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Halal food amid the mangroves of Phuket

Posted on June 24th, 2009 by Alasdair Forbes

Halal food amid the mangroves of Phuket

Bang Rong Community restaurant with its excellent, cheap, halal food.

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Phuket’s Hilal Town Halal Food Festival

Posted on March 12th, 2009 by Alasdair Forbes

Phuket’s Hilal Town Halal Food Festival

Go back 300 hundred years or so, and most of the people living on Phuket were Muslims of Malay extraction. Even today, about 30 percent of the island’s population are Sunni Muslim, and preserve Islamic traditions.

These traditions are celebrated annually in the Hilal Town Halal Food Festival, this year at Saphan Hin (on the southeast edge of Phuket Town) from April 30 to May 3.

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