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Phuket Town's Morning Dim Sum: The Breakfast Ritual Most Visitors Miss

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Most visitors meet Phuket at lunch. Phuket Town meets it at 6:30 in the morning, in a dim sum shop loud with steam, clattering trolleys and the smell of strong sweet tea. The island's old Hokkien Chinese families brought this ritual with them generations ago, and it is still the best breakfast in Phuket — if you can get up for it. How it works There is no menu in any useful sense. Baskets of dumplings, siu mai, har gow and steamed buns circulate on trolleys or sit stacked in steamers at the counter. You point at what looks good, the baskets land on your table, and the empty ones pile up as your bill — the staff count the empties when you're done. A pot of sweet tea or strong coffee runs alongside, and many shops add plates of rice porridge, fried dough sticks and soft-boiled eggs for the full works. Book direct & save 20% → www.phvcondo.com What to order Har gow and siu mai — the prawn and pork classics; if a shop does these two well, everything else follows. Stea...

Phuket Dining: A First Taste — From Street Stalls to White Tablecloths

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Ask ten people what brings them back to Phuket and at least half will mention the food before the beaches. This island eats well at every price — a 60-baht plate of pad see ew from a street cart can be as memorable as a white-tablecloth seafood dinner, and Phuket Dining exists to cover all of it. Where we'll be eating The street level. Night markets, noodle carts, roti stalls and the morning dim sum shops of Phuket Town — the everyday food most visitors walk straight past. Southern Thai kitchens. Phuket sits deep in Southern Thai country: fiery curries, crab curry with rice noodles (khanom jeen), Hokkien noodles, and seafood pulled straight off day boats. The seafood scene. From the floating restaurants on the east coast to the beach-road grill rows, we'll sort the places locals rate from the ones living on a view. The special occasions. Phuket's fine-dining scene punches above its weight — chef's counters, farm-to-table kitchens and old-town shophouse restau...

About Jay & Scott — Jay and Scott are travelers and writers living in Thailand. We enjoy traveling around Thailand — the food, the beaches, the small towns — and writing about it as we go. Back home in Phuket we run Patong Harbor View Condominium, our long-stay condo rentals in Patong. Have a look at the room photos, then come stay a while: www.phvcondo.com.