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| - To the Company that Decided to Have a Holiday Party at Golden Thai:
Hi, there! Remember me? I came in with my little party of four trying to catch up with friends while you monopolized 2/3 of the dining room with your employees? Yeah, it's great that you want to share this special time with your colleagues but when you subject other diners to your speeches, we can hear how you made your employees pay for their own meal. Way to show your appreciation! But what else would I expect from a company that was too cheap to rent the entire restaurant, and keep out customers like myself?
By the way, too bad the sales department was so off with their sales projections. My dinner companions and I couldn't stop talking about that and the other enthralling bits of info gleaned from your announcements.
Happy Holidays!
Yours truly,
susan "hire me, please" c.
With mainly 4- to 5-star ratings on Yelp, I suspect that on most days the food at Golden Thai is great but not so on the night we went. Maybe the CtDtHaHPaGT sucked the life force out of the kitchen, too.
FOOD
Four of us shared an assorted appetizer platter for two ($19.95). Most of the stuff was bland or not hot enough temperature-wise like the mushy spring rolls, calamari, chicken and shrimp satay. But the worst offender was the green mango salad which was a soggy mess of indistinguishable fruit strips drowning in a soapy pool of inedible sadness.
The shrimp in the Basil Shrimp ($11.95) were grayish even beneath the spicy red sauce and did not taste fresh. Ew.
Chili Garlic Squid ($9.95) was a little too chewy.
The Phad Thai ($10.95) was fine but I've had better.
The one redeeming dish (and the reason for 2 stars versus 1) was the Chicken Green Curry ($10.95). The flavors were bright and intense; not the usual watered-down curry paste out of a can that you get at most Thai restaurants.
VIBE
Much nicer than the ticky-tacky neighborhood Thai joint; the interior looks like someone raided the Grand Palace in Bangkok.
SERVICE
Polite but awkward; the waiter got our order of rices wrong.
BATHROOM
Reeked of roach spray and I had to hold my breath the whole time I was taking care of business.
GOOD FOR
Corporate functions...Not.
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