Kat's Kitchen — Restaurant in Kuta Selatan

I came to this place in search of good pad thai, so here's my take on it.

The menu says chicken pad thai, but you could choose seafood version. I choosed seafood pad thai and thai tea.

While waiting for the pad thai, the thai tea came. It's..... Not milky / creamy enough for me. Diluted too much for my taking.

Now to the pad thai.

I was a bit shocked on the plating of the pad thai, it's too full, and have a raw carrot spirals that, for me, is not matching with the pad thai itself.

About the seafood pad thai, their take are tuna, shrimp, and squid. The shrimp and squid is rather overcooked, resulting a rather chewy texture. The tuna, is okay, but personally, i don't think tuna is a good match for pad thai, there is somewhat sourness from the fish meat that is not for pad thai.

The taste, is not what you expect from pad thai supposed to be. Authentic pad thai is sweet sour and savoury, CMIIW. This? This is more like Indo-Chinese stir fry kwetiaw. I didn't find the sweetness and enough sourness from what pad thai must have. The rice noodles is also too thick. I am dissapointed.

Also, the staff is somewhat cold, not friendly, rarely smile. When asked for how long my food will be served they don't really gave me the answer.

Would not recommend for pad thai place. Other menu might do some good, but not for me, not now. This is just pad thai...

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