Modern Thai restaurant, The Basil, has opened in Mongkok's Langham Place. If the menu of small dishes, salads, rolls, main courses, rice, noodles and desserts looks a little familiar, it's because The Basil's sister restaurants are Thai Basil in Pacific Place and Rice Paper in Harbour City. The menu includes The Basil appetiser platter (soft shell crab and avocado rolls, mushroom and minced pork layered rolls, Thai prawn cakes, gold purses and satay, $78), salmon and turnip rolls with sweet chilli dipping sauce (left; $45), prawn and vermicelli rice paper rolls (above; $42), grilled fish wrapped in banana leaf ($75), pumpkin lobster soup ($45) and mango fritter with passion fruit parfait (below; $32). The Basil is at Shop 5, Level 13, Langham Place, 8 Argyle Street, Mongkok, tel: 3542 5725.
