Coco Thai # 586

Do you know that feeling of having something that you have absolutely loved to bits and then one day you realise you are over it?  Like a favourite pair of jeans that are a bit different (covered in zips for example) and one day you put them on and realise you are completely over them.  You have moved on.

 

Or the computer game you have obsessed over for a year (yes, I am talking to you Sims) and one day you log in to your finely curated families and houses and realise you are over them.  You have moved on and zombie killing is your new thing.  You just don’t feel that thrill anymore.

Well Mark and I had that feeling tonight.

Actually, the first feeling we had was one of dread.  The next restaurant was an Indian one that we had not heard good things about.   However, rules are rules and we had to take the good with the bad.  We took the kids to distract us from the food.

The next feeling was one of joy.  We had walked in to the Indian restaurant which will remain unnamed and the lovely mono-browed waiter informed is that they did not have a licence to serve alcohol. Not even a BYO licence.  One of our rules is that it a restaurant must serve alcohol.  So we skipped out of there and went to the next one which is an old favourite; Coco Thai.

Rules are rules.

 

The décor is unextraordinary.  All 4 walls are different but align to a brown flower theme.  They don’t follow the extravagant light shades theory that most of the other Glenhuntly Rd restaurants adhere to and have installed plain downlights.  There is a weird plant that greets you as you walk in the door.  Lisa checked it out – it’s fake.  The Thai royal couple smile down on you from a photo on the wall.

We ordered all the old favourites;

Prawn Crackers, Mixed Entrée, Chicken Pad Thai, Green Curry Chicken, Steamed Ginger Fish, Duck curry, Massaman Lamb curry, Steamed rice.

The Pad Thai is oily but has a nice citrus tang.  We thought we would get a whole steamed fish but we just got rubbery bits of it.  Do not order.  The duck is tender and sweetened with pineapple.  It was voted “good”.  The green curry chicken is OK but even the kids believe it should have been spicier.  The lamb in the massaman was a cheap cut , expertly slow cooked.  The star of the evening.

This place really is a good, family friendly, basic entry level point into the world of Thai food.   But I think we have moved on to more  complex flavours and ideas like those found at Red Shallots.

Sorry Coco Thai, you have been relegated to the place where I put the Sims and those interesting  zippy jeans.