Eat in Phuket
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7 dishes worth going out of your way for in Phuket, 3 of them vegetarian. Each one lists where to eat it, because the dish and the room that does it well are not the same question.
Leave room for Oh aew.
Roti and southern breakfast is a breakfast thing here, and sells out by mid-morning.
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A southern curry built on fermented fish innards with turmeric, chilli and shrimp paste, thickened with vegetables and bamboo shoot, and eaten in small quantities with a great deal of rice.
฿80–180
Best around: Thalang, Dibuk and Krabi roads, Phuket Town and Rawai beachfront, in the south
Medium spiceWhatever came in that morning — snapper, prawns, squid, crab — grilled over charcoal and served whole with nam jim seafood, the green sauce of chilli, garlic, lime and fish sauce that is the actual seasoning.
฿400–1,200 a head
Best around: Kata, Karon and the quieter west-coast beaches and Rawai beachfront, in the south
The strict vegan cooking of the nine-day Vegetarian Festival — noodles, curries and mock meats made without animal products and without the five pungent vegetables — sold from every stall flying a yellow flag.
฿40–120
Best around: Island-wide during the Vegetarian Festival
Pork belly braised slowly in dark soy, palm sugar, garlic and white pepper until the fat is translucent and the sauce is almost black — served with rice, and better the second day.
฿100–250
Best around: Kata, Karon and the quieter west-coast beaches and Thalang, Dibuk and Krabi roads, Phuket Town
Shaved ice over a translucent jelly set from banana and the seeds of a local plant, with red beans and syrup — a Phuket-only dessert sold from a handful of shophouse counters in the Old Town.
฿30–60
Best around: Thalang, Dibuk and Krabi roads, Phuket Town and Old Town, Phuket Town
Fat yellow Hokkien noodles fried with pork stock, egg, prawns, squid and greens until the liquid reduces onto them — wetter than a stir-fry and drier than a soup, and nothing like the Singaporean or Penang dishes of the same name.
฿60–120
Best around: Thalang, Dibuk and Krabi roads, Phuket Town and Old Town, Phuket Town
MildDough slapped and stretched thin, folded and griddled until it blisters, then either sugared and condensed-milked as a sweet or torn and dipped into a thin chicken or fish curry as breakfast.
฿30–80
Best around: Kata, Karon and the quieter west-coast beaches and Old Town, Phuket Town
