Island Cooking #1: Koh Phangan Thailand! (7 Photos)
Why do I keep traveling? It's for the food! I love to taste the world! Well, that's not the entire reason but it certainly has something to do with it. Learning about people, places, and cultures so often comes full circle back to the dinner table and I love it. Trying new things is a passion of mine and that certainly counts when I get hungry.
Believe it or not I used to be a personal chef for a short amount of time so I know my way around the kitchen quite well. I remember being a little boy in the 1980s, fixated on the TV, watching Julia Child's Joy of Cooking, one of the first ever cooking TV shows. She really named the program well, as for my entire life cooking and eating has brought me joy in so many ways and in so many places around the world!
As a world traveler you may think I live in hotels and eat out 99% of the time. That's sometimes true and sometime not true at all. One of my greatest pleasures is going to a location, renting a place with a kitchen, and exploring the local markets for new and amazing ingredients and seeing what I can come up with.
Here on the island of Koh Phangan in the Gulf of Thailand it's no different. In fact it's one of the best places in Thailand to enjoy cooking. Here I have access to all the traditional flavors of Thailand and much more; like an endless supply of fresh caught sea food! Something most of the country does not have access too.
In this new Island Cooking series you are gonna see what I've been able to come up with, and that is a decent amount of fish dishes. So far my favorite is fresh caught Grouper, where the meat has often been compared to that of lobster! Other fish that I've had here that is pretty darn amazing is pompano, red and white snapper, barracuda, mahi-mahi (dorado), and tuna!
I like to eat healthy. Sometimes I stick pretty close to the famous Mediterranean diet. Lots of salads, I got into making my own hummus for a while too! One thing is for sure, I've been eating good! Here in Thailand the same fish that would cost upwards of $20 USD a pound back home in New York may only cost me as little as two dollars a pound in Koh Phangan, and it couldn't come any fresher. The island and the sea has provided for me well. Now come along and lets do some island cooking here in Koh Phangan Thailand!
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Yum!!!!
It sure is very inexpensive food in Thailand!
For real, surprisingly inexpensive. Ordering fresh fish at a restaurant though can have you paying upwards of 10x the price right here on the same island.
Perhaps in two years, I'll probably visit Thailand. But it is just so far from the US @world-travel-pro😞!
For real...right now NOT at 12 hrs time difference.......it's actually a 13hr time difference. Talk about drilling a hole to China! hahaha It's far far away!
Will you ever make it back here, @world-travel-pro?
Right.....good question. Hahahaha. Right now I think the pandemic stuff is going to get worse before it gets better. So I'm staying on my island for now.
Good. I think that is the right decision!👍😀
Wow, those were mouth watering foods, I bet you have ate hearty with those food on your front.
Thanks buddy! Yes, I've been eating well!
You're welcome.
Looking at these superb cheap healthy foods makes me miss Koh Samui Island remembering all them seafood lunch and dinners, I was having by the piers and everywhere else just the best now, I am jealous...lol 🤣
Indeed, it's a good place to eat. Last night I wrapped a 1.2kilo whole pompano fish in a banana leaf and put in it in the over for an hour. So good, but I could go for some Aussie Beer and BBQ to mix things up.
Yeah I know what you mean a mix would be good, you would be missing the foreign food, I found Aussie meats and American products very expensive over there because of import duties, I would imagine, but I did enjoy pizzas over there now and then they were reasonable prices when down well with a San Miguel beer 😜
Exactly. The government puts pretty hefty terrifs on imports here and that is giving a competitive edge to Thai companies who are actually now branching out into what used to basically a pretty strict foreign market. For example, there are a bunch of Thai food producers making mozzerella cheese, and now cream cheese. So the price of pizza and cheesecake has come down in recent years! Even Thai beef is now competing along side Ausi imported stuff at nearly half the price...and the quality is pretty darn good too.
Sounds good so if you were to be eating foreign food over there now and then which is good for a change and I suppose foreigners living over there would be liking that as long as it matches up as good a quality.
Exactly. The quality is pretty good but the price tag is sometimes ridiculous.
Yeah i noticed that also they were way over.
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Todo se ve muy delicioso