| rev:text
| - 3.5
The 5 of us decided to try our luck on a Sunday for lunch, 3 weeks ago. I had seen a lot of reviews saying there was a long wait since the restaurant was small, but we decided to give it a shot anyways. We got there around 1pm, and there was a full house. There was no one else waiting for a table, so we decided to wait, and were seated after 25 mins.
We ordered a Pad Thai Chicken ($7.95) from the quick lunch section, served from 11am - 4pm. The lunch deals comes with a spring roll and choice of soup or salad. We chose the salad, which was a mango salad. We also ordered a Khao Soi with Chicken ($12.95), a Roasted Duck Curry ($12.95) which came with a bowl of rice, and a Grilled Chicken with Sticky Rice ($10.95) which had to be changed to Fried Chicken because they had run out of Grilled Chicken. We wanted one more dish and asked the waitress for a recommendation. She recommended the Holy Basil with Egg ($12.95) and we chose the Pork to go with it since we had a lot of poultry dishes already,
The 5 of us agreed, that by far our fav item was the Roasted Duck Curry. It had a bit of sweet from the lychee, tangy from the tomato, creamy from the coconut milk, and had just a hint of spicy. It went really well with the roasted duck in the curry. This was a dish I would definitely order over and over again. The Pad Thai was pretty good, but didn't really amaze me. Portion size of it was pretty good for lunch portion. It was not overly wet or tomato-y, which is what I don't like in a Pad Thai, so that was good. I really liked the mango salad that came with the lunch. I loved the sweet and sourness of it, and I wished there was more. The spring roll was pretty good as well. The Fried Chicken with Sticky Rice came with 4 pieces of chicken. We ordered it off the regular menu because the waitress told us it was a bigger portion. I don't know how much you get if you order the same thing from the lunch menu. I probably would have preferred to order from the lunch menu and get an extra spring roll and salad instead. Not to say it wasn't good. The chicken was fried pretty well, it came with a sweet chili sauce that was a tad spicy for my liking. Without the sauce the chicken was slightly plain. The sticky rice it came with was ok, but you had to eat it fast cause once it got cold, it got hard. I also wasn't really sure how I was to incorporate the fried chicken with the sticky rice, so I just ate them separately.
I was really interested in trying the Khao Soi as I've never had one before and my sis says its one of her fav Thai dishes. I thought the flavour was quite good. Although I didn't really eat it right away, and most of the crispy strips on top had already gotten mixed in since we were all sharing, so I didn't get the mix in texture I was hoping for. My sis says its not as good as the ones she's had downtown. We didn't ask to change any of the spice level of any of the dishes, so they came in their original intended spiciness level. Although for some weird reason my parents who can usually handle very spicy food found the Khao Soi way too spicy. While I, who usually can't handle spicy food, didn't find the Khao Soi too spicy. Finally, none of us liked the Holy Basil the waitress recommended. It was just diced up stir fried pork with some red peppers and onion. There was nothing really special about it and we found it too salty. We also didn't think a dish like that was worth $13.
One thing I didn't like too much was that they didn't have a lot of the proteins we wanted when we were ordering, which was disappointing. We originally wanted the Khao Soi with Beef, but they had run out of beef. We also originally wanted the Grilled Pork Sticky Rice from the Lunch section, but they were also out. So we went with the Grilled Chicken Sticky Rice off the regular menu for a bigger portion, but it had to be changed to Fried Chicken because they were out of Grilled Chicken as well. However, we noticed other tables were able to order the Grilled Pork Sticky Rice we wanted later on, when we had already started eating. They probably don't prep enough of some of the proteins. We wanted more variety, but most of what we ordered ended up being chicken.
The price and portion size for lunch was really worth it. The price and portion size for the regular menu is still ok, but some items might not be as worth it. Service was slightly slow as there was only one waitress. Seating were relatively comfortable. There wasn't a lot of room to stand when waiting for a table, where we didn't feel like we were invading the other diners' space. Overall, there were some items I liked and some I didn't, but I think I would still come back to try some of their other items.
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)