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| - Reviewing this place is very difficult. The food is excellent. We ordered yellow and green curry(both outstanding), chicken noodle soup (amazing broth a bit spicy) and a noodle dish. Appetizers were chicken satay (good) and fried shrimp.
We arrived on a Saturday night, Groupon in hand, having read the reviews here, with trepidation. A busy strip mall on Saturday night, lots of kids in the parking lot with the bass pounding. We walk in and no one to greet us just ring the bell and we wait quite awhile. The entrance is not as nice as it could be. The fish tank desperately needs to be cleaned. The main lady who I believe to be the owner, waitress, and kitchen manager greets us happily and leads us to our table. The restaurant is very busy with a high maintenance table that seemed to skip out on the check.
Another family walks in and is seated and then waited on before us - never makes my husband happy. But we can see this is a small family-owned restaurant and we aren't in a hurry. She finally takes our order with profuse apologies. We get the fried shrimp first, half the order was good - the other half stone cold. Scary. Chicken satay had a wonderful flavor and very tender.
Yellow curry comes out and is perfect, chicken, carrots and potatoes. Kid's chicken soup comes out with shrimp instead had to send it back to get chicken (felt terrible about it). Then it turned out to be too spicy for an 8 year old palate. I thought the broth was amazing. My other kid's noodle and chicken dish came out looking nothing like the description but he toughed it out - it was very good. Green curry was amazing, lovely spice, chicken and veggies.
The main lady was completely overwhelmed by the Groupon experience which made for an odd dining experience. But she was so sweet and worked so hard to make it all good. It was just too much for one person. Also they had a TV on with a violent real life killer reenactment and it was really upsetting my son so my husband got up and turned it off. (Just odd)
So in summary not the most pleasing ambiance experience but the food was really good. If this place was closer to our house we would most definitely order take out and eat it at home. I'm sure that would make it wonderful.
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