The Thai Kitchen is one of those restaurants that try to cram in as many people as possible. Lucky…read morefor me, I'm eating with a very skinny friend. Inside it's loud and surprisingly warm. With such a close proximity to those surrounding me, I couldn't imagine what it would be like eating in there in summer. We are seated quickly and orders taken. No less than five minutes have gone by and our entrees of chicken satays skewers are served. They're succulent to eat and the sauce is one of the best I have tasted in a while. I really can't concentrate on anything else. With the volume ever increasing whist more people are seated its difficult to have a conversation without potentially ruining my vocal chords. Yes that is an exaggeration but not to far from the truth. Just like how quickly our main meals arrive at our table. If there's one thing to praise Thai Kitchen for, it's definitely the urgency to get orders out. I don't think we've gone more than five minutes without food. I get into my (beef) Gang Massaman and my friend starts on his (duck) Gang Ped Yang. Mid way through the meal we sample the others dish and come to two conclusions. The first is that both dishes are pretty damn fly and the second is that the sauces for both dishes kind of taste the same. It's weird. When the last grain of rice and final drop of sauce has been consumed a waiter is there to swiftly take up our plates, offer deserts (which we decline) and pour us waters. We pay our bill and walk away feeling like we've just been efficiently fed processed and set free.

Yum! This is my favourite thai place. It's been around since the mid-90s and is still run by the…read moresame people and still delicious. I wouldn't recommend eating in at Thai Kitchen because the premises is very cramped and noisy, but for takeaway it's perfect. I always phone in and place my order and it's usually ready to be picked up in about twenty minutes. They're very accommodating about customising your meal and are happy to leave meat or seafood out of dishes for vegetarians. They alway ask if you want your meal mild, medium, or hot so if you're not a chilli fan you don't have to worry. I wish their kitchen stayed open later, though, because even though they're open until 9:30, last orders are at 8:15. I love their vegetarian red curry and vegetarian pad thai, and my meat-eating friends recommend the thai beef salad and duck curry. It's reasonably priced, friendly, and delicious and obviously has a loyal following since it's still going after so long. There's short-term parking on the street out the front so you can dash in and grab your order, and if you want to eat in there's parking out the back. Thai Kitchen is much better than your average suburban thai place, and whenever I feel like thai I don't even think twice about where to go.

We are new to the area and googled for a great Chinese restaurant. Golden Bamboo came up with…read moreoverall fairly good reviews. So $96 later and we had our takeaway order. The service was ok. Although we asked for no onion and this appeared to annoy the chef. However, that's where it took a very bad turn for the worse. The food tasted odd from the outset. The Honey Chicken was soggy, the oyster sauce chinese veg were so bloody salty that they were verging on inedible. The satay chicken sticks had the worst texture that one bite in it was promptly spat back out. Two out of the four of us threw up after 30mins of eating. I won't say this is the worst chinese we have ever eaten. But it comes a very close second. Do yourself a favour and avoid this place.

I've been using Golden Bamboo for 13 years, great for take aways and just as good to dine in. Small…read morerestaurant, family owned and run. Without a doubt best chinese restaurant/takeaway in North Brisbane. Prices are really good and suitable for a family of 4 or 3 adults to dine in under $100. You wont leave hungry. Offstreet parking at rear and opposite Sue's corner at Beams and Sandgate Rds Boondall. Yep I drive over 7klms to use this business. Try takeaway and then eat overlooking the water at Cabbage Tree Creek Shorncliffe on nights of the full moon. never had a bad meal or poor customer service. Worthy of 5 stars but need to be realistic.

Boasting a Win for the "Best Restaurant and Excellent Customer Service" in the Redlands Retail…read moreAwards is a fair achievement I would say. I was keen to see if Melin measured up though and I have to say, they delivered. Melin is a Vietnamese and Chinese restaurant. They have a huge selection on the menu. I usually see this as a bad sign but in this case, it all seems good. The menu is split into Vietnamese and Chinese with lots of seafood options, healthy salads, and vegetarian dishes plus all the usually favourites like honey chicken and sweet and sour pork. Meals are cooked fresh with 100% pure vegetable and olive oil.

