arani thai restaurant

theirlunchdeal is a pretty good bang for your bucks. the taste is okay~ish but the portion is pretty good, for their pad thai at least. their pad thai is a just on the border of being too sweet for my taste but i still like it. the thai fish cake taste .. a bit unusual, a bit bland and more chewy than usual. the roti is pretty good, but the peanut sauce is again unusual, taste like peanut butter instead of actual peanut. well as long as they keep thelunchdeal on, this place is still good.

i tried this place out yesterday as i recently started working in the geelong cbd. what i was presented with was a flavoursome and fragrant thai green curry and rice atlunchspecial prices ($10). it was hard to fault, definitely ranked high up my list and very comparable to top thai restaurants in melbourne.

can't fault the $10lunchspecial; very generous portions, plenty of options and consistently decent thai food. service is quick, the small unpretentious restaurant is always clean and serves its job diligently.

one of the best thai in geelong, especially forlunchspecial. massaman curry with chicken is the all time favourite, order it medium if you can handle it

this restaurant is tiny and always packed of customer, their food are quite authentic, and when we order hot, it means hot, not western hot. the basil chicken good, as well as the stir fry green curry. didnt fancy the tom yum, as the taste was only salty n spicy, but the pad thai was good. service was excellent, totally enjoyed havinglunchhere :) and will definitely come back again when visiting geelong.

a small treasure. my wife and i had a day out in geelong the other week and after an underwhelming coffee on the sea front, went in search of somewhere to eat.

having walked past this place we returned and were glad we did.

this was a wednesdaylunchtime and when we left there wasn't a spare table, which should tell you something.

to start with we had curry puffs which had the lightest flakiest pastry which married delightfully with the rich pungent satay dip. for mains we indulged in a noodle dish and a hot massaman curry. my wife was effusive about the light fresh fragrant flavours washing through her mouth whilst my curry was spiced perfectly so that my lips felt the heat but no more. this wasn't good food, this was great food.

it gets better though; the food was quickly out and the service impeccable and with a smile. this food would have been a bargain at $20 a dish, so to pay a mere $10 for each main was outstanding.

one small negative. it's in geelong and not ballarat, and oh how i wish it were in ballarat. still, it gives us a really great excuse to head back down that way again soon.

fantastic cheap food.lunchspecial bargain generous portions.
dining area could be bigger very sqaushy otherwise great food value for money

i visit a rani at last once a month since i moved to the geelong area. i found it by accident and did not think it looked that impressive from the outside. i bought alunchthe first few times i went 10 dollars from a setlunchmenu, brilliant value. i love the gang massaman curry. but they also do a few great stir fry dishes pad med ma muang is fantastic. everything is cook fresh. it can be quite busy at times and sometimes there is a bit of a wait but i think its worth the wait to get good quality delicious food made to order. i have been since the renovations which are not quite finished yet but is going to look so good when its all done. these guys are great, service has always been good.
if you want to try them have thelunchfor 10 dollars. in the evening they have a more extensive menu but serve much bigger portions. i usually have to ask for a container to take some home.lunchfor the next day sorted.