Green Basil on Kingsway, Burnaby
Green Basil is another busy restaurant for lunch on Kingsway in South Burnaby. It is located steps away from another popular lunch joint, Sushi Garden.
I went ahead and got their daily lunch special because seemed like the most valuable choice. For $6.98 you’d get a choice of curry, with coconut rice, spring roll, soup and salad. Red curry with Pork and Basil sounded really yummy that day, so that was my choice of curry.
I went with 3 other people, and we all got the lunch special. Our 4 spring rolls came on one plate, with one little bowl of salad. I was a little confused, I looked over at other tables, and they all had 1 littel bowl of salad, doesn’t matter the table had 1 person, or 4 people. Way to cheap out on iceberg lettuce. The spring rolls were crispy but pretty bland, there weren’t much ingredients in it too.
My Red Curry with Pork and Basil was listed with 3 hot peppers on the menu. It wasn’t overwhelmingly spicy, but it definitely had some nice heat in it. I liked the coconut based red curry. It had plenty of red and green peppers and bamboo shoots. The pork was really tender. It was nice, and the portion was big.
My friend got Fried rice with Garlic and Chicken, and the first thing he said when the dish arrived was ‘where’s the chicken?’ After some flipping around he finally found couple tiny tiny pieces of ‘chicken’. He didn’t enjoy his meal too much because the whole time he just couldn’t get over the non-existence of chicken in his fried rice. I don’t blame the guy.
Everything was all right until we got our bill. At the beginning of the meal we asked for tea, and the tea came with a hefty price tag of $5.95. The waiter didn’t tell us about that when we asked for tea. $6 for tea that tasted like warm water. $6 for tea! $6 for tea in an Asian restaurant, seriously?
The curry was average, and I just didn’t like the idea of the restaurant cheaping out here and there. Thumbs down.
Green Basil
4623 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC V5H
(604) 439-1919
www.greenbasilthai.com
3 Comments
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October 05, 2010 7:36:15 pm
Hi Ben,
Imagine, dim sum tea but very diluted. It came in a metal pot. There was no picture because it’s just.. tea! LOL.
I’ll check out the plugin, thanks for the suggestion, Ben!
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October 06, 2010 10:24:02 am
I’ll vouch for the extremely bland spring rolls. Dousing it in the watery chili sauce doesn’t do much to help it either. Both equally disappointing.
I’m not sure if this will count for anything, but I thought the service was horrible. I know at a place like this the service is not going to be stellar, but the server practically shoved my shoulder while reaching for an empty plate. Even worse, he didn’t say a word. If I had been eating at that moment I would have had a face full of coconut rice and curry sauce. Grade A jerk.
Hi beipas:
Wow. $6 for tea?!? Too bad you did not post a picture of that. I would love to see what is so special with that. I work nearby … maybe I’ll go over one of these days to check that tea out. I was not a fan of their lunch special but I must admit it is of great value.
Hey, beipas … does your blog run on WordPress? If so, I wonder if I could get you to consider installing the “Subscribe to Comments” plugin. It does help me keep track of responses to comments on posts without me having to come back to this page to see if there are any responses.
Ben