My boyfriend is a huge Thai food fan but I'm not hence the delay in trying out Khao San Road. I really hoped this restaurant would live up to its hype and change my disliking for Thai food but it unfortunately, did not. I really didn't find the uniqueness in flavours in the dishes, that would have me craving for more after every bite.
We ordered their signature Khao soi (curry with egg noodles), squash fritters and the three flavours pad Thai. The Khao soi reminded me exactly why I don't like Thai food. It's too heavy and greasy. I found it weird eating noodles drenched in a thick curry broth. I was full after a few bites because of that. There was just soooo much sauce in every bite of noodles. The pad Thai tasted like what any other pad Thai would taste like so I wasn't sure which "three flavours" in particular were supposed to stand out. The squash fries though, I enjoyed because it wasn't too oily but had a sweet and sour sauce that complimented it quite well.
We also had to sit outside in the patio-in the cold -because inside and the waiting list was jam packed otherwise we would have needed to come back another day. But that didn't bother me since I didn't want to mission back to this place another day anyway.