Thai Paragon is located in the heart of Mosman near the main street of shops next to La Banette, a french bakery store owned by vietnamese people. The service here was pretty mediocre. They sit you down and bring out the food with no hassle. The settings are very traditionally thai with elephant sculptures and Thai lamps. The restaurant had a special with Groupon and my friend could buy Pad Thai or Green Curry for $5 and we also ordered more food from the menu. Green curry is supposed to be hot but this green curry was more mild with creamy coconut and was sweeter than usual. I prefer this dish but if you're into traditionally hot food, you won't like this at all. It is described as assorted vegetables (mainly green beans and broccoli) with green chill paste, topping with lime leaf, fresh chilli and basil.
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| Chicken Green Curry - $16.90 |
The Pad Thai was sweet but also sour from the tamarind sauce. I could keep eating this dish. It is described as thai's famous Thai style rice noodle with tamarind puree, egg, fried tofu, bean spouts, garlic chives, crushed peanut, lemon and dried chilli, and chicken on the side.
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| Chicken Pad Thai - $16.90 |
Other two main dishes we chose were a plum duck and soft shell crab salad. The menu had photos of the dishes which is great as you could see the lovely presentations especially from the plum duck. It is a roast duck served with a blend of plum sauce spiced with garlic, cinnamon served with shitake mushrooms and bok choy stir fry (asian fat bum green). The duck plum sauce was sweet and duck was not crispy but skin was really nicely cooked.
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| Plum roast duck - $26.90 |
The soft shell crab was amazingly soft and really tasty on the inside and very crispy on the outside. It looks like it was baked and shrivelled but it was so delicious. I didn't quite like the paw paw side salad as it was a bit too hot for my liking. The crispy soft shell was dry cooked with salt smoked dried chilli, chopped shallot, dried red onion and garlic served with papaya salad. No wonder it's so flavoursome and tasty with dried red onions, garlic, shallots and chilli.
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| Crispy soft shell crab with papaya salad - $15.90 |
Before our mains we also ordered an entree, Thai fish cake for $6.90 for 4 pieces. It was pretty nice but I think fish cakes are pretty standard across many restaurants.
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| Home made fish cakes with sweet chilli dipping sauce |
The food at this place is one of my favourites for Thai so far. Even though other restaurants boast and claim their Thai food is better but I like this place because the food is hot but bearable and I like their specialty dishes - such as the soft shell crab with papaya salad and roast duck plum. They have other dishes that on chef's special such as lamb in garlic and pepper sauce, and sweet chilli deep fried barramundi. However, I haven't been to Newtown for some time so there's probably better Thai food places out there. Though the ambience is Thai and the food is really nicely presented and still pretty generous, it gets the thumbs up from me.
Summary Review of Thai Paragon:
Food rating: 7.5/10
Service rating: 7/10
Ambience rating: 8/10
Price: $$ (affordable)
Overall rating: 7.5/10
Thai Paragon - Mosman
143A Raglan Street
PH: (02) 9960 4247
Website: Mosman Thai Paragon website
Opening Hours:
Lunch Fri to Sun 11.00am to 3.00pm
Dinner Mon to Sun 5.00pm to 10.00pm
Note: There's also another chain of Thai Paragon in North Strathfield too.
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