More Thai then you can possibly eat..........

What’s better for breakfast then an eat as much as you like Thai buffet, especially with the Mother of all hangovers that me and the hubby had after a friend’s wedding party the day before?

In pain and hungry we wondered in to the city centre towards Thai Edge http://www.thaiedge.co.uk/, a restaurant that we had been meaning to try for ages. They offer a Sunday lunch time buffet for about £13 a head.

We entered the restaurant pretty certain that we wouldn’t get a table – it was so full; and whilst waiting for the waiter to notice us got a good eyeful of the buffet selection. The waiter was unfortunately new, but he was friendly and managed to find us a table. We ordered the house dry wine and a couple of glasses of tap water – the house wine was very drinkable.

On the table was a printed menu explaining the dishes, which appears to change each week. It offered two soups, a selection of starter nibbles, a range of hot dishes, and three salads. To start I went for the tom yam soup, always a favourite of mine, and what impressed me about the soup apart from the dedicated waitress serving it for you, rather then messily serving yourself, was the fact that there was barely any room for the soup around the massive king prawns it was fresh and had a lovely amount of spice to it, very restorative after the heavy drinking the night before. Hubby went for a selection of the nibbly starters, fried chicken bits (not battered and with skin still attached!) tender, fresh and crispy all at the same time, sweet corn cake which was like a fried sweet corn pancake, and some nice samosas and miniature spring rolls, all fresh and enjoyable.

For our second assault on the buffet I chose to try the salads and went for the mixed sea food salad, which was loaded with scallops, king prawns, mussels, crab claws, and white fish it had a crispy clean taste and a lovely chilli hit, the fish salad was very similar but served with coated white fish, and the mango salad with cashew nuts offered fresh slices of mango with a light dressing. Hubby went for the hot dishes, trying the duck with tamarind sauce (which must have been good he went back for a least two more helpings), stir fried fish with ginger and onion which disappeared so quickly of his plate and the buffet that I couldn’t try it, and some very satisfactory massamn curry, he also tried to noodles on the buffet which he thought were sweet but not cloying.

Although stuffed after trying all the salad (and having several helpings of the fantastic seafood salad) I thought I would try the cooked to order pad thai noodles, I ordered them with prawn. They were great a sweet but fresh taste loaded with prawns, a lovely way to finish the meal as we couldn’t face any of puddings.

In total the bill came to around £39 for a great lunch, would again recommend this to anyone after some great Thai food in a relaxed atmosphere on a Sunday lunch time, but would warn them to come early as it is very popular.