Thong Sala Food Market, Koh Phangan

The Thong Sala Night Food Market, is the place to eat on Koh Phangan. The nightly market opens early in the evening and is a collection of approximately 20 different mobile food stalls each selling a slightly different variety of Thai food. The food sold in the Thong Sala Food Market is some of the best traditional Thai food to be eaten while staying in the Gulf of Thailand's islands.

The Colourful Thong Sala Food Market

The food is freshly prepared by vendors who have perfecting the methods to cook Pad Thai, Green Curries and more specialist shell fish dishes for decades, with many dishes taught down the generations. To add this special atmosphere the meals are eat on disposable plates while sat on stalls and benches, crammed next to the locals eating some of the most spicy dishes ever created.

The Thong Sala Food Market

The Thong Sala Food Market is designed for the locals of Koh Phangan and the food is incredibly cheap, with a main meal costing the same as a can of fizzy drink. The Thong Sala Food Market is a great place to meet, chat and laugh with Koh Phangan residences who many have no connection to the tourist trade, here the Thai smile is so easy to find.

All fresh ingredients in the market

The market is a great no pressure environment to try a a range of different dishes that the tourist would be to nervous to try in a restaurant in case the dish was not liked or, more likely, too spicy. Go on try something new at the Thong Sala night Food Market.