Surin Thai Restaurant

This is just the sort of restaurant that a resort like Ramsgate needs. Named after the hometown of Chef and owner, Miss Damrong, who has a cooking pedigree that would be the envy of most in her profession, and includes cooking for the Thai Royal Family, Surin offers a wonderful blend of three of the most delightful cuisines in the world.

The menu carries a mouth watering range of dishes, which in other places might be a cause for concern rather than rejoicing, yet here one knows that all dishes are freshly prepared, for which time should be allowed, so try not to spoil the experience by being in a hurry!

A short lunch menu takes care of the working day, and set meals remove the pain of having to make your mind up amidst this wonderland of graceful food. Amongst the appetisers look out for the mixed hors d'oeuvres for two, the classic tom yum made with prawns or chicken, and Thai dumplings filled with crab meat and minced pork.

One of the joys of these cuisines is their origin in countries with extended coastlines, hence great reliance on food from the sea, fried salmon with red curry sauce or stir fried squid with ginger, spring onions, pepper and mushrooms. There's also an impressive list of prawn dishes cooked with almost anything you can conceive.

Old favourites such as beef in oyster sauce; roast duck and cashew nuts; pork with basil leaves or for the veggies in your group, delightful fried spinach with ginger, garlic and tomato with oyster sauce as a main or side course, and vegetable dry curry in a coconut milk base; all bring the taste of simple but skilful blending of flavours to your palate.

For calming down the digestion, try the banana with coconut milk or lychees with ice cream. Surin beer is brewed on the premises with blond or dark variants, with an ABV that could be a cause for agreeable alarm if taken in abundance.

Surin is a wonderful place to be for anyone - for those with any sort of leaning towards the flavours of the Orient, it is heaven on earth. Don't wait around - just go - now.

Their colourful Website will have you salivating before you can say yellow prawn curry.