Lucky Town Thai Kitchen, Beverly Hills - Menulog Review & Giveaway | Yii Eats

Hello Internet friends~ Thanks to my long three week hiatus due to my first load of university exams (the troubles of a first year), I am sitting on quite a pile of backlog, so time to clear the one that sits on top the pile!

About a week ago before my exam block, I was lucky enough to have been contacted by Menulog, No. 1 for Online Takeaway! I rarely order delivery, and I've definitely done it online, so it was delighted to try out this new system, thanks to the $30 Menulog generously gave me! With over 3500 restaurant, the only trouble you'll have is having too many choices!

So this is how Menulog works:

1.     Hop on to menulog.com.au

2.       Enter the suburb you want to order from. For me, having never tried the many Thai restaurants in the Beverly Hills area, I decided to do a little search of takeaway restaurants in Beverly Hills. You can choose whichever place you want! 

3.       Choose any restaurant from the wide range Menulog has to offer! The site will show you cuisine, speed (based on reviews), min $ value for the order and any promotions they have running. Since I wanted Thai food, I filtered for Thai cuisine in the left hand side menu bar. 

4.     Choose what you want off the menu. Menulog is nice enough have a 'live checkout', which allows you can see what you've order and how much it's accumulating to.

5.     After knowing what you want, place your order and select the preferred time of delivery. 

6.       Pay for your food, and all you need to do is wait!

Now that I've gone through the process of how to order, let's look at what I ordered! After a long deliberation period, I finally settled on Lucky Town Thai Restaurant. I decided to buy three dishes, and the total bill under $30, including delivery!

First I chose the Mixed Entree 3 ($8.90), which consists of a combination of a curry puff, spring roll, satay chicken, fish cake and coconut prawns and whiting

Whilst I appreciate the inclusion of a satay stick in the midst of all the fried food, the peanut sauce for the satay stick drowned some of the other stuff, as you can see in the picture. The bits that didn't get drowned were deliciously crunchy! I hate it when some places use old oil for deep frying and you can taste the gross oil taste, reminding you that you're eating unhealthily...getting off track here. But anyway, this was GOOOOD!

No Thai meal is complete without Pad Thai ($10.00) - stir-fried rice noodles with egg, sprouts, shallots topped with crushed peanuts - for Thai food noob like me. Although this Pad Thai tasted different to ones I've eaten elsewhere - it has a more tangy tomato sauce taste to it. The ones I have usually have more of a soy sauce taste to it, so this was a total new experience for me. I can't say this is my favourite, but not bad. Maybe someone will come and tell me that I've been eating the wrong Pad Thai my whole life and this is actually the authentic one. 

Having had it before, I also grabbed a Phuket Pineapple Fried Rice ($10.00) - fried rice with egg, vegetables, pineapple, cashew nuts and sultanas. I'm just lucky they either forgot about the sultanas, or something. I totally didn't notice the sultana bit till AFTER I placed the order. The pineapple turned out to be a pleasant surprise, adding freshness to the usual "plain savoury" taste of normal fried rice. However, I'm not too much of a fan of the cashews. Maybe it's just me, but cooking the cashews made it lose the usual 'crunchiness' that cashews have when you eat them by themselves. 

With fast delivery - exactly on time (because I chose the ASAP delivery time), cheap prices, Lucky Town is definitely a brilliant choice if you want good Thai food. And if you're lazy like me and just want to stay at home, Menulog is definitely a site you should be living off (if you aren't already).  

Well that's all for me today! But before I leave, I have one more piece of good news! Like I mentioned in the title, it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!!!

Since I need to compensate for my AWOL period, the entry conditions are easy! Just leave a comment in the comments section!
I'll choose 2 winners, who will get a $10 voucher each to use on Menulog!
Good luck to you all, and I'll see you in a week!

xx
Serena

Disclaimer: This post was sponsored by Menulog, but all opinions are purely my own.