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Introduction
BaliThai opened in 1998, offering perennial favourites of both Indonesia and Thai cuisines. Behold the bright motifs, colours and textures from Indonesia and Thailand, bringing the richness of their cultures alive. Smell the wafting aromas of fragrant herbs and spices. With an extensive menu of mains and appetizers all day, you would be spoilt for choice.
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Good For
Kids-Friendly
Additional Information
Bali Thai offers vegetarian options
Opening Hours
Mon - Sun
11:30 - 22:00
Above information is for reference only. Please check details with the restaurant.
Signature Dishes
Fusion dishes were delivered in BaliThai, their Signature food pleased our taste buds. Authentic flavours, the chef was putting fish sauce in Thai cuisines and shrimp paste in Indonesian cuisines. Promise as there was no MSG added, customers can feel ease to dine healthier here. Menu given was clear-cut, stated down ingredients and prices. Targeted for their famous Tom Yum Soup, we decided to order two traditional sourly spicy soup. Shrimps, Shallots and other ingredients were fresh and soaked perfectly with spices broth. The price was $13.95 for Seafood version. Beverages to me were both overly thick and sweet, I requested a staff to bring me additional ices. Overall, my rating for BaliThai was still above expectation. Typical mid-ranged restaurant, although not cheap but it was a good place to chill out with established culinary.
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Whenever I visit the Bali Thai outlet in Ion on a weekend, it's usually not fully packed which is considered good for me because I never like crowded restaurants to begin with. I've been pretty satisfied with the food served here so far but this visit seemingly wanted to buck the trend.First up were the sides i.e. prawn cake and stuffed chicken wings. You can get these at literally every Thai restaurant so it's a readily available dish. Unfortunately, the version served on this day tasted a bit odd. The prawn cake appeared thinner than usual so I could taste more of the batter outside rather than the filing. The chicken wing looked much lighter in colour than usual so the skin didn't have that crispy taste and the filling was rather bland.As for the customised main dish, I chose seafood horfun in satay sauce which was what I tasted before. Strangely speaking, the 2nd time I tasted it felt a bit different and it felt oiler as you went further down the plate.It does feel as if inconsistency is the key here because service was also less attentive than my first visit to this branch. I've tried other Bali Thai branches which were of a similar standard so it remains to be seen if it has improved now.
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This Balithai outlet looks really new and comfortable, with quite comfortable seats and nice furnishing. First time try their sweet and sour chicken rice, which the service staff took around twenty minutes to serve it to my table. Presentation was really simple but smell good!The plain rice was fragrant and not too soggy. The chicken meats are quite tender and juicy, which the floor coating was quite crunchy and not too oily. The sweet tomato and chilli paste used in this dish is just alright, which not overly sweet nor too spicy. Egg omelette was abit too over cooked, which the egg yolk was quite dry and abit tough. Over all was alright but base on the price of $8.80 per plate, it was abit too high in price. May not want to buy it again due to its high price.
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I had expected my visit to Balithai to be an experience like any other Thai chain in Singapore (Absolute Thai, Thai Express etc) but I was wrong. Balithai had disappointed me in terms of their food -although I wasn't hoping to have purely authentic Thai fare (it did had Balinese influences, I suppose?), the flavour and the value just wasn't there.The lunch crowd wasn't as hectic as I had expected -perhaps due to the quality of the food here, yikes. We were ushered to a table quickly, and the best thing about this place is that they have an option for you to customise your noodles -you choose a noodle time, the main ingredient you'd like (vegetables, seafood, etc), and the style it's fried in.I opted for the phad thai noodle with vegetables fried with basil & chilli. This cost slightly over $10.The noodles were really not much -the phad thai noodle had this distinct ricey smell (the exact smell you get when you buy kuay teow from the wet market!), and the basil/chilli had no real flavour. The vegetables weren't a lush green and they were slightly overcooked. The fried noodles were a completely lacklustre attempt to recreate the true Thai flavours. Overall, while it wasn't too salty, it also had no flavour nor aroma to speak of.The tom yum soup cost slightly over $10 as well, and it came in a clay, earthern pot. This was a nice touch as it helped to keep the heat in very nicely. However, the soup was a letdown. There was way too much lemongrass in the soup, and the flavours didn't fuse with each other nor provide a smooth transition. The flavours were way too isolated, the initial taste was (too) sour, then came the hit of spiciness, followed by the sickly sweet aftertaste that didn't sit so well with me. While there were ample ingredients (mussels, prawns and squid...), we would have rathered they cut down on the lemongrass instead.All in all, BALIThai is not exactly the best out there for Thai food and if you need to satisfy a thai food craving, this isn't the place for it. The fried noodles had no real aroma nor flavour that was remotely decent, let alone impressive. The clay pot kind of made me anticipate something more for the soup, but it still fell flat. If you do try this place, maybe you want to give their rice & dishes a try. A colleague tried the fried rice and commented that it wasn't up to standard as well.
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Surprisingly there weren't much people at around 1plus on a Saturday in the afternoon, so we went in after seeing the affordable range of food that they have! There’s actually a section where you can “create your own noodles” kind of thing. You get to choose which type you want, seafood, beef, chicken, prawn etc. Then choose type of noodles, kway teow, pad thai etc. And lastly, the sauce, Pad Thai, BBQ and a few more. Ordered a Chai Tea ($3.80) as well. The Chai tea was just so-so only, so I will suggest you order the mango sticky rice or some other food instead.But the pad thai was really good!!!! For $10.80, the serving size is much better than what I usually order at other places and of course, much nicer according to taste. Plus, there’s a generous amount of prawns!! It was just really good!! One of the better pad thai in singapore! The service was quite good as well, very efficient and our food came within 10 mins!
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