Most travelers who come to Ko Lanta Island expect something really exotic concerning the local cuisine. It’s believed that people on this remote and mysterious island eat fried grasshoppers, cockroaches, snakes and, of course, with extra hot sauce. In fact, you can easily find typical European, Asian or American dish on Ko Lanta Yai if you’d like to. Yes, we’re talking about burgers, pizza, noodles, sushi, etc. There is plenty of such food, so you can easily eat only this kind of cuisine if you don’t want to eat the local one. However, it’s definitely worth trying the local cuisine anyway. So, if you decided to go to a local restaurant, think in advance what you’d like to eat, as not every restaurant serves such exotic dishes as fried bugs or something of that kind. And remember, that the myth concerning how spicy local food is is not a myth at all. The main reason for using that amount of hot spices is to prevent any infectious disease. As you order a dish, you can ask a waiter to make it not so spicy. However, a dish still will be really hot, so you can eat it with a cucumber which is served here with a dish just for this purpose. You should also read reviews about this or that café before going there, otherwise, you would spend the rest of your vacation suffering from food poisoning. There are no knives given in local restaurants, as it’s used only while preparing food. People here usually eat with a fork or a spoon and they
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