Ii did not know that Phuket was recognised by UNESCO as ‘Thailand City of Gastronomy 2017’ but when I found out, I booked a food tour of the Old Town immediately. The website said that the tour would be limited to 6 people with a minimum of 2 people. I booked and held thumbs that someone else would have booked as well. As it turned out I was the only person on the tour and so I had a personal guided tour lasting 6 hours. My tour guide was a delightful local lady called
Suttira Juanjenkit (Official name)
Zuanxin (Family name)
Pema (Tour guide name)
Interesting that all of her names mean “Big-hearted” and so she is.
Pema and Me
Here we are in a Chinese Temple where we went to pay our respects to the Goddess of Compassion before we started the tour. It was a most amazing experience having Pema to myself for the day. We spoke about religion, spirituality, history, art, anthropology, philosophy, geography and of course food. The tour led us through, in and around the streets and backstreets of the Old Town. I learned about Pema’s childhood and the memories of her uncles, so the day was much more fulfilling than I expected or could have imagined. Thank you Pema for sharing!
But, of course, it was all about the food. Pema led me to places and introduced me to people, restaurants and food that I would not have found or enjoyed by myself and it was all delicious. Here is what we had, in the order we ate – there was no room for supper! We did take long walks between courses to settle the digestion
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- Ba-Jang aka sticky rice dragon.
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- Nan bread with lamb Burmese curry, peanut sauce and hot milk tea.
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- Muslim Fish Curry and roti
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- Ang-Koo which means Turtle and is the sweet at the yop right of the pic
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- Dried Egg Noodle with Pork Bone Soup
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- Ow-Oel, Ficus seed and cultivated banana are mixed together as a jelly served with kidney bean, black jelly and filled with ice and topped with red syrup
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- .Deep fried coconut ball with mung bean
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- Grilled sticky rice with taro in banana leaf wrapper – the triangular shape at the bottom right of the pic
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- Hokkien spring roll
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- Pork satay with peanut sauce and sweet&sour pickle
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- Roselle juice or Krajeap – Hibiscus Flower Juice
Thanks again for the updates and the food looks awesome Keep enjoying!!!!
I do appreciate your support and comments. Thanks. I’m on Koh Tao just finished the advanced diving course. Will probably update the blog tomorrow
What a fabulous tour, and very interesting and delicious food. So great that you are having a good time Boetie!!!
Thanks Sussie – it was!
Wow! What a range of foods.
Yum! All looks delicious!