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Ii did not know that Phuket was recognised by UNESCO as ‘Thailand City of Gastronomy 2017’\u00a0 but when I found out, I booked a food tour of the Old Town immediately.\u00a0 The website said that the tour would be limited to 6 people with a minimum of 2 people.\u00a0 I booked and held thumbs that someone else would have booked as well.\u00a0 As it turned out I was the only person on the tour and so I had a personal guided tour lasting 6 hours.\u00a0 My tour guide was a delightful local lady called<\/p>\n

Suttira Juanjenkit (Official name)
\nZuanxin (Family name)
\nPema (Tour guide name)<\/p>\n

Interesting that all of her names mean “Big-hearted” and so she is.<\/p>\n

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Pema and Me<\/p><\/div>\n

Here we are in a Chinese Temple where we went to pay our respects to the Goddess of Compassion before we started the tour.\u00a0 It was a most amazing experience having Pema to myself for the day.\u00a0 We spoke about religion, spirituality, history, art, anthropology, philosophy, geography and of course food.\u00a0 The tour led us through, in and around the streets and backstreets of the Old Town.\u00a0 I learned about Pema’s childhood and the memories of her uncles, so the day was much more fulfilling than I expected or could have imagined.\u00a0 Thank you Pema for sharing!<\/p>\n

But, of course, it was all about the food.\u00a0 Pema led me to places and introduced me to people, restaurants and food that I would not have found or enjoyed by myself and it was all delicious.\u00a0 Here is what we had, in the order we ate – there was no room for supper!\u00a0 We did take long walks between courses to settle the digestion<\/p>\n\n\t\t