from Meng (79%) on August 6th, 2007 (11 months ago)

Time 4 Thai, 45 North Castle Street, EH2 3BG, Edinburgh

Sawasdeekrap!

Ahh, Thai food. The halfway house between Chinese and Indian, for people who like their food flavoursome and full-on, but perhaps not as ridiculously spicy as some zingers of a curry one can get.

Or so I thought.

My own experience with Thai food (like many ethnic foods) is that it's geographical. Regional differences have much of an impact upon the nature of the cuisine (coastal regions rely more on seafood [duh], watery soupier consistency, mountainous flavours are creamier, milk-based, etc). Don't believe me? Try the differences between Bangladeshi and Pakistani 'Indian' food, and tell me the South Indianesque fish head curry is not soupier than the North Indianesque mountain yak masala.

On with the review: Time 4 Thai? Once I had the fried salmon dry curry, and the other I had the roast duck and apples green curry. On both instances, superb, if not a bit on the sweetish side. They do tone down the spiciness by upping the sugar(for me), but my fellow dining companion found it quite on the hot side, and stuck with a ginger, lemongrass and peanut-infused mixed prawn stir-fry.

Authenticity? Well, the tom yam soup (standard hot n' sour prawn and lemongrass starter in all Thai cuisine. Not eating the tom yam is like going to a Japanese restaurant and not having the miso. How dare you!) was good, big @ssed prawns. (Prices are reasonable to high, so be warned!)

But the starters were the best thing about this restaurant. If you can stomach the spicy fishcakes and delicious rolls, come here. It's just like being in Thailand in funkified Opal-loungesque decor, without the hot n' dry or consistently typhoon-like Siamese weather.

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from irishphat (76%) on April 9th, 2008 (3 months ago)

Time 4 Thai, 45 North Castle Street, EH2 3BG, Edinburgh

We had a takeaway team lunch from here - £8.95 a head for a starter and main. They did get the starters mixed up but that shouldn't take away from what was a lovely meal.

I can't comment on phantom veg spring rolls but the chicken and sweetcorn fritters and satay chicken were both very tasty (more so for the latter to be honest).

After that we had salmon red curry and chicken green curry both of which were excellent and there was plenty of them. One of the group had stir fried chicken and basil leaves and was quite chuffed.

Service can't really be commented on too much except to say they were very helpful on the phone and when we arrived and they had disposable cutlery for us as well (which we kept for next time).

Great food, decent prices - will certainly go for a sit down meal on the back of this.

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