La-moon Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in East Perth

A new owner joined? F&B: New menu. Looks authentic Thai cuisine. Good presentation. Normal portion. Resonable price. Baked Tiger Prawns with Vermicelli, $36.9 (Winter Special): There were 3 big tiger prawns (devain, average quality), pork belly and garlic on the bottom. --- 7.7/10 Pad Kapraw Pork Mince, $20.9: There are 6 levels of spices. Well cooked rice and mince pork, served with a sunny egg, fried holy Thai basil, 3 cucumber cubes, and Prik nam pla (chili fish sauce). Yummy. --- 8/10 Sticky Rice, $4: small portion. Served warm in a little bamboo basket. A bit hard in texture. --- 5/10 Service: Tap water was served when seated. Order at the table. Friendly and polite staff, always smiling. Food served fast. Pay at the front desk. --- 7.9/10 Venue: Cozy setting. Each table has table light. Beautiful wall floral painting. --- 7.5/10 2023: 3.75 stars Environment: Newly open. Casual setting without traditional Thai decorations and colors. Not packed. Indoor or outdoor. Park car at street. --- 7/10 Service: a bottle of tap water (room temp) was provided when seated. Most people came for take away. Ordered at the front desk. Served food fast. One waitress only. She was a bit shy but often smiled. --- 7/10 Menu: black & white without photos on a clipboard. Most popular items /dishes were explained in English. However, some traditional Thai dishes don't have English explanation/interpretation, e.g. Yum, and desserts. Food: smaller portion (than other Thai restaurants in Perth), but good food quality. Price on high side but acceptable. Pad Thai with Beef, $18.9: served first. Good presention. The noodles was piled up to make it look like larger portion. Lemon wedge was big. Beef wasn't stired with noodles, and put besides the noodles. Good portion and quality of beef. Noodles was well cooked, wasn't sticky, but small portion --- 7.4/10 Yum Seafood, $22.9: hard to taste any papaya. There were 3 (medium size) prawns, 3 squid, 3 mussels (half shell), roasted chestnuts, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, onions and herbs (cut in matched sizes). Garnish with salad/vegetables. The sauce was pretty authentic. --- 7.5/10 2/2023 came again: saw some thai people for take away. Iced Coconut Coffee, $5.5: ~ 4 large pieces of coconut (stored in fridge for a while). Gang Phed Ped Yang, $23.9: very good presentation. I don't think it's roast duck. It's a whole smoked duck beast indeed. Pineapple slices (2pcs) on the top was torched. There were Only 2 lychee, very small pineapple pieces (~6) and some vegetables (beans, carrot, broccoli...) submerged in the curry sauce. Lychee is an important ingredient for this dish. Not enough lychee. --- 7.2/10 Steamed Rice, $3: smaller portion. Cone-Shaped on the plate. Average. Found one short black hair beneath the rice Grilled Marinated Pork Neck & Salad, $19.9: too small portions, either Pork or salad. Served with spicy sauce. Carrot was grated roughly. Over-priced. I wanted to use...

Tried it as trying to try new things. Got the chili basil vegetables (mild) with rice as I love the basil veggies at Royal Cambodia around the corner. Packaging was great. Staff were nice. They had to remake my phoned order as they had assumed I wanted beef when I just asked for veggies. It must be a popular order. Still it didn’t take long to get my order. Got it back to the office and very disappointed. The veggies are a great mix and well prepared and cooked. Rice is nice. But the soupy sauce is not mild and mainly tastes like beef and a white pepper like burn. No sweet chili or Thai basil flavours. It burns so much that I had to stop eating it very quickly. My mouth and lips still burn 10 minutes later. I assume that the soup base is beef.

I probably won’t be back but would be willing to try something else of the menu if I was going there for a work lunch. Menu has lots of interesting choices including drinks. I just would need them to make...

I would call this restaurant 'a real authentic Thai restaurant' with its spicy flavors and rich variety of dishes. It's probably one of the most authentic Thai restaurants in the city.

There are many restaurants in Perth that have become quite aussied playing safe with flavors and spice levels to cater to the locals. I'm surprised and very happy to find a restaurant like this one.

I fully support what you guys are doing. Please, please keep this authentic taste. Don't listen to those who complain that your food is too spicy or too intense they don't understand what 'real' Thai food tastes like. Don't let them change your ways. We already have enough colonised Thai restaurants here.

Unfortunately, I live far away in the upper north, but if I have a chance to visit the city, I will definitely...