Imchai Thai Food — Restaurant in Surat Thani Province

(See end for recommendations) and no I am in no way affiliated or hired. Just love them and loved their hospitality that I've experienced for the past week, daily! 🙏🏻

If you were wondering where you could find an authentic family run local restaurant in Koh Samui, then congratulations you have truly found it. I won't be able to give enough credit or paint a picture as I'd wish to so I'll just say that they must be doing something right when you see returning customers (RETURNING DAILY) I came by once or twice daily for about a week. The vibe is great, the three huts with the large tables in front are my favorite and I just love the family who run it. Always happy, singing along or rocking to the TV. Just go for it. Take a dish you feel comfortable with to try and then I'm pretty sure you will be coming back to try the rest and I can tell you that you won't be disappointed.

✨️Spice level you can adjust for all dishes, just ask. ✨️Most soups you can ask with or without coconut milk, just ask. ✨️And basically any other thing you may wish to change, ask and im sure they will do their best to accommodate for it 🙏🏻

✨️I have tried the (bear in mind I love spicy). Here is put my personal favorites with a ❣️

❣️Spicy papaya salad multiple times 🥰

❣️Massamam curry

Green curry

❣️Tom yam goong spicy without coconut milk

Tom yam ka

Spicy beef salad

❣️ noodle soup with pork ball (ITS PORK MEATBALLS😆 NOTHING STRANGE. They just use ground pork meat) and tofu egg (basically like a hard boiled egg white but more...

30 September 2025 I don’t know why this place got so many stars.

This has got to be the worst Pad Krapow I have ever tried - we ordered Beef Krapow and it had the toughest beef slices - to the point that my teeth were aching just trying to chew the meat. Enough to make a tiger cry (there’s a dish of pork by that name)

Also ordered the Tom Kha Gai - chicken in coconut soup. Again, the breast meat was tough and tasteless. The coconut soup was not half bad though.

Probably appeals to the Farangs - those customers who were here at noon were mostly white Caucasians, who ordered beer - can’t ruin a bottled beer.

For those used to good Thai cooking, you can give this place a miss. The decor is designed to attract the foreigners to the quaint kitschy huts (see photo) The food is catered to the Farangs and sadly, not...

We visited this restaurant based on its high rating, but unfortunately, our experience did not match the expectations. I ordered the BBQ Pork, which looked completely different from the picture on the menu. What I received was just a piece of quickly seared meat without any sides and without the rice I had ordered. After reminding the staff twice, the rice arrived more than five minutes later.

The pork itself was very tough and poorly prepared. My wife’s dish was average at best, but even that was served about eight minutes after my disappointing BBQ Pork.

Overall, this was a frustrating experience. The service was slow and inattentive, and the food quality did not justify the restaurant’s high rating. I’m giving it 2 out of 5 stars, only because my wife was somewhat satisfied...