Piyawat The Sweetery — Restaurant in Victoria Park

3.5 stars Food: For dinner this visit. Good presentation. Normal portion. No MSG. Attractive photos on dessert menu. Price is acceptable for most dishes. Pad Thai Prawns, $19.9: There are 4 (normal size) prawns, tiny tofu cubs, eggs bean sprouts, finely crushed peanuts, spring onions stired together in Tamarind sauce. Garnish with dried red chili and a lemon wedge. Noodles were Al dente. Normal portion. Normal Thai flavor. --- 7.4/10 Thai Omelette minced Pork, $17.9: served with cucumber slices and Sriracha sauce. t's not fluffy or soft Omelette. Not much Minced Pork. Very thin layer. Very Over-priced for portion, ingredients, culinary technique and presentation. Mediocre home cooking. Flavor was ok. Not recommended --- 5 /10 Mango Sticky Rice, $14.9: it's seasonal. Photogenic! Thinly Sliced mango formed in a rose- pattern on the top of sticky rice. Small portion of well cooked sticky rice. Enough warm coconut milk. Only served with small scoop of Vanilla ice cream and whipped cream. No nutty flavor. --- 7.4/10 Iced Thai Milk Tea, $6.9: ok. Normal portion. Service: same friendly staff. Not busy. Order food and pay at cashier. Served food fast. Tap water (not chilled) was provided. --- 7.2/10 Environment: small cafe, clean & tidy. Very causal setting. ---- 7.2/10 4/2021- 4 Stars: Came for lunch. Service: friendly staff. A bottle of Chilled Tap water is provided after ordered food. Waiting time for food was reasonable. --- 7/10 Food: casual setting. All-day menu with interesting variety of food: Thai food with western twists, Coffee, western breakfast, lunch and fancy desserts. Nice presentation. Good portion. Reasonable price. Good quality. Tasty. ---- 7.5/10 Crispy Prawns Tom Yum Sandwich, $17.9: 2 slices of crispy sourdough, Tom Yum Paste was tasty. The crispiness of Batter Prawns was ok. Salad was really fresh. Thai Lunch comes with rice. Tom Yum Soup with prawns, $16.9: can choose spicy or not. A lot chopped dried chili if spicy option. 5 medium-size prawns in the soup. More prawns than other Thai restaurants, and larger portion, so higher price. Definitely will come back for desserts or...

Our first time here, we chose it based on the high review score and expected it to be well reflective of that score.

Based on food -1 and based on ambience -1/2 and given the price of what we paid vs what we got -1/2.

We ordered Pad Thai - prawn, Prawn red curry and banana toast thing with ice cream and a Thai tea.

Food: it was ok, Pad Thai a bit too wet/soggy for us. We didn't really enjoy it. We ate it... Portion wise not bad.

Prawn red curry was... At best weak in taste and watery... Portion ok.

The banana bread thing with ice cream was actually nice, well the bread was. The ice cream had been melted and refrozen as could feel the giant ice shards in there. Not the best ice cream. For $20...yeah...nah there are much better desserts.

Thai tea, was legit Thai tea. Was nice but stupidly expensive +1 and -1.

Restaurant lay ambience itself, was ok. Seating a bit awkward in terms of layout... Having my head right next to menus wasn't great.

Service, was ok nothing special or bad.

Our bill was $75, there is some easy parking near by so there's that. I'm not going to lie I had high expectations given the pictures and what seems like good reviews. Only to be let down by what is more average and rather steep for what it is.

Would we come...

Fantastic dinner and service at Piyawat The Sweetery. Everything is so carefully prepared and cooked. Beautiful Thai dishes but I was so hungry I forgot to take photos of what we ate! The Pad Thai was solid, not too sweet and lovely al dente noodles, Tom Yum Prawns are a must if you like prawns and if you like the Tom Yum flavours and lovely entrees.

Outstanding highlight was the dessert, we have never had this in the past but the Honey Toasts is simply divine! Not what’d we expected but lovely fresh baked toast with almond - think an Almond Crossiant and Sweet bread loaf had an offspring! The hot goodness and cold ice cream plus drizzy drizzle of the honey was a match...