The mains include a good selection of dishes… soups, salads, curries, seafood, pan fried dishes, stir fried vegetables and rice & noodles. I stuck with my favourite, Pad Thai, and besides, the ultimate test of a good Thai restaurant for me is their Pad Thai so I wanted to try this out. I was not disappointed. I chose prawns and I was glad I did because they were big, juicy and high quality. The rice noodles were stir fried with egg, bean sprouts, spring onions, ground peanuts and julienned red chilli peppers. The menu states that the chef has a unique secret recipe. I definitely agree as the flavours were really vibrant. So many times I’ve been disappointed by bland Pad Thai with gloopy noodles… not the case here!
If you are looking for a quick, affordable, delicious meal, this is the best spot bar none. I have eaten here more times than I can count and will undoubtedly continue to do so, and yet I doubt I will be able to try all of their dishes.
I can recommend with full confidence the 辣子鸡 and 番茄牛腩, or spicy fried chicken and tomato beef. Chicken is super flavourful and scratches that itch for spice, the beef is silky and luscious and the sauce coats the rice beautifully.
PSA: Bring cash unless you expect to spend more than £20.
Red curry chicken (£7) - 8.5/10, very similar to the green curry chicken flavour wise (!) but with fried tofu inside instead of broccoli which I'm a big fan of.
Malaysian curry beef (£6.50) - 7/10, interesting somewhat smoky curry, but the beef is once again somewhat tough. feel like the chicken curry would be interesting once in a while.
chicken green curry, no rice, chilli oil (£7) - 8.5/10, pretty decent curry with a very generous amount of broccoli, eggplant, beans, and bamboo shoot(!), hearty meal, well worth it.
beef brisket with brown sauce and mixed vegetables, add chilli oil, no rice (£7) - 10/10, this is it. golden house perfection achieved. it doesn't get better than this.
#21 roasted duck rice (w/ chinese leaf) (£7) - 9/10, another winner. truly fantastic. ask for chilli oil, so good.
curry beef brisket with chinese leaf, no rice (£7) - 9.5/10, brilliant, my new go to order. ordering the rice box without rice makes it the best value meal I've seen in cambridge.
beef with ginger and spring onion - 6.5/10, nice ginger kick but the beef is disappointingly tough. stick to the brisket.
beef brisket in brown sauce and chinese leaf - 9/10, superb. the brisket just falls apart.
#13 sea spicy pork with aubergine - 8/10, sweet, slightly sour, slightly spicy. good mix of flavours. black fungus and aubergine have a nice textural contrast.
#26 - 8/10, great sauce with good mala kick, but the pork belly wasn't quite to my liking. a bit tough and over fried, perhaps that was a one off thing.
Chinese Kung Pao chicken - 8.5/10, good mala flavour, very nice. Not much veg unfortunately.
Black pepper beef - 8/10
(30) beef w/ sambal sauce - 8.5/10, not exactly sambal but really nice, spicy and starchy
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