Paradai Thai Carnegie — Restaurant in Melbourne

Four-Star Food Odyssey: Paradai Thai Carnegie

Hold onto your napkins, fellow food enthusiasts, because Paradai Thai Carnegie is about to send your taste buds on an exciting journey!

Entering the restaurant feels like stepping into a bustling Bangkok marketplace, where the atmosphere buzzes with a unique blend of energy and charm. The staff zip around like culinary marathon runners, taking orders and delivering plates brimming with tantalizing Thai delights. Rest assured, amid this vibrant bustle, their mission is to ensure your dining experience is a memorable one.

Now, let's talk about the food. Paradai's menu is a sensory tour de force through Thailand's rich culinary landscape. Each dish is a symphony of flavors—sweet, sour, spicy, and salty—all working in harmonious unison. The aroma alone, wafting from your plate, is enough to get your taste buds doing a happy dance in anticipation.

Just a friendly word of advice for my fellow food adventurers—book ahead! Given Paradai's reputation for superb Thai fare, it often attracts a queue that extends right out the door. So, unless you're a fan of culinary torture—inhaling mouthwatering aromas without being able to partake—I'd strongly suggest making a reservation.

In a nutshell, Paradai Thai is a lively, vibrant, and delicious food expedition that every food lover should embark on. Sure, there might be a bit of a wait, but as every dedicated foodie knows, the best meals are often those we wait for. So, with that, I give Paradai Thai a well-earned four-star salute. Ready your forks, food enthusiasts,...

Unique Dish: Heavenly Thai Chicken Fried Rice with an Umami taste of a slight sweet happy ending with each bite.

Every mouthful bursting with different flavour. Crunchy spring onion.

Tender juicy chicken. Good colour balance. Divine fragrance from herbs.

Juicy eggs. Pretty little Carrot florets. Cute Kawaii plate as underlay for rice.

Lots of juicy chicken pieces but not overwhelming. Succulent vegetables.

Quick 3 mins under shelter walk from Carnegie train station.

Best Deal: Value for $ at $11.50. It's a steal!

Food: Generous Portion size. Good amount of Meat.

Service: Waitresses are well presented, smiling & polite. Came quickly to us when we raised our hands for service.

Atmosphere: Love the clean wooden white decoration theme. Temperature is Climate Controlled. Toilet is clean.

Crowd: Young professionals with mixture of hip youngsters.

Place is packed full of people eating and queuing thus the food must be good. The food turnover rate is high thus the food must be fresh.

I give it 5 / 5 stars.

I will surely come back again to try different dishes especially the tom yum & drinks as they all look tasty.

I highly recommend you to bring your family, colleagues and friends there this week for a pleasant gastronomic experience.

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Best regards, Jianfa Ben Tsai

Fat Guy with 35 years of Restaurant Dining Experience Managed Food Business Worked at...

This is the first Thai restaurant, actually the first Asian restaurant, that refuses to give me freshly cut chilli with fish sauce. It’s shocking and mind boggling as they clearly use the two ingredients extensively. In fact, I’d ordered a papaya salad which actually both freshly cut chilli and fish sauce (which I eventually had to resort to because the Pad Thai was not spicy enough nor salty enough for me).

The waitress was very apologetic and said she doesn’t understand why the kitchen wouldn’t provide it. She said all previous restaurants she worked with were always happy to provide. She was nice about it, to her credit. I told her to tell her manager to change the policy and that I was planning to write a review. She asked me not to write the review which was sweet of her to want to protect her employer but I said I was going to.

Food is average, a little under seasoned, nothing to shout about but the pricing reflects that so no complaints there.

Deco is breezy and pleasant, and not noisy. That’s due to the fact it was only 30% full at 730 on a Friday evening. For a Koornang Road restaurant to be that empty on a Friday evening indicates that the restaurant needs to up its game to survive.

And no, I definitely won’t be...