Sunday M.
Yelp
This place would have been a solid 4 stars if they didn't call what they served rendang with roti. Really? Roti is toast cut into strips? Thats kind of a slap in the face of every guest who walks into farang. Maybe this place isn't really meant for the discerning foodie.
We had the tasting menu for dinner and overall it was quite good. Everything was a tiny bit on the salty side. A lot of the bold flavors worked really well together, others....not too much.
We really enjoyed the softshell crab dish. The greasiness of the crab was a perfect contrast to the tart sharpness of the green mango and mint. The crispy pork was fantastic and excellently portioned, too much of that dish would have been too much. It came with palm sugar and chilli vinegar and I would recommend trying the pork with a bit of both, it was like two different dishes. Wonderful!
Then came the Thai Roti bread (but no, it was toast, cut into strips, because apparently guests who pay thousands of kronor to eat at farang are idiots who haven't eaten thai roti before and are so gullible that they will look at the bread and think, wow! look how colonialism effected thailand! They adopted our bread and toasted it and called it "ROTI"! Amazing!) The rendang curry was overly salted and frankly, the veal cheek would have worked better in it than it did in the tom kha.
The soft tofu dish that followed was good and all the contrasting textures made it a treat for the mouth. The veal cheek tom kha was excellent as well but the veal was a little too heavy for what I expect from a good tom kha.
The Hola Hola 10 desert was fantastic and bright and even though I was absolutely stuffed by the time desert came around, it was a perfect end to the meal.
The timing of the food was good and once we started eating it was well timed so we never spent more than a few minutes for the next dish. Overall service was good, but not particularly attentive after the food, we waited almost 15 minutes for the bill after we waited 5 minutes to catch someone's eye to ask for it. Also, apparently sparkling water is extra, which feels so petty since a lot of much smaller places now-a days have bubbly water on tap for free. Like, oh, we're charging you 850sek per head for dinner, but we charge extra for water from the soda-stream. Lol! Charge an extra 5 sek for the food and no one will even know farang. Small things like that are what distinguish between pricey and classy and pricey and not-so-classy.
Overall, a good experience marred by one really awful, sub-par dish.