Phuket cuisine is from

Phuket, Thailand Phuket (; th, ภูเก็ต, , ms, Bukit or ''Tongkah''; Hokkien:普吉; ) is one of the southern provinces (''changwat'') of Thailand. It consists of the island of Phuket, the country's largest island, and another 32 smaller islands of ...

and has

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, and

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influences.

Dishes

Bee-Pang

Bee-Pang is a crispy rice cut into a solid rectangle with sweet sauce as a type of cereal bar. Bee-pang is made from puffed rice mixed with fried garlic topped with sweet sauce to blend with the salt from the rice. People in Phuket usually eat this with tea in the afternoon.

Gaang sôm blah

Gaang sôm blah is a fish

curry A curry is a dish with a sauce seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine. In southern India, leaves from the curry tree may be included. There are many varieties of curry. The choice of spices for each dish in tradit ...

dish. It is prepared without the use of coconut milk.

Kanohm Jin

Kanohm Jin is a noodle dish made from rice or fish and topped with sauce. Sauces include Tai-Pla sauce,

nam phrik ''Nam phrik'' ( th, น้ำพริก, ) is a type of Thai spicy chili sauce typical of Thai cuisine. Usual ingredients for ''nam phrik'' type sauces are fresh or dry chilies, garlic, shallots, lime juice and often some kind of fish or ...

sauce, and Namya sauce. It is usually eaten for breakfast with fried Pah Tong Go and curried fish. Kanohm Jin comes with more than 10 kinds of fresh vegetables.

Lo Bah

Lo Bah is deep fried pork organs served with

fried tofu Tahu goreng ( Indonesian spelling) or Tauhu goreng (Malaysian and Singaporean spelling) is a generic name for any type of fried tofu dish in the cuisines of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. Preparation When preparing the dish, cakes of har ...

and spicy sweet sauce.

Mee Hoon Pa Chang

Mee Hoon Pa Chang consists of noodles fried in soy sauce, topped with fried onion and accompanied by pork soup. The recipe was originated by ‘pa Chang’, so local people call the dish ‘Mee Hoon Pa Chang’.

Moo Hong

Moo Hong is a stewed pork dish from

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. It is usually served with rice or boiled rice and served as the main meal.

Pork belly Pork belly or belly pork is a boneless and fatty cut of meat from the belly of a pig. Pork belly is particularly popular in Hispanic, Chinese, Danish, Norwegian, Korean, Thai and Filipino cuisine. Regional dishes France In Alsatian ...

is the main ingredient of the dish, but other cuts of pork can be used to balance the ratio between meat and fat. The dish also contains

dark soy sauce In Chinese cuisine, dark soy sauce () is a dark-coloured soy sauce used mainly for adding colour and flavour to dishes. It is richer, slightly thicker, and less salty than other types of soy sauce. As the Chinese name () suggests, it is also ag ...

and

sugar Sugar is the generic name for sweet-tasting, soluble carbohydrates, many of which are used in food. Simple sugars, also called monosaccharides, include glucose, fructose, and galactose. Compound sugars, also called disaccharides or double ...

for a sweet taste and

garlic Garlic (''Allium sativum'') is a species of bulbous flowering plant in the genus ''Allium''. Its close relatives include the onion, shallot, leek, chive, Allium fistulosum, Welsh onion and Allium chinense, Chinese onion. It is native to South A ...

pepper Pepper or peppers may refer to: Food and spice * Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant ** Black pepper * ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae ** Bell pepper ** Chili ...

, and

coriander Coriander (;

roots for a black pepper flavor. Light soy sauce can be used for a more salty taste. The dish is garnished with fresh coriander. "Moo Palo" is similar to "Moo Hong” but Moo Palo contains Chinese five-spice.

