The menu is impressively fulsome, and split into various regions — Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, China and Indonesia. This, and the clear descriptions of dishes make it easy to order, and both the takeaway and restaurant service is friendly and extremely fast. If you eat in you sit at basic wooden picnic type benches with functional Ikea dishes and glasses. Chopsticks come in a paper packet. If you take away, you get a smart branded bag and plastic cartons of food. I far prefer foil containers and a generally more independent, rough and ready, authentic feeling to a takeaway joint. This place is altogether too chainy feeling for me(part of a small, growing chain). The visual identity(smart signage, logo everywhere, fluorescent green everywhere) makes it look like a go-getting, modern business, but like one which specialises in digital printing or posh dry cleaning, not a restaurant. I’m nit picking and being highly personal in my reaction here. Fluorescent green is not a foodie colour. ASDA proves my point. Unfortunately the veggie version of everything includes the same mixture of vegetables, so every rice/noodle dish that I’ve had has tasted pretty much the same. The identikit too-sweet orange sauces(each time purporting to be different things and from different countries) make me suspicious that there is a single cauldron of the stuff out back. My partner has tried a few of the meat dishes and feels similarly ‘meh’ about them. Ok food at an average price. MSG and sugar heavy and a bit soulless.
