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I chose this restaurant due to the positive reviews and am quite disappointed - maybe we went on a bad night.
We went on a busy Saturday night wherein we were lucky and got a table without a wait. The service was incredibly slow, which is understandable due to the volume. We ordered with ease and time glacially passed by as we waited for our payaya salad and our two chicken pad thais. I think probably 30 minutes had passed before the waitress had come over with our salad with apologies.
The Laos style papaya salad - it wasn't as good as I was expecting and even though I ordered it as mild, it was still spicy.
Pad Thai: so this is NOT the same quality as Khao Son Road or Pai as reviews seemed to suggest. It tasted along the lines of chinese food noodles, wherein they used a much darker sauce as opposed to the typical tamarind and fish sauce. It was flavourful and it was good to eat, but it's not pad thai. Also the chicken was quite tough.
The main reason I'm giving this place one star though is the SERVICE. I felt incredibly bad for the waitstaff as they seemed really overwhelmed, but a lot of patrons had a hard time tracking down one of these girls, and they didn't really seem to care. I had to flag two of them to bring me a takeout box and the bill and at the end of the 10 minute venture, I decided to go up to the front to pay as I figure it would have been faster. I was left alone with the machine, and I just left it on the counter, as the waitress quickly left to do something else. I swear, you could have just walked out without paying and no one would have noticed.
Also, the table next to us, one of the customers did not receive their food and was told that it had run out and no one had the time to let the customer know...he wasn't very happy either. He said, "YEARS ago, I ordered a ..."
Anyways, maybe I went on a really off night when they weren't prepared to handle the volume, but I wouldn't come back! It was NOT worth 40 dollars and I regret every penny
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