You know how sometimes, you are fond of something in your youth, and then you grow up and move away and experience other versions of that thing, and then you return and you wonder why you ever liked the thing you loved in your youth in the first place? This isn't like that.
This was the first place to serve Thai food in Champaign-Urbana. The minute they opened, the quality of life there went up about 300%.
This is a great little lunch spot. I don't know how many hundreds of times I've met a friend at "Y Thai" for lunch. It is a sentimental favorite. Even after moving away and not coming in for months on end, I can still count on being greeted with "Hi! How's your mom? Where've you been?"
The Pad Thai is really good. And cheap! Sometimes I order other things, and they are sometimes good, but I always wonder what I was thinking and go back to the Pad Thai.