Streat Thai, Jaya One PJ

The food here is mediocre but we have a more interesting story to tell besides the food. You see, S, N and J decided to go for lunch and since we were all lazy out of towners who have low tolerance for KL traffic jam, we decided to wait for the bus to bring us to our next food- tastic adventure. But lo and behold…3 magical creatures decided to take pity on us and brought us along in Didi’s car to Jaya One for lunch.

So, this is Didi, Mr. Z and La Bonito (collectively known as Didi & Friends. Don’t look at us weird that way, we just found out what they were like 10 seconds ago)

Didi is a proficient driver who gets jittery when she has to drive her big car. She prefers smaller cars but since she has to bring us whole lot, she just had to face her fear for the 2.8 km (or 8 minutes) that it took us to reach our destination. Now, parking was a bit trickier. Didi does not like to attempt to reverse park when there is limited space. Folklore had it that she once refused to reverse park her car even when there were 3 adjacent available parking spaces next to her. Hey, that’s just hearsay. Or you can ask Mr. Z and La Bonito because that’s what they told us.

So, Mr.Z kindly offered to reverse park Didi’s car. The parking was at a solitary parking space with a feet each from the walls by the way. Imagine our total surprise when said car actually came equipped with a reverse camera. A reverse camera, Didi! With the car safely parked, we made our merry way to Streat Thai. Since we had such a thorough introduction,we will try to make our food review as concise as possible.

The service was quite good, though our waiter was a tad pretentious with his fake American accent and taking order via his smartphone app. Puhleaseee… we saw the waitress at the next table writing down orders for the whole table on her trusted notepad in half the time it took you to get one single order. The fake American accent thing is probably us being prejudiced (maybe all Thais speak like MTV Asia VJs...but hey, was he even Thai?) but trying to be hipster like with our order? Ugh….so that’s 5 to 6 out of 10 for service.

They stayed true to their theme of Thai street food with wooden facade and furniture.Since it was during a busy lunch hour , it was a quite hot as there was no indoor seating and our experience was further brought down another notch to 5-6 out of 10 as they did not segregate the smokers from non- smokers. Granted, it was an open space street food concept but we would still prefer to save our lungs. 

The price, though not street market level, was still affordable. However, one could hear the mumblings of some reviewers who said they could eat better Thai food in MyElephant with cheaper price. #2jobs.

J had the Pineapple Fried Rice with Chicken. Let’s say this is the worst food he has ever tasted in his whole life. He even gave negative marks. Since this is a fake food review blog, so we let him give -5 out of 10. See, the food was not even worth a 0! Why, do you ask…let’s call it a false advertisement leading to false hope and disappointment. He fully expected a piece of chicken but when he just got the pineapple fried rice, he politely asked the server where was his chicken. So he was told that it was actually minced chicken mixed with the fried rice. Try as he might, J could not find the minced chicken (maybe it was too small?like nanotech small?) so he was left to his imagination on how the chicken would have tasted like with his fried rice. So -5 it was to be. Oh, to top it off, he ordered the hot Thai milk tea but got a cold one instead.

Mr. Z had the Pad Krapow Beef with Rice & Fried Egg with cold Thai Milk Tea. He kept comparing it to MyElephant and how it was inferior compared to his favourite Thai place so he rated his food a 5/10. At least it was not 0. Didi also had the same dish and she liked it with a 6/10 rating (or more if we let her. It was her first review, after all)

La Bonito had the Pad Krapow Squid with Rice & Fried Egg and Iced Lychee Tea. She felt the food was of good portion though the tender squid was slightly underseasoned. Look at the squiggly egg, how lovely. She gave the food 7/10, mostly for the perfectly fried egg.

N had the Thai Green Curry Noodles with Red Ruby. Why have a drink like everyone else when you can go straight for dessert right? He quite liked his noodles, rating it a 7/10 or something. Everyone was eyeing his dessert, honestly.

S had the clear Seafood Tom Yum soup and had to pay extra for the white rice. She also had the cold Thai Milk tea which tasted exactly like the one in Boat Noodle, except you cannot bring the mason jar glass home.The tom yum tasted ok, nothing great about it. The one in MyElephant was tastier and packed more punch. Okay, this is officially a sad thing since we have mentioned this ethereal restaurant 3 times in this review which was for another restaurant. Sorry. Oh, she rated it a 6/10.

So, generally this place performed pretty averagely and had more room for improvement. Oh, another thing. We had to pay the bill which amounted to RM 186.20 (for 10 adults and 1 kid) at the counter, which kind of defeated the purpose of paying a 10% service charge, right?

With our tummies full, we safely went back to our workplace chauffeured by the ever so funny Didi. She just managed to miss the turning to exit the building this time, nothing spectacular. 

Till the next review,

Honest Foodies Review Team