Ta-Krai — Restaurant in Phang-nga Province

ENGLISH The Ta-Krai is a Thai restaurant which offers a traditional seating area in addition to normal tables - so the culinary experience is also a cultural experience. Ta-Krai is located on the grounds of JW Marriott Khao Lak. The service was excellent, the staff thoroughly courteous and all food and drinks reached us quickly.

Here you will find authentic food from the most diverse regions of Thailand - but above all you get a lot of what is usually served rather seldom.

For example, the starter Miang Kham, consisting of components that you do yourself on a plants leaf to then fold this and consume. The leaves used are usually the eatable leaves of the purple coral tree or, as in our case, the Thai pepper leaf.

Common ingredients include lime, minced ginger, red onion, grated coconut, diced mango (sour), chopped chillies, chopped peanuts & tamarind sauce.

A very special culinary taste experience, which should not be missed in Ta-Krai.

After that we decided to order some classics such as spring rolls (these were provided with a special Ta Krai filling), TomYam Goong (the classic Thai soup with shrimp - without coconut milk), Gaeng KiewWan (green Thai curry) and a Gaeng Massaman (Moslem curry with potatoes & chicken). Especially the Massaman curry had an excellent and special taste, of course, the other dishes were delicious too.

Finally, there had next to a smartly prepared coconut ice cream and the baked banana a panna cotta from the coconut milk - a real taste experience and in my view highly recommended!

Note: Due to the redesign of the Ta-Krai & Sakura restaurants, you may find them at an alternate location on the grounds of the JW Marriott for a transitional period - if this is the case, have a site plan at the hotel reception desk.

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DEUTSCH

Beim Ta-Krai handelt es sich um ein Thailändisches Restaurant welches neben normalen Tischen auch einem traditionellen Sitzbereich anbietet – so wird das kulinarische Erlebnis auch gleich zu einer kulturellen Erfahrung. Das Ta-Krai befindet sich auf dem Gelände des JW Marriott Khao Lak.

Der Service war hervorragend, die Mitarbeiter durchweg zuvorkommend und alle Speisen & Getränke erreichten uns zügig.

Hier gibt es authentische Speisen aus den verschiedensten Regionen Thailands.

Zum Beispiel der Starter Miang Kham, bestehend aus Komponenten die man sich selber auf ein Blatt tut um dieses dann zu falten und zu verzehren. Bei dem verwendeten Blättern handelt es sich meist um die essbaren Blätter des lila Korallen-Baumes oder wie in unserem Fall das Thailändische Pfefferblatt.

Die gebräuchlichen Komponenten sind Limone, gehachter Ingwer, rote Zwiebeln, geriebene Kokosnuss, gewürfelte Mango (sauer), gehackte Chillies, gehackte Erdnüsse & Tamarinden-Sauce.

Ein ganz besonders kulinarisches Geschmackserlebnis, was man sich im Ta-Krai nicht entgehen lassen sollte.

Hiernach entschieden wir uns für einige Klassiker wie Frühlingsrollen (diese waren allerdings mit einer besonderen Ta-Krai Füllung versehen), TomYam Goong (die klassische Thai-Suppe mit Garnelen – ohne Kokusnussmilch), Gäng KiewWan (grünes Thai-Curry) und ein Gäng Massaman (Mulim-Curry mit Kartoffeln & Huhn). Besonders das Massaman Curry hatte einen exzellenten und besonderen Geschmack, wobei natürlich auch die anderen Gerichte lecker waren.

Zum Abschluss gab es dann neben einem pfiffig angerichteten Kokosnuss-Eis, gebackener Banane auch noch ein Panna Cotta von der Kokosnuss-Milch – ein echtes Geschmackerlebnis und aus meiner Sicht sehr zu empfehlen!

Hinweis: Auf Grund der Neugestaltung der Restaurants Ta-Krai & Sakura kann es sein, dass Ihr diese für eine Übergangszeit an einem alternativen Ort auf dem Gelände des JW Marriott findet – sollte dies so sein lasst Euch an der Hotel-Rezeption einfach einen Geländeplan geben.

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The walk to the restaurant was highlighted by a beautiful sunset.

I had two glasses of delicious Montes Chilean cab sav and husband had two different cocktails. Yuzu cocktail of the day was bland and watered down. Baan Buri was a winner post dinner, tasted like a liquid mango sticky rice.

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The plates of ingredients to make the Khao soi were unceremoniously plunked down in front of us with no explanation of what they were or how to mix it all together.

The rice was dry and tasted stale. We noticed the rice was just sitting in pots at the back of the restaurant.

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