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This is by far the best fried chicken in the world. Period. Not that I'm an authority, but seriously, there's no competition.
Unfortunately there's just one hitch. It's in Bangkok.
Anyway, the place is called Soi Polo Fried Chicken, (here's another good review) and they also do mean Isaan specialties. Like som tum, and yum plaa duk fuu, deep fried catfish shards with green mango salad. Recipe here.
But obviously the best thing here is the fried chicken, and that delectable topping, crisp fried garlic. Mmmmmm. It's so juicy, with crispy fatty skin, fantastic. And two good chilli sauces to go with it, a clear sweet one, and a dark thick salty one. Pour some on your sticky rice. You did order sticky rice, didn't you?
If you make it to Bangkok, make sure you eat here. It's one of the best restaurants in the city.
137/1-2 Soi Polo (near Lumphini Park and the Suan Lum Night Bazaar)
469 Bronte Rd Bronte 2024 - 9369 5673
The burgers at Cafe Q are really really good! That's the general gist here. The beef especially, a really savoury tasty pattie, house made with capsicum and tomato in it, is fantastic. In a buger with salty grilled eggplant, tomato and lettuce, ricotta, and pesto. The pesto really makes it. I can't stress this enough, eat this burger!
In fact, I'm starting to get the feeling that almost everything at Cafe Q is really delicious...
Mmmm, half a kilo of MSG. Yum.
And if you look towards the bottom left, risotto croissant, apparently.
480 Crown St Surry Hills 2010 - 9360 5546
Benzin is one of many offshoots of Sailors Thai; David Thompson's restaurant which was spawned from the famous Darley Street Thai has borne many children, including Sailors Thai Canteen, Oceanic Thai, a proposed new venue in Potts Point; and Benzin. Benzin is in the spot where Fuel used to be, and still has a showroom around it. It has a nice open kitchen, but not many tables, and it's a little daunting to be seated amoungst so few tables huddled to one side of such a large room, and being almost pushed onto the footpath. Interspersing tables between the cars, using the entire room, and closing the front windows that face onto the street, would be a good idea. No one wants to eat on Crown Steet. Anyway, the food is definitely sofisticated Thai, with refined flavours, and makes full use of textures. Although it's very expensive for Thai food, there are some very interesting, different, and exciting dishes. Sorry, some of the photos are blurred.
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39 Perouse Rd Randwick 2031 - (02) 9398 4599
Having just been to dinner around The Spot (you know, that place in Randwick where The Ritz is) and inspecting what looked good, I can say that Flavours of Thai definitely looks interesting. We ended up going to Chaopraya which we didn't like at all, but should have gone to Flavours instead. Now I'm just going on the menu here cos I haven't eaten there, but I definitely will when I can. Looks more modern, but I respect them for having some more unusual dishes on offer. When I go I'll be trying the crispy fish salad, roast eggplant salad, pad prik gang, and hor mok.
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344 Clovelly Rd Clovelly 2031 - (02) 9664 7888
Specc is a modern cafe/restaurant in Clovelly, in a nice modern set up. It's a front room with a semi-open kitchen lining the back wall, and the waiters are all very friendly. And as a bonus, it's in the Entertainment Book. The food is a modern mix, heavily meat based, but with Euro flavours. Costs $50 a person for 3 courses, but very good quality.
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The Paddngton Inn bistro is closed for a while, for renovations. Damn shame; hopefully it will open soon. Anyway, just a heads up.
340 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst 2010 - 9360 6885
They also have another restaurant in Double Bay and Ultimo
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Canberra restaurant, fantastic food, but unbelievably shocking service. There is one guy doing the whole room, and organising bread, and helping in the kitchen. They're short on menus so it takes half an our for us to see one, another 15 before we can order.; Then an hour and a half between entrees and mains. We've had two courses and we've been there for over three hours. We were so bored we tried to go around the neighbourhood to find a pack of cards to play with. But by that time at night the all night store next door was closed. So we took inventive photos of our empty plates from the entrees, which were still on there an hour after we finished eating
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Comment by edward
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Really like the job you're doing here! But it would be great to see some pictures of the food you ordered? Would make it more tantalising!