Several weeks ago, I decided to try out the Thai food from this Thai restaurant located in Al Bidda Park which is like 30 mins walk from where I am staying. Their tom yum soup tasted so damn good; this was probably the best tom yum I've tasted in the whole of Qatar! Really, its that good and tasty! Unfortunately the same can't be said for the green curry. I wished they had mango sticky rice but nevertheless the tom yum made up for the rest of the food (bland tasting keow teuw shaped like fetucelle)

The place itself is like a hidden gem, it's easy to miss it so if you're walking along Cornice from West Bay, you come to a point where across the road there is a park, and a small coffee stall visible from Cornice. It's immediately after the Cornice roundabout and there is a traffic light next to the coffee stall. You won't miss it.

The whole place is under this green hill, dug out to house a mosque and rows of retail shops, restaurants and bakeries. Unfortunately, this idea probably didn't hit off very well because there were only a handful of operating shops here. Even at 5pm, an eerie kind of quietness accompanied me as I walked along the man-made lake to the mosque end

The other day my husband and I went to this Thai restaurant in Souq Waqif; the Thai Jasmine Restaurant. I know many food reviewers say that they have the "very Thai authentic taste" etc etc but really what they have is fresh vegetables (spring onion, Chinese coriander) that makes the staple Thai food tasty. However, our ice lemon tea tasted very Thai-like because their lemon tea is both sweet and bitter, unlike the Malaysian version which is more sweet than bitter. While in most Asian country, you will find that they use small chilies known as the "paddy chilli" grind into a paste and used for either cooking or provided to you in a plate along with a bottle of soy sauce to mix it with. They'd also provide a small ramekin of red chili paste/powder for you to spice up your dish. Here in Doha, they merely cook all their dishes in black pepper and if you want your dish to be spicy they just add paddy chilies on top of that. Not really authentic Thai but they make do.

So, what we had for dinner was keuy teow-fat, flat noodles and fried rice. They made it vegetarian for us. My husband's keuy teow was spicy because of all the paddy chilies added in. We also had fried mushroom salad which was good, it tasted very much like Thai peanut salad. For dessert, we had the mango sticky rice.  Since the portions were very big, we couldn't finish it so we had the leftovers packed.

They also have buffet dinner daily, but nothing was vegetarian there so we opted for ala carte. They also have Hong Kond style dishes (dim sums and duck meat mostly) Overall, I would say that this place serves good Thai food in a healthy portion, although they're a bit overly priced. To get there, ask around for the women's mosque. This place is on the 1st floor of the mosque building

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2 Iced lemon tea = 36 riyals

1 keuw teow vegetarian = 40 riyals

1 khaw pad vegetable (mushroom salad vegetarian) = 29 riyals

1 fried rice vegetarian = 40 riyals

1 mango sticky rice = 60 riyals

TOTAL = 205 riyals