I love this place.
GOOD:
* Huge menu with a variety of traditional Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese-style food: the basil chicken (spicy-style) is one of my favorite dishes.
* Big, raucous place with round tables, ideal for big groups
* A diverse clientele, lots of families, large groups of local students
* Lightning fast takeout (they prepared 4 dishes for me last night in 15 minutes)
* Very reasonable prices (last night's meal of basic chicken, Singapore noodles, baby snow pea greens and Pad Thai was $37.00. This fed four of us with plenty of leftovers.)
* Friendly staff
BAD:
* Well... parking is sometimes a little iffy when it gets busy on the weekends. But there's plenty of street parking
Across the street is Bo Loong; head over there for karaoke after eating at Siam Cafe.
Just some advice - if you ask them to prepare a several course meal, be sure to specify that you'd like the food to be served over a period of time - otherwise, the food comes out all at once. It's a little overwhelming.