long chim perth

thai street food at fine dining prices?

sorry, the value and quality didnt quiet meet my expectations. food and service was okay, but at these prices i wanted better than okay, serving sizes were also small.

one can't visit perth without visiting long chim. one needs to visit long chim with a fat wallet though! the entrance and ambience was gorgeous and we fell in the love with the place instantly.

we ordered a chicken curry, seafood noodles and some side dishes. i also had the watermelon juice! each dish wasn't plated great but the taste more than made up for it. we were in thai heaven the minute the food touched our lips. portion sizes were great and service was amazing!

i recommend long chim but i also recommend a shot before receiving the bill...

despite the mixed reviews i’ve been wanting try this place for some time! and finally tonight my partner and i decided to dine for the ‘chefs recommendation menu’. we took the $68pp option which had 8 courses (the $95pp option had an extra two courses of the lamb ribs and banana roti)
the restaurant itself is located downstairs in the treasury building. it has a beautiful warm and cozy feel to it. but that’s about as good as the positive news went for us.
to say our dining experience was a disappointment is probably an understatement. the quality of food, not to mention the portion sizes for the shared menu were very small and below average. to start we had chicken satay skewers, fried prawns and the pork and rice cakes. the skewers were okay, but definitely could use sauce. fried prawns tasted like nothing but batter. pork and rice cakes were good.
mains just got worse. fried fish tasted rubbery smothered in sickly sweet sauce. the two tiny pieces of roast duck did not belong in a green curry.
and finally our tiny coconut cake dessert. again, a sickly sweet coconut sugar cake that lacked sauce or an accompaniment of any kind!
honestly, this had to be the worst dining experience we’ve had in an asian restaurant. for $140 for two. this place is an absolute rip off for what it is. i’m so glad we didn’t go the $95pp option. after looking at the menu again we noticed the ribs on their own are $42 (we would have been paying an extra $50 for the ribs and given a smaller portion to share!)
so a tip to anyone that does want to try this place, regardless, for themselves - do not go the chefs menu. our thinking was ‘well this is the best dishes on the menu that the chef has selected’. this is definitely not the case imo. i’d recommend just go with a couple more friends and pick dishes from the main menu to share. but honestly, for the price, the quality is just not even worth the waste. save your $$ and dine elsewhere. there are plenty of amazing asian restaurants in perth that have far more to offer for a portion of the price.

we were 4 sisters been here for celebrating our family day . very disappointed with their terrible service. first thing was that one lady came to table to take order for us all were the first time been there but she turned up very unpassion.
and we order 5 sharing dishes all were terrible, the green curry no curry flavor no taste , we even didn’t know what we were eating !
anyway, very bad first and will be the last experience for all of us.
totally no worth to pay that kind price for this kind food n service. never ever back again . so sorry.

delicious dinner. pricey but worth a visit. enjoyed the vibe and services. the waiter spilled water onto my leg and shoe (accidentally)..was thinking a bad way to start
my dinner but the food were delicious and he offered free cocktail so that made it even better.

we went for a drink after dinner at wildflower. the courtyard with the umbrellas was a great place for a drink. menu looked good for a return visit.

this was my 2nd visit to long chim - this time for dinner and drinks, the 1st time was just for cocktails and dessert which was a fantastic experience. we arrived around 9:00pm on a wednesday evening and the crowd seemed to be starting to die down...

a group of 3 of us ordered the stir fried soft shell crab noodles, grilled lamb ribs and 'mussaman' curry of beef with a couple of serves of steamed rice for our choice of dinner. and unfortunately... it was extremely underwhelming and actually disappointing.

