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| - I should start by saying two things. First, I typically don't bother with reviews unless I had an amazing experience or a terrible experience. I eat out for practically every meal (lunch and dinner), so try a LOT of restaurants that Toronto has to offer.
Second, I REALLY wanted to like this place. It is just down the street from my office and also close to my home. It seemed to have a lot of promise (despite every restaurant that has been there for the last 10 years not ever succeeding) and people seemed to like the food based on the reviews here.
Anyways, onto the review. I went there with my girlfriend tonight and have to say that I wasn't impressed by anything. I told her I was going to write a review and give it a 2 star, however she asked me what about it made it worth the second star and I have to sadly say nothing did... so 1 star it is.
Luckily I wasn't very hungry because as every other review on here states... you don't get much for what you pay for. I'm not a price driven consumer, I'll pay whatever if it tastes amazing, but sadly it doesn't and the ingredients just don't match up to the price.
I'd say that maybe we just unfortunately chose bad dishes, but the menu is TINY (which usually screams that they do a few things AMAZINGLY well, however that wasn't the case), so unfortunately it's just not great.
We had the Lui Suan... they are overloaded with lettuce, with literally 3-5 small sheds of carrot and 1 shrimp per half that is so small and thin it was literally see-through... like i could see the abundance of lettuce on the other side of the shrimp, through the shrimp. The mint/cilantro dipping sauce, just didn't do it for me either. GF also wasn't impressed... we left 1 of the 4 halves on the table.
Had the Khai-Jiaw Grob and the K.Krata SongKrun (names on the receipt, shortened from the menu), whichever was the deep fried egg... was just a deep fried egg, didn't taste like much (till we put the included hot sauce on it, which didn't help much) and sort of tasted like the oil in the deep fryer could use a change. All in all, a deep fried egg that wasn't at all special. The other dish, two eggs with the spicy pork on top... actually wasn't that bad when put over the sticky rice (which is another story in and of itself, because the rice wasn't done very well), but our problem is that the egg whites weren't fully cooked so it was a little slimy and not very appetizing. Again, not a stand out dish.
The Singha beer was fantastic as it always is, but they have nothing to do with that. Our server, nice dude from Spain, was just fine. Some people complained about the service, but we found our server to be incredibly pleasant and the food to come out TOO fast, if anything. I typically like a dining experience to last 45 minutes + at the very least, but we were in and out within 35.
All in all, we left some of every dish on the plate (pretty much the entire deep fried egg, because it REALLY was not our speed) and those plates are small and a little overpriced based on the cost of ingredients they used.
Soi... I wish I could say my $60, 35 minute meal was a great one and I sincerely wanted you to do well, but I'll never come back.
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