Khao tom
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Khao tom is a signature dish of Thailand; we have verified places to eat it in Phuket. Phuket's comfort bowl: rice boiled soft in clear broth with fish, pork or a Chinese brown herbal soup, eaten for breakfast or supper at old family counters. Start with where to eat Khao tom in Phuket.

Khao tom · Phuket

Phuket's comfort bowl: rice boiled soft in clear broth with fish, pork or a Chinese brown herbal soup, eaten for breakfast or supper at old family counters.

Khao tom, rice boiled in broth, came to Phuket with its Chinese settlers and became an all-day comfort food. In Phuket Town family counters serve it from early morning, with fish, pork ribs or a Chinese brown soup of herbs, and some shops trace their recipes to roadside stalls run by an earlier generation. Boiled rice with fish, khao tom pla, is the version most associated with the town's older shophouse kitchens.

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