Giddy Geisha — Restaurant in Sunshine Coast Regional

It was a bad decision to choose Giddy Geisha. I noticed that there's quite a few comments which stated the foods are over-salted. Clearly, the chefs or management team overlook their customer's opinion. Not only we ordered a lot of meals to finish since we love to try Modern Asian foods! We loves the creativity of the chef who can fused the ingredients and create something new. Unfortunately, this is not the place!

The atmosphere was nice and well decor. Each meals describe as modern/fusion foods (As you can read all ingredients info) and the service was okay. The problem is the foods! From all the dishes that we ordered, the only meal that I think it's edible is Calamari Karaage.

We ordered:

Baked Hervey Bay Scallops, 4 scallops mixed with Yuzu Kosho (not really taste any strong citrus taste) and Shiso (We didn't taste Shiso leaves at all!). It tasted salty and no texture to compare with since the scallops were all tiny!

10hr Braised Lamb Rendang: We didn't look for authentic Rendang but at least, we should be able to taste the nutty and buttery since you named "Rendang" on the dish. The lamb was tender though.

King Fish Sashimi: The sauce is TOO SOUR that you can't really enjoy the sweetness of King Fish. Nouc Cham is vietnamese dipping sauce and you FLOODED it in the dish!

Yuzu Honey Chicken: What are you trying to serve us here? The sauce itself underneath the fried rice noodle taste like a plum sauce. The flour that wrapped the chicken is too thick. It's pretty much you're eating a dough instead of chicken.

Crispy Pork and Prawn: How dare you stated "Crispy"? It is a chunk of layered pork fat. Prawn? It is a baby prawn here. Again, Nahm Jim is Thai dipping sauce, I don't mind you create some new menu but if you want to pour the whole dipping sauce and make it a "main" sauce here, you need to considering an overdose of "sourness"! Papaya was fresh, other ingredients seems like "just throw 'em in" to make this dish.

Ocean Trout Roasted in Tom Yum Paste: Let's say you really roasted the trout, then why you need to put it in the curry? It doesn't make any sense! Which resulting we didn't taste the tom yum paste in the trout at all since it had been soaked in coconut curry! The curry itself has no taste! If we didn't see the white cream coconut of the curry, we would have thought it is just plain soup.

We feel like if you really want to create modern/fusion Asian dishes, at least, the basic taste of each ingredients should be strongly considered! Not just throwing everything in and describing it as "Modern Asian" cuisine. We don't mind "new" taste, but please don't insult the customers by labeling as Modern Asian Street Food if you can't even truly understand Asian...

After dining at many or Maroochdores finest eateries, we asked the Managers at the M1 resort where we were staying, where their favourite restaurant in Maroochydore was and without missing a beat she side Giddy Geisha.

It was a quick walk from the Esplanade and past the Holiday Inn to the new Maroochydore CBD and opposite the Council Building, the Giddy Geisha and its instant street appeal.

We entered and were quickly greeted and shown to our table...... we asked if all the dishes were spicy and were told, some could be served without Chilli, which was perfect as my partner does not enjoy hot spicy dishes.

We ordered a tap beer and a Presecco whilst we waited to order our food.

What was coming out to the few people who were already seated smelled amazing and we thought we should order a few dishes to share.

Given that everything was reasonably priced meaned we could order nore than we needed.

Let me tell you......... by the time the dishes (quickly) arrived at the table the place was nearly full (5:30pm)

The Honey Chicken was cooked as a full battered breast..... Genius.... lovely moist chicken breast with a crispy hard batter and Crispy Noodles with honey/lemon sauce, simply devine.

Scallops were good, but cooked in their shell, so no caremalisation and not my favourite dish however the Pork Crackle and Prawns was heavenly.

The Charcoal Chicken wings were unique and such a compliment to the combined meal.... delicious.

And to mop up all the yummy flavours, a fluffy Roti, so soft and moist.

Over all........ has to be hands down the best food we have tasted on the Sunshine Coast and trust me we have tasted a lot.

There will not be many that say the food here is not fantastic.... even the lovely retired couple at the next table (locals) who said they had tried a few times to eat here, but could not find parking.

Well done to the managent and staff, simple fusion food done...

I believe your manager does not know what customer services means - does not understand when a customer says something like I cannot take Chilli but does not offer non chilling options (even if I lean toward dishes that would be amazing but without chilli - you can easily it appears, after speaking to the chefs, to remove not just the chilli sauce by putting it on the side but also giving the option of taking out the spicy dried seasoning - ie eggplant, crying tiger beef even edamame and broccoli had the spices seasoning- did not understand that this could have been removed entirely...with some words ro the chefs saying please Do not sprinkle any chilli.... I loved the intrinsic flavors of the dishes , don't get me wrong but please give me the options - I did not believe that I had to mention allergy for this to.be considered... anyway not good communication and options and bad resolution for the manager - she offered something but with a condition ...said but this would be extra if a higher priced option - I was not looking for anything then to have this kind of response ...I would have been happy with just a reduction of the bill or simply a cocktail - just an apology without attached conditions would have been nice...after 200 dollars spent she just let go a customer with a bad feeling, hard to undrestand your manager has bad communication with chefs and customers... in other words it is not about the money..we could have gone spirit house for 30 dollars more or to your bistro it is about the lack of making...