Very much appreciated that these guys were open New Years Day, when there were as usual, so very few options in Perth open for takeway on a public holiday! & was I super hungry craving noodles etc! Had passed by Oxford Noodle recently, very pleased to see as per Google reviews, a new place that seems so far to be pleasing customers who're looking for a good cheap & cheerful local noodle place like me. But for now, this being my 1st visit here i thought best I just to try a couple of items to see how I like their food & go from there
So I ordered just the Pad Thai chicken $16.90 (in the Spicy of Life' section) & one serve of Satay Chicken Skewers $9.90 (these were in the 'side kick/entree section).
...ok so firstly my take on their Pad Thai dish? ..well hmm, I really wish I had liked it better but I'm only able to give it a 4/10 (& that's a generous score here!) & this is because firstly the noodles were quite overcooked & also not the thinner type noodles i'm used to for pad Thai, but very sadly the very wide ones. & then too, the overall flavour was only just nice, but definitely not very Pad Thai-ish in taste at all sadly. It had a very very smokey taste & had a fair amount of chilli added too. Nothing at like i know a good pad thai to taste like. If the taste weren't so smokey then the flavour wolud be alot better, & passable, but a warning to all pad Thai lovers out there, if you expect to taste any tamarind or any peanuts or a note sour from some lime/lemon juice, or be given a piece to squeeze over it? Well you're outta luck completely here & this dish will dissappoint you big time like it did me..& ok, i realise pad thai has a different taste all over Perth, but just for instance to compare, I'd choose one from 'Full Moon Thai' over this version any day & honestly their version's only just so so at best too.
And then my verdict on the Satay Chicken Skewers? Ok I guess overall, 6/10, because although they were amazingly tasty, & they give you 5 sticks, ...BUT they're the tiniest little bite I've ever seen, more skewer than chicken really. And at $9.90 a serve are definitely not worth $2 each, for a takeaway item. ...the serve were so very very tiny, gone in 5 bites. & the meat was juicy enough (for a tiny wee bite), but they're also served dry, & not a splodge of Peanut/satay sauce in sight? And honestly I wouldn't even say they had any real satay taste to them at all in the slightest (usually you taste peanuts gallore for Satay chicken, & see peanuts here n there..but not on these!)
Anyway, I'll likely try another couple of dishes some time soon to see if I was just unlucky this time around, but I'm not sure...& definitely am not holding my breath right now! Sorry, I did really want to enjoy it so much too! Hope my 3 star rating can get better in future?!


Ed