Pho Tong
Restaurant · Talat Yai
A big, busy Thai rice-soup restaurant (ran khao tom) on Surin Circle by the Phuket Town clock tower, opposite the Courtyard by Marriott; dinner and late night only.
Restaurant
About Pho Tong
The big, loud family kind of rice-soup restaurant, open to the street on the clock-tower circle in Phuket Town, where Thai families and groups off work fill some 60 seats every evening. You order rice or khao tom and a few plates to share, cooked at a row of woks in full view: the southern sour curry, gaeng som, first, then chilli dip with pork cracklings or prawns with sataw beans. Plates run 100–160 baht; it opens at 3 pm and goes on until midnight.
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Good to know
- Cuisine
Thai plates to share around plain rice or khao tom (rice loosened in a light broth), cooked to order at a row of woks in full view.
- Dishes
Gaeng som, the southern sour curry, above all.
Roasted chilli dip with pork cracklings; pak miang stir-fried with egg and dried shrimp; prawns with shrimp paste and sataw beans.
- Prices
Rice 10 THB; most sharing plates 100–160 THB; cards accepted.
- Setting
The front is open to Phuket Road, scooters parked a metre away and the clock tower lit up across the circle; about 60 seats, mostly Thai families and groups.
Talat Yai district
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Stands inTalat Yai district