Thai Food

Kanom Jeen in Phuket

Kanom Jeen is, without a doubt, our favourite Thai breakfast on weekends. We’ll never miss a chance to go to ‘Kanom Jeen Saphan Hin’ or ‘Pa Mai Kanom Jeen Restaurant’

Blue Elephant Phuket is a high-end Thai restaurant built in a Thai house set in an immense garden in Old Phuket Town. Pracha Phra Pitak Chinpracha Mansion is a fantastic old mansion that used to be a governor’s house but was abandoned for a long time.

Ketho Dim Sum Restaurant in Kathu, Phuket

Ketho Coffee & Kitchen Dim Sum Restaurant

Ketho Coffee & Kitchen is a dim sum restaurant very popular with locals for their breakfast, mostly for their dim sums but also for their soups and rice porridge.

Noodle Soup in Phuket (Kuey Tiaow)

How to order noodle soup in Phuket? Noodle soup is everywhere in Phuket (‘Kuey Tiaow’ in Thai), and while it’s not precisely Thai food, it… Read More »Noodle Soup in Phuket (Kuey Tiaow)

The Pad Thai Shop in Karon

The Pad Thai Shop is a tiny restaurant on the side of the back road of Karon Beach. It’s so small and modest; you would drive past it without paying much attention if it wasn’t for its growing reputation and a large yellow signboard that says ‘The Pad Thai Shop’.

Laem Hin Seafood

Laem Hin Seafood is one of the best-known local seafood restaurants in Phuket. Built mostly on an immense wooden terrace on the east coast of the island, Laem Hin is huge but it can get pretty full on weekdays dinner and even more on weekends.

Phuket desserts and sweetsPhuket desserts and sweets

16 Best Desserts to Try in Phuket – Thai Sweets

Thailand is known worldwide for its amazing food, but it doesn’t stop here. There are also many Thai sweets and desserts to try during your stay in Phuket. Of course, everyone knows the delicious pancakes (or roti) and the mango sticky rice,

Ma Doo Bua

Ma Doo Bua is a cafe and restaurant whose sole purpose is to provide an irresistible background to the new generation of selfie lovers. The main catch is an artificial lake covered with those unusual giant circular floating leaves called Victoria Amazonica

Chom Chan by One Chun Restaurant

Chom Chan is an excellent Thai restaurant serving a great selection of Phuket dishes and local specialities.

Phuket Floating Restaurant – Kruvit Raft

Phuket floating restaurant ‘Kruvit Raft’ is one of the most original ways to enjoy dinner when you get tired of your ‘Same Same but Different’ Thai food restaurant. Try this unusual but popular place known as ‘Kra Chang’ (‘fishing basket’), an assemblage of several restaurants floating between Phuket Island’s east coast and Maphrao Island. In 2021, Kru Suwit Seafood Raft was added to the Phuket Michelin Guide.

Nom Jeen Phuket

Nom Jeen Phuket is a beautiful and relaxing new local restaurant serving kanom jeen on the outskirt of Phuket Town.

Kalim Rim Lay Restaurant in Kalim Beach

Kalim Rim Lay Restaurant is a little-known restaurant serving good honest Thai food and seafood at a good price. Best of all for some of you, it is located not far from Patong Beach, just past Kalim Beach. Rim Lay is a very relaxing spot to enjoy lunch or dinner with spectacular sunsets if you are lucky to get one as we did.

Baan Mae Taan Restaurant in Phuket Town

Baan Mae Taan is an excellent local Thai restaurant in Phuket Town. It is slightly away from the old streets of historical Phuket, where the tourist crowd always go for their selfies and therefore addresses more to a local clientele, and that is a good sign!

Boon's Local Thai Restaurant in Phuket Town

Boon Restaurant near Phuket Town

Boon is one of the most underrated local Thai restaurants in Phuket. It’s not fancy, the menu is not long, and lunch at Boon only costs a few baht, but the taste is unique. The restaurant is tiny, hard to spot, and so modest; we probably wouldn’t bother explaining to anyone how to go there. But after so many years, we realised that this place is very special to us: It’s what local Thai food is all about: simple, cheap, casual, and delicious.

Moo Kata Restaurants in Phuket

Mook Kata is an extremely popular and cheap buffet found in Phuket and all around Thailand. Here, you pick and cook yourself some raw ingredients displayed on a buffet-style at a low fixed price.

10 Best Thai Food in Phuket

Thai food is popular and famous worldwide and doesn’t need to be introduced anymore. If you reached this page, you probably already tried some and heard plenty about it.

Kopitiam by Wilai Restaurant in Phuket Town

Kopitiam by Wilai is a recently renovated restaurant serves classic Thai food in an old-style Chinese shop on the most popular street in Phuket Town. Thalang Road changed from just an old busy street to a full-scale tourist attraction, bars and restaurants have started to appear like flies on honey.