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| - I've driven by this place on a number of occasions while heading to Thai Cuisine. We always joke about the front decor being Native American with eagles. At a closer glance though, the wooden "tee-pees" are just ornaments that are supposed to look like Chinese roofs. We bypassed the lunch buffet in favor of dishes from the menu: chicken fried rice, pad see ew, and roast duck curry. I also tried the Thai iced tea, which was pretty good. It was moderately sweet, and creamy.
I wasn't a big fan of the fried rice. It was less greasy than your average Chinese fried rice, but it was rather salty for my taste. The onions were way too strong (I prefer sweeter onions in fried rice). It also was just a little more greasy than the better fried rices that I have had at other Thai restaurants.
The pad see ew was good, or at least comparable to most other decent Thai restaurants in town. The one complaint I had was that the Chinese broccoli was sliced very thinly, and had the taste fried out of it. My friend thought that the broccoli might have been a little bit off, but I didn't taste any more bitterness than average.
The roast duck curry was standard, but didn't shine. It had small chunks of duck, and was nice and soupy. I would say that the curry here is about average as far as flavor goes, but at least it wasn't overly sweet. The duck seemed to be prepared well.
Although we didn't try it, the buffet looked decent, at least much better than the LoS buffet. There were a wide variety of dishes available. During lunch the place was quite busy, with dishes constantly being replaced as we ate, which is a good sign that the buffet is at least partially fresh during lunch.
If you are in this area, it is an OK restaurant.
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