Mi Hokkien · หมี่ฮกเกี้ยน
If you want a noodle dish in Phuket, try mi hokkien. Thick yellow noodles are stir-fried over high heat with seafood and sauce. You get the flavor of the sauce soaked into the noodles together with the seafood. It is a good choice for lunch on a day you walk around Phuket Old Town.
The sauce and the seafood flavor soak into the thick noodles. Compared with mi hun, which uses thin rice noodles, the texture of the noodles feels different. The taste of a bowl can also change with the amount of broth and with side ingredients such as egg.
It is a different noodle dish from mi hun, which uses thin rice noodles.
Phuket's food carries the food culture handed down by its Chinese-descended residents. Mi hokkien is a signature noodle dish shaped by that influence. If you have thought of Phuket only as grilled seafood, try this dish, where seafood and noodles are stir-fried together, for a different kind of meal.
No. Mi hokkien is a signature Phuket noodle dish made with thick yellow noodles, and mi hun uses thin rice noodles. If you try both, you notice that the texture of the noodles and what comes with them are different.
The typical mi hokkien has seafood in it. Whether the ingredients can be changed differs from shop to shop, so ask not only about the main ingredient but also about the broth and the sauce.
If you want to read more about the food and the regions behind it, these sources are a good next step. Ingredients and cooking methods can differ from one place to the next.
