{"id":528,"date":"2010-01-14T00:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/528"},"modified":"2010-01-14T00:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T07:41:00","slug":"sumalee-seafood-phuket-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Sumalee Seafood (Phuket, Thailand)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/kennyRating.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had arguably the best Thai food I\u2019ve ever had on Nai Yang beach in Phuket. Among the crowd of beachfront restaurants is a gem of a place: Sumalee Seafood. The owner and chef, Sumalee, is a very sweet lady who turns out amazing curries, salads, and other Thai fare. And when you order \u201cspicy!\u201d, it can knock you out of your seat. Our first meal there was a lunch of spicy mango salad and massaman curry. The mango salad was fresh, crunchy and <strong>very <\/strong>spicy. Lauren and I rated it \u201c6 star\u201d spicy as it was spicier than any Thai food we\u2019ve had. We chatted with Sumalee after lunch and she told us she used 3 chilies, and for herself she normally uses 1. The massaman curry was quite tasty, similar to the one served at <a href=\"http:\/\/kennyw.com\/food\/254\">Jamjuree<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The next day we had panang curry and phad see iw for dinner. The panang was reminiscent of the one we made in our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thaicookeryschool.com\/\">Chiang Mai cooking class<\/a> last year -&#160; a full-flavored, medium dry curry with overtones of lemongrass. It\u2019s always a good sign when panang is a darker brown\/yellow color. This curry was so good we came back for another helping today for our final meal in Phuket (this time with vegetables) .<\/p>\n<p>After each meal Sumalee would bring us a few fresh fruits as a complimentary dessert. I think this tradition started because she was swamped on our first visit and the food took a long time to arrive. Nonetheless, we continued to be treated to mangos, watermelon, bananas, and rambutan on future visits. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"spicy mango salad\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4280480026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"spicy mango salad\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4067\/4280480026_0903c1a664.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Super spicy mango salad, fresh and delicious<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hugs!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4279741177\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hugs!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2686\/4279741177_c6fe9fae27.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Sumalee and Lauren<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"panang prawns\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4280489258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"panang prawns\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2743\/4280489258_85cc888bd5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Panang Goong, as good as it gets<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenny enjoying a pineapple and coconut shake\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4279747551\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kenny enjoying a pineapple and coconut shake\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4016\/4279747551_083fd87d2d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Enjoying a tasty and refreshing coconut+pineapple fruit shake<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sumalee and her son\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lavoie\/4280494212\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sumalee and her son\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4055\/4280494212_59072808dd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>     <br \/><em>Alas, we eventually had to take our leave of Nai Yang beach and Sumalee Seafood<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sumalee Seafood    <br \/>Nai Yang Beach     <br \/>Phuket, Thailand<\/p>\n<p>Daily: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: We had arguably the best Thai food I\u2019ve ever had on Nai Yang beach in Phuket. Among the crowd of beachfront restaurants is a gem of a place: Sumalee Seafood. The owner and chef, Sumalee, is a very sweet lady who turns out amazing curries, salads, and other Thai fare. And when you order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89,68,79],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-review","tag-thailand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennyw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}