Soya Bar

Trish Santos

My wife had been here before and she wanted me to experience this restaurant. We finally had the opportunity to go today.We arrived at 11:15 and we were seated right away. We ordered the Pad Thai of course, and Garlic Prawn and Pork Satay. While waiting for our order to be served we were given a small dish of caramelized peanut which was quite good. After about 15 minutes the Pad Thai was served. I must say it looked different from the Pad Thais in the other Thai restaurants we've been to - and we've been to quite a number of them. This was because it had some scrambled eggs that "surrounded" the noodles. As for the taste - it was the best Pad Thai I had. The Garlic Prawns were delicious and was prepared in such a way that it was easy to remove the skin without having to use our bare hands. The Pork Satay was good, if a bit hard. Thankfully the peanut sauce was not spicy and just the way I wanted it. For dessert we had the Sticky Rice with Mango. There were parts of the mango that weren't that sweet yet.Overall it was a good experience. This place apparently is very popular as it was full by the time we left (a little before noon) considering this was a weekday. My only nit was that they only had two staff members who worked as servers and cashiers. To their credit they both worked diligently and did their best to please the customers.

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Lena

Let me preface this review by expressing my gratitude to the LJC Group, and website for an exclusive invite to feast on some of the dishes (17 dishes in total! 😀) from all of LJC's nine food concepts, some of which are yet to be fully offered on their respective restaurant menus starting this September. ♥️ As for Larry's Cafe, we got to try their Salade Santé, and their Mahi-Mahi Fillet Pacifica. The salad was an interesting mix of roasted beetroot, and pumpkins, feta cheese, assorted and vibrant greens, served with a light vinaigrette. While the Mahi-Mahi Fillet Pacifica, One of the standouts for me, if not my favorite, was a beautiful dish comprised of a fillet of dorado fish on a bed of squid ink spaghetti with red bell pepper cream sauce. 😋👌🏻♥️🦑🍝 Everything about this plate caught my attention; from its name, colors, its plating, and presentation, down to its taste! 😀 The creaminess of the capsicum sauce marries well with the squid ink pasta! It makes everything tastefully subtle, as oppossed to being an over-the-top, "in-your-face" squid ink dish? You know what I mean? It's really good.

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