Deng's Kamala Restaurant & Guesthouse — Restaurant in Kamala

On our 60 day food safari of Bangkok and Phuket, and just arrived in Kamala Beach. We came here as a walk by.

The Meet and Greet is Cherry, and everyone loves her. She is bubbly, funny, helpful, and hardworking, a real asset to the business, that's for sure.

We had chicken satay, which was very nice, as you would expect. We also had Larb Gai was actually too hot to be enjoyable, but it was my bad. I asked for it.

The Tamarind goong was exceptional and a total surprise. The trick was in the sauce, and onion to be specific. A portion of the onion was pushed to the limit french onion soup style, and the rest was just cooked to translucent. This is 10/10, no doubt. Nice tamarind as well, good balance. The prawns were dusted in corn or rice flour before cooking, providing a little thickening to the sauce. Together with the tamarind and onion, it may be the reason they have arrived at this superb flavour profile. One of the more extraordinary meals I've had in this trip.

A beautiful venue, as you'd expect right on the beach. Helpful friendly staff. Very easy to recommend. Especially the tamarind...

Great location on the beach and good service but terrible experience with the food. Spring rolls were very mushy inside and no flavour. Husband found a long black hair mingled throughout the rice. Server replaced the rice but ruined his meal. He ate the Panang curry but it was tasteless. I had the shrimp poke bowl. Shrimp were good but was served with a tablespoon of the tasteless Panang sauce over plain rice so no flavour at all. I just ate the shrimp and left hungry. Things get very loud whenever anyone orders a particular item from the menu. It’s done in a fun way, but is terribly loud and disturbs the atmosphere. Sorry but cannot recommend...

The service was great. Not many servers, but still not.too slow, and very personal. The food was okay, not bad but not amazing, definitely good enough for a beachside meal. The wine was only 150 baht per glass, much cheaper than some of the nearby restaurants. It would have been chilled, but from 7 til 8 the restaurant next door had very loud entertainment with a drag show that had booming loud music. As we couldn't really see.the show, we just had the music and was pretty hard to have a conversation. However, that wasn't the fault of the restaurant, and, it was only 7 til 8 and I believe not...