Kway Chap in Phuket

Original post June 26, 2010

We missed a turn in Phuket town and stumbled upon this at 9 p.m. while looking for a dinner place. We just parked along the road and switched on our hazard lights.

It is at the Patipat-Krabi Intersection (just west of the Chinatown precinct). The name of the shop was in Thai. We asked for a business card and they had none. It was patronised only by locals and we were the only tourists. It was very crowded but we managed to get a table because some people were leaving just as we arrived.

They serve “Kway Chap” except that you can also ask for say, pork ribs (with soft bones/cartilage encased which was cooked till soft yet still crunchy) or minced meatballs only. You can choose from staples such as kway chap (broad, flat rice) noodles, instant noodles, glass noodles, porridge/congee and rice. It's difficult for a foreigner to order. Best to point to the individual ingredients. Please note that there appears to be a standard version for a mixed combination which is a mix of all the different types of innards (only one slice of each) but which excludes the coagulated blood and vegetables, and as a result, we had to place a second order by pointing to the order on our neighbouring table.

All those who do not know, different innards take different lengths of time to cook to the correct texture, and every item was cooked to perfection. Five of us ate eight servings plus one more serving of only roast pork. :-) Total bill? THB 255. Our regret was that we couldn't pack the food back to Singapore.

If we were to describe it in Singaporean terms, we would say it is a Bak Kut Teh Soup base with your choice of what goes into the soup and not the kway chap as we know it in Singapore.

http://jamie-monk.blogspot.com/2008/11/kuay-jap-noodles-new-restaurant-in.html