Dining At Thaikhun Metrocentre With Children

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 Thaikhun recently opened in the Metrocentre and we were invited along to try it out with the children. Thaikhun is a Thai street food restaurant located upstairs in the Qube food area. 

Arriving at Thaikhun I was impressed with how the restaurant had been decorated with a tuk-tuk outside, Buddhas at the entrance and a really rustic charm inside, it is how I would imagine a Thai street market to be like.

We were greeted by the extremely friendly staff as soon as we entered the restaurant and shown to are table, which was a spacious booth. I was pleased to see colouring sheets and crayons on the table for my toddler along with a pot of edible worms - I passed on trying them. 

The children's menu is really simple but works very well, they get a pot of vegetable sticks to start plus a drink of either milk, water or juice - my girls both opted for milk. For mains they then selected either rice or noodles, then you picked if you wanted chicken, pork or mixed vegetables. Lastly you picked a sauce to accompany the meal from no nut satay, sweet BBQ or Green curry. 

 Everything came separate on a school type tray, perfect for fussy eaters. 

My three year old is a fussy eater so she just went for plain noodles and chicken. You also get a mini milk ice lolly for dessert with the children's meals and at just £5.95 I think that they are amazing value for a drink and three courses. I felt the portion sizes were perfect for my toddler.

For starters I went for the Moo Ping which was grilled marinated  pork skewers served with a delicious tangy chilli dip. These were utterly delicious and everyone enjoyed these even my three year old. 

The other half went for the Ka Nom Jeeb which were steamed pork and prawn dumplings.

For mains I really struggled on what to order as almost everything on the menu sounded delicious and I wanted to try it all. In the end I ordered the Khao Moo Daeng Grob which was barbecued belly pork pork on steamed rice with a sweet soy and barbecue sauce. I was so glad that I ordered this as it was utterly delicious, the pork was full of flavour and just melted in the mouth and the rice was cooked to perfection.

The other half ordered the Kao Soi Gai which was a curried chicken soup with crispy noodles. His portion was huge.

Even though we were stuffed from all the delicious food we had ate we decided to order banana fritters for dessert which consisted of four battered bananas served with a generous scoop of scrummy vanilla pod ice-cream and a dollop of cream and strawberries on the side. All four of us ate this dessert as it was such a big portion size.

We found the service to be excellent throughout the visit, the staff were so friendly and happy to chat to the children. 

We were very impressed with  Thaikhun, the food was delicious, the service impeccable and I loved the whole look and feel to restaurant.  

The bill for two children's meals, two starters, two mains, one dessert, one portion of prawn crackers, three large coke's and one berry smoothie came to  around £65. If you are ever in the Metrocentre or see a Thaikhun near where you live then you should visit as I am sure you will love it as much as we did.

Thaikhun 

The Qube 

Metrocentre 

Gateshead 

NE11 9YG

Plenty of free onsite parking at the Metrocentre plus bus and rail links nearby.