A birthday is always a good excuse to go out for a good meal, even in your lunch hour. Lucky for me, I work in the Haymarket area of the Sydney CBD were there is an abundance of good inexpensive restaurants, and Chat Thai being one of them.
Every time I go to Chat Thai I choose the Beef Pad Kee Mao, guaranteed satisfaction! Well, only if you really like a good chilli kick, you will certainly appreciate Chat Thai’s Pad Kee Mao. Aside from the wonderful Pad Kee Mao there are many other stand dishes.
For lunch we choose the fresh spring rolls with smoked fish sausage, shredded poached chicken, cucumbers and shallots wrapped in the fresh rice paper roll and dressed with a sweet tamarind sauce, Pork Lad Na with thick rice noodles topped with Chinese broccoli, carrots and mushrooms in gravy of light soy and yellow bean sauce, Beef Khao Grapao spicy stir fry of ground meat with holy basil, fresh chilli and green beans on rice with a fried egg and the Chicken version of the Khao Grapao.
All the dishes were lovely and had a well balanced flavour especially the Pork Lad Na I would choose this again, although the portion size could be bigger. The stand out dish from the above would have to be the Chicken Khao Grapao, which had a nice balance of authentic Thai flavours and to add to that a good solid chilli kick. However the let down of the lunch was the Beef Khao Grapao, an over power of chilli that killed my tastebuds and sent be straight for the milk. Flavours should flatter each other not condemn! I hope that the overuse of chilli was just a simple mistake, as I would definitely go back.
Overall I consider Chat Thai as one of the better Thai restaurants you would find in Sydney. The bonus is it’s inexpensive!
Grumbling tummy rates this as 7.82 out of 10
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