Yim Yam

Yim Yam is one of my absolute favorite restaurants. I just love Lao food with its delicate and exotic flavors and Yim Yam is one of the few restaurants in Melbourne where you can find it. They also have Thai food. The service is good, the atmosphere is great and the prices are reasonable. I thoroughly recommend Yim Yam.

A catch up with old friends tonight. We loved it here. Hard to fault the surrounds. It’s an impeccably fitted out restaurant with numerous lovely spots to prop. We had several entrees and mains. It’s rustic Thai/Laos fare but it’s mighty good food. We started with duck crepes from the specials board. They were surprisingly large crepes with really good flavour. There was plenty of duck with nice salad and a lovely sauce. Hard to ask for more. Next were the rice paper rolls. They were large and unusually loose, but delicious. Lovely flavour. The chicken satay sticks were large with a beautiful sauce that was thankfully not too sweet. Next, the yum yim yam with prawn was good. The filleted rockling piece with green curry was even better. This was lovely fish that was just lightly battered with the chili spot on. The No 50 salad - toasted rice and coconut salad - as recommended by Matt Preston was also good. On the slightly negative side, the wine glasses were too small and made of rather thick glass. They were weird. Service was overall a bit cool and detached for my liking. Back to the pluses though. The food was very good. The cost was modest, aided by the low amount charged for corkage. At $30 a head for a large meal, this is a terrific restaurant.

Really tasty food. Ordered from here twice now and both times the food has been of the highest quality. Tom yum soup, red duck curry, tofu and chilli jam stir fry are off the charts. The papaya salad is on point with a nice kick to it and the fried rice is the perfect side kick. Fast friendly service that is the best Thai food in the area.

We placed an order for delivery today which was supposed to be 35 minutes. Over 1 hour 15 with no response, I called the shop only to receive terrible attitude from the girl on the other end telling me I’d got my own address wrong. We used to order regularly from Yim Yam. Had some issues and tried this time only to be disappointed again. We will not order again after this experience!