Thai Foon, Darling Harbour - $?

Shop 329-330 Level 2, Harbourside Shopping Centre, Darling Drive, Darling Harbour, Sydney NSW 2000

This was dinner with workmates nearly a month ago in Sydney. One of them was a vegetarian so a lot of these dishes were vegetarian friendly (not specifically vegetarian but they didn't contain ingredients that would've harmed my friend's consciousness, at the cost of my meat loving appetite). We came here 3 times in a week because we were too indecisive and lazy to look elsewhere that catered for tree hugging vegetarian hippies. Also, I don't think most of what we ordered were Thai dishes.

Vegetable Tempura

Vegetable tempura. This technically isn't a thai dish, of course. It wasn't too bad, altho I was hoping for brown or button mushrooms to be in the mix. It also isn't the regular tempura dough, so I guess that gave it that little bit of difference from being a complete ripoff.

Tofu in Satay Sauce

I'm not sure if this is Thai too. Grilled tofu maybe, and the sauce is actually a peanut-ish cream-ish sauce from the Malaysian dish Satay (barbequed meat sticks, like kebab). If it is, do correct me. But I don't like tofu so I only ate the vegetables.

Grilled Tofu

Grilled Tofu with some kinda sauce, I don't remember this very well, to be honest I didn't touch this dish, like I said I'm not a big fan of tofu. I can only tell you that it looks spicy, but I suppose you can see that for yourself.

Steamed Fish

We're now starting to move out of hippie territory, as there are some vegetarians who eat fish. This wasn't too bad, pretty common, reminds me a lot of chinese steamed fish with assam. In fact come to think of it there are probably a lot of dishes from South East Asia that's available from more than 1 country, with slight tweaks to separate one from the other.

Beef Curry

Ahh meat! This was not bad, but I'm not sure if it was all the vegetables that made this dish extra good. The curry was not too spicy and very flavourful, which is how I like my curry. Again, I can't tell if this is Thai, not to my knowledge, but I can't confirm.

Mixed Grill

And finally, the best dish of the night, the mixed grill of meat and seafood. I think this dish wouldn't stand out so well if all the other dishes weren't made of leaf. I mean don't get me wrong, I love my greens as much as the next person, but when you have 5 mediocre vegetable dishes and a plate of grilled meat? Not a tough decision.

Overall, it wasn't a very memorable meal but we were starving, and it's not like we hate vegetables or anything, so that's probably why we went back there 3 times and didn't really complain much. Either we weren't looking hard enough, or it's just plain hard to find vegetarian food in Sydney.

Now these shots are pretty crappy as the colour sucks (and I've gimp-ed most of them to fix the colour as best I can) and some of them are out of focus but it was the best I could do in the poor lighting conditions, we sat outside where there were distant spot lights and neon signs as a light source. Oh well.