Phuket Town's Morning Dim Sum: The Breakfast Ritual Most Visitors Miss
Most visitors meet Phuket at lunch. Phuket Town meets it at 6:30 in the morning, in a dim sum shop loud with steam, clattering trolleys and the smell of strong sweet tea. The island's old Hokkien Chinese families brought this ritual with them generations ago, and it is still the best breakfast in Phuket — if you can get up for it. How it works There is no menu in any useful sense. Baskets of dumplings, siu mai, har gow and steamed buns circulate on trolleys or sit stacked in steamers at the counter. You point at what looks good, the baskets land on your table, and the empty ones pile up as your bill — the staff count the empties when you're done. A pot of sweet tea or strong coffee runs alongside, and many shops add plates of rice porridge, fried dough sticks and soft-boiled eggs for the full works. Book direct & save 20% → www.phvcondo.com What to order Har gow and siu mai — the prawn and pork classics; if a shop does these two well, everything else follows. Stea...