Kuk's Thai Kitchen, Pacific Highway, Lindfield

Kuk's Thai Kitchen, Pacific Highway, Lindfield
Sunday 29 January, 2006

I'm not sure how this place remains in business. It's never full and the food is very average compared to some of the better Thai restaurants around i.e. Banana Blossom and Longrain.

The service here is non-existent. The three staff working the floor (there were 3 tables) and fielding the takeaway orders were all a million miles away. They were more concerned with chatting at the back of the restaurant than taking orders, removing plates, refilling water bottles etc. God knows how bad it would be if the restaurant was half full....

Tonight's agenda was cheap and cheerful. For five guests @ $25 pp we shared a mixed entree of thai fish cakes (rubbery), chicken satay, spring rolls and curry puffs followed by steamed rice, pad thai, massaman beef, yellow chicken curry and steamed vegetables. The food is edible but the massaman beef was so small that it didn't even serve two people and the pad thai was disgusting. How hard can it be to get a dish like pad thai right?

For a local restaurant, I'm sure you could find a handful of dishes on the menu that would make it worthy of a return visit or takeaway. However, if you don't live in Lindfield I wouldn't bother.

Kuk's Thai Kitchen - 338 Pacific Highway, Lindfield - (02) 94169366