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| - I'm a little confused about the other reviews here, because my and my husband's experience here tonight was terrible.
First for the positives. The place was very modern and nice looking, if a little too bright. Very clean. The waitress was nice; not great at her job, but smiling and friendly. And that's it for the positives.
Walking in, we were greeted by the sound of a child making ear-piercing noises. He appeared to be the son of one of the family that owned the place, and his mother walked around holding a baby that intermittently cried throughout our meal.
For the actual meal, the complimentary "salad" was a plate of raw bean sprouts and (I think) cilantro. It was very prettily presented, but after a couple of bites neither of us could see a reason to continue eating it.
We then ordered the chicken pad thai, and beef ball rice noodle soup, which we intended to share. The pad thai was by far the more edible of the two, but tasted exactly like a frozen tv dinner. It was rather bland and unremarkable, it's main flavor just being a light sweetness. My husband rather enjoyed it once he'd added a ton of chili sauce from the table, but it certainly wasn't worth its 11ish dollar price tag.
The beef ball soup was atrocious, however. Every single meatball, sliced in half, was a uniform grey colour with approximately 10 gristles protruding out from it. The texture was inedible. We each tried to eat one and immediately had to spit it out. The broth itself seemed primarily flavoured by cilantro. Otherwise, there was no hint of a "broth" taste to it. After a few bites, we put it to the side, along with the salad, where it was never bussed. Under normal circumstances, someone couldn't pay us nine dollars to eat this, let alone charging that much.
Dessert (which we'd ordered alongside our main course) was a jackfruit milkshake. This was fine, but had very little flavour. It needed more sugar, perhaps, because it tasted mostly of milk and not much of fruit. Again, not worth the five dollar price tag.
We know this is a family-run restaurant, and we feel very sorry to have to give it such a bad review. We really wanted the place to be good. But given the inexplicably good reviews listed here, we couldn't not mention how bad our experience was. Save your money.
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