The China Inn Café is one of Phuket City’s hidden jewels; even some people who have lived in Phuket all their lives have yet to realise it is there.
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Blue Elephant restaurant coming to Phuket town
A classic mansion in Phuket, left to rot for years, is to be reborn as a sophisticated Thai restaurant.
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In the old heart of Phuket Town in and around Thalang Rd, you’ll notice that the streets are lined with small shops. The buildings are usually two-storey with an arcade in front. The shop owners do business at street level and live upstairs, hence the name for this type of building – shophouses.
Some are monstrosities of 1960s concrete, but most date back 100 years or more and are built in an architectural style that combines Chinese and Portuguese elements, hence the term Sino-Portuguese.
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