Oh Tao

Oh Tao is a hot fried

oyster Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape. Many, but not al ...

seafood Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans, prominently including fish and shellfish. Shellfish include various species of molluscs (e.g. bivalve molluscs such as clams, oysters and mussels, and cephalopods such as octopus an ...

dish prepared with

eggs Humans and human ancestors have scavenged and eaten animal eggs for millions of years. Humans in Southeast Asia had domesticated chickens and harvested their eggs for food by 1,500 BCE. The most widely consumed eggs are those of fowl, especial ...

, flour,

bean sprouts Sprouting is the natural process by which seeds or spores germinate and put out shoots, and already established plants produce new leaves or buds, or other structures experience further growth. In the field of nutrition, the term signifies ...

and

taro root Taro () (''Colocasia esculenta)'' is a root vegetable. It is the most widely cultivated species of several plants in the family Araceae that are used as vegetables for their corms, leaves, and Petiole (botany), petioles. Taro corms are a food ...

. It can be seasoned with salt, sugar, chili or vinegar. It is usually eaten with bean sprouts and crispy pork. Oh Tao is one of the ancient dishes of the area.

Pàt tai

Pàt tai is a

stir-fried Stir frying () is a cooking technique in which ingredients are fried in a small amount of very hot oil while being stirred or tossed in a wok. The technique originated in China and in recent centuries has spread into other parts of Asia and th ...

noodle dish prepared using a curry paste typically containing

chili peppers Chili peppers (also chile, chile pepper, chilli pepper, or chilli), from Nahuatl '' chīlli'' (), are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus ''Capsicum'', which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for ...

tamarind Tamarind (''Tamarindus indica'') is a Legume, leguminous tree bearing edible fruit that is probably indigenous to tropical Africa. The genus ''Tamarindus'' is monotypic taxon, monotypic, meaning that it contains only this species. It belongs ...

, shrimp paste and sugar.

Snacks

Ah-pong

Ah-pong is a

pancake A pancake (or hotcake, griddlecake, or flapjack) is a flat cake, often thin and round, prepared from a Starch, starch-based batter (cooking), batter that may contain eggs, milk and butter and cooked on a hot surface such as a griddle or fryi ...

considered the signature

snack A snack is a small portion of food generally eaten between meals. Snacks come in a variety of forms including packaged snack foods and other processed foods, as well as items made from fresh ingredients at home. Traditionally, snacks are p ...

of Phuket. It easy to make as the ingredients—flour, egg yolk,

coconut milk Coconut milk is an opaque, milky-white liquid extracted from the grated pulp of mature coconuts. The opacity and rich taste of coconut milk are due to its high oil content, most of which is saturated fat. Coconut milk is a traditional food i ...

, sugar, water and yeast— are readily available. It has a delicious, light sweet aroma from coconut milk.

Ang-Gu

Ang-Gu is a popular sweet snack usually eaten with

coffee Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulant, stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content. It is the most popular hot drink in the world. S ...

tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northe ...

. From Chinese belief, turtles are the symbol of eternity so they believe that those who eat this snack will live endlessly like the turtles. This snack is made from

glutinous rice Glutinous rice (''Oryza sativa var. glutinosa''; also called sticky rice, sweet rice or waxy rice) is a type of rice grown mainly in Southeast and East Asia, and the northeastern regions of South Asia, which has opaque grains, very low amylose ...

flour, vegetable oil, sugar and gold nuts.

Bee-go-moi

Bee-go-moi is a snack made of black, wet sticky rice with coconut milk. It has an interesting texture and flavor from the glutinous black sticky rice and the saltiness of the coconut milk.

Desserts

O-aew

O-aew ''O-aew'' ( th, โอ้เอ๋ว, , , from zh, t= 薁蕘, poj=ò-giô) is a shaved ice dessert known as a local specialty of Phuket, Thailand. Introduced by Hokkien Chinese settlers, it is known after its main ingredient, a jelly made from s ...

'' is a dessert originating from Phuket and considered to be the region's signature dessert. It is made from jellied banana-flour mixed with boiled red beans, ice, and sweet red syrup. Extra jellies and fruit are added to sweeten the dish.