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| - I really, REALLY wanted to like this place. After reading good reviews combined with a craving for Thai, I came to try it out. When I opened the menu, the listed dishes all sounded so good that I immediately started mentally planning what I would order in my subsequent visits. I decided to order some basics because you can't go wrong with pad Thai, Thai iced tea, and mango sticky rice, right?
Starting with the drink, I noticed Thai iced tea was not on the menu so I inquired about it. My waiter confirmed that they did serve it even thought it was not on the menu. He mentioned they served it with a scoop of ice cream on top, which I was surprised about because I have never heard of Thai iced tea being served with that. I asked him to omit the ice cream. When the drink first arrived, it was not the bright orange to milky white gradient I was used to, but rather a vanilla looking milky drink. That should have been my first warning sign. I took a sip and it tasted a little like watered down chai tea. Not to be deflated, I just shrugged it off and awaited my entree with much optimism as I was rather hungry.
The dish came out very aesthetically crafted. That was where he good ended. The pad Thai sauce was an overwhelmingly sweet flavor that bordered on sour. It overshadowed every other flavor on the dish. There was a small pule of crushed peanuts on the side and a tentative taste confirmed it to be a dry, stale constitution. Mixing it in with the noodles only produced an overly sweet stale peanuty taste. Forging ahead, I took a bite of the shrimp and found it to be a very fishy somewhat undercooked taste. And the entire dish only had three pieces of shrimp. Very underwhelming.
I should have stopped there but like I said, I was determined to like this place so I went ahead and ordered a mango sticky rice dessert. I crossed my fingers for the best, and then promptly gave up when it arrived with black rice instead of the familiar white rice. The mangoes tasted a little sour. Surprisingly, the rice (which I later researched to be black glutinous rice) wasn't too bad. However, when paired with the mangos, the two tastes clashed rather than complimented.
That aside, the interior decor was a nice, soothing ambient feel set with dimmed lights and candles. Everything was very clean and both of the waiters I saw were so incredibly friendly and sweet. The low rating was purely reflective of the food and not of the vibe.
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