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| - Want some onions with your Thai food??? I mean seriously, I hope you really, really, really LIKE onions because apparently it's a "filler" for their entrees and a gratuitous one at that. I had a cold so I figured some spicy Tom Ka soup would clear up my head. I order that, my usual which is Pad Woon Sen with Beef and the Special Pumpkin Curry. The total was $32 before tip on the delivery which seemed really high for what I got. Let's start with the soup, the first thing I notice is that there aren't a lot of colors in the container when I take the lid off, just the milky white broth and about, no kidding, 2 whole sliced onions and a few shards of chicken and maybe 3 mushroom slices. This was basically a coconut soup with onions. Horrible. Next the Pad Woon Sen, it's clear bean thread noodles, usually with veggies, fried egg and sauteed meat. I ordered the beef but go the chicken. The noodles were glopped together in a solid mass. I know this is not just a facet of "delivery" because I order this dish from Swaddee Thai delivered all the time and it's not a solid glop of stuck together noodles. It was tasteless and filled with baby corn, again, a cheap canned filler. Lastly the special pumpkin curry. Apparently the only thing special about it is that it costs $10. It was the exact same color sauce as the Tom Ka soup, same flavor too. I dumped it all out in a big bowl and there were only a couple super thin slices of pumpkin, the rest was, you guessed it, white onions. What the heck is with the onions???? It also had green bell pepper that was cooked so much that it melted in your mouth and not in a "wow this is amazing" way but in a cooked to DEATH kind of way. The carrots in BOTH the pad woon sen and the no-pumpkin pumpkin curry were brown around the edges, disgusting. Overall, this was some of the worst Thai food I've ever had. All three dishes had the same lousy note. The quality was low, ie, overcooked veggies, brown veggies, non-existent main ingredients, etc. It was expensive and basically all got dumped down the garbage disposal. I would not recommend that anyone eat here. I'm sorry I lost $32 PLUS tip! Such a shame because there aren't a lot of Thai delivery places around here. Save your money, go to Swaddee, Thai Basil or Yupha's.
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