Joanna James
Phuket is a culinary hub where one can savour street food of many kinds. Read on to indulge and enjoy food served from the most fascinating venues while you are there!
It's a delightful experience to witness motorbike vendors and street food sellers with stalls attached to the sides of their bikes. In many cases, these vendors have a preferred parking spot where they set up their makeshift stalls, complete with a few tables and chairs for the convenience of their customers. Although the tables and chairs may not be transported on the bikes, they are typically stored nearby. The bikes themselves are equipped with hot plates, charcoal grills, and other cooking utensils tailored to the type of food being served.
Tropical Thailand is a land resplendent with many colourful, succulent and delicious fruits. As such, you will come across many fruit vendors selling their products from a wheeled cart. They often ply the streets selling their products to eager customers. The fruit is always fresh and well-preserved with ice. The customer can select the piece he or she desires; this is then cut up into bite sizes and popped into a plastic bag. You get a skewer as an eating utensil plus a mixture of salt, chilli and sugar for dipping your bits of fruit into. It is best teamed with unripened mangoes, fresh guava, pineapple and other crunchy fruit bits. If all this talk of delicious fruit has you craving some tropical delights, why not order a meal at one of the restaurants in Mai Khao Phuket located within hotels the likes of Anantara Mai Khao Phuket Villas—you'll surely be able to savour some fruit-infused dishes!
This is probably one of the oldest methods of selling food in Thailand. Food is transported in rattan baskets, which are connected to the corners of a wooden pole via long ropes. This pole is meticulously balanced on the vendor's shoulder as he plies the streets. Flag down one of these vendors and you are in for a treat. Within the baskets are grilled corn, sweet potato or banana, grilled eggs in the shell, BBQ chicken satay, succulent garlic sausages, meatballs on skewer sticks, steamed corn or groundnuts, delicious sticky rice mixed with coconut and sweet banana and red beans that are cooked while wrapped in banana leaves.
Stainless steel carts are a mark-up in Thai street food venues. These shiny carts pushed along the streets on wheels sell a delicious range of local ice creams. Natural ices are the speciality and they are packed on dry ice within stainless steel containers.
An authentic Thai dish wrapped up in a banana leaf, Homok Talay is generally avoided by tourists due to its strong aroma. However, if you can get past the pungent smell, do sample this delicious dish, which features fish, vegetables and aromatic spices pressed into the leaf till it forms a kind of mousse. You can try eating it straight out of the leaf or served with steamed rice.
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