Food in Thailand delicious and inexpensive. Phangan - no exception.
If you booked a house without a kitchen, do not worry that you can not cook. With the hungry, you will definitely not be left, as literally on every corner on Pangan, all sorts of cafes, restaurants, bistro. And eat cheaper in them than buying products in the store and prepare themselves.
If you live in Resort, then, for sure, there is a restaurant on site, where you can always have a delicious breakfast-dinner-dinner. Either it is worth passing a few meters along the shore to the next resort, and there you will find a beach cafe, a bar or a restaurant. Lunch in the usual coastal restaurant with resort will cost you about 500 baht for two.
But not on the beach, in any area of the island you will find many institutions where you can try and Thai and European cuisine.
Thai cuisine is very sharp, an amateur. Thais is put in dishes a lot of chili, ginger, other typical seasonings. In many restaurants in the menu next to the name of the dish, chili punches are drawn: one, two, three ... This means sharpness. If you do not like very sharp food, then shown on one penny. Chile's pepper, of course, kills harmful bacteria, but at the same time useful bacteria can also destroy, and it sometimes threatens with dibacteriosis. So, if you are interested in acute food, then it may be worth supporting the body, taking lacto and bifido-bacteria, probiotics. Thais themselves prefer for digestion to eat half-electric drink "Betage". It is sold in any supermarket, a small bottle costs 10 baht.
Many restaurants have European dishes, and classic hamburgers and a vegetarian menu. In short, food here for every taste.
There are in Pangans and Russian restaurants, where, if you miss homemade food, you can eat dumplings, borscht, drink kvass. On the central street of the island, in the Russian cafe plate borscht costs about 100 baht.
If you want to dine in a street cafe, eat in the fresh air and try to choose the places where the Thais yourself eat - there will be cheaper, and do not definitely choose. Lost in the most ordinary Thai Harchevne is not in the central part of the island, it is possible for 200 baht for two. The most common dish that you must try, - pad ta (noodles with various fillers - vegetables, chicken, meat or seafood) costs approximately 60 baht. In each cafe it is prepared in his own way, but everywhere is equally tasty.
Very unusual and tasty dish - yellow or green curry - vegetables in coconut milk. It costs about 70 baht for a portion.
In one of the tourists' favorite areas - Chaloclam, there is a small street cafe, where in the lunchtime you can eat at 80 baht: a delicious chicken broth with cilantro and rice with fried or boiled (to choose from) with chicken or meat. Water with ice - free.
Be sure to try "Freshi" - fresh juices, smoothies, cocktails and cervix. On average, a large glass of Fresh costs 60 baht.
On street trays, sold, cooked right with you, ice tea with different additives is very fragrant and tasty. It costs about 25 baht.
And, of course, you need to try the source of vitamins and just an exotic drink - "Fresh Cokokat" - Coconut milk! With you, the coconut will be shut, they will give a tube and a spoon, and you can drink cool, useful juice. There is such a delicacy on average 45 baht. On the streets you can buy for 35, and in restaurants for 50.
In the coffee shops you can drink coffee - about 30 baht per cup and eat fresh pastries - from 20 baht for the freshest bun with filling.
Very cheap dishes on a wah markete. This is a food market in Tong Sala.
Here such a variety that eyes are running out and want to try literally everything! Prices are pleased. Pad Tai costs 35 baht, rice portion with vegetable or meat additive - 30 baht. Yellow or green curry - 50 baht for a portion. King shrimp kebabs, chicken, from squid from 10 to 30 baht. Here you can eat unusual national dishes, sushi, rolls, fish, any seafood, delicious crispy chicken, fruit, sweets! Fresh fruit cocktails are 60 baht, ice cakes - 30 baht.
If you live in a house with a kitchen and prefer to cook yourself, then the products can be bought in the market, and in supermarkets "7/11", "Tesco Lotus", "Big C".
There are many delicious fruits on the market - mango, lychee, pineapples, rabbutans, mangoustines, watermelons. The fruit market in Tong Sala is a bit more expensive than the markets in the chaloclam, for example. But on average, pineapple costs 40 baht, watermelon -50 BAT.
For children (and not only) on the island you can order homemade cottage cheese, kefir.
In the Organic Food Store "Limpipong" (in Tong Sala) you can buy a home yogurt. It is approximately 160 baht per liter, but it will be really natural milk product. In the same store you can buy honey, nuts and dried fruits.
Have a nice rest and pleasant appetite!