Thai'd Up is a Thai restaurant on the Hibiscus Coast Highway at Red Beach, Rodney, holding a 4.1 rating on Google. Thai cooking lives or dies on balance: sweet, sour, salty and hot notes working together, with fresh lemongrass, galangal and makrut lime leaf doing the aromatic work. Heat is often tamed for Kiwi palates, so if you like real chilli it pays to say so when ordering. In most kitchens the dishes go into the wok to order, which is why a busy Friday night can mean a short wait for food that arrives straight from the pan. Sharing several dishes over jasmine rice is how regulars tend to eat, and it gives a fairer read on a kitchen than one safe pad thai. On the main highway at Red Beach, Thai'd Up gives the Hibiscus Coast a straightforward local option for Thai food.