About a week or so ago, it would have been my dad’s birthday. Dad and mum often took us on food adventures as kids to explore the world through Sydney’s restaurants. One of my fondest memories was my first time at an Indonesian restaurant, with a burner below the new discovery keeping the food warm. At eight I thought that was a dipping sauce, and my satay ended in the kerosene (and then in my mouth). Anyway, for dad’s birthday it was time for a night out in his memory, for another food adventure with my brother. And a trip to Marrickville to eat.
Lotus Asian Restaurant uses fresh ingredients and makes all its own sauces. With dishes like Thai fish cakes with sweet chilli sauce, fresh Vietnamese rice paper rolls with chicken and fresh herbs, Grilled Thai beef salad, Crispy braised duck with chilli tamarind sauce, and Pippies in XO sauce, Lotus dishes up a kind of greatest hits of Asia.
The red glow from the walls and the chopsticks against the warm laminate of the tables gift wraps a lucky night out. Happy times, tasty food, and good memories. The nostalgia of childhood insisted on fried icecream for dessert, though the coconut batter and passionfruit sauce brought us back to the here and now.
Inside Cuisine was a guest of Lotus Asian Restaurant.
Lotus Asian Restaurant
393 Illawarra Road, Marrickville NSW Australia
+61 2 9559 8895
Could not grab feed.
June 14 2011 at 12:58 pm
hoping to post my review this wed. i wish i tried the salt and pepper squid. next time
June 14 2011 at 12:59 pm
hopefully S&P this weekend