9 Million View syam — Restaurant in Surat Thani Province

Among the places I want to support for the authenticity of a local Thai restaurant as it was ten years ago when Ko Pha Ngan was less gentrified...

Food is great, portions are small, but it's very cheap, so you can treat yourself with two dishes if you want and still keep the bill under 200THB! Laab Kai is my favourite dish there!

It is a family restaurant, where kids are helping while doing their homeworks next table, grand parents and parents under the same roof, and a highly skill Thai mama cooking for you. Smiles are for real, you feel welcome as it used to be the case everywhere on the island long time ago, and you do actually support a family with your money, but they make it worth it, so we're not talking "charity"; It's a business, good food exchanged for some money! Life as it should be...

Entitled people or peaky people, go to another place, it's not organic or locally grown, no Himalayan salt there and msg on the table (you can of course ask her to cook without and without sugar too though); it's cheap, good, and simple...

And, ho yeah: the...

Honestly...? Have never experienced anything like this in Thailand before... Usually I prefer eating in food courts, street markets etc. But unfortunately not much choice and so it was a restaurant. A Restaurant I do not want to ever set foot into again.... You get the drinks, no glas for anyone of us (I ordered 1 l bottle of water) No Straße for the canned Drinks.... that was the first thing. Ok. Not OK for a restaurant. Then it took them one hour to recognize that they do not have squid any more. Ok. So I said, OK then I do not want the green curry any more, the salad alone is also enough. Cancelled this one dish. My Kids only wanted noodle soup and plain rice After 1 hour of waiting we got it.... Then came Green Curry... With Shrimps.. Do avoid this place.

When we left, we saw the fridge filled with really, really old food and drinks behind the bar counter... Do avoid...

I read a lot of good reviews and was excited to come to this place. I was very disappointed. Yes, the place is run by a friendly family who actually cook everything in their home kitchen (they live downstairs). But this is why you have to wait a long time - I came just after the group of 4 people and waited for 30 min for the first dish to come. The food is very average, nothing outstanding. I expected better green curry - there were only 2 types of veggies in there. It would be perfectly fine if the prices there were not at the level of a decent restaurant just 200 meters away. For the toilet you have to actually enter the home downstairs - and it was located just next to a bed where an old woman was sleeping. I did not feel comfortable...