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| - When your curry is sweeter than your Thai iced tea, you have a problem. Here's a news flash: Thai food isn't supposed to be this sweet. My friends and I went on a recommendation from a business partner. I should have known that it was a bad recommendation after we took said business partner to Thai Grill, and he refused to try the larb...
We ordered the Kana mhoo krop (roasted pork stir fried with Chinese broccoli in garlic and ouster sauce - 7.95), pad see ew 6.95, pineapple curry 7.95, and Tom kha gai 8.95. I also had a Thai iced tea that was pretty good. It wasn't overly sweet or creamy, and perhaps on the lighter side when compared to a lot of Thai restaurants.
The tom kha gai wasn't too bad. It had a lot of chicken, spices, galanga, and mushrooms. I ordered it with extra lime juice, and medium spice. It came out fairly bland though, and we had to add chili paste to it, which made it a lot better. I wouldn't say it impressed me though.
Next up was the pad see ew, a standard Thai noodle dish, with beef. The beef was nicely prepared, and the Chinese broccoli was sufficiently fresh. The sauce had a little added sugar, but not too much to make it gross. It was an OK dish, nothing grand or uniquely characteristic other than the added sweetness.
The Kana mhoo krop was something I had never tried before, and I wish I could have tried it at a better restaurant. The oyster sauce was ridiculously salty. The pork was fried in little slices, making it very tough almost like a thick bacon. It wasn't particularly good quality, which didn't matter anyway because all I could taste was salt. The only potential redeeming quality was that this dish had an overload of Chinese broccoli. Unfortunately though, this dish just plain sucked.
The worst dish was the pineapple curry. In the words of one of my work colleagues, "Yuck." This was probably the sweetest curry I've ever had. That's all I have to say about that.
This is some of the most Americanized, and grossest Thai food in town.
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