Nua Lao Thai - Haymarket

Authentic spicy Thai food. I sweated my way through a delicious lemongrass chicken dish take away. Flavours were comparable to some of the better dishes i had in Thailand. I admire somewhere brave enough to make Thai food that isn't watered down with coconut milk.

Great Thai/Lao food, where the menu has a hardcore section like the larb (which is raw pork). The deep fried corn was delicious and reminded me Indonesian perkedel jagung. The BBQ fish with glass noodles was great too. sarahversuscarbs.com

Great authentic north-eastern Thai/Laos food - the REAL taste of Thailand!!!!! Not Thai-Aussie versions, but the real thing. The larb is delicious and the service is great.

We went to Nua Lao Thai quite randomly one day. The first dish was quite a random-looking mushroom soup with quite ‘challenging’ taste. However, the rest of the dishes were pretty good. The most important dish of the night was the Durian Sticky Rice – it was awesome!! allaboutfoodblog.com

Delicious satisfying meal. Use to frequent this place when it was crocodile thai. Not quite sure about the new interior, with takeaway serving area, balloons and too many photos of laos, but its got a kind of friendly tacky but likable feel still. Old one with the dimmer lights and live music had a more warming and serene feel. Anyway on to the food. Tried one of my favourite thai dishes. Khao mok gai which is saffron rice & crispy chicken with soup on the side. Probably one of the best in Sydney. Great serving size, the chicken was very crispy skinned while still being moist. Served with a sweet chilli sauce, i like to add dry chilli to it as welll. Also served with a tangy green chilli sauce which adds a sweet tang to the chicken. The rice was well flavoured and had that nice yellow colour, although it was a touch too wet. Better moist than dry though! Served with a simple chicken garlic soup, tastes great in between eating the meal and complements the flavour. The lady was friendly, attentive and helpful. She always had a smile on her and wasnt hating life which is great! Highly recommended for quick, tasty decent meal in the cbd. Will come back to try more of the lao menu!