Kao Hom Thai Food — Restaurant in England

Ordered from Kao Hom for the first time yesterday and unfortunately probably the last.

We often order from another Thai food spot on the other side of Newquay and that place has been consistently brilliant but we've always been curious if Kao Hom was part of the same family and if the food was just as good as the other place (which you can find in my other reviews). I'm not sure if there's any relation between the 2 spots but I am sure the other one is world's apart from this one.

To have a fair comparison we ordered one of our regular dishes we usually get from the other spot, chicken jasmine rice, aswell as a couple of sides we've never had from a Thai before, fish cakes and chicken samosas.

To start with the chicken jasmine rice is a similar portion to the other spot however it is much more expensive and nowhere near as nice. The other spot has better quality chicken with much more flavour and is loaded with fresh veg. This spot came with bland overly stodgy dry rice, chicken not so succulent and absolutely zero veg.

Moving onto the fish cakes, they had a horrible rubbery texture similar to halloumi and were very fishy and unpleasant. Ate one to try and threw the rest.

The chicken samosas were the only enjoyable aspect. A great menu item in theory but could be executed better. When we called to order we were unsure if the price was for a portion or an individual large samosa. We asked the question over the phone and were told it was 1 item. We both fancied trying 1 so we ordered 2, expecting 2 large individual samosas... it turned out to be 2 portions of mini samosas which we didnt really need.

On the plus side they were well filled with chicken mince and had a lovely flavour. On a critical note despite the nice taste they were dry inside and also had no veg and no texture. We expected fresh coriander inside and there was none. On a more positive note the sweet chilli sauce accompanying the samosas was a nice thick sticky consistency with lovely flavours.

All in the food came to £32.50 for 2 chicken and rice, 2 portions of mini samosas and a portion of 5 mini fish cakes. Also was told cash only which meant we had to use additional time and fuel locating a cash machine.

Unfortunately I have to conclude the food here is fairly mediocre, expensive and inconvenient to pay for.

The other spot has a much higher quality of cooking, is notably cheaper and much better value for money and has the convenience of ordering and paying online or paying by card on arrival.

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