Tu Kab Khao Restaurant Phuket — Restaurant in Ratsada

I would like to drop down my genuine feeling after dining in the restaurant last night.

I made a reservation in the restaurant and confirmed that I would show up in the evening. At the moment I arrived, everything was all set. BUT, the tableware was different from other tables. I felt curious but kept in mind first. Afterwards, the waitress who served us at the very beginning left to let us look at the menu, but she left with saying in Thai to her colleague, "oh they're Chinese, go handle them." in quite a rude way. I felt offended and starting to think whether would that be the reason why we got different tableware at the very beginning. Not everyone who speaks Chinese or Mandarin is from China and most importantly, you SHOULD NOT treat your guest with this kind of manner.

I asked another waiter nearby about the tableware query, and he responded, "oh, because we are running out of the normal plates, so we decided to give you the spare ones." I was thinking that I already confirmed everything before arriving, why couldn't you treat people who made reservation in a nice way, or you think that people made reservation due to your fame, therefore you take them for granted? or simply because of your so called discrimination in the prior scenario?

The food itself was alright, it has to be said. As a person who has been living in Thailand for more than four years, I can tell that the taste of it would be suitable for foreigners if you would like to try Thai food a bit. The price would be a bit high since it is recommended by Michelin. With the same price range, I believe that you can always find a better option here in Phuket.

Lastly, I am working in high end service industry as well, so I am full aware of the meaning that a place is recommended by Michelin. The most important thing in this industry is respect and to create trust. With all the above mentioned experience, I really cannot bare with it and I would like to reveal it to everyone who would like to visit this restaurant. Respect is very important, even if you are already the best in the world, you would still need to treat people with proper etiquette and manner.

As a foreigner, no matter from which country, please kindly reconsider before visiting. Because I do not want anyone else to experience the same anymore, and I hope that they can improve their service...

a week ago, i had the michelin-must crab curry and a beer for lunch and it was excellent. a couple days later i had moo hong and it was a more than a bit too sweet but i didn't think much of it. today, i went for dinner and ordered the crab curry again. the waitress warned me that it was spicy (i'm white passing and english speaking). i told her i prefer spicy. they served me a bowl so tasteless it was inedible, like drinking a can of coconut milk. i complained to a waiter and the owner/manager came over. i asked him straightup if they served me some tourist version of the dish, and showed him photos on my phone showing it was literally a different color than what i ate last week. he admitted they had!! because they guessed the dish was too spicy for me. i told him the waitress already warned me and i specifically told her i liked spicy. he apologized profusely and brought it back doctored up quite a bit but still not as good as it was last week, because obviously the balance was way off. they also served me a gin and tonic with flat tonic, like they couldn't be arsed to open a new can for 20 baht. hours later i'm still genuinely shocked.

to the restaurant: if you can't figure out why you're getting mediocre reviews from foreigners, it's because you're racially profiling them and serving them third rate food. i suggest you stop this asap, no quicker way to lose your michelin bib and an absolute guarantee you'll never get that star. hicks who are scared of spicy food eat at places that serve "western" food. if you advertise your food as high quality, authentic southern thai cuisine, that's what people walking in expect to be served. you have no idea where people grew up, where they have lived, or what their palate is based on their skin color. to profile people about 'spiciness' already lacks integrity in terms of high-quality and consistent cooking, but to also ignore their answer is . ....

We stopped here for dinner at the recommendation of our Grab driver not knowing it was a Michelin starred restaurant. The interior was cozy and slightly classy, resembling somewhere you go to have high tea.

We ordered the yellow curry crab, fried shrimp spring rolls, chicken satay, pad thai with shrimp, fried morning glory (water spinach), mango sticky rice, and the passion fruit juice.

The curry crab had amazing flavor and the crab meat itself was plump and sweet. It was already shelled and cooked so the only work you needed to do was serve yourself and eat, which I greatly appreciated.

The flavor of the pad thai was great. The noodles weren’t over cooked and still had a decent chew which I enjoyed.

The fried morning glory (not pictured) was amazing. It had a distinct wok hei flavor that I found extremely flavorful.

I didn’t get a chance to try the shrimp rolls but heard they were good and paired well with the slightly sweet sauce.

The chicken satay was unfortunately over cooked in my opinion but the accompanying sauces were good.

The passion fruit juice was extremely refreshing and had a strong passion fruit flavor. The mango in the mango sticky rice was exceptionally sweet and tasty and paired well with the pandas/coconut flavored sticky rice.

Price wise the entire dinner was around $60 USD for 4 people. It may considered expensive by local standards but I felt it was worth the cost and overall reasonably priced for the quality of food.

The staff spoke enough English for us to order food such that I didn’t feel the language barrier very much during the extent of our visit.

Overall, I greatly enjoyed my unexpected Michelin starred dining experience here. I would highly recommend those in the area to stop by for dinner for the...