"Holy awesome Laotian/Thai food Batman! Holy Basil food, sure is good!" is what Robin would have told the Dark Knight if a Holy Basil restaurant existed in Gotham City. Luckily for the citizens of Western Sydney, Holy Basil does exist! In the busy strip of Canley Vale Road, Canley Heights.
I've been hearing and reading about this place from a lot of food blogs in the last few months. The fried ice cream here is amongst the most popular dishes ordered. Mrs Ramen Raff and I thought to ourselves, "Hey, let's check this place out!” so, we did visit Holy Basil, two weeks in a row!
The first visit was pretty awesome. It was lunchtime on our rostered day off work and there was no queue (Note that this joint does get packed and a queue eventually builds up). The decor was contemporary with a Southeast Asian (Laos/Thai) type theme. We sat down and having reviewed the menu days ahead, we knew what we wanted. We ordered marinated quails, red duck curry and the black harbour.
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| Red curry roast duck |
The red curry roast duck ($17.90) had a generous serving of succulent pieces of roast duck meat. We picked medium spicy for the red curry sauce (a choice of mild, medium and hot was offered). We still found medium to be on the mild side but the sauce was overall very good.
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| Marinated quail |
The marinated quails ($10) are amazing crispy fried pieces of joy. The skin was so crispy and the spicy dipping sauce that it came with takes the dish to another level of awesomeness. The quail doesn't have to be dipped in the sauce, as the fried quail is good on its own.
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| Black harbour |
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| Lychee drink |
We decided to visit Holy Basil once more on Sunday lunchtime to try the masaman beef and fried ice cream.
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| Beef masaman curry |
The beef Masaman curry ($16.90) was as good as I expected it to be. The twist of using tamarind separates this from the usual Thai version. Same thick consistency but the taste is a bit lighter. The beef was so tender that it was effortless to pull it apart.
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| Fried ice cream |
The fried ice cream ($13.90) is the "amazesome" item at Holy Basil in my opinion. The best fried ice cream I’ve ever had. The filo pastry & ice cream tastes like sweetened butter caramel popcorn!
Holy Basil now has a branch in the CBD inside the Shark Hotel on Liverpool Street, Sydney. I really want to go back soon even just for the fried ice cream. I found a new “happy place” in Holy Basil. Our lunch at Holy Basil was yummy for our tummies! How's yours?
Holy Basil – Canley Heights 233A Canley Vale Rd Canley Heights NSW 2166 Phone: 9727 7585 Lunch 12pm to 3pm Dinner 5pm to 10pm Sun- Wed 5pm-11pm Thu-Sat |
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fried ice cream oh baby
ReplyDeleteI've heard SO many good things about this place...I wonder if the city branch is as good? The ice-cream looks TO DIE FOR!
ReplyDeleteoh wow the fried ice cream :D.. will probably try the city version one day =)
ReplyDeletethe desserts looks amazing and i want to try it all!
ReplyDeletethe decor is amazing, looks so authentic!
ReplyDeletemm generous serving of duck meat xD wow never seen fried ice cream in a triangle filo before, looks like a must try
Hehe when I read fried ice cream at the start, I had the big crumbed ball image in my head. That looks awesome!
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