A bit pricier than usual Thai restaurants One of the many locations of Chat Thai is off George Street opposite the Capitol Theatre. This is a busy place even on a normal Tuesday evening. With no seating downstairs, we were ushered upstairs by a very focused waitress.
The menu offers traditional Thai dishes but also something for the more refined taste. We started with super long crab fried spring rolls (3 pcs) of crab meat, hens’ egg and soft green herbs.
The mains were Tom Yum Gong soup – a mildly spicy and sour soup – with five large king prawns. This a bit more unusual Tom Yum Soup was slightly messy to eat but extremely delicious. The second dish was Pad See Yiew chicken– stir fried wide rice noodles with chicken, egg and Chinese kale in dark soy sauce. This was our favourite. The third was the traditional Mussaman Nuea – mussaman curry of slowly braised beef and potato.
At the end, we shared a dessert. Sticky rice with freshly cut local mango – perfect in consistency and taste – with sweet sticky rice, coconut cream and crisp mung beans. Overall, this is not the cheapest Thai restaurant in Sydney but it more than makes up through the price, the quality, and the size. No wonder this place needs to run like clockwork given its popularity.
A bit pricier than usual Thai restaurants
One of the many locations of Chat Thai is off George Street opposite the Capitol Theatre. This is a busy place even on a normal Tuesday evening. With no seating downstairs, we were ushered upstairs by a very focused waitress.
The menu offers traditional Thai dishes but also something for the more refined taste. We started with super long crab fried spring rolls (3 pcs) of crab meat, hens’ egg and soft green herbs.
The mains were Tom Yum Gong soup – a mildly spicy and sour soup – with five large king prawns. This a bit more unusual Tom Yum Soup was slightly messy to eat but extremely delicious. The second dish was Pad See Yiew chicken– stir fried wide rice noodles with chicken, egg and Chinese kale in dark soy sauce. This was our favourite. The third was the traditional Mussaman Nuea – mussaman curry of slowly braised beef and potato.
At the end, we shared a dessert. Sticky rice with freshly cut local mango – perfect in consistency and taste – with sweet sticky rice, coconut cream and crisp mung beans. Overall, this is not the cheapest Thai restaurant in Sydney but it more than makes up through the price, the quality, and the size. No wonder this place needs to run like clockwork given its popularity.