Jason King
AmyHuangBenzin
February 26th 2007 00:51
480 Crown St Surry Hills 2010 - 9360 5546
Benzin is one of many offshoots of Sailors Thai; David Thompson's restaurant which was spawned from the famous Darley Street Thai has borne many children, including Sailors Thai Canteen, Oceanic Thai, a proposed new venue in Potts Point; and Benzin. Benzin is in the spot where Fuel used to be, and still has a showroom around it. It has a nice open kitchen, but not many tables, and it's a little daunting to be seated amoungst so few tables huddled to one side of such a large room, and being almost pushed onto the footpath. Interspersing tables between the cars, using the entire room, and closing the front windows that face onto the street, would be a good idea. No one wants to eat on Crown Steet. Anyway, the food is definitely sofisticated Thai, with refined flavours, and makes full use of textures. Although it's very expensive for Thai food, there are some very interesting, different, and exciting dishes. Sorry, some of the photos are blurred.
Starts off with chicken peanuts mix with salmon roe wrapped in a betel leaf. Fantastic cruch, but very sweet.
Curry puffs. Standard fare, but done very well. Good quality pastry, fresh oil, and a nice sweet and chilli dipping sauce.
This was one of the hits of the night. Minced chicken with deep fried watercress, fantastically crunchy and a great contrast of textures. With mint and a lemon chilli salty dressing.
Som tum (green papaya salad) with coconut sticky rice and crunchy caramalised pork. A good som tum, correct. Great rice and pork. Together works very well. But I've had better som tums before.
A great crunchy dry curry of something; I cant remember if it's meat or fish, and I cant tell by the crappy photo. Still very nice, but very very dry. Crisp basil leaves on top, and mixed in with green beans.
In all, Benzin is worth it for the hard core Thai eater or foodie looking for something different and interesting, or looking to impress. But for Thai novieces it pays to start at your local. And it's much cheaper.
Benzin is one of many offshoots of Sailors Thai; David Thompson's restaurant which was spawned from the famous Darley Street Thai has borne many children, including Sailors Thai Canteen, Oceanic Thai, a proposed new venue in Potts Point; and Benzin. Benzin is in the spot where Fuel used to be, and still has a showroom around it. It has a nice open kitchen, but not many tables, and it's a little daunting to be seated amoungst so few tables huddled to one side of such a large room, and being almost pushed onto the footpath. Interspersing tables between the cars, using the entire room, and closing the front windows that face onto the street, would be a good idea. No one wants to eat on Crown Steet. Anyway, the food is definitely sofisticated Thai, with refined flavours, and makes full use of textures. Although it's very expensive for Thai food, there are some very interesting, different, and exciting dishes. Sorry, some of the photos are blurred.
Starts off with chicken peanuts mix with salmon roe wrapped in a betel leaf. Fantastic cruch, but very sweet.
Curry puffs. Standard fare, but done very well. Good quality pastry, fresh oil, and a nice sweet and chilli dipping sauce.
This was one of the hits of the night. Minced chicken with deep fried watercress, fantastically crunchy and a great contrast of textures. With mint and a lemon chilli salty dressing.
Som tum (green papaya salad) with coconut sticky rice and crunchy caramalised pork. A good som tum, correct. Great rice and pork. Together works very well. But I've had better som tums before.
A great crunchy dry curry of something; I cant remember if it's meat or fish, and I cant tell by the crappy photo. Still very nice, but very very dry. Crisp basil leaves on top, and mixed in with green beans.
In all, Benzin is worth it for the hard core Thai eater or foodie looking for something different and interesting, or looking to impress. But for Thai novieces it pays to start at your local. And it's much cheaper.
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