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Real Phuket!

Experience Phuket like the locals and with the locals! Try excellent small restaurants most tourists miss entirely, local food, desserts and drinks, markets, shops and even beaches!

Ta Tuay Michelin Thai Restaurant in Phuket

Ta Tuay Restaurant in Phuket

    Ta Tuay is a little-known local restaurant, hidden not far from the Sarasin Bridge in the very north of Phuket, near Sai Kaew Beach. Ta Tuay serves excellent local food and dishes from Phuket.

    Baan Ar Jor House Museum in Phuket

    Baan Ar Jor House Museum

      Baan Ar Jor is a hotel, a restaurant and a museum with a long history that started in 1936. This house has always been one of the most mysterious old mansions of Phuket, standing lonely near Mai Khao Beach in the north of Phuket.

      Jadjan Restaurant in Phuket Town

      Jadjan by Ko Daeng

        Jadjan is an excellent local Thai restaurant hidden on the outskirts of Phuket Town. Not many travellers know that a former chef from a 5-star hotel in Bangkok runs it.

        Krua Jongjit Restaurant in Phuket, Kathu

        Jongjit Kitchen Kathu in Phuket

          Jongjit Kitchen in Kathu is proof that a restaurant doesn’t have to be fancy or expensive to be excellent, and even receive a Michelin Plate for fresh ingredients, carefully prepared. The restaurant is local and modest, the prices are low and the food served is excellent and truly local, making it a good culinary experience while in Phuket.

          Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant Phuketket

          Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant

            Kin-Kub-Ei Restaurant is a hidden gem serving delicious southern dishes cooked by Khun Tubtim with her family recipes and served in a beautiful garden near the main road to Bangtao Beach.

            Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant in Phuket Town

            Hong Khao Tom Pla Restaurant

              Hong Khao Tom Pla is a discreet and long-established restaurant in Phuket Town, named after its famous fish rice porridge speciality. Behind this modest appearance is a little gem, so good that the Michelin Guide awarded them a ‘Bib Gourmand’, which is a sign of good quality and good value cooking.

              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

                Noodle Soup in Phuket (Kuey Tiaow)

                  Noodle soup is everywhere in Phuket (‘Kuey Tiaow’ in Thai), and while it’s not precisely Thai food, it is entirely part of everyday life in Thailand. Small restaurants and carts will serve it on almost every street at any time of the day and night, not only for lunch, dinner and even breakfast.

                  Chom Chan by One Chun Phuket Town

                  Chom Chan by One Chun Restaurant

                    Chom Chan by One Chun is an excellent Thai restaurant that serves a great selection of Phuket dishes and local specialities. It’s a cos,y small house with a garden almost hidden on the outskirts of Phuket Town and can easily be missed when driving by.

                    Hidden Phuket

                    20 Unusual and Hidden Places in Phuket People Often Miss

                      Surprisingly, there are still amazing places people miss entirely when visiting Phuket. And like most people, you want to visit Phuket, but you wish to see it from a lesser-known angle and discover places most people haven’t heard of.

                      Nom Jeen Phuket

                      Nom Jeen Phuket

                        Nom Jeen Phuket is a beautiful and relaxing new local restaurant serving kanom jeen on the outskirt of Phuket Town. There are quite a few kanom jeen shops around the island but this one feels very relaxed and trendy in a casual young fashion, and yet, it’s not expensive!

                        Baan Mae Taan Restaurant in Phuket Town

                        Mae Tan’s House

                          Mae Tan’s House 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

                          Krua Maikhao Restaurant

                            Krua Maikhao 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.

                            Phuket desserts and sweetsPhuket desserts and sweets

                            16 Best Thai Sweets and Desserts to Try in Phuket

                              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,

                              Ko Ang Seafood Phuket

                              Ko Ang Seafood in Phuket Town

                                Ko Ang Seafood is a local restaurant serving excellent seafood on the east side of Phuket Town. Ko Ang has been around for a long time and started as a modest shop with no decoration and a zinc roof. But seafood lovers always find the right places (and maybe we recommended it a lot too), and Ko Ang Seafood is now a bright restaurant and even added Chinese decoration.

                                Laem Sai Seafood in Phuket

                                Laem Sai Seafood

                                  Laem Sai Seafood is a local restaurant hidden far away on the east coast of Phuket. The restaurant mostly consists of a vast wooden terrace over the sea or the mud, depending on the tide.

                                  Best Thai Restaurants in Phuket

                                  Rimpan Seafood Restaurant Phuket

                                    Rimpan Seafood is a small but great Phuket local restaurant hidden in plain sight in the north of Phuket Island, near the bridge that connects the island to the mainland. Thousand people drive past Rimpan each day without realising such a great place sits right here.

                                    Go Benz Phuket restaurant

                                    Go Benz Phuket

                                      Go Benz Phuket has been one of Phuket’s most popular local restaurants for over 15 years. Go Benz served a relatively small choice of noodle soups and rice porridge, and by keeping it focused, they became very good at preparing them.