Located adjacent to our hotel Meriton, we gave Siam House a try for dinner on a Sunday night. Our…read morehotel provided room service with food from Siam, and we could've had takeaway and eaten in the comfort of our hotel, but I chose to dine-in to get a feel for the restaurant ambiance and service.
My most commonly ordered main dish at any Thai restaurant is pad see ew, but the night we dined, I was craving curry. The two of us ordered and shared the roast duck curry and the jungle curry. The roast duck curry was a coconut milk-based red curry with generous portions of duck (with skin), carrot, green bean, snap pea, pineapple, and lychee. Although I find it uncommon, I did like the addition of pineapple and lychee for some sweetness, as the curry itself was very spicy. The jungle curry was not coconut milk-based, so I personally didn't consider it a curry. However, it was magnitudes spicier that the roast duck curry! So those with a sensitive palette for spicy food, beware. We asked for two orders of rice on the side, and although they gave us two orders, they gave it in the same bowl. This gesture was a little strange to me, especially because I prefer to ladle my curry over my rice in a bowl. That's difficult to do if two people share the same rice bowl but have two different curries.
Service was nice and friendly. Food came out in a timely manner (waited less than 10 minutes). The restaurant has two levels, though it seems most people sit at the ground level.
Little did I know, the ever-so-popular Chat Thai was just a few doors down from Siam House. If I had more time and craved more Thai food while in Sydney, I would've given Chat a try to compare food quality.