ARANI Thai Restaurant

Small and very busy shop. The green curry was the worst thing I’ve ever eaten, it had no flavour and tasted undercooked. Almost like boiled chicken in water and had a chemical smell I had to throw it out. Veggies were also barely cooked. The chilli rice on the other hand was delicious!

The take-away we had this week was amazing! All dishes were generous and full of protein and vegetables (not just carrot & onion).
Back to the good old days!!!!

Very nice food which makes a visit here a winner. Service though looked stretched and we didn't get all our ordered meal. I didn't say anything as I could see they were under the pump.
A few staffing improvements/increases and a bit more effort re- ambiance, and this would help encourage more return customers. But the food is the star here. Authentic and delicious!

I had a delightful experience at the restaurant. The ambiance was inviting, and the service was excellent. Although the portion of pad see ew was slightly smaller than what I've had at other Thai restaurants, the taste more than made up for it.
I thoroughly enjoyed every bite.

I ordered Pad Thai with the mixed entree and prawn crackers which were all delicious. I give the Pad Thai a 5/5.

I have only ordered takeaway from the restaurant & collected it myself (6 separate items prepared & ready for collection in 20 min) or had it delivered via delivery app's. On each occasion the portion sizes are generous & I love the great mix of fresh vegetables & proteins - which any Australian restaurant should be able to provide. On this occasion my red prawn curry has 6 jumbo size prawns & potato, sweet potato, capsicum, carrots & beans (see photo) and the flavours are exactly what you would expect from a Thai restaurant - fabulous! Thanks very much to your staff, from the person who takes the telephone order, to the chefs & front of house servers. You all do, what you do, very well 😋

FAKE THAI FOOD!!! SERVES OFF MEAT!

We chose this place over another Thai place in geelong from the review ratings and boy did we regret that. This is one of the worst Thai food my partner and I have ever had. We had hope as as we walked in the place was packed. We regularly eat Thai cuisine as my partner loves it but he was ready to get up and leave after 1 bite of the food. We knew it was a red flag when they also said they don’t have Thai milk tea??? We ordered the chicken Tom yum soup, lamb sweet and sour curry, coconut rice and beef pad Thai. Almost every dish was absolutely disappointing besides the coconut rice but that’s rice.

The curry literally came with 6 pieces of cheap frozen lamb and half a tin of canned pineapples. The soup had 2 pieces of dry chicken breast and did not taste anything like Tom yum.

Here’s the WORST part - the beef pad Thai. My partner immediately noticed a distinct off smell coming from the dish and he has cooked pad Thai at home and knew it was not the sauce. The entire plate had the smell of off meat. I told one of the waiters who took it back in the kitchen and came back out saying “the chef said it’s the beef do you want to change to chicken” where I asked for the entire plate to be taken off the bill. I cannot even put into words the smell that came off that dish. I’m extremely disappointed in this place and don’t want to give them the benefit of the doubt that it was cause they were busy but if every dish comes out like that it’s the business itself.