Seafood Hor Mok in Young Coconut
Seafood Hor Mok in Young Coconut (Hor Mok Talay Maprao On) A southern Thai steamed curry custard — fish, squid and prawns folded into a thick paste of coconut cream, kaffir lime and red curry — served inside a young coconut that lends a faint, grassy sweetness to...
Deep-Fried Sea Bass with Fish Sauce
Deep-Fried Sea Bass with Fish Sauce(Pla Kapong Tod Naampla) A whole pla kapong (sea bass) fried to crackling bronze, flooded with a hot glaze of fish sauce, palm sugar and fried garlic, then scattered with shredded green mango or chilli. The skin shatters. The flesh...
Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chilli
Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chilli (Pla Kapong Neung Manao) A whole pla kapong (sea bass) fish steamed until just barely set, then drenched in a broth of lime juice, fish sauce, garlic, chilli and a suggestion of coriander. It is bright and violent and utterly...
Fried Squid Eggs
Fried Squid Eggs (Kai Muek Tod) The dish that separates the curious from the cautious. Squid egg sacs, battered and fried until crisp on the outside and creamy — almost briny — within. The flavour is intensely oceanic; the texture, once you commit, is extraordinary....
Crab Fried Rice
Crab Fried Rice(Khao Pad Poo) This is the test of any Thai kitchen: cold rice, furious heat, a cracked egg and enough crab meat to make the whole thing feel quietly luxurious. On Samui you are getting Gulf crab, and the sweetness of it running through every grain of...
Baked Prawns with Glass Noodles
Baked Prawns with Glass Noodles (Goong Ob Woonsen) Large prawns baked on a bed of glass noodles that have soaked up a rich, slightly sticky sauce of oyster sauce, sesame oil, garlic and ginger — often finished tableside in a clay pot still hissing from the oven. The...
Salt and Pepper Prawns
Salt and Pepper Prawns (Goong Kua Prik Glua) Whole prawns — shell on — tossed in the wok with sea salt, cracked white pepper, garlic and a handful of chilli until the shells are dry and fragrant and the tails curl with heat. You eat them whole: the shell is the...
Maraleina Sports Resort Samui
SPORTS RESORT Maraleina makes a bold claim — Thailand’s most comprehensive sports resort — and the facilities go some way to supporting it. The high-performance fitness centre sits alongside squash courts, football pitches, a PSG Academy affiliate programme, youth...
theXperience Samui
ART PARK, IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Koh Samui Billed, with characteristic understatement, as the eighth wonder of the world, theXperience is an open-air art and technology park that occupies its own category entirely. Across a series of themed zones — The Playa, Luna,...
Pixel Arcade Samui
ARCADE EVENINGSKoh Samui This large format arcade trade sticky carpets for polish. A full-length bowling alley anchors the space, flat by a small edit of classic and next-gen games that keep the tempo high without tipping into chaos. Neon washes the room in colour, a...
Seafood Hor Mok in Young Coconut
Seafood Hor Mok in Young Coconut (Hor Mok Talay Maprao On) A southern Thai steamed curry custard — fish, squid and prawns folded into a thick paste of coconut cream, kaffir lime and red curry — served inside a young coconut that lends a faint, grassy sweetness to...
Deep-Fried Sea Bass with Fish Sauce
Deep-Fried Sea Bass with Fish Sauce(Pla Kapong Tod Naampla) A whole pla kapong (sea bass) fried to crackling bronze, flooded with a hot glaze of fish sauce, palm sugar and fried garlic, then scattered with shredded green mango or chilli. The skin shatters. The flesh...
Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chilli
Steamed Sea Bass with Lime and Chilli (Pla Kapong Neung Manao) A whole pla kapong (sea bass) fish steamed until just barely set, then drenched in a broth of lime juice, fish sauce, garlic, chilli and a suggestion of coriander. It is bright and violent and utterly...
Fried Squid Eggs
Fried Squid Eggs (Kai Muek Tod) The dish that separates the curious from the cautious. Squid egg sacs, battered and fried until crisp on the outside and creamy — almost briny — within. The flavour is intensely oceanic; the texture, once you commit, is extraordinary....
Crab Fried Rice
Crab Fried Rice(Khao Pad Poo) This is the test of any Thai kitchen: cold rice, furious heat, a cracked egg and enough crab meat to make the whole thing feel quietly luxurious. On Samui you are getting Gulf crab, and the sweetness of it running through every grain of...
Baked Prawns with Glass Noodles
Baked Prawns with Glass Noodles (Goong Ob Woonsen) Large prawns baked on a bed of glass noodles that have soaked up a rich, slightly sticky sauce of oyster sauce, sesame oil, garlic and ginger — often finished tableside in a clay pot still hissing from the oven. The...
Salt and Pepper Prawns
Salt and Pepper Prawns (Goong Kua Prik Glua) Whole prawns — shell on — tossed in the wok with sea salt, cracked white pepper, garlic and a handful of chilli until the shells are dry and fragrant and the tails curl with heat. You eat them whole: the shell is the...
Maraleina Sports Resort Samui
SPORTS RESORT Maraleina makes a bold claim — Thailand’s most comprehensive sports resort — and the facilities go some way to supporting it. The high-performance fitness centre sits alongside squash courts, football pitches, a PSG Academy affiliate programme, youth...
theXperience Samui
ART PARK, IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE Koh Samui Billed, with characteristic understatement, as the eighth wonder of the world, theXperience is an open-air art and technology park that occupies its own category entirely. Across a series of themed zones — The Playa, Luna,...
Pixel Arcade Samui
ARCADE EVENINGSKoh Samui This large format arcade trade sticky carpets for polish. A full-length bowling alley anchors the space, flat by a small edit of classic and next-gen games that keep the tempo high without tipping into chaos. Neon washes the room in colour, a...