Melins is the best Chinese and enemies restaurant I've ever being to it has the best customer…read moreservice ever monika so nice and friendly to everyone she meets the food is amazing, five stars for that!! Inside the restaurant is so beautiful and the paintings are so pretty I highly recommend to either get take out from here or eat inside!!

Red Galanga Asian Cuisine is a restaurant just off Oxford Street in Bulimba. It's just up from…read moreOxford 152 on Wambool Street and is open for lunch and dinner, 7 days a week. Although it calls itself Asian Cuisine, it's predominantly Thai cuisine - however there are a few dishes of other cuisines, like GadoGado (Indonesian), Chicken and corn soup (Chinese), Takoyaki (Japanese) and Teriyaki (Japanese). The menu is really quite extensive, and there is a long Specials menu with some fantastic dishes. Some of the highlights of the Specials menu is the Salmon Lover (grilled salmon in thick red curry sauce with crispy basil), Red Galanga Fish (deep fried fish with ginger and vegetables) and Spicy Duck Adventure (spicy stir fried roasted duck with chilli, garlic, basil and vegetables) The Red Duck Curry is really delicious with lots of fruit in it - it's strange how fruit like lychee, tomato and grape go so well with red curry and duck. There's also a Thai favourite on the dessert menu, Black sticky rice with coconut milk! YUM! Red Galanga also has lunch specials - Take away for $10.50 and Dine-in for $12.50 and a choice of stir-fry, curry and noodles. An extra $2 for 2 pieces of entree - spring roll, curry puff, fish cake or golden parcel.

When my partner and I are stuck with the prospect of getting take out due to a ridiculous schedule…read more- perhaps forgetting to do a supermarket shop or arriving home to realise the key ingredient to our planned dinner is out of date - we generally begin DREADING the many quick but fat loaded take out options around us. It was on one of these nights we decided to try out a new Asian restaurant - Red Galanga. This was actually well over a year ago, around the time they changed the name from 'Red Ginger' to something a little more exotic. We were immediately drawn to the Salmon Lover - a thick cut of salmon that is juicy and always perfectly cooked, served with an assortment of delicious Asian vegetables with a mild creamy red curry sauce. The vegetables are particularly great in this fresh and filling meal, as they are served beautifully crunchy and always bright and fresh in colour. No sogginess here! We were also enamored by the Crispy Duck - succulent pieces of flavoursome and LEAN duck with of course a fittingly crispy skin, sliced atop a bed of more crispy vegetables, served with a thick teriyaki sauce to drizzle over. We generally order 'enough rice for two' and enjoy layering the two dishes atop a bed of rice. They taste surprisingly tasty mixed together, and I have been known to save the left over dregs of Salmon Lover sauce to enjoy with fresh rice the next morning. :3 There has not been a time we have ordered from this place and not ordered our 'usual'. I know we should broaden our horizons and sample the other delights on offer, but these dishes are just SO GOOD! Something to note - wether we are picking up take away or are sitting in enjoying the ambiance of the simple but elegant and clean restaurant area, the food has always been presented with the same level of skill and care. Staff are always very friendly and accommodating, and the food is generally prepared very quickly (around 20 minutes from ordering). This is an absolute gem of a restaurant, and I encourage you to try it out for yourself.

Good Thai food, friendly service The food here is pretty…read moregood and well priced - but maybe more suited to the Australian palate - sweet and mild. The restaurant seems very popular with the locals and the service is very friendly.

WHY is this tiny, purple-lit, photo-walled restaurant SO successful?? Here goes my list:…read more 1* It satisfies our human need for belonging (ooo that was deep). The friendly owner, Mr Duc Tran, greets you with a warm smile and a "Hey mate, how's it going", sits you down, explains the menu, gets your order and welcomes any customisations, takes your photo, goes away then comes back within moments with your food. It really felt that fast. Two minutes later (if you agree) the photo he just took is on their Facebook page! Ha! Awesome. 2* The food is delicious, fresher than fresh, and portions are generous. 3* The takeaway menu always has a special (cheaper) price. 4* Customer service is out of this world, second to none. It's no wonder it's so popular with the locals :D

