Bar Asia

Ordered chicken pad thai for lunch the other day and wasn’t really happy with what I got. I couldn’t taste any sourness from tamarind that a pad thai should taste, but instead was on a sweeter side (the lemon slice helped a bit to neutralise that sweet taste which I didn’t really enjoy). The menu has quite a range of asian dishes but from trying this simple dish I believe that they are trying to hard to have such a wide range of cuisines. Maybe they should have focus on a couple dishes and upgrade their games on flavours. The portions was good but actually was lots of rice noodles instead of other necessary ingredients for a pad thai such as bean sprouts and chives. Price is on a higher range and they also surcharge for card payments (why though??).

Hit and miss unfortunately, which is not that surprising for a restaurant trying to cover so much ground in terms of cuisines. Starting with the good, the char kway teow is delicious, a very generous serve with a lot of different ingredients mixed in. It has a nice wok- burn as you'd expect. The 5-spice chicken was far too sweet for my liking, though the chicken is tender. The laksa, however, was atrocious and I couldn't even finish it. I went back to read the menu to confirm this was indeed supposed to be a Malaysian laksa, and not a Thai laksa, because it was watery and sour, and the tofu puffs tasted absolutely wrong. Complete fail. I will still order char kway teow from here, but I'm not sure I dare try anything else now. Prices are reasonable, and service is quick and friendly.

I have ordered the chicken fried rice from here many times and today the portion size was considerably less than usual. I called to see if the portion sizes have changed and they haven’t. The restaurant told me to go to Uber eats about it. Not their problem. Unless they’re saying the Uber driver ate half my dinner how is it not their problem? Now I’m thinking the service is just as bad as the inconsistent portions. Poor experience all around.

Seriously the BEST fried rice in Sydney! Order the vegetarian one! Better than the chicken fried rice. We always order via the Bar Asia app and pick up. Bar Asia staff are friendly and super fast with fulfilling orders. They package their food in biodegradable packaging rather than plastic containers. The fried rice portion is a lot! They always compact the rice into the biodegradable packaging. Thank you Bar Asia! So tasty!