Island Cooking #4: 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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so hungry when you see this food
Some of my favorite fish too!! It sounds like heaven and I wish I was there right now! Your pictures are making me green with envy!
Having grown up on the Long Island Sound, I love seafood!!
Wow. A fellow New Yorker. I grew up just outside of Albany. It can't say much for seafood compared to Long Island. But we would do trips to Cape Code and go deep sea fishing. That was a lot of fun.
I have cousins here in the DC area and they own a deep-sea fishing outfit that they always encourage us to join them. So we get to do that, right out of the Chesapeake into the Atlantic and fish in the Chesapeake too, We have the house on the Eastern Shore of Virginia too and so we are in keeping with our heritage. Living off the sea! You can see the other housels location, it matters not where on this strip, you are only minutes from the water either way.
Wow! That is awesome. That is really cool piece of land there as well. Would love to explore this whole area. Makes me realize there is so much of the United States I'm still yet to see. Most of my time spent in America was in New York and Florida.
Remind me to tell u a story about when I was a limo driver(regular town car but like fancy car service ) while I was doing music stuff full time at one point and one night I got a job from Chappaqua to NYC then the ladies asked me to take them to Sag Harbor at midnight instead of to there husbands in NYC. I was a good boy but wow I could write a book just on being a pizza delivery boy in Armonk as a teen and we even had a lot of deliveries to Greenwich CT being so close to state boarder and Armonk being closer then downtown Greenwich. Especially when I worked for a sushi spot. We had Greenwich customers sll over!
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Your eating like the King of Paradise 🤣
Hahaha, thanks! Can't argue that!
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Thank you so much guys!
You just made me very hungry with the photos of the foods that you shared. When it comes to food, Thailand is indeed one of the best countries to visit.
Thanks for the kind words. Yes Thailand is a phenomenal country when it comes to food.
You're welcome.