Lerk Thai
900 South Woodlands Drive
#01-07 Woodlands Civic Centre (beside Macs)
http://lerkthai.com.sg

Went there today for a quick lunch.

Tom Yum Seafood Soup ($1.99, u.p. $4.50) Current promotion: for any main course or purchase, diners are entitled to order tom yum seafood soup at just $1.99! In each little adorable white pot lies at least one prawn, slice of fish, squid and loads of juicy mushrooms that burst with the goodness of tom yum when you bite into it. Yum scrum (:

Sambal belachan kang kong ($6.90) We ordered it "not too oily". And not too oily it was. My only grouse about this dish was that the style of cooking and resultant taste was more chinese and thai. And that since the restaurant was in the central atrium, the belachan attracted a fly. One is enough to annoy.

Stewed thai beef noodle soup ($7.50). The soup was rather weak-tasting, siam kitchen does a better rendition. I'd describe this dish as hygenic - clean-tasting, with lots of crunchy beansprouts and lean beef. Waitress says the beef is American. I give her the benefit of the doubt.

Oh yes there's the beef. I'm not a big fan of flesh. Though I make exceptions for processed meats - luncheon, subway turkey breast, hotdogs, seaweed chicken, kfc popcorn chicken..hello ajinomoto!

Thai seafood hor fun ($7.90). Gobbled up the veggies - luscious and crunchy when eaten with the hot gravy before i took this picture. Oops. The seafood (one prawn, fish slices, sotong rings) is generous enough and hor fun is passable, but what killed the dish was seeing the thick luscious gravy "liquidize" when the cornstarch threw the towel in.

SMU students get 10% off, just show your matric card or student pass (with smu logo)!

All in all, a homely, albeit chinese affair with genial service and reasonable prices. Love the chilli sauce, though it's also not exactly very thai. They have this cute counter out front where you can pick greasy little bites and they'll put it in a handy takeaway box and douse it in thai chilli sauce. Probably my first and last visit here.