Michael's Oriental - Brisbane

Stay away from Michael's Oriental with the new owner in charge! I attended a close friends wedding reception this year and quickly found out about the dodgy and dishonest behaviour. The staff at the bar were overcharging for drinks, including doubling the price for some drinks. What's worse was finding out that my gift card and multiple others from the wishing well box were not delivered to the married couple and are still unaccounted for. How the new owners of Michael's Oriental think this is acceptable is completely beyond me and they need to attend to these indiscretions swiftly for the sake of their business!

(My personal opinion) I think the standard has gone down a bit . It was much better a few years ago. The signature fried ice cream used to be served warm fried crispy outside always but served cold this time. Sweet and sour chicken tasted like chicken in water and very little actual fish in salt and pepper barramundi. I felt I ate only cold batter. Tried to call back on number provided but line disconnected.

Wow! This is a shame, I got the green curry and the Borneo prawns and I was disappointed with both dishes. The Borneo prawns were battered and fried with spring onions and other assorted aromatics and tasted plain and oily. The batter poorly coated the prawns in large globular chunks and the presentation of each prawn was really lacklustre, almost as if my pet blue heeler threw up in a takeaway container sprinkled with chopped spring onions on top! However the prawns were cooked well and was the only redeeming aspect of the dish. Furthermore the Thai green curry was absolutely horrendous! Unlike the prawns the curry looked edible although the flavour profile of the curry completely contradicted its appearance. Presented with a sickly sweet artificial curry sauce of which mostly tasted like coconut milk and sugar, the curry of which I was hopping would redeem my unfortunate purchase completely let me down. Although with all this negative talk about the food which is completely inedible I would like to say that the jasmine rice was cooked to perfection not too dry or wet. For those of you looking to dine or take out from this establishment I would not recommend!

The best resturant ever, we have been there for a dine in and have also done takeaways. Tonight we were there again and absolutely amazing service and very delicious food. The sweets at the end were just what we needed; the kids enjoyed it, all as well as ourselves. I would definitely recommend this place to all my family and friends.

Last Friday 17th June I had the best vegan curry at Michael's Oriental ever! it was the red curry on the vegan menu. I have been a vegan since 2015. We received very good table service from a attentive, efficient, polite waiter from the Philippines. I have eaten at Michael's Restaurant before food is always amazing.