Sao & Ooy Restaurant — Restaurant in Ko Lanta Yai

Great little place. Easily missed if you whizz by on the scooter but I highly recommend stopping by. Food is amazing and much lower cost than some of the fancy local places. Run by a lovely couple, the food is amazing! I would also recommend the take away service & local delivery is available. Highly recommend this great place. (PS, I’d ignore the one star review regarding ants. It’s Thailand. Sometimes they just arrive on mass in a matter of minutes. I’ve seen it in the very best of places. We’ve never seen anything like this on...

We stumbled onto this little place late on our first night in Koh Lanta as a recommendation from one friendly tuktuk driver. It's a humble little mom n pop restaurant with literally home cooked food, made with love. Huge portions, cheap eats, tasty and halal, topped off with very friendly service and the best Iced Thai Tea (aka Teh Tarik if in Malaysia) we've ever had.

To warm us up on a very stormy night, they gave us a hot sweet coconut and banana dessert, and the owner drove us home in the rain to our hotel! We...

Walked in to sit down and said hello to the owner (nice lady). There were more than a few ants on the table but that was fine we just asked her to wipe it down. Opened the menus and there were hundreds (no exaggeration) of ants/bugs and also what looked like nesting eggs??

Very clear the menus have not been opened or cleaned in a while. We had to leave we couldn’t stay there which was a shame as the other reviews were very positive. The place and menu needs a clean before you can eat here felt very...