Sirarom Restaurant - Thai Cuisine
This new outlet which serves Thai cuisine is located at Jalan Bagan Jermal (used to be Flame Steamboat Restaurant)

Let’s take a look at the interior

It’s very relaxing and conducive for formal meals with clients or just a simple get-together with family/friends.

A lot of antiques and Thai items on display


The menu. They are aware of customer’s dining experience and inform right on the first page about Thai spiciness and your choice to request your preference.

Set Lunch and Set Dinner

Ala-carte. All names are in Thai and description in English below it.

First up, as usual in Thai restaurants, raw veggie as appetizer. The sambal gives a good kick to start of our meal.
Tomyam seafood (RM 15.90). Perhaps the most look-forward item when dining in a Thai restaurant. The version here is aromatic but perhaps less spicy because my friend requested to keep it milder. But it lacks the ‘oomph’ and sourness.

Beancurd Crabmeat (RM 9.90). Nothing ‘thai’ about this dish. Just a normal deep fried beancurd with crabmeat gravy.

Pandan Chicken (RM 9.90). This one is not fragrant and taste quite dry + hard. It is also not well marinated and taste bland if taken without adding the sauce.


Kana with salted fish (RM 8.90). Normal style of cooking. Everything just taste better when added with salted fish!!

Som Tam (RM 8.90). Thai style salad with shredded young papaya, carrots, long beans, onions, tomatoes, peanuts and dried shrimps. I would prefer the mango version as the sweet and sourness of the mango adds flavour to this kind of salad. The papaya is kind of flat.
Som tam (Thai: ส้มตำ, IPA: som ɗam), known in Lao/Isan language as ตำมักหุ่ง (IPA: ɗam mak huŋ). grated papaya salad, pounded with a mortar and pestle. There are three main variations: Som tam poo (Thai: ส้มตำปู) with salted black crab, and Som tam Thai (Thai: ส้มตำไทย) with peanuts, dried shrimp and palm sugar and Som tam plara (Thai: ส้มตำปลาร้า) from north eastern part of Thailand (Isan), with salted gourami fish, white eggplants, fish sauce and long bean.
Rice @ Rm 1.50 per bowl
Tea @ Rm 1.00 per cup (free refill), Plain water FOC
Now dessert, which we look forward to…
Dessert Special (RM 3.90) aka thub tim krob. Taste funny as it is added with yam!! We asked do they usually add yam and the captain says they added more ingredients for us to try. (Is it coz I asked to snap photos of the surrounding earlier and also the food??)

Not sure whether this is charged as the receipt registered as ‘titbits’ @ Rm 2.00
The chef comes from Thailand but there’s a few things which can be improved to make the food more authentic and savoury. Or did we choose the wrong/unpopular dishes? Hope their set meals are better. A second visit maybe?
Contact:
20, Jalan Bagan Jermal, 10250, Penang.
Tel: 04-2295 988
Free WiFi
Easily located as it’s just directly opposite the old Phor Tay Primary School, on the way to Gurney Drive. If you are coming from Botanical Garden, it will be on your right. Just be on the look out after passing a field which has some warehouse sale.
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