A wonderful little restaurant that serves both Thai and Burmese food. The chefs and owners are all from Burma and this is, as far as I know, currently, the only Burmese restaurant in all of Brisbane. So naturally, I skipped the Thai food, and ordered most of the Burmese dishes.
We ordered the pickled tea leaf salad (lahpet-thoke, a classic Burmese dish), the burmese chicken curry, and the burmese coconut noodle soup (ohn no kauk swe).
The tea leaf salad was great! The fermented tea leaves and raw tomato are wonderfully tart and harmonize well with the savory fried garlic, nuts, and dried shrimp. The textures are equally harmoneous as the cabbage and nuts add a nice crunch to the loft tea leaves. This lahpet-thoke included corn, which I've never had in this dish before, but I think it worked giving the dish a bit of sweetness that really balanced all of the flavors.
The curry was also very good, thick, soft potatoes stewed with chicken and spices. The chicken in dark meat, and the curry is very rustic. I've never had Burmese curry before, but the closest thing I have had in other cuisines would be a Malaysian chicken curry.
Perhaps the star though was the coconut noodle soup. Fried noodles that get soft in a thick, sweet, yet savory coconut broth. It has a subtle dried shrimp flavor that is just absolutely out of this world. It is such a rich dish that it's perfect for sharing alongside that fresh tea leaf salad.
A wonderful addition to Brisbane's dining seen. So happy to see a good Burmese place here. read more