Zab Thai - Governors Bay

Affordable, tasty Thai food! A work colleague recommended we try Zab and we weren’t disappointed. It’s great value and we have enjoyed every dish we have tried so far. Would recommend.

Solid Thai takeaway food, but solid wait times. Friday night, 1h20m wait. Borderline ridiculous, so if you're not organised, don't bother.<br/ <br/ Curries are very well flavoured with good quality and well cooked meat and vegetables, cute crinkle cut carrots too. Good level of spice too, Medium is actually spicy, unlike some places. <br/ <br/ Quite a bit better than some of the other Thai takeaways we have tried in CHCH. On par with the Thai Container, slightly better than Bahn Thai. Significantly cheaper then both. Pad Thai, Pad Kee Mao both tasty and well flavoured. Pad Thai on the sweeter side of this dish if you prefer the more savoury. Have only tried a couple of their stir fry offerings but both were again, very good. Spring rolls are excellent. Haven't tried salad or soup dishes yet.<br/ <br/ Curries are large enough for two meals per person but the included rice is not (so just cook some yourself for meal #2).<br/ <br/ Would be a 4.5 or even a 5 if the wait time was 30m or less.

This must be one of the best hidden gems of Chch. Their food is out of this earth!! It's rediculosly good!<br/ <br/ Tom Kha seafood is so creamy and rich, good quality mussles, prawns, squids and mushrooms were generously provided in the soup. The Penang curry was the highlight. The peanut sauce on top has to be the best l had so far. And they use real tofu (firm) instead of fried tofu in most places.<br/ <br/ The Masama curry is very flavourful and hearty. They use good cut of steak instead of your stingy small pieces of meat. All of their portions are Hugh ...And their prices are very reasonable.<br/ <br/ I would recommend this place if you want some good quality authentic Thai food.

Been here many times, partner and I both love the peanut sauce on noodle. Good sized containers compared to other thai places. Pad Thai is great too lots of nuts on the top.

I'd been wanting to try out Zab Thai for a while now after seeing so many great reviews on here. Finally went and got a takeaway pad thai. I was very impressed with the serving size (1/2 of it was enough to have me feeling very full) and the flavour was just like the ones I had in Thailand. It came with lots of crushed peanuts, fresh mung beans, coriander and a slice of lemon. <br/ <br/ I do agree with a previous reviewer, however, that they really need to invest in a second phone line; this is why I have only given them 4 stars.