article_snippet.sent: I’m sure you can just sit and chill in the hotel’s beautiful restaurants or sunbathe on your private terrace, but when Villa co-ordinator Pim dropped me off at my villa, Villa co-ordinator Pim revealed that another famous Sri Panwa guest – DJ Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim)
article_snippet.sent: The next morning, breakfast at Baba, Sri Panwa’s poolside restaurant, was a glorious affair.
article_snippet.sent: I faced my greatest challenge so far… selecting from the breakfast buffet.
article_snippet.sent: I always get a bit nervous at buffets.
article_snippet.sent: The luxurious Sri Panwa resort in Phuket has to be a carefully managed procedure, and with only a certain amount of space and a plethora of choice, I did an almost ridiculous amount of hovering before settling on a rather ad hoc selection of banana pancakes followed by a Thai fish curry.
article_snippet.sent: I caught a couple of all the staff making faces while squirting the pancake mixture on to the griddle and giggling with a joyousness that I can’t really imagine at a breakfast buffet in London.
article_snippet.sent: Then, after a fabulous dinner at Sri Panwa’s beautifully appointed Thai restaurant Soul Food, where the ‘squid on hot plate’ sizzled satisfactorily and the green curry with prawns was to die for, I submitted to the jet-lag and crashed out on pillows on which the maids had placed a shell and an orchid.
article_snippet.sent: I ate poached rock lobster in coconut milk, lemongrass, galangal and kaffir lime, and a beef curry on jasmine rice, at Six Senses’ beautiful Hilltop restaurant before heading to the beach again where the hotel was screening the Hollywood classic Breakfast
article_snippet.sent: Back at Sri Panwa and there was just enough time to indulge in one more Asian-style breakfast curry before take-off.