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| - The wait here is incredible, and the food is alright.
The first time I went, I had the Khao Soi noodle with medium spicy... very creamy, super tender beef and yummy noodles. It was a bit too creamy for me, actually, but the fried crispy noodles on top was amazing and the beef was so yummy.
My friend got bangkok-style pad thai and to be honest, it was pretty normal. I have eaten pad-thai from terrible faux thai places before, and it wasn't much better than those.
The service was GREAT, even despite all the people! :)
I would've given the place 4 stars for the first time.
The second time I went, I got the spicy beef salad - again, medium spicy. It was so spicy I almost started crying! It was also pretty pricy - I was going to pay $16 after tax and tip. The service was also pretty bad this time - I say "going to" because she said I only tipped her 40 cents, when I really tipped her two dollars and forty cents (around 15%) for her subpar service. More about her service later. First, let's talk about this... I thought her comment was strange because 1. she did the math wrong, obviously, and 2. who asks the customer for more tips? Even if I had tipped her 40 cents, do people actually ask customers for more tips? I always tip 10 (if it was seriously terrible) to -20%, depending on the waiter/waitress so I guess I wouldn't know. But I found it a bit rude to ask people for more money, even if it is kind of obligatory - like asking people to bring money when you attend their wedding service + reception.
I gave her an extra two dollars after this complaint, so I ended up paying $18 for an appetizer that really wasn't worth it. I just wanted to get the heck out of there after waiting for 1.5 hours total for being in the line of people to eat, for the dishes to come, for the bill. I could definitely recreate the beef salad at home. Oh well, now I know.
Now, to her service.
First of all, we wanted to sit next to each other on the booths but she wouldn't allow us, saying the side seats are for "groups of 3". She made my friend move to my opposite side, where we had to literally yell to hear each other. The seat next to me stayed empty the ENTIRE TIME. Yes, I was a bit annoyed about that.
Secondly, she was really slow with the bill - like, really really slow. We asked for the bill ahead of time (since I knew from last time it'd be slow) but still ended up waiting for 10 minutes after we finished our bill.
This wasn't that great of an experience - I'd give it a 2-star "meh, I've experienced better" because of the bad experience, due to poor service, overcharging, unable to converse properly with my friend and seriously overpriced beef salad. And it's honestly only a 2 star because my friend made it better. We laughed at everything together - if I went with a less silly friend, it'd be a 1 star for sure. I felt really sorry for the friend I brought there. She looked awkward having to yell our convo and also overhear the dating convos next to us (I almost choked myself when I heard the couple on my right ON THEIR FIRST DATE talk about sex. @@)
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