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| - I have been here twice now and the experiences have varied both times.
The restaurant itself is eclectic. I like the vibe and energy of the staff and the way things work. It's pefect for a chill evening with friends or a date night w ur loved one. Although I would advise against having your first date here as it might be hard to hear each other at some point and/or the food is a bit on the heavy side
The first time I was with a friend on a friday night & we sat at the bar. We had quite an emotional meeting and the owner/bartender was very nice and sweet. She would leave us a big stack of napkins because we were crying at one point and the offered us shots. We chitchat back and and forth with her and the other waitress and they were both very entertaining.
That time we took the chicken skewers, the mackerel white curry and the shrimp coconut curry. Delicious! By the end of the night the staff even broke out into a full-on karaoke sess with their beautiful voices.
Last week we came back, this time we were 5 so I suggested we take one of each item on the menu and share which came up to 5 appies and 5 mains (we all kinda rolled home afterwards)
The food this time however, since we took everything on the menu (except a sandwich) we were able to see how not all of the items seem to belong on the menu woth the others. Personally, I think they all had potential and I had my favs but some were just not as impressive as the rest
So first, the appies:
-The chicken skewers are consistently good.
-vermicelli salad, good! But it seemed lonely in that menu for some reason...
-pickled mackerel was good but didnt taste pickled.
-coconut ceviche, good but there was nothing "ceviche" about it unfortunately
-shiitake temaki was good, but again, it disnt seem to fit in w anything else....
Now the mains:
-I really liked the red Thai duck curry. The duck was well cooked and seasoned along w the rest of the dish itself.
-also really likes the Burmese egg noodles. The different flavors were nice.
-the Udon Japanese curry w/ potato caught us off guard with the color. But once we dug in, literally, it got better but we still weren't sure of the potato mousse being there...
-lemon shimps with red lentil dahl was ok, nothing special compared to the others
-coco curry w/ raisins was too sweet for our taste and so it was forgetable.
We also had the Bloody Kim drink andot was quite interesting with the kimchi in it.
Over all I would definitely recommend this place as I myself would still come back to see how far the chef will bring the menu
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