It was a lazy weekend afternoon when we decided to try our luck with Mosate. I've normally had a decent food experience overall with Mosate before as well. It's great for Indian Chinese and some good Thai-ish dishes. Look it's not going to be refined authentic food and if that's what you're looking for be ready to pay triple the price and go to a speciality restaurant. However, to eat successfully at Mosate, you must know what to order because you may end up going horribly wrong and never ever wanting to re-visit.
Food: We were suggested by the server to order a fish in this special Lotchau Sauce as an appetizer and we chose to eat the prawns in butter garlic and Mongolian Chicken along with that. For the main course we had Thai Curry, the server suggested we go with burnt garlic and coriander rice instead of steamed rice and stir fried Chinese greens. I liked the Thai curry despite it being neon green in colour it was bursting with flavour and his lovely sweet sour spicy combination that is Thai food. The fish with his cute head placed on the plate (it did look kinda cool at first, then the sight just made me a bit queasy as I stared into the fish's beady little dead eyes). Moving on, the chinese greens were nice and fresh, the Prawns were upto expectations and the burnt garlic rice was brilliant. The Mongolian chicken however was not only deep fried, it tasted downright awful.
The service: The server's suggestions of the Fish in Lotchau sauce and the burnt garlic rice were huge hits; however, that fish should have been suggested as a main course because it sure as hell wasn't an appetizer. It didn't really matter because the food was taking more than 15 minutes so we told them to get everything at one go. The interesting part of that was that all our main course dishes came much before the appetizers decided to join the party!! Just made me wonder about the organization skills of the kitchen staff on that day.
Ambience: There was a strange wannabe lemony scent in the air but it wasn't a good lovely lemony, it was this kind of strange lemony smell. Fortunately this disappeared pretty quickly and we could concentrate on our meal and conversation. I don't particularly love the décor, but it isn't garish or overbearing so I can deal with it. Plus "adding" to the ambience were lots of Kitty party frou frous and we were surrounded by air kisses and designer sunglasses.
Overall: I would go there for the fish and Thai curry, or to meet a bunch of Gal pals or if half of the people I choose to go with want to eat Chinese and the other half want to eat Thai.
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