Thai Food - 2 meals

Red Curry Lunch

It is creamy, sweet and spicy and that kind of savoury that hits the sides of your tongue and causes it to roll a bit. Pale yellow coconut milky soup with tiny red chili flecks and strips of kaffir lime dotting the surface, tumeric and tomato swirling together and flavouring the whole bowl. Each round spoonful contains different combinations of plump shrimp, bright orange carrots, crunchy baby corn and juicy onion, all blanketed by thick leaves of a kale-like spinach and green cabbage. My nose runs and temperature rises from the chilies and the heat of the broth. Afterwards my lips burn and are bright red.

Fresh Fish Supper

Earlier today we watched as the resident Italian beach bum dove into the reef and speared 4 fish effortlessly. I found Pon, the owner of our bungalows, and told her that we wanted a whole fish for our supper – one of these impossibly fresh ones caught a few metres away. It arrived deep fried golden brown with crispy skin, smothered in crunchy pungent garlic, ground white pepper and sea salt. After flaying the skin we squashed sour lemon halves onto the flakey white flesh, scooped long strips of fish off of the bones and shoveled them into our salivating mouths. We left the fish picked clean.