September 12, 2007
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The Stiletto, The Platter, The Girl
Spice I Am
Hot chef, no not this one, the one at the back
It was the correct thing to do. When you hear about a restaurant from at least 4 different people, see it on magazines, see it on the world wide web, and see it on an ad stuck to the back of the toilet door while u take a shit...you'd go and try. It's the correct thing to do. Right?
Apparently not.
i was so excited since i woke up today with the biggest (larger than life kinda big) desire to have Tom Yum Goong. and when girl wants, girl gets. So we went.
Smacked under a backpackers lodge, there it was. Just further down of Thai Town. Spice I Am. It wasnt larger than life WOW...but still, we went
This is prolly the closest we could get to STREET FOOD
at least it was by the road
My Favourite Food Hunting Buddy
thank god for our same taste in food
MrAntiWii who thinks Wii is lame, ish
MrAntiWii's Phad Prik King (Chicken stir fried in a ginger chilli paste), MyNomadPartner's Gap Hao Gai (minced chicken stir fried in Basil leaves)
My Gap Thiam Pik Thai (Garlic Chicken)
Tom Yum Goong
Deep Fried Chicken. Duh.
For this case, i'd really have to say, looks can be deceiving. We concluded that the best were the fried eggs and the deep fried chicken. how sad. The Tom Yum Goong was the most dissapointing. Its like pull-hair-frust dissapointing. It looks tom yum, it smells tom yum, but it freaking dont taste tom yum that kinda tom yum.
My desire of the day just died-ed on me like that.
The Gap Hao Gai was extremely bitter when it should be savoury-sweet (thai approved). And saying all this when they won best asian for last year's good food guide. HOW CAN TAN MAN!!!
Im willing to give them one more shot on their noodle dishes. I have to try their Nam Tok before i slash them out of the list.
If not for deep fried chicken and hot chef, this place is really rather saddening. from my point of view as well as the other 2 diners.
I'd rather lick an empty spoon than drink anymore of that Tom Yum Goong
boo hoo
Stiletto's thumbs up: Deep Fried Chicken and HOT CHEF
Stiletto's thumbs down: Tom Yum Goong oh Tom Yum Goong
Stiletto's restaurant rating: 1.5 inches
Comments (4)
I don't usually disagree with someone's review on food so quickly but this is one thai in Sydney I believe is rather different.
I recommend that you try ordering dishes to share rather than your own individual ones. The dishes you tried probably weren't the ones that people have been raving at.
Go for the mango salad (with somethin I've forgotten - just ask the waiter), their version of "otak otak" and also the Thai red duck curry. And perhaps the crispy fish too. Sorry I forgot the actual names of each dish. But hope this helps.
And if this fails, just go to Thainatown - it has been trusty reliable thai restaurant with the ability to satisfy my asian/thai cravings since I first came to Sydney.
jtruining: interesting comments, good to have feedbacks from others who have tried Spice I Am...=)....i really wanted to know if the things ive been hearing were true...
true enough...prolly the dishes that we ordered were not their trademark dishes..but a simple basic dish of Gap Hao Gai should not went that wrong...but it did...along with the Tom Yum....that was utterly dissapointing...a basic tom yum Goong....and i guess that put us off......sigh...
but i like ur feedbacks....it was good to hear.....whereabouts is this Thainatown?......maybe you could bring me there one day eh?!...=)
yums..thai food! I think i can live on it solely for the rest of my life. I swear i think i have Thai blood in me.
Bummer for the tomyum. I think for a Thai restaurant to call itself a good Thai restaurant, the tomyum must be and should be good.
Perhaps, this restaurant was catering to more sydney flavours. I think Malaysians have different taste buds cuz we have tasted the real thing, and even cooked the real thing, so this maybe a 'altered' version.
karenispink: haha....i have a deep blif that i can actually speak thai fluently...im that dedicated...but i have to say that jap food still steals my no.1 spot....*drooolllzzz
i wish i could say it tasted 'altered' to suit the westerners....but even a westerner could pick up what went wrong with that tom yum....tough luck
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