Reviews De Lanna Thai Street Cuisine

Food: Pad see ew and pad kee mao: the noodles are coated evenly with the sauce, and are the perfect texture. The pad prik khing with crispy pork belly is divine, and the Thai fried rice and larb gai are great filling dishes. Come here also for their cigar shaped deep fried ice cream with berry sauce. Their coconut creme brulee was not as smooth as I'd like, so I'd recommend the fried ice cream here.

Service: was a bit slow despite there not being too much of a crowd, but it got quicker and better

Prices: very decent prices - around $15-20 per dish.

Sliding into the hole left by Thai Power, De Lanna Thai Street Cuisine aims to be a bit more interesting than your standard suburban Thai. It’s a first restaurant for owner Nook Jantavan, who hails from the Chiang Mai area (formerly the Lanna Kingdom) in Northern Thailand.While the extensive menu offers up plenty of the perennial Thai favourites, my advice is to flick to the back page for the well-priced selection of Northern Thai specialities. I’m particularly excited to see Sai Oua ($12.90) on the menu after falling in love with Laotian sausage at Tona Inthavong’s Green Peppercorn. In the hands of head chef and co-owner, Korakot Kittirat, the Northern Thai version of this spicy, herb-stuffed pork sausage is full flavoured and has good colour from the charcoal grill.While you can eat the sausage by itself, it’s best when picked up with a pinch of Sticky Rice ($3).This is the way that Thai people generally consume it, including Marrickville’s local Thai community, who I'm told, already pop by to buy sai oua for at-home consumption. Kao Soi Kai ($12.90) was a...