The Thai Table

Passed by Thai Table the other day to do take-away Pad Thai, told myself I would have to come back soon to try the food. I need to support Thai restaurants that are coming up near my place so that I could satisfy my Thai food craving as and when it comes knocking at my tummy again. If you have read some of the older posts, you would probably have guessed that my latest food craze is Thai food. K anyway 3 days later and here I am at Thai Table, a 2 months old Thai restaurant near Simpang Bedok. We ordered the set dinner for 2 at $30 and we added $3 for a glass of ice lemongrass tea and a red ruby dessert.

This is the complimentary keropok, unlike most places, this is free!


Our first dish was the Chicken Feet Salad. I liked the chicken feet salad. The chicken feet has a nice bite to it and the sauce that accompany the salad had the right amount of sourness and spiciness.


Next was the Tom Yum soup, we requested for the version without coconut milk. I think i would prefered it if it was clearer like the kind you find in Thai Express. There seems to be a hint of tomato in this version. Maybe some would prefer this, but I like my Tom Yum soup with a more obvious taste of Lemongrass and Kaffir Lime leaves and without the sweetness of maybe tomato? Maybe they have adjusted the taste to suit Singaporeans.


The Olive Rice was not bad. In fact i thought it was the best dish.


Next up, mince pork with basil. It was okay if it is eaten together with white rice or even the olive rice, but on its own, it is way too salty, the chef probably added too much soya sauce or fish sauce. An improvement that could be made is by adding more basil leaves. If not it would be just ordinary mince pork.


Sambal Long beans: Am not a fan of long beans so i cant comment much.


The last dish was the Chili Prawns. The chili used for the prawns seems to be similar to the one used in the Sambal Long beans... hmmm but well nevertheless it is quite okay. We felt that since there were 2 of us, they should have either given us 2 prawns or 4 prawns. 3 seems to be an awkward number.


Finally dessert: Red Ruby. Aye once again, the can coconut milk taste spoil this Thai dessert. I know it is troublesome to have freshly squeeze coconut, but using can coconut milk really spoils the food. Can coconut milk has a weird distinctive smelly coconut oil taste. Hmm not sure if you get what i mean.. but uh well... it is good if one cant tell the difference.


Overall experience: Not bad, I think it still suffers from some teething problems and is constantly improving based on customers feedback. I gave my feedback about the Basil pork and the Red Ruby, hopefully they would look into it. Service was excellent and attentive. Impressive! I would go back again to give my support for my local community Thai food resturant cos i really do not want to see it fall due to lack of business. This place is one whom i can drop by easily to do take-a-way pad thai and fried rice!

The Thai Table
20 Jalan Pari Burong (near simpang bedok)
opening hours: 11:30-1500, 1730-2200
tel: 64433533

Yhingthai Palace

Ms Sit had craving for Thai food, it was either First Thai or Yhingthai along Purvis St, consulted hungrygowhere, and the vote was cast, we decided to opt for Yhingthai as it has higher rating. Actually we ate this a long long time ago, but i was too lazy to blog hence it is only after 3 months that this is here! So anyhow, i kinda have forgotten how the dishes taste. All i can conclude is that this outlet has got to be one of the best Thai restaurants I have been in Singapore!

The Padthai here is of course much better than Thai Express.

Green Curry Chicken, never liked green curry cos of the heavy coconut taste. And the pieces of chicken in the curry is kinda pathetic. Still prefer the indian version of curry chicken where you get solid parts of the chicken and not small pathetic pieces. ($15 for small)

The Olive Rice was very very good, very fragrant, not too salty, one of the best I have eaten. ($20 for medium)

The stuffed chicken wing was really good, filled with lots of stuffing like mushrooms and asparagus. Served really hot. But of course this doesnt come cheap at $3 per piece.

Tom Yum Soup with coconut and Clear Tom Yum Soup ($6 per bowl). I very much preferred the clear tom yum soup. Hot and Fiery, wonderful taste of lemongrass. I think i could just go there especially for the clear tom yum soup. Mama would truly love this.

Fish maw soup ($8), another recommended dish, but as i am not a fan of fish maw, so this soup is kind of forgettable. Okay but i am sure my mama would love it too.


Mango salad. Quite a unique dish.

This is a strange dish recommended by the waitress. Erm strange weird name too. This dish is called Condiments. It is some ikan bilis, small shrimps, mango, chili padi and onion on top of a leaf. U roll the leaf up together with the condiments and dip it into the bowl of chili. Unique and refreshing taste.


Overall experience, I love this place, would definitely come again. In fact after the dinner the first thing that came to my mind was that I need to give my mama a treat here soon! So fat boy, if u are reading this, lets treat fat mama to this place soon!

