Thai Lite (Charlotte style) - I should have paid attention to the reviews by Donna D from Hi and Paul S from Chicago, those who mistake this for five stars Thai really don't know better.
We had lunch here twice. The first time I thought the soup were really quite good. We ordered Crispy basil duck and a lunch special which was nothing special. The duck dish was tasty but I was disappointed it was made of shredded duck meat reconstituted into a largish ball. I gladly paid the dinner price ($19) to order what I wanted, but I expected better. This domestic obsession with "boneless" dishes is really annoying the foodie in me.
The second time we were served what I'm pretty sure was a Japanese soups: rice chicken. Not a bad chicken soup but that's NOT what I go to a Thai restaurant for. We had the Panang curry, which was OK but not rich in flavor, not close. I'd label it as sweet and mild sauce over tasteless shreds of pork.
The other dish was Pad Ma Muang/Cashew Delight which they claim to be stir-fry in a *sweet & chili sauce*. It was NOTHING of the sort, instead it tasted of soy with strong dash of "liquid smoke". The thing is I've OD on freaking Teriyaki and grew to hate it many, many moons ago.
I didn't send it back only because it was lunch time and besides it's not my job to teach them difference between Japanese and Thai cuisine. Those two do not "fuse", they are so dissimilar as to be contradictory cuisines.
I haven't found a really good Thai restaurant around here, and I lost faith I will.