{Dining Out} Korn, Crows Nest

I turned 20 on saturday! Hooray! The best part of birthdays? The food. It’s ridiculous how many meals I’ve eaten out to ‘celebrate’ a single birthday. Not that I’m complaning though… And of course, Thai food was involved. Korn provided the usual fare of thai dishes but unlike many local thai joints, I find that they pay more attention to the presentation of each dish. Their range of salads are really commendable, only realising just now looking at their menu online, they offer 8 choices! I really regret not ordering any of their salads now! The eggplant and beef salad or the banana blossom prawn salad sounds convincing. Perhaps next time. What we did order were:

The deep fried taro for entree. Taro has got to be up there amongst my favourite foods. They weren’t as crisp as I was expecting it to be, but just having the natural flavours of the cooked taro that I looove inside was enough for me.

For the mains, we opted for the pad prik king- crisp pork belly with green beans and the chu chee fish curry. My dad loved both dishes, and he can be pretty picky sometimes so that’s a good sign! The pork belly was the perfect balance of sweet and heat. The fish in the curry was also fried nicely, giving it a light crunch. And the thick curry sauce was simply the best eaten with a bed of fluffy rice. Big yum.

The spicy fried rice was like a pad kee mao in rice form, which was pretty awesome! The chilli and basil flavours were very well balanced, making them very moreish, especially with the curry sauce again. Mmmmm. There’s also something about pad see ews that make me order it in every thai place I eat at. Korn’s version wasn’t too sweet and had the distinct charred wok hei flavour that any good pad see ew has. The noodles for some reason were a little stiff, not quite as soft and slippery as they usually are though, but hoping that’s just a one off thing.

All in all a really great local addition to Crows Nest, they do their classics well and have some interesting dishes I’ve still got to go back to try out! The decor was really well done- reminding me a little of Chatswood’s New Shanghai, wooden furnitures and posters reminiscent of and old thai town. With friendly service, it’s an all round good place to go for a casual fix of thai food.

On another note, uni’s finally started! But I do have plans on making some ice cream sandwiches soon. So stay tuned. I have a feeling it’s going to be good. xx

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