcade, an entertainment centre, a karaoke centre and more. But we did not go and check the places because all that we can find it back home.
We left the Central Festival Hat Yai around 4.30pm. We walked down towards the Greenway Night Market as it is very near, only 20-25 minutes walk from Central Festival Mall.
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