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From Time Out Dubai Eating Out 2009

You can get some good grub here, but you will have to put up with poor service. The busy yet strangely quiet restaurant offers a wide selection of Indonesian, Malay and Thai dishes. These range from well-executed favourites like tender Indonesian chicken satay and gingery tom yum soup to options so bizarre it’s hard to resist ordering them, although resist them you should.

The deep-fried crab claw is, despite being perfectly cooked, bland, while the pheasant green curry is uninspiring and chewy. The saving grace is the pud Thai: sweetly-flavoured and packed with succulent shrimp, it’s a failsafe accompaniment to its questionable main course counterparts.

Unlike the unpredictable nature of the food, the service is consistently friendly, yet dire. On our visit, we were told there was no space outside only to find the terrace almost deserted, the white wine was warm but requests for it to be chilled fell on deaf ears, and water was poured from the neighbouring table’s bottle.

Someone also should have told the designer how essential ergonomics are to an enjoyable dining experience: if you’re going to be stuck somewhere for two courses and two-and-a-half hours, you need a chair narrow enough to fit under the table.

• Previous reviews
  • 26 March,2008- reviewed by Jeremy Lawrence
  • 12 March,2007- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff
  • 27 February,2006- reviewed by Matthew Lee
  • 01 January,2002- reviewed by Time Out Dubai Staff

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