Sussex Thai

Some people consider Mother's Day to be too commercialised. Personally, I think of it as a chance to try out a new restaurant. For this Mother's Day Thai was on the menu. Sussex Thai is a relatively new restaurant that has sprouted on Sussex St and it was apparent that they were still going through some teething problems. After a few issues with reordering drinks because of things being unavailable, the waiter that brought the drinks to us was unable to tell us which drink was which and could only offer us "I don't know".

Ordering the food was a little more straight forward. We started with deep dried prawn cakes served with a sugar syrup followed by spice marinated chicken cooked in banana leaves.

Prawn cakes

Chicken wrapped in banana leaves

For mains we had the deep fried snapper with three flavours. I'm not sure if we had ordered wrong but the only flavour I could see was sweet chili sauce. This was nice nontheless but I was expecting something different...

Fried snapper with three flavours (?)

The red curry was gorgeous! Thick and creamy - just the way I like it. The grilled pork neck was smokey and served with a lime, fish sauce and chili sauce. The stir fried beef and eggplant was surpisingly spicy from the pepper but had well balanced flavours.

Red curry with pumpkin and chicken

Grilled pork neck

Stir fried beef and eggplant with garlic and pepper sauce

Overall the food was pretty good and the service was patchy - but then, who goes to an asian restaurant for the service?