Lok Tien Restaurant, a collection of delicious Phuket food, is another restaurant in the old town area. Many restaurants choose to sell at tourist prices by decorating the shop beautifully to attract tourists to use the service. But Lok Tien, an old restaurant that has been in business for decades, chooses to sell local food and other made-to-order dishes at affordable prices. I guarantee that if you come to Lok Tien Restaurant alone, you will definitely taste almost all the local Phuket food.
Whether its Lo Ba, Mee Hoon, or Oh Aew, this place is truly a center for local food.
The shop may not be decorated, it is ordinary, but it has been open for a long time, just like Chuan Chim, Jee Ngod, and other shops in Phuket old town.
Lets start with the first dish, Hokkien Stir-fried Mee Hoon. Mee hoon is similar to rice vermicelli but is a bit smaller and not as chewy. It is usually stir-fried with Chinese kale and meat. You can stir-fry anything, even seafood. At Lok Tien, they stir-fry with pork, fish balls, shrimp, and squid.
The second dish is Lo Ba. Hearing the name might sound strange. What exactly is it? Lo Ba is a menu with pork filling, pig ears, pig tails, cut into bite-sized pieces, served with tofu and cucumber as accompaniments. It has a unique dipping sauce, which is not fresh chili vinegar like when eating pig head, but a sweet simmered sauce, leaning towards the fried tofu dipping sauce, with ground peanuts added.
The Oh-Aew is shaved ice topped with Hell Blue Boy syrup, jelly and large red beans. The traditional way to make Oh-Aew is to boil ripe Nam Wa bananas with mucilage-like seeds of the Areca family, which at that time had to be imported from Singapore or Taiwan. Sometimes, grass jelly was also added.
Suitable for eating to cool down on a hot, sunny day.
