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| - I got take-out from Siam Terrace years ago and wasn't really impressed. My wife and I got soup, a duck dish, and something else that I don't remember. The duck dish still had a lot of gristle and bones in the duck pieces, and the soup wasn't that flavorful. It felt kind of expensive for the amount and quality of food we got; we meant it as a treat meal, but it didn't really feel like one.
It had, however, been a few years and it was a convenient spot for lunch. Knowing that they had lunch specials, we decided to give it another try. As you can guess from the number of stars, we won't be trying it again.
The atmosphere/decor is fine - not especially distinctive, not going to really scare anyone off or impress them.
The service was likewise fine, fairly attentive for the lunch rush.
The food was disappointing. The salads were iceberg lettuce served with a very firm tomato slice and sliced carrot. The dressing didn't taste much like ginger - it was mostly sweet and very watery, so that there was a puddle left on the plate after finishing the salad itself. I think I would rather not have had a salad, as opposed to having such a perfunctory one.
For the main dish, I got the red curry and my wife got the pad thai. The pad thai was really, really sweet. The red curry was alright - despite being labeled as two peppers on the menu, it didn't have much heat. I got it with chicken and there wasn't a huge amount of chicken in it.
I really hate to say it, but I felt like some of the distinctive thai flavors - the spice and basil, for instance - were toned down or absent, creating a more Midwesternized version of the dishes.
Portion sizes were alright - we both ended up taking some home to eat later.
Basically, the food was okay. However, the price for the two lunch specials + 2 iced teas + one thai tea (also incredibly sweet, but it's supposed to be) was about $22 with tax. For that price, I found myself wishing we'd gone somewhere else and I can't say that anything else on the menu made me want to return.
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