Phuket : Afternoon Tea with Mangoes

3rd August 2011. Written by Xin Li.
Phuket, Thailand.
Having a private deck facing the gardens in the Royal Phawadee Village Resort makes a great setting for an afternoon tea which we prepared with mangoes, mango sticky rice and some doughnut balls from Jungceylon's Dunkin Donuts together with some tea.

Ma Maung, “mango” in Thai, is one my favourite fruits. I love it as Mango Sago, I love it as Mango Pudding and I definitely love it in its original form. There are more than 20 kinds of mangoes in Thailand. I not sure what this was that I got from the fruit stall, it was smooth, sweet with a dominant sourness. The flesh was slightly firm.

Perhaps the most famous dessert in Thailand (besides the Red Ruby) is Kao Niew Ma-Maung, the mango sticky rice. A must have in Thailand. This version wasn’t as nice as the one I had in Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport though. The mango wasn’t sweet enough and the coconut sauce was quite bland. The mango and mango sticky rice cost us 90 THB in total.