Orlando Thai- Tailored for Beginners

Posted by Piggy Eatalot on 2/01/09 • Categorized as Melbourne

Orlarndo Thai
321 Bay St, Port Melbourne

Guys, this is entry level Thai food. If you like super spicy, super flavoursome Thai cuisine you are eating at the wrong restaurant. Not only does this Thai restuarant is aimed at Western tastebuds, they also advertised that there is no MSG and use as little oil as possible. That being said, the food is still full of flavour with other herbs like galangal, lemongrass and lime.

Entrees- chicken springroll, curry puff, chicken satay sticks
We started with a trio of Entree-
Chicken Springroll $7.5- not the usual unidentifiable crap you normally eat in asian restuarant, you can actually taste AND see the mince chicken in this springroll.
CurryPuff $7.5- Now the weird thing with this is, the description said “yellow curry mixed w/potato made into fluffy puffs served w/ peanut sauce- but it tasted like they used taro! It tastes a bit weird but I quickly got used to it- Alan on the otherhand simply refused to eat it :P
Chicken Satay Sticks $8- This is not bad however it lacks the aroma of a normal chicken satay stick (that’s possibly marinated with MSG)
Tom Kah Soup $9
Now this, is yummie- full of the flavour of galangal- this is really good for the cold I reckon! I’ve tried a few of these Tom Kah Soup before and this is one of my favourites
Pad Met-$14.5
Pad Thai $15.5
Pad Met (Chicken stir fry with roasted chilli paste (mild), onion and cashew nuts) is very mild, can’t say I really like it. Pad Thai tasted good, but I wish there’s more oiliness and wok sensation.
Pla Tord $23
Roti Bread w/ peanut sauce on the side $4.5
Pla Tord -deep fried fish with salad- it’s always tasty when the deep fried goodness is mixed with tangy flavours, the only disappointment is that they ran out of a whole fish, so we had to have fish fillets instead.
Roti Bread- mmmm a bit chewy, don’t like this dish either
Larb Gai- $12.5
Green Curry Chicken-$14.5
Larb Gai-Freshly minced chicken mixed with chopped onion, crushed toasted rice, lime juice, mint
and red chilli, served on a bed of fresh lettuce- This is yummie, light, fresh and tangy, great summer salad. The chicken curry is fantastic also- obviously more chilli is required, and it would be great if it’s a bit bigger, but it’s actually pretty filling and very yummie.
Yum Neur-$12.5

The last dish is Thai beef salad- I originally ordered green papaya salad, and they said that they don’t have Green papaya and ask me if it’s ok to make me carrot salad -_- errrmmm no. So that’s why a beef salad was ordered. Not chilli enough and not enough salad, but there’s a lot of beef and really yummie sauce.

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