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6 TOP 10 FAVORITE LOCAL DRINKS
Laboratory
MAP Q5 • Phang Nga Road • 084 003
6664 • Open 9pm–1am
Unique, friendly, trendy – this Phuket
venue is comfortable and cozy, with a
DJ that keeps the volume at the right
level for conversation.
Yoonique Stone
7
Music Café
A local favorite, this funky little dive
behind Naiharn Lake hosts regular
jam ses sions and live bands in a
unique and artistic ally decorated
environment (see p85). Singha and Chang beers
Sunflower Bar
8 1 Singha Beer
Most foreigners pronounce the name
MAP M6 • Tonsai, Ko Phi Phi
• Open 11–2am of this lager as “Singh-ha,” although
the proper pronunciation is “Singh.“
Sunflower is more relaxed than most 2 Chang Beer
Tonsai nightlife. The “buckets” (Thai This potent lager is one of the
whiskey, Red Bull, cola and ice, in a country’s top-selling beers. Equally
plastic bucket) are infamous, but they popular on tourist T-shirts is the
do nice coconut-based cocktails, too. Chang elephant logo.
3 Leo Beer
A flavorful lager, Leo Beer is produced
by Boon Rawd Breweries.
4 Tiger Beer
Singapore’s first locally brewed beer
is popular throughout Thailand.
5 Red Bull Cocktails
The energy drink’s formula was
invented by a Thai business man, who
still owns 49 per cent of the company.
Crowds outside Kangaroo Bar 6 “Buckets”
Be wary of this potent Thai specialty,
Kangaroo Bar
9 a mix of alcohol, cola, and Red Bull
in a bucket, meant to serve a group.
Centrally located on Bangla
Road, Kangaroo Bar draws lively 7 Sangsom
crowds. This popular venue has an Despite its reputation as a Thai
in-house DJ, and is also famed as a whiskey, the liquor is in fact a rum.
prime vantage point for scoping out 8 Phuket Beer
Patong’s colorful passersby (see p85). The bottle’s logo features a brightly
colored hornbill, perched near Phuket’s
Molly Malone’s
0 Phromthep Cape.
The island’s most popular
Irish pub has been going strong 9 100 Pipers
This popular western-style whiskey is
since it first opened in 1999. On the imported from (although not bottled
main beach road, Molly Malone’s in) Scotland.
offers live pub-rock every night, and 10 San Miguel Light
flat screen TVs broadcast live sports. This brew from the Philippines can
It serves traditional pub fare, as well be found widely throughout Thailand,
as brews such as Guinness, Kilkenny, including Phuket.
and Magners Cider on tap (see p85).

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