Baba's Luscious Tablein Sino-Style Town

PhuketThailand

Contact and Information

Phuket Old Town CommunityMr Somyot Pathan (Khan)Tel. 08 4305 3960

Dress up in traditional Baba-Nyonya and survey Sino-European residences� 10 - 20 Persons | � 1-2 HoursAll Year

Savour traditional desserts� 10 - 20 Persons | � 1-2 HoursAll Year

Cook a secret recipe of Phuket’s Hokkien noodle� 10 - 20 Persons | � 1 HourAll Year

Do blacksmithing with a local professional� 10 - 20 Persons | � 1 HourAll Year

Activities with the Community

Access by bus and van Touring guide is available in Thai and English. � 10 - 20 Persons

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Produced by Domestic MICE Department,Thailand Convention and Exhibition Bureau (TCEB)

Get insight into local community and experience charming indigenous art and culture. Discover exquisite features of MICE cities in Thailand via pleasurable half-day or full-day journey.

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Baba's Luscious Tablein Sino-Style TownA world-renowned resort town, Phuket has been a charming bay of races, beliefs and cultures resting in harmony in this elegant metropolitan. Experience the town’s past magnificence; paragon wisdom, architecture, costume, lifestyle as well as cuisine which is best sensational delicacy.

Morning Journey: 9.00 - 13.30 Starting point: Phuket Thai Hua Museum�

Morning9.00 Baba StyleAt Phuket Thai Hua Museum, learn development of distinguished Baba-Nyonya culture; the town at the beginning, coming of foreigners, tin-mining boom and its present trend.

10.00 Pursue of local treatDress up in splendid traditional Baba fashion and hang out around town appreciating elegant shops and residences. Savour various Phuket’s traditional dessert ‘Poontaekoi’ at magnificent antique row houses of Khun Nited Jeenarak, a baron who lived in this town a century ago.

Noon12.30 Divine Phuket RecipeAt house number 92, adore Phuket’s secret recipe of Hokkien noodle with delectable seafood cooked on a traditional stove with symphonic Chinese Zither ‘Guzheng’ played live for lunch. Finish the splendid meal with refreshing jelly ‘O-aiew’, which is nourished with Chinese herb ingredient.

Afternoon13.30 Town SurveyRoam through the residence to sacred sites around the community starting at Sang Tham Shrine, an angelic 120-year old shrine, before moving forward to Hainan Chinese Shrine and Christian church in King Rama VI era.

16.00 Leisure RoamRest and look for delightful afternoon refreshments around handsome cafes and linger among a wide variety of adorable souvenirs in Phang Nga Road before heading home.

Afternoon Journey: 13.30 - 16.30 Recommended for fully local appreciation.�

11.30 Sino-EuropeanAppreciate exquisiteness of Sino-European architectures, mixture of Chinese and European design, in Thalang Road. Visit Po-Teng’s place where Chinese merchant’s diligent lifestyle is lively preserved and displayed.

Visit a real local blacksmith in Dibuk Road and try traditional blacksmithing with the professional.

15.15 Baba TreasureFancy for the town in the 19th century at Peranakannitat Museum, where used to be a bank in the mining era, and wonder at cultural exhibitions and alluring old Baba ornaments.

Wife Cake

Black Pepper Cookies

Fish Biscuits

Kueh Bahulu

Taro-SesamePuff

CrispyRice Cake

Peanut Candy

Huat Kueh

You Zha Gui

Kuih Zang

Kuih Suie

Ang Koo

Rempah Udang

Kueh Salat

The trip can be customised to suit group’s preference. Please check community coordinator for activity cost.

RayaA restaurant in a classic Sino-European house is famous for reliability in delicate selection of ingredients, elaborate kitchen and awesome taste of its traditional menus.� 11.00 - 23.00 (Daily) | � 0 7621 8155

Blue Elephant PhuketLuscious central - southern Thai fusion courses are served in a 100-year-old manor house nestled in Phuket old town. Banquets, cooking classes and charming souvenirs are also available in this splendiferous place.� 9.00 - 22.30 (Daily) | � 0 7635 4355

Kopitiam By WilaiA gorgeous place features Chinese Hokkien gourmets in an authentic Baba-Nyonya coffee shop where also serves fine Chinese fusion coffee.� 11.00 - 22.00 (Daily) | � 08 3606 9776

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Phuket Thai Hua MuseumAn elegant museum in a grand Sino-European building at the corner of Phang Nga Road, is historically valuable as the former building of first Chinese language school in the province and the prime exhibition of the town’s development and honourable effort of ancestral Hokkiens in the community.� 9.00 - 17.00 (Closed on Wednesdays)� 0 7621 1224

Peranakannitat MuseumOne of the landmark in Phuket old town, a classic European building at the corner of Phang Nga Road, originally a 100-year-old Standard Chartered Bank, is now served as a learning centre of Peranakan or Baba-Nyonya culture.� 9.00 - 16.30 (Closed on Mondays) | � 0 7621 1333

Phuket Walking Street‘Lad Yai’ bazaar held every Sunday on Thalang Road is a peerless hub where local cooking and crafts are found with atmospheric street music and performances.� 16.00 - 22.00 (Sunday)

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Baba's Luscious Table in Sino-Style TownMuang, Phuket, Thailand

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Starting Point

Thalang Road

Dibuk Road

Yaow

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Roa

dThepkrasattri Road

Phangnga Road

Thalang Road

Dibuk Road

Phangnga Road

Phuket Road

Ratsada Road

Ranong Road

Takuapa Road

Krabi Road

Phuket Thai Hua Museum

i 46 Old Town

Hainan Chinese ShrineHouse Number 92

Sang ThamShrine

Tai Soon An Iron Factory

Peranakannitat Museum