Michael's Oriental Restaurant & Function Centre

Last Friday 17th June I had the best vegan curry at Michael's Oriental ever! it was the red curry on the vegan menu. I have been a vegan since 2015. We received very good table service from a attentive, efficient, polite waiter from the Philippines. I have eaten at Michael's Restaurant before food is always amazing.

I'm very disappointed to give a negative review as I have been to this restaurant for many wedding functions in the past and the service and food was absolutely amazing then but I with my family went to the restaurant for dinner last night and was absolutely disappointed and felt very disrespted by the service we received. We arrived and was seated by the waiter but weren't given any menu's. A group of people who came before us and another group who came after us were given their menu's as they were seated. We had to ask for the menu's. Then the waiter taking our order seemed as though he wasn't interested in taking our order and didn't explain how spicy the food is and when our entrees started to arrive we didn't get everything and one of the entrees came with mains. When our mains arrived we didn't get our rice we ordered and had to make do with the fried rice with the curries. The new owner also went and asked the other tables how their meals were but he just totally ignored our table. When the waiter came around to ask we said we didn't get our rice and he didn't even apologise which was very rude. We couldn't finish most of our food as it was sweet and we wanted spicy but the waiter didn't explain that when we first ordered. Even when we were paying we didn't even get a sorry about not getting the rice. Just felt very disrespted as the others tables were treated with such respect and great service but we were ignored as we were from a different dark skinned background.

(My personal opinion) I think the standard has gone down a bit . It was much better a few years ago. The signature fried ice cream used to be served warm fried crispy outside always but served cold this time. Sweet and sour chicken tasted like chicken in water and very little actual fish in salt and pepper barramundi. I felt I ate only cold batter. Tried to call back on number provided but line disconnected.

The best resturant ever, we have been there for a dine in and have also done takeaways. Tonight we were there again and absolutely amazing service and very delicious food. The sweets at the end were just what we needed; the kids enjoyed it, all as well as ourselves. I would definitely recommend this place to all my family and friends.

Wow! This is a shame, I got the green curry and the Borneo prawns and I was disappointed with both dishes. The Borneo prawns were battered and fried with spring onions and other assorted aromatics and tasted plain and oily. The batter poorly coated the prawns in large globular chunks and the presentation of each prawn was really lacklustre, almost as if my pet blue heeler threw up in a takeaway container sprinkled with chopped spring onions on top! However the prawns were cooked well and was the only redeeming aspect of the dish. Furthermore the Thai green curry was absolutely horrendous! Unlike the prawns the curry looked edible although the flavour profile of the curry completely contradicted its appearance. Presented with a sickly sweet artificial curry sauce of which mostly tasted like coconut milk and sugar, the curry of which I was hopping would redeem my unfortunate purchase completely let me down. Although with all this negative talk about the food which is completely inedible I would like to say that the jasmine rice was cooked to perfection not too dry or wet. For those of you looking to dine or take out from this establishment I would not recommend!