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We ate at Tom Yum last night prior to a Phoenix Symphony show. I am writing this review based on our first time here and the two dishes we ordered.
For an appetizer were ordered the summer wraps. These were the fresh wraps in rice paper with lettuce, carrots, noodles and shrimp.
First about the wraps: The filling was adequate with regard to the lettuce and carrots. Honestly, I did not see any noodles in them. You get two wraps cut in half, (you are served four 1/2 wraps) each about three inches long. The shrimp in the wraps was very, very scant. I felt they used only two shrimp to make both wraps. They cut the shrimp length-wise twice, so the shrimp flavor was barely there. A disappointment. The peanut dipping sauce was nice and thick. The sweet vinegar dipping sauce had a nice flavor and was also just thick enough to drizzle into the wrap.
Negative about the wraps: Who every rolled the rice wraps we were served overlapped the rice wrap on each end of the wrap too much. In other words, there should have been filling all the way to the end with just the bare minimum of the rice wrap overlapping (and this was not the case). There was so much overlapping rice wrap on the ends we could not chew it! Therefore, we found ourselves cutting off the end of the wraps knowing it was too tough to chew, resulting in us wasting about one inch of the wrap on each of them.
Entree we ordered was the shrimp pad thai. The portion was enough for two people to share. The shrimp (six in total) were a good size - - - not the small shrimp you sometimes get served in Thai restaurants.
The meal came out steaming hot, the noodles were cooked properly (not mushy), the scallions were fresh.
But, there did not appear to be any cooked egg in the dish which is typical of pad thai dishes. The biggest complaint we have is that the dish had an overtone of "fishy" flavor. Not shrimp fishy flavor, but "fish" fishy flavor which should not have been.
I don't know if when the cook made the dish they added fish sauce and obviously too much of it OR if ingredients such as the fresh scallions were cut on a board where fresh fish had been and the board had not been wiped down, hence the fishy flavor wound up in our entree.
The fishy taste was not subtle, but rather in every bite you could taste it. A disappointment to say the least.
If we would have had more time we would have sent it back for a new dish, but we could not be late for the Symphony which was several blocks away from the restaurant.
Also, usually there are peanuts on top of the completed pad thai dish, and at Tom Yum's it was not served this way.
The Thai iced tea was a nice size and had good portions of tea and milk, etcetera. On a hot night it was a treat.
Therefore, due to the chewy wraps with little shrimp in them, and due to the fishy-tasting shrimp pad thai, I am only giving Tom Yum two stars.
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