Oh dear, looks like I've spent way too much of my time eating with Damo and Jess lately, especially as during tonight's visit to Oy, the Thai restaurant on Macleay Street, I just knew Damo wasn't quite satisfied and had to order some more food :p
I walk past Oy every weekend during my grocery shopping trips in Potts Point, and have heard many others rave about Sailors Thai in the Rocks (Oy is owned by the same peeps), so it was a pretty natural choice when we were stuck in the area as 3 other places were either closed or full. This time though, we were accompanied by the lovely Bec who is here visiting from Melbourne.
The menu is pretty interesting, with many standard Thai takeaway dishes with a bit of a twist. We started with betel leaf with smoked trout, more or less the same dish as the one served at Longrain - must say that this version wasn't quite as good - extremely sweet with the peanut caramel and not balanced enough by the saltiness of the fish (and interestingly, just reading a review by the Telegraph of a similar dish, and they said it wasn't sweet enough)
Other plates to share were grilled duck salad:
Pretty good flavours here, and the duck had good, sweet, fatty skin, but as you can tell, not much duck buried under all that celery and coriander. Also had deep fried fish with a mango salad:
The salad was very good, fresh, zingy, but I suspect we only got half the fish. Other very small portions we had were a stir fried noodles with microscopic prawns, and aubergine with minced chicken and tofu.
The food is really pretty good and interesting here, but the prices are a bit ridiculous. All mains were more starter sized, and priced keenly at $20-30 a dish. Damo did have to order some more, and had a squid with duck egg (probably the best dish we had). A shame, given that it's so close to home, but I have now realised there is a direct bus to Spice I Am - I will stop going on about this restaurant soon, honest!
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