Famous Phuket Delicacies
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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.