Thai Spice Wednesday 24 October

Chicken satay

Money bags

Vegetable fritters

Pork

Vegetable

Red Curry duck

Pad Thai

WINE

Cowra Estate Chardonay 2011

The Grapepickers: The Potts Family Bledsdale Cab Sav 2010 Langhorne Creek

Entrée:

Vegetable fritters

Money bags

Chicken satay skewers

Pepper garlic stir fry prok

Pad thai chicken and prawns

Stir fried tofu and mixed vegetables with cashews

Deep fried fish with sweet and sour ginger sauce

Red roast curry duck

Megan, Karen, Ron, John, Jim, joined by Lara, Jim and Karen’s daughter who had never eaten Thai before.  Kim had had to go to work (what, on a Wednesday evening?) and Andrew was overseas somewhere….

Thai Spice is an unpretentious little place, on the outside of the Woden Plaza,  in Corinna Street. We’ve been there before and liked it, so thought we would try again.

The chicken satays were well cooked with a peanut sauce, much like by Lara. Money bags were also delicious, with a the corn kernels, coconut and water chestnuts.  The vegtables in tempura were very delicate.  They had grated lots of veges and fried them all up together, yum.

Our only query was why are they giving us the same sweet sauce for all the entrees?

The mains: The duck was a real hit (how can you go wrong with duck red curry?) with a hint of chilli and basil.  The fish was gorgeous with shredded ginger.  It was freshly fried, not at all fatty.

 The pork was a bit ho- hum, not up to usual standared, as with the Pad Thai.  In Karen’s opinion they do the best Pad Thai in Canberra, but this was not up to their normal standard.

 And the pork needed extra flavour  was agreed by all.

BUT they didn’t even ask us if we wanted dessert, and by that time the restaurant was empty apart from us, so we didn’t bother.

Favourite?  The duck got the gong by far, but Lara liked the pad thai, and Ron liked the veges.

Overall it was a "great, let's come back here again"

Conversations?  Megan’s trip, Ron’s trip, and John’s long service leave.