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| - Thai Princess is one of those restaurants I'd walked by countless times over the years and yet I had somehow never stepped inside. It's difficult to work up much interest in a clearly old-school Thai place when next-level places like Khao San Road and Pai are nearby.
And indeed, the food is exactly what you'd expect. It's fine and quite edible, but it undoubtedly pales in comparison to those two top-tier joints.
I placed an order of chicken Pad Thai ("rice noodles stir-fried with tofu, egg, green onion, bean sprout. Served with raw bean sprouts, a wedge of lime and ground peanuts") using the Ritual app and taking advantage of the King Street promotion. (Total cost was less than two bucks, ultimately!)
It's fine. The first thing I noticed was that it was completely lacking in spice, although the restaurant did include a small container of generic Asian hot sauce. The problem is, this sauce infuses its own flavor into the Pad Thai, which is why the spice should have been cooked into the dish. I'm not sure why spice level isn't an option when ordering.
Otherwise this is exactly the sort of run-of-the-mill Pad Thai one might expect from such an establishment. It doesn't contain any mind-blowing flavors or surprises, and it is, admittedly, quite edible in its way. But it's also no better than something you might get from a food court, and that's disappointing.
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