Phuket Town Night Market and Restaurants

Night Market in Phuket

For the variety of Asian and Thai food, fruits, and desserts you cannot do better than the Night Market. Most dishes are 20-30 baht so you can sample a large variety items. A complete dinner for two with a main course of either noodles or rice, fruit, a drink, and dessert would cost less than 150 baht. This is the food the average working person in Thailand eats.

The phuket market It is a good place to try the Khao Mok Khai roasted chicken on a bed of saffron rice, mixed with ginger which has been fried lightly to make it crispy (20 baht). Look for Look Chin (Thai meatballs). Try a variety of Satays grilled beef pork chicken or seafood on a stick. A Thai favorite fast food Kuay Tiew Moo yellow wheat noodles in a soup stock with roast pork and chopped chives.

Finish your meal with fruits and a Thai sweet like Khanom Thang Taek a Thai style waffle filled with grated coconut, or Khao Niao Ping a combination of sticky rice and coconut milk wrapped in a banana leaf and grilled.

Restaurants

Ka Jok See

If you can get a reservation, this is a must visit restaurant. A delightful off the wall Thai restaurant filled with household antiques, and uses newspapers for table covers, but the food is excellent and recommended by some of the best chefs on the island. Dining here is sure to be a memorable experience. To add to the novel atmosphere of this restaurant it has no sign so it is devilishly difficult to find. Ask a tuk-tuk driver. Closed on Monday.

Mala

Open front restaurant decorated with vintage household artifacts. Takes. The lunch buffet offers a variety of tasty curries mad fresh daily. A curry lovers dream.

Laem Thong

Large and urbane Chinese-Thai restaurant specializing in Thai seafood and Pekinese cuisine. Lobster, oyster, shark’s fin soup, and suckling pig draw dedicated gourmands.

Metropole Coffee Shop

Sample Thai cuisine from four regions in this good value lunch buffet. The rather formal and expensive Chinese restaurant across the hall from the coffee shop serves the best Chinese dim sum lunch between Hong Kong and Singapore.

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Tung-Ka Café (Hilltop Restaurant)

Occupies the top of Rang Hill and offer a stunning birds eye view of Phuket Town. For lunch or dinner try the Nam prik kung siap here as it is one of the best anywhere.

Thai Naan

Huge teak paneled Thai, Chinese, and Japanese restaurant that occupies part of the last tin mine on Phuket and now claims to be the largest restaurant in south Thailand. Live classical music entertains you while you dine in.

Things To Do

Thai Boxing Stadium

Boxing matches are held every Friday evening at 8PM. Ticket prices are 40-60-80 Baht

The stadium is located across the street from the Saphan Hin Park in Phuket town. Follow Phuket Road until you see the park on your left and the Lucky Shopping Center on your right, the rather small non descript white building setting back off the road is the boxing stadium.

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Cashew Nut Factory

To see how painstakingly these treasured and fragrant nuts are extracted and baked. From each fist sized fruit one nut is extracted. You can see how the factory operates and then sample or purchase one of several kinds of cashews. Don’t expect any factory discount on cashew nuts here. This is a full retail outlet. Open daily until 7:30 PM. Located on Tilok Uthut 2 Road.

Phuket Aquarium

The ecology of the Andaman Sea that surrounds the waters of Thailand is controlled here. Acting as the Research and Conservation Center it houses and aquarium where the public can view different species of marine and fresh water creatures. The larger tanks which house sharks mature jew fish, snapper, jacks. And turtles attracts the bigger crowd.

The aquarium division opens from 10am to 4PM but an appointment has to be made to visit the research station.

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