If you’re a Thai cuisine fan, and you live in Gauteng, you’ve undoubtedly dined at one of the four Kai Thai Restaurants. There’re in Olivedale, Monte Casino, Edenvale, and the most recent is in Fountainebleau. But this one isn’t just another restaurant, it’s a whole little village.

They’re still in the process of finishing it all up, but when it’s done the village will consist of a restaurant, spa, karaoke bar and mongolian braai area as well. In operation currently are the restaurant and spa, and we wanted to try them both! Dinner, as always, was superb. But the highlight of the evening was the traditional Thai massage right next door.

We walked in and were greeted with a sherry, and asked to take our shoes off and replace them with wicker sandals provided. We were then escorted to a curtained booth with two mattresses and told to dress in the pyjama’s folded neatly at the foot of the mattress. We changed, we lay down, and between the ladies’ arrival to their departure I had every possible part of my body clicked back into place. The two ladies were laughing as to how much one person could actually click. My back, my neck, every finger, every toe, and when I tapped the pillow gently when a certain click was painful I got a very unapproving “Nooo…” from my I-have-the-strongest-hands-in-the-world Thai friend.

I won’t go into every little detail, because I want you to try it out for yourself. They have a wide range of different treatments, and are open until 10pm every day. Our massage was only half an hour, but after that I felt like I could run a marathon. Can’t wait ’til next time, and believe me, there’s definitely going to be a next time.

Thanks to Rich…! who told me about it a few weeks ago, he went for a different treatment however, I’m sure you’d love to hear about it!

I (lazily) searched for links to Kai Thai, but unfortunately came up short, I can, however, give you the details for the Village.

Address: c/o Hans Strydom and Rabie Str, Fountainebleau
Tel. Restaurant: 011 793 4796
Tel. Spa: 011 793 4879

Enjoy!

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