Nitaya’s Thai Kitchen

Just the other day I was thinking, Thai is a popular cuisine why doesn’t Mui Wo have a restaurant? Well… they do, hidden down a short, wide alley along Mui Wo Ferry Pier Road. After living here for a week I only spotted it the other day. Needless to say I made it my duty to give it a try.
I ask that you take this review with a pinch of salt. The day before visiting Nitaya’s Kitchen I arrived back in Hong Kong from Phuket, Thailand. From the outside the place doesn’t look like much. A small table holds a couple menus and a cheap looking banner shows images of their menu. All that being said I was pleasantly surprised with my experience here.
During lunch they have close to ten different lunch sets, meat and rice mainly, and none above $ 50 — my kind of place! Each meal comes with a drink, and as was my usual I ordered the Ice-​lemon tea. To eat I went for a green curry while my lovely girlfriend chose the Pad Thai. The drinks arrived first, not at all what I was expecting. Perhaps it was my accent, or my poor cantonese but I was given something that looked and tasted like a combination between iced milk and lemon tea. Not great. But then the food arrived. The green curry was full of flavor, spicy and filling yet it was the pad thai that truly impressed, and like I said I just got back from Phuket!
I tried, in vain, to convince my girlfriend that she really wanted the curry and really wanted to give me the pad thai. Luckily for me she said we could go ⁵⁰⁄₅₀. It’s not that the green curry was bad, not at all, it’s just that the pad thai was that good! It came with a generous helping of shrimps, which in most cheaper lunch sets restaurants usually tend to be stingy with, and the portion size was on the bigger side. I Sprinkled some peanut shavings and the pad thai was complete.
I’m sure I’ll be back at Nitaya’s Thai Kitchen, and not only because of the prices!