"Visited silk elephant on a Friday evening, and it was pretty full, although there were a couple of tables free, and we were able to get seated right away. The decor and ambience of the place are quite standard and nothing exotic or extraordinary, but the service is personalised and quick. The food to be honest is just okay. I started with a Tom kha soup, which is one of my favourite Thai soups, and while the flavours were largely there, it was by no way authentic. It was missing Kafir lime leaves, as well as there were bell peppers in the soup, which are not traditional at all. Then we had the noodles wrapped shrimp, which to be honest was a bad decision on our part. It was very noodle forward, and we couldn’t taste the shrimp at all. I had the basil fried rice, which was probably the best dish of the night for me with really plump shrimps and a good quantity of rice, and all the flavours that I expect from Thai fried rice. My friend had the Pad Kee Mao which tasted more like a pad see ew. The spice which you expect from the pad kee mao were missing. I guess the flavours have been modified to suit to the local palette which obviously takes away a bit from the authenticity of the cuisine. I would definitely order the fried rice again, but I don’t know if I would want to order the other dishes again."
