Koh Chang Island, this is the place where you can not only relax with the soul and body, but also the stomach. Local restaurants and cafes offer a wide palette of culinary sizes at very economical prices. So do not try Thailand's kitchen on Khanga, this is a great crime, first of all precisely against yourself. And if suddenly, Thai cuisine was not to taste, on the island there are many restaurants offering and European dishes. But everything in order and start with the fact that you need to try.
A small list of the best dishes (subjective view):
- Som there. This is a spicy salad with green papaya. The second name is Pok-Pok, why so, I did not understand. Papaya, peanuts, green tomatoes, other vegetables, dried shrimps or crabs, stumbled to the desired condition. Apply usually together with rice and roasted chicken. Amazingly tasty, but very sharp. It is better to ask that the cook would ponch it in front of you and to your taste.
- Kao Pad. This is the best option in the case when I want to, and what to choose do not know. Roasted rice, with tomatoes, chicken, garlic, onions, eggs and tomatoes. Can add shrimp. If you pour fish sauce, just great and at the same time simply and satisfying.
- Soup Toms. Amazing soup, because both sour, and sweet, and sharp. In the soup a lot of local herbs, some roots and shrimps. Plus lemon juice. It is worth trying.
- Pad Tai. This is perhaps the most famous Thai dish, without which a Thai restaurant, not a restaurant at all. But on Koh Chang, it is preparing especially tasty. Fried noodles with sprouts of beans, onions and something else :) The choice of different additives, I personally like it with roasted peanuts and Chile.
In principle, if you describe all the dishes that you should try, you can write for a long time. My personal advice, to Chang, pay more attention to seafood. Fresh, delicious, prepared in various ways, and very inexpensive. Shrimps, squid, mollusks, crabs, fish, all this is in great abundance. If there are doubts about freshness, then to remove them, it makes sense to go to the village of Bang Bao, where the pier is full of restaurants from the seafood, and seafood can be brought directly with the boats from the sea. Where enough. Restaurants, as noted above, there are many, you can choose any, all are good. But if you want to eat crabs with shrimps, then Ruen Thai Seafood, in my opinion the best place.
It should be noted that Thailand's kitchen is generally in general, and to Chang, in particular, very sharp and not always, our stomachs are not familiar to it can respond adequately to it. Take with you on the trip sorbents, activated coal and other drugs decisive these problems. They will not be superfluous.
Now about prices.
The price level, as elsewhere, depends on the level of the restaurant, but in general, there is no particularly pathetic on Koh Chang, except that Nirvana Restaurant, which is in Bang Bao, and then in Moscow standards, it is inexpensive. And on average, the cost of the second dish in the middle hand of the restaurant will cost 150-200 baht (BAT is about equal to the ruble). In Makashnitsy, you can eat a tightly batch for 120, it is either a fish or meat with rice. There are all sorts of kebabs on the skewers at a price of 20 to 30 baht. True, I did not dare them. Pancakes with different fillings are perfect for breakfast - 20-25 baht, or cutting fresh fruit at a similar price. In general, it is difficult to die with hunger here.