Aroy Thai Eatery - Thorndon — Restaurant in North Island

Quick and friendly service, food came out super quick, serving portions medium-large, tasty

Context: overseas travel for work, dinner with fellow travelers after gym session

Warning: no bathrooms on premises. Closest bathroom is at New World supermarket down the street

This is a restaurant where you place your order and pay for your meal at the counter before seating yourself. The restaurant is relatively small though tables and seating area spaced comfortably, not crammed in. Meals brought out as they are ready and do not come out all together but the wait time between each dish being served is very short. I ordered the beef massaman curry which was very flavoursome. I usually don't finish all the rice or all the liquid but in this instance, I did. I might have been hungrier than usual after a gym session though. Also, it's the first massaman curry I've had in which the beef is sliced instead of cubed. Odd and a little tough but not unpleasant. My colleagues ordered rice dishes and the serving portions looked larger than what you'd usually get at Thai restaurant in Melbourne for the same AUD...

Sure this is situated as a dine and dash but on a cold evening in July the evening service was very welcoming and the food worth writing this review. I ordered the chicken fried rice with greens added throughout and no garlic. The picture says it all. It was amazing and tasted as healthy as it looked. Nicely presented in good time even though I was told of a 20 min wait. No worries, everyone else was staring into their phone ! I watched the world go by. Well done on a superbly presented meal and the lady beside me had the green curry so I’ll try that next. Awesome service too on the...

Have eaten at lots of Aroys around town and been happy with the food. I ordered takeaway chicken laab, roti, and cashew chicken. They didn't have roti so I got spring rolls instead. Spring rolls were fine, but the rest was bad. There was no rice with the chicken laab so I just had a giant plate of chicken mince and a little bit of cabbage. The cashew chicken had about 4 cashews in it and the chicken was rubbery. The meat from both meals had sort of a boiled quality to it which made the smell taste and texture pretty offputting. I would not...