Baan Somtum — Restaurant in Surat Thani Province

Very delicious and fresh. ปลาเผา is salted snapper fried skin on. You peel th salted skin back and the soft fish underneath is incredible. The fish is stuffed with garlic, kaffir lime leaf and herbs and is so fresh and flavourful. Served with lettuce to make fish parcels with the herbs, delicious Tamarind satay sauce, and noodles). I don't even know the name in English so show them the Thai writing and photo. Very tasty som tam papaya salad (which I guess makes sense given it is their name-dish). Pineapple fried rice tasty but flavour gentle. The curry paste prawns were more like a sweety chilli which wasn't really what I wanted but still nice. Food only mildly spicy by Thai standards but luckily that's what I wanted today. See ice was fast but the restaurant was empty at 3pm. Oh and nice view of glistening sea in the afternoon. It must have beautiful sunset (though maybe a hot one with...

One of my favorite place , when I want to eat Thai food! Fried papaya and fried mango salad is the best have ever tried . These 2 dishes are always in my order . Haven’t tried yet all positions from menu but shrimps with lemongrass , squid with black pepper and garlic , fried shiitake with pork - recommended for sure! It’s a place where the visitors are always welcome! Coming in the evening there is a possibility to enjoy the great view of sunset , but any time there is a good view, tasty food, friendly atmosphere and...

Had the Minced Pork with Hot Basil Leaves (100 baht), and a steamed rice (20 baht). Overall, the food is okay, the flavor of the minced pork disg is heavy in garlic and weak in basil leaves aroma, otherwise the taste is seasoned well with salt. Of course, this in only based on one dish, so take it with a pinch of salt (pun intended ^_^).

The restaurant is facing the road and the beach, so it can be noisy due to the traffic, or lovely because of the...