Mama's Falafel

This is the falafel place serving Israelis and interestingly displays a prominent picture of Jesus Our Savior on the wall. We quizzed the owner regarding whether she used any MSG or processed sauces in her Israeli food and she guaranteed that she only uses fresh spices all prepared by herself. Mama's serves falafel and other dishes on a plate with a salad, hummous and french fries. The falafel was tasty as was the chicken schnitzel.

Yunanese Cultural Center

This restaurant is on the road outside of town heading to the waterfall and also the Pai Mountain Lodge (described above). It is actually in the Jeen Haw village and seems to be a new creation as I’ve never encountered it before this year. The compound has a few stores selling Yunanese knick-knacks, teas and herbs. The restaurant is open-air and overlooks a valley with fruit and vegatable groves. The food is Yunanese and they offer MSG in 3 quantities - little, medium and super-sized. We asked if they could do without MSG, and, after checking with the kitchen, they said that they could. The Yunanese cuisine is like other Chinese food but more spicy and there seemed to be more emphasis on local herbs and ingredients. Ity was pretty good.

Other attractions

There is plenty to do and see in Pai but we are lazy book people and mainly hung around doing nothing but reading and writing. One interesting diversion was the Cinema Paradiso. This house has been converted into a video-showing theatre with 34 separate rooms. They have a really good selection of videos, with many classic and some offbeat, avant-garde type of films as well. We were expecting a tiny cramped room, but the rooms were huge with a large screen monitor and big soft comfy sofas. The walls were painted black and the feeling is of being totally spoilt as you watch in your private room.

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