Meals

Whether it be fine dining or a barbecue, your private cook can create meals all to your tastes and preferences. The cook will also accommodate your own specific menu requests and dietary needs as far as possible.

Offer you this little extra at a reasonable additional cost, well worth spending for that extra special touch. Booking holiday catering is a great way to give “mum” an extra special vacation!

Just say the word and your meals will be prepared for you, not only freeing up your time for your favourite holiday activities but also giving you mouth-watering insights into Thai’s gastronomic traditions…

Going food shopping in local markets and getting in the kitchen with your private cook is also a great way to learn a little about how some of Thailand’s more traditional dishes are prepared.

Breakfast, which is included in the villa rate, is served on the breezy outdoor sala by the pool or in the dining room depending on weather conditions. Expect a spectacular spread of fresh local fruits and juices, baked breads and French “croissants”, and cooked breakfast with eggs and all the trimmings to order. Or you can choose to enjoy it in bed or on your private terrace.

Whatever your choice with or without a cook, meals are taken freely on the covered terrace next to the swimming pool, on the 3rd roof top or in the indoor dining room depending on the weather conditions.

Enjoy a candlelight dinner beneath a canopy of towering palms and a star-filled night sky !

Food shopping Conditions

Drinks (other than drinking water), along with groceries for meals other than breakfast, are charged at market price plus a 20% handling fee and a government tax, with a minimum shopping fee of THB 500 and have to be paid to our staff on a daily basis.

Cook Service Rates

Rates include food preparation, table setup, dinner service and post-dinner clean-up.

Lunch: 1.000 bahts per meal up to 8 persons – 100 baht per above person (including children);

Dinner: 1.500 baht per meal up to 8 persons – 150 baht per above person (including children);.

They also have to be paid to our staff on a daily basis.

RECIPES

We have picked eight favourite Thai dishes which constitute the menu of the Green Villa and will tell you a little more about them (all of them can be accommodate by your cook with chicken, pork, beef, fish and shrimp, spicy or not depending on your taste) :

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2. Tom Yum Goong (Spicy Shrimp Soup)

   The quintessential Thai aroma! A bold, refreshing blend of fragrant lemongrass, chili, galangal, lime leaves, shallots, lime juice and fish sauce shapes this classic soup, giving it its legendary herbal kick. Succulent fresh prawns and straw mushrooms lend it body. A versatile dish that can fit within virtually any meal, the distinctive smell reminds you of exotic perfume, while it’s invigorating sour-spicy-hot taste just screams ‘Thailand’!

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2. Som Tum (Spicy Green Papaya Salad)

   This outlandish dish is both great divider – some can’t get enough of its bite, some can’t handle it – and greatly distinctive. Garlic, chilies, green beans, cherry tomatoes and shredded raw papaya get dramatically pulverized in a pestle and mortar, so releasing a rounded sweet-sour-spicy flavour that’s not easily forgotten. Regional variations throw peanuts, dry shrimp or salted crab into the mix, the latter having a gut-cleansing talent that catches many newcomers by surprise!

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2. Tom Kha Kai (Chicken in Coconut Soup)

   A mild, tamer twist on Tom Yum, this iconic soup infuses fiery chilies, thinly sliced young galangal, crushed shallots, stalks of lemongrass and tender strips of chicken. However unlike its more watery cousin, lashings of coconut milk soften its spicy blow. Topped off with fresh lime leaves, it’s a sweet-smelling concoction, both creamy and compelling.

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2. Gaeng Daeng (Red Curry)

   Made with morsels of meat, red curry paste, smooth coconut milk and topped off with a sprinkling of finely sliced kaffir lime leaves, this rich, aromatic curry always gets those taste buds tingling. At its best when the meat is stunningly tender, it’s mild, sweet and delicately fragrant.

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2. Pad Thai (Thai style Fried Noodles)

   Dropped in a searing hot wok, fistfuls of small, thin or wide noodles (you choose) do a steamy minute-long dance alongside crunchy beansprouts, onion and egg, before disembarking for the nearest plate. A truly interactive eating experience, half its fun (and flavor) lies in then using a quartet of accompanying condiments – fish sauce, sugar, chili powder and finely ground peanuts – to wake it from its slumbers.

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2. Khao Pad (Fried Rice)

   Fried rice, egg, onion, a few herbs – nothing more, nothing less. A popular lunch dish served typically with a wedge of lime and slices of cucumber, the secret of this unpretentious dish lies in its simplicity. The concept is this: you’re the one devouring it, so you dress it. To do so, Thais use everything from prawns, crab or chicken to basil, chili and left-over vegetables, in the process turning an unremarkable pauper into a gastronomic prince!

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2. Massaman curry

   This is a signature dish in Southern Thailand, and it is believed that it got introduced in the region in the 16th century by a Persian trader. The dish is a mixture of coconut milk, curry paste, and strong peanut flavours. Nutmeg and cinnamon are also used, but very remotely. In most cases, the dish is premade with chicken and may sometimes contain a few chunks of potatoes to soak up the coconut milk and the flavors.

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2. Kao Niew Ma Muang (Mango and Sticky Rice)

   Looking for dessert ? Look no further than the all-time crowd pleaser of mango and sticky rice. Kao niew ma muang is simple but extremely delicious, made with sticky rice, fresh mango slices, and lashings of sweet condensed milk.