Simply Asia, Southdowns
Located in Southdowns Shopping Centre, Simply Asia Thai Food & Noodle Bar offers aromatic dishes in a simple yet elegant setting. Here, authentic Thai chefs equipped with professional training and fresh ingredients create innovative, colourful Thai fare, adorned with herbs and spices. Order your meal by number: for starters, try 103 (sweetcorn cakes, served with a sweet chilli sauce). A delicious mains is 267 – roasted chilli tamarind duck, with sweet roasted-chilli tamarind sauce, broccoli, celery, mushrooms and jasmine rice. The 902, warm chocolate spring rolls, drizzled with chocolate sauce, and served with vanilla ice cream, makes a decadent dessert.
Koi Restaurant, Lynnwood Bridge
Bringing you the latest trends in Asian cuisine with a touch of the West, Koi Restaurant in Lynnwood Bridge serves high-quality, healthy dishes in a light and airy, welcoming atmosphere. Dip into a dim sum starter platter, which includes chicken and ginger, prawn and shiitake mushrooms, and beef potstickers. As a main course, sample the melt-in-your-mouth, sesame-crusted, seared tuna with grilled vegetables and wasabi mayonnaise – then round it off with coconut jelly, roasted banana and coconut sugar caramel.
Asia House, Moreleta Park
Sweet, salty, spicy, bitter and hot flavours are the mainstays of Thai food, and the extensive menu at Asia House in The Village Shopping Centre offers masterful blends of these in its inexpensive, first-rate Asian dishes. The main focus at this establishment being takeaways, the friendly, efficient staff are always at the ready with freshly prepared, spicy meals. Sample the tom yum goong soup – prawns and mushrooms in a hot, sour broth – for starters, or the spicy pad mee prik phao gao (stir-fried noodles with chicken and vegetable chilli paste with cashew nuts) as a main. And why not end off with a classic, chocolate-dipped fortune cookie?
Simply Asia, Southdowns
012 665 4998
Koi Restaurant, Lynnwood Bridge
012 348 5722
Asia House, Moreleta Park
012 997 6447
Words: Lisa Dewberry
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