Baba Mansion
Café · Talat Nuea
A heritage house on Yaowarat Road in Phuket Old Town that works as a Peranakan café by day (Gula Café) and a booked Peranakan dinner restaurant by night (Baba Lee).
Café
About Baba Mansion
An old house on Yaowarat Road, long known to locals as the Kanok Kwan House after the kindergarten that filled it for thirty years, and later the Endless Summer coffee shop. As Baba Mansion it runs in two modes. By day Gula Café serves pandan lattes and Nyonya kueh in tiled rooms — drop in, no booking — with a corner for trying on Baba-Nyonya dress. By night it becomes Baba Lee, a booked Peranakan dinner of several courses from 19:00, at about 4,800 THB a head. Open Thursday to Monday.
Also known as Kanok Kwan House, Gula Café, Baba Lee
As the record has it
Good to know
- Cuisine
Peranakan (Baba-Nyonya): Hokkien cooking with Malay spices and coconut milk.
- Dishes
Pandan latte and Nyonya kueh at the café.
At Baba Lee, a set dinner of several courses that changes through the year: asam pedas fish, slipper lobster with pineapple and coconut, lamb kari kambing, Nyonya desserts.
- Prices
Café drinks and sweets without booking; Baba Lee about 4,800 THB a person before 10% service and 7% tax.
- Setting
A long ground-floor dining hall with old orange, white and black Peranakan floor tiles; a corner where visitors can put on traditional Baba-Nyonya dress for photos.
- Booking
Baba Lee is dinner only, by booking, from 19:00; the café needs no booking.
Phuket Old Town · Talat Nuea district
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