Coco Thai, Deep Water Bay - 31.10.10

Coco Thai is somewhere I always forget about, but which, on the odd occasion I drive through Deep Water Bay, I always shout: "oh look! Coco Thai!  We must eat there next time it's a beautiful day, and watch the sunset!"  Well this Sunday night was the first time I ever did the sunset dinner thing, but of course it wasn't my idea, my husband's cousins very kindly invited us for dinner.

Now when it comes to eating Asian food, where the norm is for everyone to share, I tend to become quite controlling in that I always have my favourite dishes, which absolutely have to be ordered, or else I get stroppy.  Now as you can imagine this gets a little tricky when other people are paying the bill.  I have to find a way of getting my dishes ordered without the hosts thinking that I am completely taking over, resulting with us never being invited out by them again.

On this occasion I got off lucky, as our hosts had similar taste to myself in

Thai food and I only had to nudge them a little in the direction of Fried

Morning Glory with Garlic as opposed to Mixed Veg with Oyster Sauce and Green

Curry with Chicken instead of Beef.  In addition to these two dishes we had

Minced Chicken with Thai Basil and Chilli, Massaman Curry with Chicken, a Thai

Style Fried Rice, Spring Rolls and Chicken Satay.

The food was ok, certainly not anywhere amongst the best Thai food in Hong Kong, but definitely edible, and at times quite satisfying.  Highlights were the

Chicken Satay and the Minced Chicken with Basil and Chilli.  The Satay was particularly surprising, big juicy chunks of chicken with a thick homemade peanut sauce on the side. 

What makes this place worth going to, is the view.  Beach side dining is something I wish we had more of in Hong Kong, but alas the government won't have any of it.  So we have to rely on the couple of shacks such as this one and The Stoep, or the infamous 'above the public toilets' institutions that are Cococabana and South Bay Beach Club, which can only be as good as they can be with severely limited space and facilities at their disposal.  So please go to these restaurants, let's not forget about them and instead give them lots of business so the government sees how well they are doing and maybe one day allow more to open up and give Hong Kong a whole new lease of beach side life!

Coco Thai

G/F Island Road

Deep Water Bay Beach

Hong Kong

T:2812 1826