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| - I came here on a Monday with a friend and we had to wait for 15-20 minutes, as we expected. The ambiance and decor isn't really my style, and the patrons were definitely not the kind I was expecting (aka it wasn't full of asians). It's a loud place, and seems to resonate with hip white yuppies especially with their cheap BYOB policy. The hostess brought us to our table with a pitcher of water she grabbed from a fridge, but I think it was in there for about 5 minutes because the place is busy and my friend and I sat there drinking some lukewarm tap water which sucked since we had to walk pretty far in some hot sticky weather.
For the starters, or "snacks" as they call them, just get the pork belly steamed buns. They are the highlight of this restaurant. ********THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MY REVIEW SO I WILL SAY THIS AGAIN, IF YOU ARE SITTING IN THIS RESTAURANT AND HAVE SEARCHED THE REVIEWS HERE WITH THE KEYWORD SNACKS BECAUSE YOU ARE DECIDING WHICH ONE TO GET, GET THE PORK BELLY STEAMED BUNS. PORK BELLY STEAMED BUNS!!!!******** They're amazing, even if they just look like a white pacman pillow with some cucumbers and a lot of pork. You only get 2 for $6, and I would have rather just had it for my whole meal if it was like 4 for $10 or something, but $3 each for a whole meal is too steep. $2.50 each is steep too but whatever, they really are just that good. You can BYOB but they also have some non-alcoholic drinks that are rather expensive. My friend got a bottle of Mexican coke (which is made with cane sugar instead of blah blah whatever i don't remember it just tastes like coke) and it was $3 and really small, like 355 ml small.
For the actual noodle part of my meal, I got the pad thai because I love pad thai and this is a thai place. I usually like it with pork but this place only offers chicken, shrimp, and tofu so I picked chicken. It was honestly very underwhelming for a pad thai dish (I have had pad thai at many places around the world). The sauce was not very flavorful and the chicken was not exciting either. If there were peanuts or eggs in the dish I did not notice them. I'll get something different the next time I come here and stick to another location for pad thai. It was a huge dish, though. My friend got beef noodle soup which was pretty good. It's a simple dish with beef, noodles, and soup that was pretty good. The noodles are very thin noodles and the beef is yummy and tender and didn't have weird mystery bits. I could eat the portion for this in one sitting unlike the pad thai. We both got them at a 0 because we are babies who don't like spicy food, so maybe that would have made the pad thai better but food really should be acceptably delicious at a 0 if you're offering a scale.
If I came here alone, I would give this place 3 stars because it was loud, my dish was lame, but the pork belly buns were really, really, REALLY good. Since my friend's beef noodle soup was good I will give it 4 stars but I'll definitely get something different if I end up there again and leave the pad thai to other places around Pittsburgh.
~Dish Ratings~
Pork Belly Steamed Buns - 5/5
Pad Thai w/ Chicken - 2.5/5
Beef Noodle Soup 4/5
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