I love Thai food… the combination of creamy, spicy, nutty, and sweet flavours make it totally irresistible to me. If I’m miserable my dad makes his insanely good Thai curry to cheer me up and for a treat dvd night in, a Thai takeaway is my ideal meal. So I was delighted to be reviewing Thai Rice – a friendly restaurant in Fulham that I heard cooks particularly good Thai food.

I went along with my best friend on a Saturday night to try out this eatery. Only a couple of tables were occupied when we arrived at 7pm, but when we left a couple of hours later the place was packed with a waiting queue of hungry diners. The menu has all the favourites and more… suckers for the classic dishes, we ordered what some might describe as boring choices. Chicken Satay and Duck Spring Rolls to start, with a large basket of amazingly good prawn crackers. For mains, we tried the Vegetable Pad Thai and the Red Curry with chicken and prawn. We ordered pots of delicate jasmine tea to accompany the meal.

Some restaurants are obsessed with offering thrilling and complicated specials, but I always think it is interesting to sample the favourite dishes as these are the options that will be ordered most. Each cuisine has it’s speciality, for me if a Thai restaurant serves a good Red Curry then it has succeeded. Thai Rice exceeds expectations with fresh and delicious food using high quality ingredients. The Satay were marinated perfectly served with a sweet peanut sauce and the spring rolls were unusually light with soft aromatic duck filling and sweet Hoisin sauce. Thai food has a tendency to be oily but Thai Rice avoided this stereotype completely. Our curries were wonderfully creamy and light with ample meat and well cooked vegetables. The noodles were light with a sprinkling of crunchy peanuts and bean sprouts, a delightful mix of contrasting textures.

I usually omit pudding in Thai restaurants – I really don’t like those strange jelly-like dumplings! At Thai Rice though there is the option of half a coconut filled with coconut ice-cream and this was the perfect refreshing and palate-cleansing end to the meal.

For a reasonable and ravishing Thai treat, Thai Rice is a great restaurant you can rely on.

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