Crystal Thai Food — Restaurant in Surat Thani Province

Nice cosy place which was very busy.. Service is a bit slow to get menus and ger our order in. The waiter seems to do a reasonable job in serving the full restaurant with some help from the boss The range of dishes is very limited to what the Europeans will eat, so selection of stir fries and curries in single meat combinations. We did find the larb and the papaya salad there on the menu which was good.

So, after ordering, our pad thai and the massaman chicken came first. The pad thai looked pretty good. It was tasty, but doesn't stand out from all the other pad thais I have had. Good value but possibly a bit small serving for big eaters.

The massaman, when it came out, I could tell it was going to be ultra thin in flavour. It was just the wrong colour as it was verging on yellow. And yes, it was thin and powdery. So possibly from some sort of spice mix or something. Not good.

The papaya salad came out 5 minutes later, so I knew they had spent some time and care on grating it and preparing it which gave me hope. No dried shrimp and I wasn't really expecting that here. It actually was pretty good. Very tasty, good heat and tang and at this price, a no brainer to order again.

Cocktails. Much too sweet and weak. Didn't really resemble the cocktails they were trying to represent, so particularly poor versions.

But the pricing here is amazing in that you probably won't find much cheaper in chaweng.

I probably would prefer to go to somewhere a little more authentic, but the food is tasty at a price that can't be...

Local Thai restaurant. Revisited there in September 2019. We went there for lunch for four times during our 11-day stay in samui. Various western dishes such as pasta and sandwiches were available there, but we only ordered Thai dishes. The service was great and everything was extremely reasonable. Most Thai dishes were usually tasty. However, the ingredients used there were not the same as those provided by fine Thai food restaurants. Also, each portion of the dish was smaller than those provided by the restaurants targeted for tourists. So to put it short, this is a clean, cozy local restaurant which provides tasty Thai food at the reasonable price same as the local stall. But nothing fancy. Mango Shake, Coconut Milk Shake, Som Tam, Spring Roll,Barbecue spare ribs, Tom Yum Goong, Gappao, Pad Thai are highly recommended. (I don’t recommend garlic fried rice and barbecue pork egg noodle...

Highly disappointed in this restaurant. The many good reviews at this place definitely fooled my boyfriend and I. Upon arrival, it was inherent that they were busy and understaffed. The female restaurant owner noted they were down one server and we were definitely understanding of the fact. However, at some point, that kindness and patience seem to have been taken for granted.

We waited over an hour for our food without any staff coming by to check in. There was a fly in our coconut soup (we ordered the one with prawns). Asked politely to get it remade. We received a coconut soup, but with chicken. We already waited so long and asked to just get the prawns on the side instead of having it get remade. They declined and offered us a discount instead, as they said it would take an additional 40 min to 1 hr. The check was dropped off with a measly 20 baht discount off of a 500 baht bill.

Such a shame. The food was good, but the service made it an incredibly disappointing experience. Never...