PHUKET FOODS

Phuket foods! Seafood! Delicious Thailand desserts! Thai food lovers! Yes we are! During our visits to Phuket, sampling the many different Thai cuisines is one of the most joyful experiences for our family.

So Phuket’s delicacies are a result between the southern cuisine and the Hokkian cuisine. In Phuket, everyone still likes to eat rice noodles as much as everyone else in Thailand does, but they like to top theirs with steamed, spicy hotcakes, deep-fried hot and spicy fish patties, and boiled eggs.

During your stay in Phuket, here are some Phuket delicacies you should not miss...

Famous Phuket Delicacies

Seafood

Phuket foods are famous for its plentiful fishes, oysters, squid, lobsters and prawns. You can find plenty seafood restaurants in Phuket, we’ve listed several in our Phuket dining guide

Noodles

The noodles are cooked in various styles. Mi Hokkian or Mi hun is fried with fresh shrimps, pork, shellfish and green cabbage. Mi sapan is topped with seafood and gravy and Mi hun pachang is fried vermicelli eaten with pig’s bone soup.

Curry

When talking about Thai curry, most foreigners will probably think of chicken or beef curry only. When you’re in Phuket, try Phuket’s kaeng luang (sour curry with fish and vegetables), a popular southern curry with a peculiar taste.

Khanom Chin

These rice noodles are normally eaten with curry soup made from minced shrimps or fish. You can find khanom chin anywhere in Thailand, khanom chin of Phuket has a richer flavor and is served with vegetables. This is a typical breakfast for local people.

Namphrik Kung Siap

Phuket style, hot shrimp paste sauce blended with roasted shrimps and eaten with fresh vegetables.

Namphrik Kung Sot

This is a shrimp paste blended with fresh shrimps, red onions, chilies and seasoned with lemon. The locals enjoy this Thai food with rice or khanom chin.

Ho Mok

This Thai food cuisine is steamed curried fish or other seafood with vegetables held in a banana leaf or foil container. It’s best eaten with steam rice.

This is only a small list of famous Phuket foods, there are many other delicious Thai food cuisines to choose, just go out and explore and “have fun”.

Thailand Desserts

Like other Phuket delicacies, Thailand desserts are yummy. Most Thai desserts are made from five straightforward ingredients; coconut flesh, rice flour, coconut cream, eggs and palm sugar

You can find an assortment of Thailand desserts for sale at many different places from markets, large department stores, food stalls and restaurants.

There are many kinds of Thailand desserts; here are a few that our family has had during out trips to Phuket...

Sangkhaya

Egg custard. This is a must try!

Kluai buat chi

This banana and coconut cream and boy is it “tasty”.

Fakthong buat

A combination of pumpkin in coconut cream, if you liked it with banana, this dessert is just as “tasty”.

Kao Niew Ma-Muang

This dessert is sticky rice with ripe mango.

Bua loi

Delicious rice flour balls in coconut cream.

Delicious Fruits

One of our “favorite” Phuket foods is fruit. You can probably say we are “major” fruit lovers, and Phuket is a fruit lover’s paradise. There are many different fruits to choose from banana, papaya, guava, pineapple, mango, Mangosteen, pomelo, rambutan, santol and too many more to list.

The best place to fruit shop is right in the open markets; the selection is enormous and very cheap.

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