Randomness Guide to London Menu

Thai restaurant in New Cross, also offering takeaway and delivery via Hungry House.

As well as the usual things you might expect from a Thai restaurant in London (tom yum, Thai fishcakes, red and green curries), they also have more interesting stuff such as Thai spiced sausages, chargrilled beef wrapped in pepper leaves, and an entire section of Laotian dishes.

Kake and bob tried the delivery option in August 2010, mostly focusing on the Lao options.

Tom yum soup (£4 for the chicken option) had a well-flavoured stock base. bob would have preferred more chilli heat in the stock, though the pieces of fresh and pickled chilli included were hot and very tasty.

Lao-style green papaya salad (£7) had plenty of spiciness and a nice flavour balance in the dressing. The shredded papaya and other vegetables were fresh enough, too. They also offer a Thai-style green papaya salad (som tam); it's not entirely clear what the difference is between the two, though the Thai-style version is described as including dried prawns (despite being listed in the "vegetarian dishes").

Nam prik krapi with pla too (shrimp sauce with fried fish and steamed vegetables; £7) turned out to be a single small fish, fried whole, served with steamed broccoli and bamboo shoots (large chunks, not slices-from-a-can) and a tub of nicely fishy chilli-and-fermented-shrimp sauce (nam prik kapi). Pork nam tok (chargrilled pork; £7) was nicely cooked, not dried out at all, and had a very flavourful herb-and-spice dressing.

bob's verdict: Very good, and the chilli level was just about right. I'd like to give their more "normal" Thai dishes a go too.

Kake's verdict: I'd definitely order from here again — the chilli heat was just at the top of my tolerance level, but I can cope with that for the sake of trying out more of the unusual dishes on the menu.

See also:

• Time Out review
• London Eating comments
• Qype comments