Busaba Eathai
Continuing on with the London
theme as I'm sure some of our readers have now emigrated! Apparently Busaba is a chain of Thai
restaurants that I suppose us plebs would typically compare to MAO or
Wagamama
Myself and Ev were walking down
Oxford Street doing a bit of shopping when the expected pangs of hunger
started.. Having experience of Wardour street where we had eaten previously at
Wahaca, we thought it would be a good place to start! A few mins walking and eyeing up
the competition, we settled on an unknown symbol which was busy and
had cool communal seating.
We were greeted by some uber cool
guy with slick back long hair who signalled for one of the lesser waiters to
bring us to our table. We were sat around a corner of one of the tables so Ev
was to my right.
As we were famished (as normal)
we ordered quickly. I went for Chicken Satay in peanut sauce £4.95 to start
followed by the Pad Kweito (sen yai
noodle, smoked chicken, prawn and holy basil) for £8.30. Ev ordered the Spring
rolls, because it’s Ev and she always orders spring rolls… (unless there is
only veg ones) and the Fried Chicken (classy bird) with Lemongrass, chilli
sauce, shallot and daikon- now you know!for £7.70 accompanied with Jasmine Rice (£2.20).
We
also took the initiative to order 4 glasses of fresh Thames tap water as we
were informed the food was very spicy. Bring it on I say! After about 15 minutes we were
delivered all of our food at the same time which was good because we didn't scoff down the starters straight away.
The Chicken Satay was very good,
the chicken was real and plentiful. Low point I thought that the peanut sauce wasn't very runny or viscous (if you prefer) so you had to mash the chicken
into the bowl to get it out #firstworldproblems
The pad Kweito was very good, the
noodles were sweet. Areas for improvement would be around number of large
prawns and chicken. There was a lot of veg.
The spring rolls were nice, crisp
batter to which was also dunked in my peanut sauce! And the fried chicken was
really flavorsome When you really bit into the batter you tasted the chili and lemongrass and they gave you LOADS of rice (Ev is happy)
All in all a very good experience
and would recommend the place to people. The service around water top-ups could
have been better and I don’t like when places charge separately for rice. A few
more prawns and we would have been smitten!
Not too bad value either, we tipped in cash! :)
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