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| - I've eaten at Siam Garden three times since I found out about the place, it will be four times by Thursday, twice for take-out and once actually at the restaurant. It is a little hole in the wall place with hardly any "ambience", but I mean really, it's a hole in the wall Thai place. I'm there for the food, not the decoration. I've had the Pad Thai, Pad Woon Sen, Tom Yum soup, and house salad...and all were very tasty. The Pad Woon Sen is a personal favorite, with clear rice noodles, egg, thick cut cucumbers and tomatoes. The veggies add a nice cooling aspect to the dish when you order it 'hot'. The Tom Yum soup was also very tasty, fragrant of lemongrass and just enough spice to counteract the sour. The Pad Thai is not the BEST I've ever had, but it was still tasty and I would probably order it again. The salad was like any other regular salad, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion...but also pineapple and a TASTY dressing. The dressing was slightly sweet and creamy. I almost wish they would bottle and sell it!
Oh, you also usually get a spring roll with your meal. It is fantastic. The skin is fried to a crispy brown perfection. It retained a bit of the oil in the wrapper, but it's not too greasy like most fried foods and it didn't leach onto the veggies inside.
The waitress (same one every time I've been - she may be the only one they have) is always very polite and extremely nice. Both times I went in and ordered take-out she always offered a glass of water while I waited for my food.
While this isn't the BEST Thai place I've eaten at, it's definitely a place worth trying, especially if you work in the area like I do. OH - and they also give a 10% discount to military, police, firefighters, CSN professors, and students!!!
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