One of Phuket’s best-kept secrets for Southern cuisine, Nam Yoi has been open for 20 years, but its reputation remains limited to in-the-know locals.

The dishes at this stereotypically low-key Thai restaurant—plastic placemats, steel tables, rusty drinks trolleys for your Sangsom and soda—have a reputation for being tangy and spiced just right.

Go straight for the signatures: mushroom spicy curry cake, shrimp pasted with dried shrimps, spicy sour soup with seabass (gaeng som pla kapong) and crab curry with rice noodle.