- the noodles in the soft shell crab dish came out as a massive lump, with the large halves of crab layered underneath. the crab although sizable in portion was mushy & watery, lacked flavour nor did it taste the freshest
- the lamb ribs which was supposed to be the hero of the dinner came out lukewarm and... far from tender and succulent, decent flavour though
- the mussaman beef was the best dish out of the 3 but still far from a standout.

these generally negative sentiments of the quality of the food were shared by all 3 of us in the dining group. 

i am not 100% sure if it was because of the time of our visit or we just lucked out completely - irrespectively at long chim's price point and reputation it shouldn't be substandard at any given time. i am mindful that my experience may be isolated as the reviews from most of my friends as well as the ones i've read online are positive.

service was brilliant (although feeling ingenuine at times), cocktails brilliant as always and the vibe and sitting outdoors in that terrace area is completely chilled and comfortable. will definitely visit again for drinks but i doubt i will go for the food again - i can think of any other thai restaurant in perth that serves far better thai food based on this experience.

the ambience was amazing. loved the large selection of cocktail and wine list. the service staffs were very helpful and accommodating. the food was too sweet for my taste but well balanced on the spices. its not terrible food, just not made to my taste. my friends enjoyed the food. would definitely recommend others to give it a go for the ambience.

food that i had: beetle leaf, fish cake, chicken satay, red chicken curry, 3 flavour fried fish, jack omelette, yang pa salad, mango sticky rice and coconut cake

i’m a big fan of thai food and have been to lots of thai restaurants (cheap and expensive, good and bad). i have to say long chim is my least favourite thai restaurant i’ve ever been to.
the $18 grilled pork is very small portion but we were still ok with it. the thai beef salad is small portion but tastes exactly how it should be so i thought ok at least the flavour is there for a $30 salad.
then i almost dropped my jaw when the curry fish we ordered was served. it was very bad presentation with 3.5 pieces of thumb sized broken fish fillet along with some veggies that i could hardly recognise what they were, served in the smallest bowl i’ve ever had for a thai curry dish. and the flavour is the worst curry i ever tasted, it was just watery spicy soup. this is unacceptable for a $33 dish. i expressed my unhappiness with this curry dish to the waitress and she kindly took it to the kitchen and came back with a few more fish fillets and veggies in it.
then the glass noodle was served, it felt like that the noodle, veggies, squid, eggs, pork mince were cooked separately and then merely plated together to form a dish. the mince was extremely salty.
look, i don’t mind you being pricy as a modern australian-asian restaurant, but you need to serve your customer what they pay for. food with this price being small quantity, it’s expected to have good quality and the taste! the curry fish should even be off the menu! i ended up with paying expensively with big disappointment and didn’t bother ordering any other things to try.
there are plenty of good thai restaurants. long chim - never again for me. and i will stop people i know from going as well merely to avoid a bad experience for them!

3 and a half piece of fish (size small like a thumb) for $33. every dish is also small, table is so small and space is narrow. food tastes very normal. sorry. not for me again.

fresh & very tasty thai! restaurant & ambiance and service was also top notch. there is also a nice bar to drink at within the same establishment. i would return.

first of all i just want to order some bar snacks to go with our drinks last night but a manager-kind lady came to tell us that kitchen was close so there are nothing to eat. few mins later she bought us a plate of cold chicken sticks. so now i'm wondering, where were they came from?? i didn't see it was on the bill tho. umm....i rather pay to get a proper and hot food instead of this kind of kindness. thanks

was really looking forward to this visit and still walked away stunned. the set menu was recommended by the very helpful and friendly staff and is an excellent way to try a variety of offerings. each dish was perfectly prepared and presented from the plain old chicken skewers to the coffee ice cream dessert. lovely staff, atmosphere and food. wether you like thai food or not you should try this place

been wanting to try out this place for ages and finally made it here on a weekend night. the restaurant was super busy. food were delicious and flavorsome. serving potion slightly small and more pricey compare to other thai restaurant. lovely atmosphere and very friendly staffs and service.

went there as a surprise birthday dinner. food was great however they forgot our green curry had to ask for it and couldn’t even provide rice with it since they didn’t take it out to us in time the rice had already been eaten. so we had the curry by itself.

organised a surprise dessert with a candle. they served our plates on the table first which made it really obvious for the birthday guy that there was a cake or something coming. kind of pissed me off a bit since they knew. and destroyed the little surprise that it was.

food flavour on the other hand was really spicy and definitely something different. location is amazingly beautiful. a must try.