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"... loads of scrumptious Thai, veggie and Western fare."
Lonely
Planet
"A
delicious restaurant..."
M.R. Thanatsri Svastivat, Thai Rath
"... long and delicious menu ... very
good-value Italian wines."
Rough Guide
"The
best steak I've had in 13 years in Thailand" • "Best Thai
food we've had in two months touring the country" • "The
carbonara's better than [5-star hotel in Bangkok] •
"I think we'll come back to Sichang the next time we're in Thailand,
just for Pan's food"
167 Asdang Road, 200 m before Rama V Palace,
next to Marine Police tel 038 216 075
YO! Open: 10:30 - 22:30 | Last food orders 21:30
Closed Wednesdays May thriugh
July — Reservations advisable Friday & Saturday
ปิดวันพุธ
พ.ค.- ก.ค. ๒๕๕๗ — วันศุกร์/เสาร์ แนะนำให้จองโต๊ะล่วงหน้า
Cuisine: Authentic Thai, Italian, vegetarian
Ambiance: **** Open air garden and rustic pavilion
Food quality: ****
Service: *** / ****
Typical supper for two B510
Those qotes in red are unpaid reviews and genuine guest comments. But let's be up front about it: we run Pan & David, and we run this website. We try to make eating at Pan & David a pleasure, memorable if possible. We're happy to say we do please a lot of people, thanks to fresh seafood (live crabs), an attractive garden, really friendly service, English-language paperbacks and newspapers, plus truly good cooking. And a selection of good to excellent wines at prices as much as B1000 lower than the same bottle in Bangkok or Pattaya.
We use the best ingredients we can find--jumbo prawns from island waters, real Parmigiano Reggiano cheese from Italy, extra-virgin olive oil, Modena balsamic vinegar, sea salt, Greek Kalamata olives, herbs from our own organic garden. You can enjoy Thai dishes from subtle to volcanic, great pasta, fine sandwiches or a small selection of first-class European entrees. Not to mention home-made ice cream in flavors like maple pecan, raspberry sorbet, fresh strawberry and almond.
• Spicy-sour
shrimp soup (tom yam kung) B175 •
• Whole sea bass (white snapper) steamed in soy sauce B350•
• Tuna melt sandwich with New Zealand cheddar B160•
• Crisp-fried tuna steak with green peppercorns B210 •
Squid tempura B150•
• Steamed crab B250 (500 grams) • Crab fried rice B60 • Garlic
bread B80 •
• Home-made fettucine alla Carbonara B240
• Spaghetti all'Amatriciana (fresh tomato sauce and bacon, grana
Padano) B210 •
• Free-range chicken sweet green curry B160 •
• Mixed salad with balsamic dressing B150•
• Filet steak with wild mushroom sauce, French fries and vegetables B440 •
• Pork cutlet
with three-peppers sauce, French fries and vegetables B260 •
Lek Tha Wang
by Rama V Palace entrance tel 038 486 210
Open: 07:30 to 19:30
Cuisine: Thai, seafood a specialty
Ambiance: ** rural basic
Food quality: ***
Service: **
Typical supper for two B480
Lek's has long been the island's
best-known restaurant, has featured in a couple of TV shows,
and still attracts large groups coming to the island for a
quick samlor tour and a big meal.
There are often hard-to-find-elsewhere seafood items, like
the delicious scallop relative hoi takataai (also known
as hoi fan krataai, rabbit's-tooth shells) and hoi
nom saao, the maiden's breast conch. Seafood is your best
bet here, especially the soups and fried fish.
Ruay Bar
Take a left off the road to the palace where you
see
the sign for Soi Tor Mor, where the Immigrationo office is
Open: 16:00 to about 23:00 every day
Cuisine: Thai
Ambiance: Nice outdoor waterside seating
Food quality: **
Service: **
Typical supper for two B400
We go here for the atmosphere — on weeknights it's not noisy, and sitting under the colored lights with a view over the bay toward Siracha adds a feeling we're somewhere far from work and worries. The food tends to be on the sweet side, but it's not bad, and not expensive. They have rooms, too, but we haven't looked at those.
Nok 'n' Noi
180 m before Rama V Palace, diagonally
opposite Pan & David (no English sign)
Open: 09:00 to about 22:00 every day
Cuisine: Thai
Ambiance: ** basic
Food quality: ***
Service **
Typcial supper for two B420
A long-established operator in a new location: worth visiting. What the variety of seafood to choose from may occasionally lack is made up for by good cooking. Like Lek Tha Wang, most reliable for seafood
Paa Noi Grilled Seafood
Asdang Road about 350 meters beyond
Tiew Pai, a bit past
Soi Tor Mor and the Ruay Bar Sign
Open: 17:00 to 21:00 almost every day
Cuisine: Thai Seafood
Ambiance: *** very basic open-air
Food quality: **
Service **
Typical supper for two B420
Very popular: a simple idea, well done. Choose your fish, squid, crabs or whatever, and they'll broil it for you. Other items are available, too.
There's no trendy food on Ko Sichang, but it is a great place to eat. First and foremost, we recommend Pan & David, about 200 meters before the palace entrance. Read at left to find out why we like the place so much.
There are a lot of other places you can get good food, especially seafood. The island's fleet of squid boats makes squid here seems like a completely different thing from what you get in Bangkok. We don't bother to order it anywhere off island. Several places have live crabs, too, and very big (up to about 180 g each) prawns--all cheaper than you're likely to find at the big-name destinations.
Apart from the places listed below, there are dozens of noodle shops and pushcarts for a quick snack, usually pretty good value, too. And if you're dying for air conditioning, there's a coffee shop at the Sichang Palace Hotel.
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