Yhingthai
36 Purvis St
63371161
11:30-200, 600-1000

First Thai Food

Had a quick dinner with the Owl at First Thai, a corner coffee shop along Purvis Street.
This is our first dish, Olive rice. Not bad, love the taste of olive.

Next up was the Tom Yum Soup. i love the spiciness of this mean bowl of soup and the sourness is just nice for me.

Basil Pork: I always love basil pork or basil anything. Love the fragrance of the basil leaves. Too bad it was way too salty and we had to order a bowl of white rice just to go with the dish.

This Seafood Otah was my favourite dish of the night! Dont know why, but i just love it. Maybe I just love otah in general. =)


First Thai Food
23 Purvis Street
63393123

Thai Express @ esplanade mall

Had Thai express before running off to catch CATS. Think i told myself and another friend before that i would never ever eat at Thai Express again, but as always, when i have to catch something at Esplanade, there is not much choices so ... yet again Thai Express. Anyway I was also craving for Thai food, so uh well, no harm breaking my promise. SO here is what we had:
Tom Yum Soup to share, it looks deceptively innocent, but it is one mean fiery bowl of soup. I kinda like the fact that it is so overpoweringly spicy!

Next up my main: Tom Yum Hor Fun. I love this simply because it is spicy. I think i just love the taste of tom yum with the fragrant taste of lemon grass and kaffir leaves. Hmm but i really cant quite comprehend why cooks are always frying cuttlefish in such a way that it is too chewy and unfriendly to the jaws.


These are my friends' mains:
Pad Thai

Green Curry with Rice


We also had the Banana fritters with ice cream of which i couldnt take a photo cos we were running out of time. Anyway there was a funny, or rather smelly, stale oil taste to the fritters. Maybe they fry n refry it with oil which were stale?? hmm

Esplanade Mall 01-13D
Sun - Thurs: 1100 - 2300
Fri - Sat: 1130 - 2400

Anyway it opens till late, so well... one of the places you can visit after a performance in the Esplanade

ThaiPan

SO here begins my weeklong of feasting! too bad only have photos for this, the rest of the places are just waaaaayy too dark =( what a pity!
The only good thing was that there is a 20% discount with civil service club!
Everything can be described in one word, SALTY!

the butter squid which was highly recommended by reviewers was very salty, maybe becos of the salted egg yolk, but nevertheless it is too salty, especially since we did not have white rice to go with it, we had the olive rice instead.

The broccoli with crab was also very salty =/ I mean it isnt too bad, but well, just too salty for our tastbuds.

Honey chicken: too dry and tough, nothing special

Herbal frog leg was so-so, not fantastic, tasted much better herbal soup even in coffeeshops.

We had the toufu with golden mushroom instead of the recommended toufu with chicken floss, maybe we should have gone with whatever that was recommended, but wanted something lighter, not fried, so opted for the golden mushroom, it is again a rather ordinary dish.

Pad Thai: also not very good, tasted more like normal fried kway teow/mee/kway teow goreng.. whatever, it resembles nothing like the Thailand version of padthai. Maybe because it is too sweet, too much ketchup? Well one thing is they should have used the thai lime instead of the usual small dark green lime. I think the thai lime would have given it a distinctive fragrance.

Finally Olive rice: For $1 what more can i ask for? it is not bad i must say, although no taste of olive, but for $1 it is a steal! I like the idea of having mince meat at the side to complement the rice.

Maybe maybe I would go back again someday and give it a second chance, maybe maybe maybe it was just today that the food somehow just wasnt able to live up to expectations.

hmm btw can someone enlighten me, why is my photo soooo yellow?
2 Netheravon Road
Civil Service Club (Changi Village)
Tel:65420957

Simpang Bedok

Was at Simpang Bedok for lunch. Had Tze char at 2 stalls, the Simpang Kitchen - Simpang Bedok Food Centre 02-03 and a Thai Fish Maw and Tom Yam Food stall 02-12.
Here is what we had from Simpang Kitchen - Fried garlic sotong ($8) and butter pork ribs ($10). The fried garlic sotong is certainly the highlight of the meal, eat it while it is hot, after a while due to our high humidity, the garlic loses its crispiness. Very yummy dish that lands you with garlic breath. The butter pork ribs on the other hand was rather ordinary.


Shop front of Thai Fish Maw stall

Here was what we had from the stall
Pad Thai: Pad thai at this stall is definitely much better than the one at Simpang Kitchen

Basil Pork rice - Was quite disappointed in this dish, doesn't really have the basil taste which I love.

Kang Kong, the one at Simpang Kitchen is much better! This one is too salty. I like the one at Simpang kitchen cause of the 'her bee' - shrimp that they fry with.

Fish maw soup


Simpang Kitchen
02-03
96695293
12-3pm; 6-10pm

Thai Fish Maw and Tom Yam
02-12
12-9pm