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My boyfriend and I went to Siam Terrace but they didn't have sushi on Mondays, so the host suggested that we go to My Thai.
I was delighted to try this place. The reviews were stellar-- four whole stars-- and the pictures showed decent sushi.
The exterior was nice. A bit far off campus. The interior was fair. Our server was friendly, but she forgot our soup even though the restaurant was empty.
The first thing to tip me off about the imminent disaster was the sushi menu. Nearly all of the rolls had cream cheese it it. I'm not a hard-knuckled foodie. I enjoy my rolls with cream cheese, but its omnipresence made me uneasy. I got the message that the food was designed for people who were used to eating shoddy sushi and needed to have a glop of cheese on everything they ate. I pictured a warm, Ziploc bag of mayo calling up its friends to get "sushi", meaning rice-coated, tempura-flaked, cheese balls. My Thai knows this and caters to that. It's their job to know their patrons. That's fine. I thought there was still a chance it could taste good.
That's the theme of this review. Chances. And how each was decimated.
Our first plate: the chef's choice nigiri appetizer.This was the only decent part of our meal. It was warm, the fish wasn't fatty, but it was a good deal.
Second plate: the Basil Duck. This was exceptionally bad. Sometimes "bad" is the only descriptor you have left and is the most encompassing, accurate one after an experience like this. The presentation was bad. It looked decidedly unappetizing. That's fine. I don't expect a place like this to plate, and looks aren't always an indicator of taste. This time, it was. This was the worst duck I've ever had. I kept getting fried breading, and I thought it was because I was eating the edges of the meat, but I realized that the duck was just poor. I don't know what part this was but it was like chewy duck string. I guess anything that comes from a duck is technically duck.The sauce was awful too. I couldn't believe this was real life. I've had really terrible duck once before, and this somehow usurped that title.
I told myself it was fine because the sushi was going to be great. Our sushi came out. It was astoundingly bad. We ordered the Crazy Roll and the Smoky Mountain. It was crazy bad. I had never experienced anything like it. First, the rolls looked unappetizing. They were indistinguishable, unappealing, feeble balls of rice sprinkled with roe. They came on a sushi boat, the floor of which was a uniform pool of mayo. I have no idea why they did this. It wasn't a design or a dollop but an actual layer covering the entire floor. The rolls fell apart really badly too.
They tasted awful.They were so gross that we just paid and left. I have never left a whole dish at a restaurant before. After we left, I looked through the reviews to figure out how they had gotten 4 stars, and I saw one by Adrienne K. that outlined almost exactly the same experience we had. We also tried to muster up the courage to eat the rolls because we didn't want to waste money. But it just wasn't worth it. We couldn't eat them. It was that bad. They were, as another reviewer said, yucky. I, too, would have preferred grocery store sushi. I don't have super high standards. I have only left two 1-star reviews for food places. As long as they make an effort and the food is palatable, I'll remember not to come back but am forgiving. My friends make fun of me for liking buffet sushi and convenience sushi. If someone like me thought My Thai was inedible, you know just how bad it is.
I could write an essay on just the rolls. In short, they were basically the same roll of mayo. They were stuffed with imitation crab and a huge block of cream cheese with a dusting of smoked salmon. The salmon was appalling. I have never had anything like it. It was just meager shreds of salmon. The fish was just terrible. I don't even know what fish was in the Crazy Roll because it was mostly asparagus and all of it fell apart when you tried to eat it. "It was turning my stomach and I couldn't eat it." This is exactly how I felt. I still feel sick thinking about it. Dear Adrienne, to answer your question, their Thai food is not better.
We paid about $60 dollars with tip to leave a boat of sushi behind.
TL;DR This is the worst sushi, nay, the worst food I've ever had in Chambana, nay, my life. My boyfriend was compelled to write his first Yelp review because of our experience here.
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