Red Shallot #680

This restaurant made Mark sweat – a lot. 

We thought we were going to The Little Hungarian Restaurant and were not really looking forward to it.  Hungarian always seems a bit “stodge”.  However it is not open on a Sunday night, so we skipped down , past countless hairdressers (no bad hair days in South Caulfield) to a rebadged old favourite, a “thai fusion” restaurant.  There was a banquet seat on one side with mismatched checked cushions – very groovy.  Not a sound of tinny thai music ringing from the speakers instead we were treated to slow crooning from the female side of the population.  On the table were plates with curved holes for the chopsticks – groovy and different.

So we stuck with the theme and ordered something different rather than the good old green curry chicken.

We ordered entrée number 10; Sabai which was 4 marinated tiger prawns in a light pastry served with sweet chilli sauce.   It was crunchy and fresh.

While we waited I did the obligatory checking of the lighting fixtures.  They did not let me down.  A classic chandelier hung near the door to the kitchen – we haven’t had one of those before. 

We chose 2 main meals to share; number 38 which was spicy lamb (with 3 chilli’s next to it – the maximum) and number 50 , a seafood salad.

This is when Mark commenced sweating.  The stir fried lamb was really, really spicy and we guzzled the water.  Ahh water

So, not having the normal green curry chicken and red curry beef to benchmark it with other thai restaurants, we cannot really tell whether this is good thai or not.  We will have to take the kids back and try all the normal suspects out before we make a decision. 

However, what really intrigued me was the tables that had inbuilt hot plates in them.  I have never seen this before and could not work out what dishes were cooked on them.  Again, Different.  That is how we summed up this place.