Delivery: Lemongrass Thai

One day at work Little A., decided that we were going to get Thai food. With that being said, it fell to me to actually ask people and organise it as usual, since I'm the only person who seems to know places around our workplace that do delivery.

I've used Menulog several times before and yes, like most bloggers in Brisbane I was contacted by them to get a $30 voucher if I did a blog post for them. I declined though, as the area I live in only has three places that do delivery to where I live and all three of them are bloody terrible. In hindsight, I should have taken the deal considering how often we do weekend takeaway at work to cheer ourselves up.

I quite like Menulog as it has clearly listed prices, an always up to date menu, they tell you what time the stores are open, when you can possibly expect your food, a really secure payment option and they offer you a whole bunch of discounts, especially if you're the kind of person to get takeout a lot. They also message you when the food has left the store and is in transit, plus they have a nifty special message part. They never get an order wrong since its all electronic!  Here is their website. My only issue with them, is that the menu options never have very good explanations of what the meals actually are or what they contain.

Little A., wasn't fussed and picked the first Thai shop that appeared on the list, being Lemongrass Thai! Here is a link to their Menulog menu.  As well as their actual website menu. There are actually minute differences between the two menus, the main one being that you can actually have duck for a $3 surcharge in the Menulog items, it shows up as a protein option after you select a dish like green curry/stir fried noodles.

Here is the vegetable tom yum soup that Mr M for Megababe and A*., ordered. They both marvelled at the large assortment of vegetables they received, nappa cabbage, green beans, broccoli, button mushrooms, floating stalks of lemongrass and a few other bits and bobs. Mr M for Megababe remarked that it was quite sweet for a tom yum soup, but he actually really enjoyed it and despite the sweetness, had a good balance between sourness and heat. He added that he regularly had tom yum soup and would give it a 9/10, and would gladly reorder this soup if we got Thai in the future. A* echoed these thoughts and was very happy with her soup as well.

So many veggies!

I need to add that H., ordered the tom yum goong soup, basically a tom yum soup with prawns. She received a stingy two prawns and not a single vegetable with her soup. She was bitterly disappointed and lamented that she had paid an extra $2 for a soup that was worth less than the vegetarian version. H., is urging me to give Lemongrass Thai a zero for all scores, just ignore H., everyone knows she orders the worst thing on the menu, time and time again.

Little A., on the other hand, picked a chicken laksa. It came with two separate containers, one of vermicelli noodles the other of the coconut based broth full of tender poached chicken, zucchini slices, green beans, bean sprouts and broccoli. I had a taste of her soup and it was really good, a rich, creamy and well balanced soup with a lovely, gentle heat to it. She ate about half of it before declaring that she was too full for anything else.

Soup soup!

Noodles and soup!

I got duck mi goreng. The noodles here look a lot like they stir fried packet Mie Goreng including a near identical spice mice together with some vegetables, zucchini slices, red capsicum, broccoli, green onion, carrot and onions with a LOT of roasted duck meat. The roasted duck meat was absolutely delicious, succulent, soaked full of flavour and so tender, like the good roasted duck you would get at a yum cha restaurant. I absolutely adored this meal, and would absolutely get it again. The container was packed right up to the top, and I was really happy with the mix of vegetables, noodles and duck meat that I received. Sure, it looks like you made a fancy Mie Goreng mix, but goddamn its tasty.

Mie goreng, I love you

Z., got the chicken satay with a massive pool of satay sauce. The chicken satay sticks themselves were tender, slightly charred but not dry. The peanut sauce was delicious, with lots of crunchy peanut pieces, that aromatic scent and flavour of coconut and spices. We were scooping it onto our other meals to finish it off. There were three chicken satay skewers in all.

Chicken Satay!

Z., and Al., both got chicken pad thai and disliked it. They both thought the seasoning was off and heavily skewed towards an overly sweet pad thai, and I had to agree with them. Other than that, the pad thai was quite adequate, lots of bean sprouts, green onion slices, salted radish pieces, peanut pieces, al dente rice noodles and large chunks of egg and chicken throughout the mixture. Z., was scowling the entire time she was eating but still managed to eat all the pad thai. Al., regretted her choice and was pining for a red duck curry but forgot what it was called until the food came, so she just went with chicken pad thai.

Had better

This was L.,'s prawn salad. This place didn't have a som tum or larb style salad, which we were disappointed by but they had other random salads with no descriptions? In contrast to H.,'s meal, her meal had eight large prawns, a lot of tomato, green and purple onion, Thai holy basil, cashews and a nose watering thai nam pla sauce drizzled everywhere. L., was panting by the time she finished and she luckily had some rice on hand from the dinner that she had bought into work. She said it was delicious but quite spicy!

Nice colourful mixture though

Delivery: Lemongrass Thai:
Timeliness/Service: 8. They arrived at exactly the time that we had planned it, 6.30pm. They called us before the left to confirm where they were going, what we looked at since we met them part of the way and at the end, the delivery guy sent me a text message saying he hoped we enjoyed our meal!
Pricing: 6, solid, I've seen cheaper Thai but the proportions for most of the meals barring H.,'s tom yum goong, were really good and filled right to the brim with food. $6 delivery fee isn't too shabby either, although it was a shame that it was still included in the price with us ordering over $120 worth of Thai food.
Food: 6.5, really mixed opinions. On one side, Mr M for Megababe, A*., L., and myself were all happy. Z., , Al., and H., weren't. So my score reflects that divide in our group. I thought it was odd that no one opted for a good ol' Thai curry, so I suppose I would be keen to have more food from this place to see how they go with curries.