Thai Kitchen Beer, King St CBD

I wouldn't normally associate King Street in the CBD as a place to dine, and it is very probable that Thai Kitchen Beer don't associate themselves solely as a restaurant either. 

By the sounds of their name, they probably would like to cater to the cocktail drinking, beer guzzling crowd while the Thai tapas style food is served more to accompany the drinks. But it was exactly the food that we found to be the star of the show here!

We visited Thai Kitchen Beer on a Groupon promotion where we were free to choose any 5 dishes (there were entrees, fried noodles and rice, curries, salads, desserts) from the menu for $40. 

First dish - we chose the grilled pork neck marinated with Thai rum and coconut cream. The sauce for the pork had spring onions, chilli, roasted rice powder, fish sauce. The pork slices were tender and fragrant when dipped in the sauce. 

Stir fried seafood with cashew nut, chilli jam and vegetables - loads of vegetables and seafood like fish, calamari and prawns. The flavours are so well balanced here, it would be great to eat this with a bowl of steamed white rice.

Crab meat fried rice - there was a decent quantity of crab meat in this fried rice. Although a tad salty, the portion was big and filled us right up.

Seafood red curry - Prawns, fish, calamari in red curry. I think that Thai red curries are generally quite thin, or is it because the restaurants add too much coconut milk to make it less spicy and more palatable to Western tastes? But as far as Thai curries go, this dish was quite good. By this time,we were already quite full.

Som Tum Tiger prawns - Papaya salad with tiger prawns - this was so spicy! It has a real kick to it. Shredded papaya, tiger prawns, cashew nuts, carrots, green beans, chilli and fried dried shrimps dressed with a Thai dressing.

Man oh man, the food was so delicious and the flavours were so authentic. The serving sizes were more than enough for us, and they certainly did not skimp on the ingredients even though we were on a Groupon voucher. Recommended!