Food

I must say, we've been eating pretty well for the last few nights that we're in Phuket. Every night, we're bound to have some kind of seafood.

On our first day there, we took some time exploring the surrounding area and shops. We must have walked a few streets, saw tonnes of restaurants and shops, all very empty! Must be because of the off peak season now. Whatever it was, we were spoilt for choices! There were just TOO many restaurants to choose from and we were clueless which to go for since, we've no idea which is good and we also did not want to spend a bomb even though the Thai Baht is low.

Finally, after covering the nearby streets, we settled on 1 restuarant, One Man or something like that. And the only reason, we went for that was because, there were 2 other patrons in it. We din want to go to a totally empty restaurant ma. And the other reason was because, they have local thai food. I din want to eat the "Ang Mo" food ma. Go another country, of course must eat their local food ma, what for eat western right? But apparaently, Hubby disagree with me lor... Look at what he ordered?!Yups. Chicken Chop. =/ Anyway, the food was not bad. I like the Prawns with cashew nuts. Prawns was very fresh and tasty! My Pad Thai also not bad, but I find the noddles a little too hard. But, all in all, the food was cheap and relatively good. Hubby's chicken chop was served with tartar sauce. Weird hor? First time I see chicken chop served with that. But even though it was a novetly, there's nothing special about the chop nor the sauce. Very normal, which we can get locally anywhere. And by the way, I really did not write wrongly, it's chicken "CHOP" even though it looks more like cutlet. Maybe, different ways of naming items in different countries. I don't know.

Edited: The hubby saw the post and he corrected me with "I also want to eat local food. The menu put Fried Chicken ma, that's why I ordered ma"

So the only conclusion I have is, my mistake for remembering it as Chicken Chop and that er... it still looks rather cutlet to me than anything.

Our 2nd night proves to be much easier! Since, we've already covered the streets, we more or less already shortlisted the rest of the restaurants to try. Karon Beach is a small area with not much happening as compared to Patong Beach. But they do have clothings, eatery and pubs aplenty! Since, the fashio don't appeal much to me and we don't go clubbing at all, we mostly spend our moo lah on food.

This time, we chose a more high class looking restaurant, "Da Mario" (which reminds me of my favourite game!). This restaurant is located almost just next door to our hotel. And I think we eat very early coz when we were done, only then the crowd started to come in.

Just look at the spread for 2 of us!We had Pineapple Fried rice, Some mixed veggies, chicken in don't know what veggies again and this time, we had mussles in garlic too! The plate is so full of them lor! My camera almost can't capture all of it into 1 shot! Which, I have to say, really, my camera can't capture the young coconut and Fanta drink that we had along with the meal. This dinner was slightly pricier, it costs us $560 Baht, which approximately is about $24 SGD. But the food was quite good. I enjoyed every single mouthful of it!

And on our last night in Phuket, we went for the dinner that was provided for in our tour package. We were told that we can only go to the "Lotus restaurant" in Centara, but however, the whole restaurant was booked for a private function hence, we were able to go to "Terrace Grill" which in my opinion is even better since there's seafood and steak for us to choose! =PThe photos are dark as it was al fresco dinning and I did not want to turn on the flash as my hands can never hold the camera steady that is necessary for flash shots and the shots will turn out all blury... so I rather it's dark than anything la.

We did not even have to choose from the menu as the lady suggested serving the seafood platter for 2. So we, just went "ok ok" lor. For the platter, there's Crabs, Prawns, Crayfish and Squids. There's 2 of everything, so depending on how you look at it, it's either "JUST 2 of everything" or "2 of everything". At first, I was... chey... "JUST" 2 of everything. Then when we almost complete our meal, we were served with a whole fish. I was... woah. So big and so much food. Can finish ar? Just 2 of us lei! But a bite into the fish and I felt the fish was too small lor! The meat was so fresh and coupled with the sauce provided, it tasted so very good! Hubby and I ate every single morsel of meat available!

Throughout the meal, we were entertained by the live singing on stage. The guy's voice is better as compared to the lady's but it was a good experience and nice ambience. Food wise, we were quite disappointed with the seafood platter. Everything was supposed to be grilled but it seems like the fire was too strong, everything was so dried up. We can hardly taste the natural flavours of the seafood, except for the fish! All the food was complimentary except for our drinks.

After dinner, we sat around for a while longer before going back to our room to enjoy the jacuzzi and to prepare for the return trip home the next day.