La Zucca Café and Pizzeria is easily my most favourite place to go to for a REAL Margherita Pizza…read more Before discovering this little place hidden away in Brisbane's North side, I was sure I would never find a true, traditional Margherita. Ever. Whichever café or restaurant I dined in, I was always presented with a cheesy, greasy looking pizza, which I simply could not finish. I was at my wit's end, trying to find the perfect pizza, and I thought I never would. Well, I was wrong. La Zucca is a small café/restaurant which specialises in wood fired pizzas. And let me tell you - they are amazing! The very first time I came here, I expected to be served the same as usual - a pizza base smothered in tomato sauce, cherry tomatoes, and lots and LOTS of cheese. To my surprise, I discovered the opposite. A slice (or 6) of heaven. Okay, so let's start from the bottom. The pizza base - a light, crunchy, thin, delicious base which you can eat and eat, topped with a homemade tomato-based sauce. Little balls of bocconcini spread over the base, melted down to delicious, creamy circles of deliciousness. And to finish it off, topped with fresh basil leaves. That's it. I know it sounds simple, but that's all a Margherita pizza is, and should be. But the flavours are far from it. The mix of the tomato base, with the slight sweetness and creaminess of the bocconcini, topped with the aroma of the basil...it's simply to die for. I could eat this pizza forever. I order it every single time and even before it arrives at the table, my taste buds are tingling with anticipation and my mouth watering. I have found my happy place.

Absolutely DO NOT recommend this place. Possibly the worst place I've been to in years. Do not be…read morefooled by their stars, they probably up rate the place themselves. I rarely ever feel compelled to give reviews, but I feel people should know what they are in for. (TL:DR) it's overpriced burnt dry cardboard in a box and overpriced snap frozen mushy shit in a Chinese container. I ordered 2 chicken and mushroom carbonara pastas, spaghetti bolognese, chicken avocado and Camembert pizza, kids Hawaiian pizza, and a herb and garlic bread. Paid $91 dollars for two Chinese container size pastas, two incredibly thin and dry pizzas and an equally disappointing garlic bread. We were told the wait would be 40 minutes which was fine, but when we came back they told us they "ran out of chicken and mushroom carbonara" how do you run out of pasta at a pizza and pasta place UNLESS it's snap frozen. I went there specifically for pasta and would not have ordered if I knew they had ~run out of snap frozen mush~ The ($17) chicken and mushroom carbonara that we did receive was revolting, watery, mush. Barely any actual pasta in there, it was a jelly consistency with tiny bits of broken pasta. I would put money on this being snap frozen. My housemate said it was the same consistency as lean cuisine carbonara except lean cuisine tastes a lot better. The ($22) pizzas were very thin and dry with hardly and topping. Really not even worth mentioning, nothing really noteworthy to say about a nonexistent pizza. The ($14.5) garlic pizza bread barely had any garlic flavour and was just a thin and very dry crust that tasted like doughy hell. save your money eat anywhere else.

I went here on the recommendation of a friend who has a natural fang for hot Thai goodness. The…read morerestaurant was quiet when I arrived, but I had finished work early so they had just opened for dinner service. Initial impressions were good, nice and clean, typical bamboo and pattern décor throughout. The staff were nice, especially the man who took my order. I guess at that time it isn't too hectic so there was a little more light hearted banter between us. I ordered the Jungle Curry, hot, as recommended by my friend. The mad behind the counter looked at me as if I was about to do something stupid but I confirmed I was a bona-fide heat eater. He smiled and left me to wait for my take away. Fifteen minutes later he came back with my order and a safety tip for the curry when I got home- milk and banana if it became too overwhelming for me. I smiled and went home. Needless to say that that jungle curry was a volcano of flavorous explosions in my mouth. Each mouthful causing me to break out in sweat beads while I refused to dilute the pure fire with anything. My wife thought me crazy but I thought the food was bang on.

I would highly recommend Thaisons to anyone that wants Amazing tasting Thai either eat in or take…read moreaway. The service from all the staff is amazing also

After living in london for two and half years i forgot just how delicious the food at this place…read moreis. Who wouldve thought a tiny local restaurant could be a thai food heaven... Always containing the freshest of fresh vegetables.. The beef panang does my buds the treat :)