Kathu, Phuket

Big Chicken Restaurant (Krua Thung Thong)

Big Chicken Restaurant (Tung Tong Restaurant) is one of our three favourites venues in Kathu. It is also your chance to try some authentic Thai dishes: how often can you eat giant ants eggs? If you drove past the Phuket Country Club in the past twenty years, you probably saw that weird big chicken on the side of the road. It’s a simple, affordable, nice and clean restaurant with very friendly service and they even have an air-con room! But the reason it is always busy is without a doubt the food.

Krua Jongjit Restaurant

Krua Jongjit restaurant in Kathu is proof that a restaurant doesn’t have to be fancy nor expensive to be excellent and even receive a Michelin Plate for fresh ingredients, carefully prepared: a good meal. But, for such a modest venue, it is still a big statement.

Ketho Dim Sum

Address: 48 2 Vichitsongkram Rd, Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Open: 6 am – 12 pm
Phone: 081 538 9377

Somtum Puma 2

Somtam Puma 2 Kathu is another hidden local restaurant we really enjoy in Kathu. The food is excellent, truly local, the team is great, it’s cheap and the surrounding is fun. You can choose to sit at normal tables or at one of those ‘salas’ most tourists find so uncomfortable.

Address: 71/10 Moo 1 Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Hours: 11 am – 10.30 pm
Phone: 081 607 8663
Price: cheap

We Camping Phuket

We Camping Phuket is a local restaurant located in Kathu, with fun camping decor and a vast outdoor sitting area. Despite the name, the place is not related to camping at all: it is the theme of the decor where customers can sit outdoors while taking photos in the makeshift tents. The food and drinks are good and cheap and the team is friendly.

Address: 2/127 Moo 2 Kathu Subdistrict, Phuket, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Hours: 5 pm – 11 pm
Phone: 098 017 4481

Ka Moo Boran

Kha Mu Boran is a very discreet and modest restaurant at a busy intersection of Kathu, very easy to miss and not easy to part, but when you know the place, it is worth it. They serve a unique and delicious stewed pork leg with rice and stewed pork leg noodle with tom yam soup.

Address: 17/11 M.6 T. Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Open: 7 am – 5 pm
Phone: 089 972 9438
Price: cheap

Red Clam Restaurant

Red Clam Kathu, locally known as Hoi Pai Daeng, is a fun local restaurant serving good and simple Thai food that goes well when meeting friends at the end of the day.

Address: 105/35 Tambon Kathu, Amphoe Kathu, Chang Wat Phuket 83120
Hours: 4 pm – 12 am
Phone: 090 879 2499

Tam Saab Khon 101 (ร้านตำแซ่บคน 101)

Address: 2/95 Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Hours: 11 am – 10 pm
Phone: 093 627 2045

Nai Dam Restaurant

Nai Dam restaurant is an excellent place for those who know and love real Thai food. It is cheap, and they have some delicious dishes, including their very special wild boar in curry with yellow noodles. It’s so well-known that even one of the Princesses, Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, stopped over many times to eat at Nai Dam when visiting Phuket or Phang Nga.

Address: 17/76 Phra Phuket Kaew Road, Tambon Kathu, Phuket 83120
Open: 5.30 pm – 11 pm
Phone: 076 323 758

Krua Pai Lin Restaurant

Krua Pai Lin restaurant is a very local restaurant hidden before Kathu waterfall. It is so local that most tourists would not even consider stopping for a meal, but it is what travelling is also about! So try the real thing and eat very local food under the trees with chicken scratching the floor around you.

Pizzeria Da Moreno

Pizzeria Da Moreno is a casual Italian restaurant by the roadside of Kathu and is popular with expats and locals for a very long time.

Address: 9/391 Moo 6, Amphoe Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket
Hours: 12 pm – 11 pm
Phone: 085 796 4712

Thong Dee Brasserie

Thong Dee Brasserie is a popular restaurant in Phuket, but it is hard to find! You definitely will need Google maps to get there on your own.

Address: Soi Bangthong, 110/25 Moo 7, Kathu, Kathu District, Phuket 83120
Open: 12 pm – 10 pm (Monday closed)
Phone: 076 319 323

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Kathu Waterfalls

Kathu waterfall was probably the first talked about place in the Kathu area. It’s well indicated and found at the end of a narrow road. It’s not a very impressive waterfall, and it’s only really worth going during the low season, after several days of rain. Not worth going in high season as the flow is reduced to a trickle.

Flying Hanuman Phuket

An incredible jungle activity you will never forget! High sky bridges and zip lines connect 28 platforms; one of them is 400 meters long! It is very Eco-friendly and respectful of nature. They take safety extremely seriously. Most of it is pure adrenaline for all; even four-year-old kids can do it, and they seem to love it.

Phuket Wake Park

Phuket Wake Park is a long-time established cable ski with a 0 shaped counter-clockwise wakeboard park. It’s popular and easy to reach and feature a few obstacles to play with and test your skills. Great for beginners and very advanced enthusiasts, even for kids.

Wat Kathu

Kathu temple is a beautiful park on the edge of the village. It was recently renovated and is an excellent photo opportunity if you are in the area. It’s so photogenic that many Chinese and Korean photographers use it for their pre-wedding shootings (yes, they are everywhere anyway)

Kathu Market

This fresh market is at the Kathu intersection near Caltex gas station before climbing the hill to Patong Beach. If not for the massive amount of motorbikes park in front of it, visitors would easily miss the market, but it is pretty large and bustling inside. It’s a little dark and messy but a chance to see the ingredients used to prepare the Thai food you like so much. Lots of tropical fruits, vegetables and herbs you never saw before. On the contrary to other fresh markets, it is still busy in the afternoon.

Phuket Mining Museum

The Phuket Mining Museum is an immense building hidden somewhere behind the hills of Kathu. It has always been a mystery as to why they invested so much in such a remote location. As a result, the museum is rarely visited and feel a little lonely.

Kathu Museum

This tiny museum is a beautifully renovated Sino-Portuguese style house very close to Kathu village. It used to be a beer company warehouse and office. Its purpose seem to change occasionally.

Kathu Chinese Shrine

Kathu Shrine is one of the oldest Chinese shrines in Phuket, and it’s believed by many to be the birthplace of the Phuket Vegetarian Festival nearly two centuries ago.

White Sitting Buddha

This new sitting Buddha is hidden in the jungle behind Flying Hanuman Zipline, on the way to Kathu Waterfall. It may not be worth travelling up there, but finding it was a pleasant discovery.

Golf Courses

There are three 18 holes golf courses in Kathu: Loch Palm Golf, Red Mountain and Phuket Country Club. We are not very knowledgeable in the game of golf as you can see, but there is plenty of information out there about those golf courses.