Sawadee Chef — Restaurant in Hong Kong

This is a newly opened restaurant in Olympian city. The interior design was great. With glass wall facing the open area of Cherry Street. Staff were nice and friendly. We ordered two dishes. The pad thai was bit sweet. I’m not sure if there are various styles of pad thai so cannot comment on whether this kind of pad thai was authentic or not😅 Another dish was grilled eggplant. The eggplant was more like boiled rather than grilled. Some chilli powder was not evenly spread so i found it super spicy for some pieces. The prices was a bit high for lunch hour. We didn’t order any drinks. The total cost of the meal for two dishes was 32x sth. I would prefer visiting this restaurant if dinners at...

To be honest, food wasn’t bad at all. The chef who in charge of barbecue is very professional. The barbecued food we ordered were good.

However, i found that I feel uncomfortable with the bar table even though I normally prefer bar tables. I understand that they might wanna let you experience the whole BBQ cooking process. You can see those raw meat right in front of you. I have to mention that I personally prefer bar table but those raw meat are a bit too close to the cooked food served on my table and my glasses of water. They had been taking some of them by the time during my dinner. And I had been worrying if any juice or sauce of those raw meat would spill...

The green curry chicken was too salty for my liking. They were nice enough to remake the dish for me. But even after the 2nd try, the dish was still too salty for me. So they were willing to switch the dish to something else for me. I was pleasantly surprised by their willingness to change the dish for me as I always heard that the restaurant servers in hkg can be quite rude and impatient.

Overall food was good. The spice level is definitely adjusted for local taste. I liked the bran curd salad and coconut chicken soup. The veg could be cooked longer as it's a bit hard and the stem part was a...