The Rice Paddy Thai Restaurant

Date of visit - 04FEB2022 Good vibes! Nice open restaurant with a good atmosphere! Friendly and attentive staff with table service. Good quality and yummy food with plenty of options to choose from, you can't go wrong with Thai! Fairly priced menu for the area. I will let the photos do the rest of the talking. South Melbourne's #1 International Reviewer for TA and Google

Just found out that they can’t handle larger groups - we were about 20 people. The waitress took the orders and food was mixed up. More over brought the food that was never ordered (imagine if we ordered pad Thai with chicken and they bring seafood fried rice and forcing us to take it or pay for it). The lady in charge was subtly rude and started to raise her voice / break down for pointing out their mistakes gently (don’t know what pressure she had inside the kitchen and she was mentioning about being under staffed). Made us look very bad and feel guilty for no mistake of ours. End of the day, we had to pay for all the food irrespective of what we ordered and what they delivered. It was unacceptable way of treating your customers by making them feel guilty for your mistakes. How hard is it to list the name of the person and write down what he/she is ordering including the protein they want. Very disorganised and we are shouted at for suggesting to get their act right. Would never visit this place and would not advise you to visit the place if you are a larger group.

A+ It's real authentic Thai style food. Fresh ingredients, good quality beef. Ala Thai beef salad. The Sam Rod barramundi is highly recommended. Banana fritters are perfectly battered. Accompanied by vanilla icecream with beads of taro throughout! Just like eating on Phi Phi Island as the sun sets before a full moon party! We may be in lockdown, but we have this slice of Thailand!