Asia Restaurant
Sary Street
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Tel: 02 6828525
Asia restaurant is a Chinese cum Thai restaurant located on Sary Street is known to be a longstanding favourite among the Asian expats in Jeddah. Reasonably priced, the food served is probably the most authentic Thai cuisine one could find in Jeddah. Favourites in this simple yet pleasant restaurant include the Tom Yum Kum soup and deep-fried grouper with tasty chilli sauce.
My husband and I are lovers of Thai cuisine and have visited this restaurant several times. The famous Tom Yum soup which is available with either seafood or prawns is served piping hot in a steamboat. There is an option of making the soup spicier although we were not too pleased with the final product. While we had expected cut bird’s eye chillies to be put into the soup, it was chilli sauce that was added. We ordered mango salad which had the right amount of sourness and sweetness. The menu contains a wide range of chicken, beef and seafood along with a limited options of vegetables. Tofu was missing from the menu and this comes as a huge surprise because tofu is an integral item in Thai cuisine.
The fish that we ordered came fresh although spicy curry paste was by no standards spicy. In fact, it tasted a little too sweet and sour for our liking. Desserts are also limited. Having ordered a pot of green tea, soup, mango salad, fried fish fillets in chilli sauce, kangkong and noodles, the bill was a bearable 110 SAR.
The staff are relatively efficient and quick to take orders when they are not busy. Food is served quite quickly even on crowded days. My final verdict is that the Thai cuisine in Asia restaurant is the best in the city although not up to the mark yet. Having eaten at the Villa restaurant in Riyadh, the Thai cuisine there was fabulous with several authentically Thai options like basil fried fish and fish in red curry paste. Perhaps Asia kitchen should consider tailoring their dishes such that they are more reflective of Thai dishes and incorporate ingredients like red curry, green curry, basic, pineapple rice, etc. All said, Asia Kitchen gets the thumbs up for being the best Thai restaurant in Jeddah.
This post was submitted by galpower83.
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The food is delicious, but I can’t bring myself to return because we have eaten there three times now … and found hairs in more than one plate served to us every time.
We’ve been to this Asian resto a long time even before there was Destination Jeddah. We’ve always loved their noodles, tom yum soup and spring rolls.
But lately, their service time has fallen way below. It takes too long for your orders to be delivered. Some of their viands are too bland and missed its good taste we’ve known before. The shrimp and crabs in the tom yum soup were sometimes not fresh. The servers now do not know how to serve their guests properly. And it was such a favorite place to visit before.
If one needs a taste of Asian cuisine, you could try this place. But be warned, try not to go on an empty stomach for you may have to wait on your orders for more than 20 minutes. Also, theirs is not an authentic Asian food taste these days.
Catfish mango salad is the best!
For those looking for 5 star treatment and a shi-shi place to eat, this is not your place. However, this is EXCELLENT Thai food, at a reasonable price, with decent service. The service was not bad at all. Sometimes you just need good food without the fanfare, and this is your place for that. Might I add that in Jeddah, where most places are empty wherever we go at 8 pm, this place was packed with mostly Thai/Asian people, who obviously know the food is good. Again, it’s not a 5 star hotel, but it’s definitely some awesome food.
Go if you’re hungry for great Thai!
To,
The Management of Asia Restaurant.
If you guyz really read this comments, you better consider on personality development plan to your staffs as mentioned in my reply.
Regards,
Sajid Khan
Jeddah
0567915623
Poor and not recommended. I visited the restaurant today after seeing such nice reviews. What I went through is this:
- Cramped seating arrangement.
- Saudi mix juice is not cold forget chilled. Bad taste.
- Chicken corn soup was ok but not good. Tom yum soup served cold.
- Service is pathetic. For each item you have to request twice and will not come even then.
- Food taste and quality is ok and nothing wow to go for.
My recommendation – dont go or if at all you visit go with very low expectation to avoid any disappointment.
Since it is my wife’s birthday I decided to bring my family in this restaurant instead of the usual Thai restaurant in Balad where we used to dine. Well I have to tell you that we were very much disappointed with the taste of the food we ordered. The mixed vegetables and the stir fried kangkong was overcooked, The squid tempura was like fish crackers and also overdone, the stir fried squid and the tom yum is nothing special. The sweet and sour hamour is the only food that tasted good but again nothing special. So I would say that Thai Restaurant near Star Supermarket in Balad still has the best Thai food here in Jeddah.
I have been trying to locate that restaurant but never found it. Can someone please post a precise description on how to find it?
Sorry for the lack of map, we are currently revamping the Maps on the site, we have just emailed you the link though!
going north along madinah road, turn left to sari street. keep to your right – driving past mcdonalds and other fastfood joints. keep going until you see a petrol station ahead, once you spot it turn right into the street. asia restaurant is on your right side immediately across the petrol station. note: if you reached marhaba store at the corner of salama street, then you’ve missed it!
My family and I always visit this retaurant because we really love Thai food. Everytimes, we order Tom Yum Koong which I can say that it’s the best you can find in Jeddah. Also, we have mango salad, Chicken with cashew nuts, Shrimp cake & fried rice…for dessert we order cheese cake, my kid’s favorite (unfortunately there is no Thai sweet in the menu), which we can say it’s really good and with reasonalble price…
Well, compared to other Thai or Asian restaurants they are really better when it comes to ambiance but for taste, I’d rather go for Oriental restaurant and Padang restaurant which are just on the next street.
Just to comment on what gil said…oriental is a fusion of chinese and thai and padang is an indonesian restaurant. These restaurants cannot be compared to Asia which is predominantly Thai.
I don’t know what the reviewers have tried in the past, but this place is ‘ok’ for an Asian restaurant.
Me and my wife always eat at this place and all i can say is the food and the prices are very satisfactory…they dont even have any service charge at all! My wife favorite is the spicy hot tom yum. You should try their thai noodles and fresh mix vegetables. the food is serve fast and the waiters is very quick to give you what you need…So see u there!
Me and my wife always eat at this place and all i can say is the food and the prices are very satisfactory…they dont even have any service charge at all!
I’ve been to this restaurant several times and confirmed that the food there is delecious with reasonable price. For dessert, I can recommend you to order chesecake which is rich in flavou and freshly homemade style, and its price is really cheap compared to the same quality chesecake in other outlet, so, don’t miss it!!
Highly recomended for those who loves thai food. Each time we went to jeddah, we never miss to eat there. Only one problem, not enough parking space especially weekend. Anyway , for all asian food lovers, it is highly recomended.