KHLUK Street Food — Restaurant in Sydney

Really cosy interior with exposed beams and rustic looking walls like you're eating street food in a back alley in Asia. The interior was designed by the chef who was an architect Its the little things here that are nice; like the fresh cut flowers in a milk bottle on each table, the lighting and the soft music in the background.

It was difficult to choose so we grabbed 4 mains between 3 people. The crying tiger (wagyu beef) melts in your mouth and makes you want to cry tears of joy. The green curry has the perfect amount of spicy to make your taste buds run wild! The things that look like figs is thai eggplant.

The soft shell crab was anything  but soft - it was so crispy (but not oily) that if you turned off the tunes you would hear the crunch in throughout the town. The pad see ew was the first dish demolished on the table; That's how good it was. If it wasn't for the thought of dessert we would have ordered a second! Don't bother with chopsticks - use a spoon to shovel it in!

Dessert!! The fried ice cream was a huge favourite! Deliciously sweet and crunchy, smothered in caramel sauce with an oreo on top for good measure. The mango sticky rice was moist and and full of amazing sweet flavours. The mango was fresh, sweet and delicious!

The staff are warm, inviting and very humble. The presentation of the food is flawless! You can really see that they take pride in their business. Come visit this place because we'll...

Background music too loud (which is a fashion nowadays almost everywhere I go), both of us have to wear ear plug 100% of the time. May be owing to we've our dinner early (5:30 pm), service is quite good & friendly (we're the 1st table at the time). But with just one waitress taking order, checking out, deliver food, etc ... basically doing everything except cooking ... I could imagine service won't be as good during peak hours. Food is a bit pricy therefore I wouldn't say it is value for money. Taste wise may be highly adapted/domesticated to Aussie taste, doesn't seems to me as authentic Thai Food ... at least not the same taste I had in Bangkok, Phuket nor Koh Samui. The Satay & Tum Yum Soup are way too sweet & not sour nor spicy enough. When I finally had enough & asked for hot sauce, the waitress was nice enough to give me some flaming hot chopped red chili pepper (big big thumbs up). The beef salad taste good & refreshing. But the beef is hard & dry like jerky. I should have pick a salad without beef. Too bad they don't offer Green Papaya Salad on their menu which is my favorite ... may be there's simply no such supply of Green Papaya here in Sydney therefore I've not yet seen it anywhere. As conclusion, I might revisit this place again in the future but I guess I won't be here too often nor...

Update : having not eaten here since this last review3 years ago, and now retract everything I said then. The duck Penang curry was delicious, the roti is not to be missed. Salt & pepper squid not amazing but enjoyable, certainly a huge difference to what we had years ago. The only thing I wouldn’t order again was the pad Thai, as it was pretty bland and sticky and was missing bean sprouts, egg & peanuts… the key ingredients. However with that said, we will now be using Khluk as a regular go to for Thai now. Clearly a new chef or had a very off night when we last ordered, but redeemed themselves this evening!!

3 years ago : Very poor. The salt and pepper squid at $9.90 was a disgrace, 5 soggy pieces of squid with sweet chilli. The photo is exactly what we received. The drunken noodles with duck, where was the duck... all we had was rubbery skin no meat. The chicken in the stirfrys was incredibly dry. The Tom Yum soup however was very tasty, but let down by the very dry chicken. Would never eat here again. Very disappointing after reading the other reviews and thinking it would be good. Street food indeed, like it was...