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| - Update: I went back twice: first for beef pad kee mao and second for the roast duck with noodles.
The beef pad kee mao was a disappointment. I wouldn't have known any better if I had never tried this dish at the other Thai places on campus. So it's not that it was inedible or unappetizing in any way-- it was just lame. Poor variety of vegetables and offensive reliance on cheap, filler food (i.e. noodles). Yet it was about the same price as the better places. Honestly though, if not being compared to anywhere else, this is a decent dish.
The roast duck with noodles, hovever, is not a decent dish. The roast duck was exactly as bad as I had remembered it (see below). The dish was 5/6 noodle (again) and some veggies. The 1/6 that was technically duck was 3/4 bone. It was unpleasant. From the Yelp photo, I thought the duck cuts served here would be nice, thick slices of soft meat. What I got was one drumstick and part of a thigh that was hacked into pieces with the bone still in. Not pleasant to eat at all.
I'm perplexed that this is what passes as a duck dish. Where have the standards gone? It rattles my mind. I get that the photo is not of this dish, but I could reasonably expect that a duck dish doesn't mean drumstick or that most of it would be bone. Who even serves a drumstick as part of a noodle dish? I think it's reasonable for this style of dish to be boneless or have more cutlets mixed in or perhaps it should be renamed to specify that it is a duck leg. If you ordered chicken pasta would you really expect that it would be a bed of pasta with a drumstick on top? No, I know you wouldn't unless it specifically said so. You would think it was a pasta dish with boneless little pieces of chicken mixed in or with slices on the side. No one would ever expect that a chicken dish would be served the way the duck dish is served here. It would be called "Pasta with 1 Piece Drumstick" or "Pasta with Chicken Leg", not "Chicken with Pasta." I believe that they're cutting corners.
The little meat that was tossed in was, again, difficult to chew and was burned in some places to the point that it was inedible.
I really wanted to like this place because everyone who works here is super cool and the service is awesome. That's why I gave it multiple tries. Also, huge portions don't matter at all if it's overwhelming rice or noodles. I hope people see the light. Here's a star bump for good service though.
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My friend and I came here. He got Chinese, I got Thai. Both of our dishes were hard to finish. The duck was strange and powdery and dry. Far too crispy with little meat. We both tried a very long time to figure out why this place had such stellar ratings on Yelp since the food was rather unbrilliant. Turns out, we were looking for Golden HARBOR. Our taste buds knew something was wrong before we did. Oops. Off-by-one-word error.
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