Authentic Thai Street Food in Didsbury – Jarern Kitchen (Closed)

A hidden gem of Bangkok-style street food in Didsbury.

I was looking for some authentic Bangkok street food in Didsbury, and I found it here: Jarern Kitchen. This place was on the edge of Didsbury Village, which made it quite difficult to notice if you didn’t walk down to the end of the village. Luckily, I walked past it when I was trying out Fosters Fish & Chips.

The decor inside was pretty Thai and cosy. There were enough seats and comfortable space between each other. The owner was really friendly and smiley, and the service was really efficient as well.

The standard menu was on their website, so I’ll just post the lunch set menu here, which wasn’t. It was quite good value for a lunch menu since you could get 2 courses for only £9.95! Hence, the lunch menu was the one I tried that day! Thai spicy soup, grilled pork were the starters and the mains were Thai red curry and Pad Thai. Furthermore, I added honey duck (£11.5) as an additional dish.

Firstly, the grilled pork was really lovely, especially with the sauce which gave the marinated pork a bit more flavour. The salad next to it was not just pretty, but also delicious with the dip.

The Thai spicy soup was basically tom yam soup, and the taste was just how it should be. Furthermore, the portion of the stuff in the soup was also quite generous which was filled with chicken, mushroom, spring onions etc.

Since I was amazed by having Pad Thai for the first time at Ting Thai Caravan in Edinburgh, I decided to try the Pad Thai in every Thai restaurant! Compared to the one I had last time, it was not as salty and it didn’t have the spice on the top. However, the taste was still pretty much the same as I remembered, and it was pretty awesome.

The honey duck was really crispy and it was a perfect fit with the honey sweet sauce and fried garlic on the top. The vegetable next to it was a bit cold and didn’t have much flavour, but it was good to dip it with the sauce.

I was debating between green curry or red curry. Since I prefer less coconut flavour in general, red curry was the one I chose in the end. The curry itself was not spicy but just creamy. There were chicken, bamboo, and some other vegetables in the curry. Moreover, there was rice with the curry, and you could order extra rice if you wanted to.

Overall, I was really happy that I found this place. The owner of the restaurant was from Thailand too, which gave the dishes here a closer taste to the original Thai flavour.