Esan Bar

Restaurant · Wichit

An open-air Isaan restaurant under a huge thatched roof on Vichitsongkram Road in Wichit, Phuket Town, with a garden and bamboo huts for four.

Restaurant

About Esan Bar

An Isaan restaurant on the edge of Phuket Town with no walls, just a vast thatched roof over wooden tables, a garden of cable-reel tables and bamboo huts for four. The food is north-eastern: grilled meats with sticky rice, som tam, a fiery bamboo-shoot salad, fried duck beaks and a whole fish steamed in a salt crust with rice noodles.

Also known as Esan Bar Thai Restaurant

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Cuisine

Isaan (north-eastern Thai): grilled marinated meats, sticky rice and som tam.

Dishes

Soop naw mai (spicy bamboo-shoot salad); fried duck beaks; fish steamed in a salt crust with seafood sauce and cold rice vermicelli, 200 THB; crispy pork.

Setting

No walls: big wooden tables under the roof, cable-reel tables in the garden, and bamboo huts.