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Dining & Restaurant, Phuket Tour Travel
Dining
 Thai food is internationally famous. Whether chili-hot or comparatively bland, harmony is the guiding principle behind each dish.
Thai cuisine is essentially a marriage of centuries-old Eastern and Western influences harmoniously combined into something uniquely Thai.
The characteristics of Thai food depend on who cooks it, for whom it is cooked, for what occasion, and where it is cooked.
Originally, Thai cooking reflected the characteristics of a waterborne lifestyle. Aquatic animals, plants and herbs were major ingredients. Large chunks of meat were eschewed. Subsequent influences introduced the use of more sizeable meat morsels to Thai cooking.
With their Buddhist background, Thais shunned the use of large animals in big chunks. The cuts of meat were shredded and laced with herbs and spices.
Traditional Thai cooking methods were stewing and baking, or grilling. Chinese influences saw the introduction of frying, stir frying and deep-frying.
 Culinary influences from the 17th century onwards included Portuguese, Dutch, French and Japanese. Chilies were introduced to Thai cooking during the late 1600s by Portuguese missionaries who had acquired a taste for them while serving in South America.
Thais were very adapt at 'Siam-ising' foreign cooking methods, and substituting ingredients. The ghee used in Indian cooking was replaced by coconut oil, and coconut milk substituted for other dairy products. Overpowering pure spices were toned down and enhanced with fresh herbs, such as lemon grass and galanga. Eventually, fewer and less spices were used in Thai curries, while the use of fresh herbs increased.
It is generally acknowledged that Thai curries burn intensely, but briefly, whereas other curries, with strong spices, burn for longer periods. Instead of serving dishes in courses, a Thai meal is served all at once, permitting diners to enjoy complementary combinations of tastes.
A proper Thai meal should consist of a soup, a curry dish with condiments, a dip with accompanying fish and vegetables. A spiced salad may replace the curry dish. The soup can also be spicy, but the curry should be replaced by non-spiced items. There must be a harmony of tastes and textures within individual dishes and the entire meal.
Phuket, already well known for its fresh succulent seafood, is rapidly gaining a reputation as a great place to find excellent Thai and international food in some very picturesque venues. You can find a range from Italian to Middle Eastern to Indian and Japanese. In addition, wine has become readily available in Phuket, with some local restaurants now featuring creditable wine cellars. Places to eat vary from roadside noodle stalls, air-conditioned restaurants, open air restaurants with great views, or fast food outlets.
You won't go hungry!
Restaurant
 The restaurant of Phuket require special, even short story: therefore to different types of the Phuket institution of public nutrition- to restaurants and caf?, we will dedicate separate division. A quantity of restaurants on the island considerably exceeds thousand, prices in the overwhelming majority of restaurants more than moderated.
Arriving to leisure tourists as a rule , give preference to seafood product and tradition Thai kitchen which in the abundance can be found practically in any place where they prepare and will give to the food table ( excluding some specialized restaurants, where everything is devoted only to one form of the kitchen: Italian, Japanese, Korean or Chinese)
Nevertheless, if you want to feel yourselves presently tasty, and not arrived for the short time like foreigner, we recommend you to try the local food, which is not sold in any roadside.
There you will find the fact that each day can be seen on the tables of the local residents: “Mee Sa Pam” (variety of Chinese noodles, very tastefully!), “Kha Nom Cheen” (Thai rice noodles with the soup of curry and vegetables) also many dishes which hardly tried your compatriots.
Where to Eat
It doesn’t matter how many options there are, if you don’t know about them, what’s the point? If you’ve no way to compare them, how can you decide?
Yet dining out – whether for a special occasion at a restaurant brimming with atmosphere, or for a casual lunch, local Thai-style – is probably the most important, and potentially one of the most memorable, elements of your visit to Phuket.
 Advertisements are everywhere. Every restaurant is ‘the best’. But at what? Do the ads tell you what it will cost, what’s on the menu? How much you’ll pay for a bottle of wine? Or, often, even where the place is?
Without real information, too many visitors take pot-luck, or go with the tuk-tuk driver’s commission-based recommendation.
Many stay with one or two familiar places, having had one disappointment too many – and no time to waste.
Most miss out on the fabulous array of dining opportunities Phuket offers.
And that’s where Where to Eat comes in:
Consistent, reliable up-to-date information that puts the choice where it belongs – with you, the guest.
All the content in this restaurant guide is provided courtesy of Where to Eat - “Phuket’s first and only real guide to dining”. Click here to visit their website.
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