Foodtopia is a newly opened fusion Indonesian, Thai and Malaysian restaurant on Mountain Highway, Bayswater. The restaurant's decor gives it a country cosy yet classy look. I believe they serve cakes and coffee during the day, as well as hawker style lunch specials such as pad thai, fried noodles etc for $9.50.
For dinner, there is a small selection of curries and stir fried main dishes, mainly seafood. When Gaz and I visited, we ordered the chilli fish, and salt and pepper prawns upon the owner's recommendation.
The chilli fish was deep fried fish fillets with thai curry sauce, cashew nuts and veges. Our fish sat on another table for a few minutes by mistake so by the time we got it, the fillets were not as crunchy as I would prefer it to be. The dish was tasty and went well with rice.
The salt and pepper prawns however were fried to crunch perfection. They certainly did not skimp on the serving size. There were at least ten big prawns on the plate, reasonable for $15.90
While we were dining in the restaurant, there was a group of rowdy teenagers who brought their own alcohol to drink in the restaurant. They were very noisy and were having fun at others' expense. Once, one of them tried sitting in a baby's high chair for laughs. I must say that no one else besides them really had a laugh at that prank. Gaz and I scoffed our food down just so that we can be away from them.
This incident shows that running a restaurant is not only about the food, but also about handling all sorts of customers - happy, unhappy, disruptive, dishonest. Once, I overheard a customer demanding a refund for a king prawn dish on the basis that the prawns were not fresh, but she had already eaten half of the dish! The restaurant refused the refund. Running a business is certainly a challenge!
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