Today is the first time I made it over there myself. Every trip we made to the mainland, once we got to the Kanchanadit exit, about 20 km's before Surat Thani town, she told me over and over about this incredible place. I know people on Samui who just go over with the ferry in the morning, have lunch there and go back to Samui with an afternoon ferry, so expectations were high!!
It's about 7 or 8 km's from the highway, but you gotta make a couple of turns before you get there. There's a big parking lot outside with some stalls selling oysters and sweets. The oysters come from directly in front of the restaurant, where they are grown (?).
Here's the scenic walk to the restaurant, after the market stalls. The little walkway goes past mangroves.
From inside the restaurant you have an immediate view over the ocean, today, when we were there, it was very low tide however.
A view on the restaurant, it's a big place and it was fairly full once we started our meal. More tables than on this picture were occupied.
An absolute fave dish of mine, 'puu phong curry', crab with Indian curry powder, done in an outstanding fashion here. We ordered a second plate!
What the place is known for, oysters! In all sizes and very cheap. Have a good look at the size of these oysters and these were the smaller ones.
Condiments to go with the BBQ'ed fish that we ordered.
A specialty of the house 'Yam Nai Aow' or Nai Aow salad, a sour mixed seafood salad. Very yummy!
Outside the stalls are selling these oysters, although the picture isn't too sharp, the prices for the oysters are stunnishing, 15 Baht for a big one!
In the stalls they also make sweets, fresh off the hot plate. All of us bought various goodies, from sweets to cashew nuts.
The restaurant definitely lived up to it's legend, I can't wait to go back and try more dishes that I saw pass onto other tables, loaded with crab, mussels and other seafood.
This was it, the end of our little week long trip. Tomorrow morning we're back onto the ferry at 9 am and than off to our lovely home in Plai Laem.
Hope you enjoyed the trip reports and pix and don't be shy to post some comments.
Camille
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