It’s an interesting name for a Thai restaurant, but I needed somewhere suitably exotic to celebrate the end of this wave of dental treatment and I also hadn’t been here before so that seemed reason enough to visit.
The food menu and for those from the UK, divide by five to get the equivalent amount in pounds.
The drinks menu which seemed suitably broad in size.
I was greeted promptly at the door and offered a choice of seats, but I liked the window seat as it meant I had a view over the restaurant and also the kitchen. I could see from my viewpoint that everything was being cooked fresh in the kitchen, it certainly seemed authentic with the woks being flung about excitedly and flames coming from pans. The aroma of the restaurant was also enticing, the open kitchen meant that the Thai flavours lingered across the interior.
The starter was the chicken satay and this is the best presented version of that meal that I’ve ever seen. The chicken was tender and generous in portion size, with what I think is called Achar which is a diced fruit and vegetable arrangement, alongside prawn crackers, the satay sauce, along with what might be mung bean sprouts but I’m unsure. I haven’t been to Thailand, but I will work out a trip there at some point.
They had some Polish beers, but adding to the Thai authenticity I went for a Singha beer. It’s a pale lager, but it seemed light and appropriate for the meal, although I suppose in that sense it’s both exotic and banal. It came in a bottle, but the team member poured it into the glass and took the bottle, which doesn’t help for Untappd photos if I’m being honest but I was there for the food rather than my Untappd feed.
The main was the chicken green curry with rice, which was mentioned to be spicy hot. It was hot in terms of the spice, although not overly so, but was certainly piping hot in the temperature sense. The chicken was tender, the curry was rich in flavour and it had all those vegetable things that I think are meant to be good for you. The jasmine rice was light, although in an ideal world I would have rather have had a bit more of that because of how large the green curry sauce portion was.
The atmosphere in the restaurant was laid-back and informal with an authentic feel only diminished slightly by the customer with a loud Glaswegian accent. It does get rather confusing at times, planning a trip to another country whilst being Poland, eating a Thai cuisine and listening to customers speaking in English (well, Glaswegian, but they have similar roots). They had a side room and downstairs area, so they could cope with very large numbers here, but it was still moderately busy for a Wednesday evening.
The pricing was reasonable, especially for an on-trend city centre restaurant in the capital, with the service being polite and attentive. The food and drink all met or exceeded my expectations in terms of the taste, temperature and presentation, with the portion size being larger than I had expected. At the end of the meal, it wasn’t quite as easy as I would have liked to get the bill, but I wasn’t in a rush and I could have forced the issue if I had wanted with my passive aggressive look. And it just gave more time for people watching, so I remained happy and would merrily recommend this restaurant to others.