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| - This has replaced the old Mekong Delta, which I never did eat at. But I've enjoyed Thai food all over Cleveland and other cities. I also like to support small local businesses. But this is the WORST Thai food I've ever had.
I had the $7.99 lunch special, which on the surface seems like a fantastic deal -- an entree, salad, soup and an egg roll. But not one item was really excellent. The egg roll (a ground pork filling) was good and hot, but tiny. The Tom Yum soup, which normally has shrimp, here has big pieces of chicken -- and they were not moist soup meat, but dry pieces of stir fry. The broth was good, but the chicken was just weird. I didn't eat it.
The salad was generic bagged lettuce, covered in peanut sauce (like for satay) rather than a peanut based dressing. This was like eating lettuce covered in sweet peanut butter. Weird. It was a surprisingly large salad, but lettuce and carrots were limp.
But one of the biggest disappointments was the Pad Thai -- this is generic stuff today. Even mid-level Chinese eateries can turn out a good Pad Thai. Here it is tiny portion, no shrimp or tofu, but covered in ... yup, again some large pieces of very dry chicken. The whole thing had a strange aftertaste.
Lastly, I ordered STUFFED chicken wings, a favorite of mine. The waiter must have misheard me and brought something called "Mango wings". This was like bar-style chicken wings, presumably brushed with a mango marinade. I detected no taste of mango. They were not crisp at all, but had rubbery tough skin.
I did have a bubble tea, in coconut, which was delicious -- the only really good thing about the meal. The restaurant keeps odd hours -- 11-2:30PM except Friday and Saturday, when they have dinner also. It was almost empty at noon when I went.
Too bad, we could really use a good Thai place. This is not it.
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