Pad thai at Lemon Grass Thai — rice noodles with prawns, tofu, bean sprouts and spring onion on a blue plate.

Civic · Woden · Tuggeranong

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Three Canberra kitchens, one long menu of Thai cooking that regulars order from by number. Here it is — readable, on any phone, without a PDF in sight.

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Why this exists

I eat here often enough that the laab moo taud and the massaman have basically become a personality trait.

But the real Lemon Grass Thai website hides all of that. The menu exists only as a PDF from 2022, so on a phone you pinch and zoom through eighty dishes. Three locations are listed with no way to tell which one you are looking at. Nothing anywhere says when they are open.

None of that is a cooking problem — it is a website problem, and it is fixable. Same restaurant, same dishes, same prices, restructured so you can actually find what you came for.

The counter at Lemon Grass Thai, with brass pendant lights, stacked celadon bowls, flowers and a carved Thai figure against teal patterned tiles.

What changed

  1. The menu is a web page

    Every dish, every price, as real text you can search, zoom and read aloud — instead of a PDF download.

  2. The locations are told apart

    Three stores, three addresses, three phone numbers — and a note about which ones serve the lunch menu.

  3. It works on a phone

    The original is a desktop layout with a PDF bolted on. This is built for the screen people actually order from.

The dining room at night, tables set with woven placemats and cutlery, warm floor lamps and the street visible through the windows.

Eighty dishes, fourteen sections

Entrées and soups, a full vegetarian half, curries from a mild gang garee to a coconut-free jungle curry, stir-fries, noodles, prawn and fish plates, spicy salads, and the lunch specials that only Civic and Woden run.

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