Ban Khun Mae (MOE)- Food TryOut

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Today let's have some Food Thoughts🍗🍚🍗🍖🍗🍚🍚🍚

All I can see is food today 😝😝😝

One fine day when I decided to meet my friend in Mall of Emirates- Al Barsha I was not sure what we should eat. I kind of searched and thought we should try some Thai food. Upon searching more I found about Ban Khun Mae. 

Ban Khun Mae is a Thai food outlet in food court on Level 1 of Mall of Emirates. It was kind of of a little late lunch around 5:00pm on June 11, 2017. The counter was quite empty while other food counters were busy even though it was Ramadan. Since I have already planned it I thought we should go with Ban Khun Mae itself. I never imagined it was going to be disappointing and such a wastage of food. I'm not really sure how there is so many good reviews on Zomato; maybe we were just unlucky that day !!

Well let's get started with our Food Thoughts...

We ordered the following dishes from them:

1) KhaoPad Goong - Thai style fried rice with egg and shrimps

2) KhaoPad Gai -  Thai style fried rice with egg and chicken

3) Khao Naew Nuae - Deep fried dried beef served with chilli sauce and steamed sticky rice

4) Sprite - medium

Price: It seemed quite on the higher side, compared to how the food tasted. 

Service : We placed the order and was told to wait for 10 mins. I think we waited for around 10-15 mins only for the food. Not sure why they asked us to wait, when the food that was served was really cold. It was not freshly prepared or anything. 

Order bill

Overview of our order

KhaoPad Gai -  Thai style fried rice with egg and chicken

Out of all the 3 dishes we tried KhaoPad Gai was the only one we both liked. The garnishing looks attractive but it was kind of bland. But still better than the other 2 dishes. The food was really cold even though they served it fast. 

Rice was cooked well, but it didn't quite seem like it was fried. The chicken was cooked to perfection. Quantity was quite filling too.

KhaoPad Gai -  Thai style fried rice with egg and chicken

KhaoPad Goong - Thai style fried rice with egg and shrimps

The way they presented the dish is attractive and that's all to it. It smelled really fishy. I agree it had shrimps, but the fish smell was too strong to handle. I'm not so sure if this is how it is supposed to be 😲😲😲.

Quantity was sufficient and rice was cooked to perfection, but it definitely didn't tasted like fried rice. Shrimps was not cooked well and on the whole it was a waste to order this dish. We only ate a few spoons and rest directly to 🗑🗑🗑.

KhaoPad Goong - Thai style fried rice with egg and shrimps

Khao Naew Nuae - Deep fried dried beef served with chilli sauce and steamed sticky rice

I liked this dish, but my friend didn't like. I liked the beef sprinkled with sesame seeds and the sticky rice too. It was a bit difficult to chew the deep fried beef. If only it was a bit hot it would have tasted great. Atleast this is what I felt. But the portion was quite filling.

And the chilli sauce didn't smell anything like chilli and it was kind of all oily. Rather than being spicy it was sour and I didn't like the oily smell. 

Khao Naew Nuae - Deep fried dried beef served with chilli sauce and steamed sticky rice

Now the Overall Rating (On a scale of 5)

Price : 3 / It's affordable, but on the higher side compared to the quality of the food we ate.

Quality/Taste : 2 / Not Satisfied (I would like to think that we were unlucky on that specific day and seeing all those positive reviews on Zomato, I would like to give myself another chance to try their other dishes).

Quantity : 4 / Sufficient 

Serve time : 4 / Wait time mentioned was 10 mins and we were served within 10-15 mins

Display : 3.5 / Attractive

Recommend : 3 / I'm not so sure about recommending. I can only tell after I try other dishes from them.