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| - I consider myself an Asian Foodie, but I never came across a Thai restaurant I wanted to go back to. This is one of them. I came to eat at Yupha's on a Monday night because my friend chose this restaurant to have her birthday party at with her friends and our Wild Dining MeetUp members. 30 people attended.
I asked the server what items on the menu were considered truly authentic, that REAL Thai people from Thailand would order. Is this authentic? Is that authentic? I told her I didn't wanna eat Whitey-Gringo Thai food. Finally she said nothing on the menu was truly authentic as would be found in Thailand because we American's couldn't eat it, too spicy. I agreed with her, told her that I spent 5 weeks in Thailand in 2011 and just could not eat the food. Even asking for NOT spicy, was so hot, that all I had was diarrhea. So I ate only Australian steaks and pizza. When I came back to the States, I was shocked to see I had lost 12 pounds (119 instead of 131). I thought something was wrong with the scale.
I love duck so I chose Ped Gra Prow, $18.00 It said Crispy Skin on the menu. Crispy roast duck over onions, bell peppers, Thai basil & chili pepper. The server said it had crispy skin, and I love duck with crispy skin. I ordered it for the "skin". The girl next to me ordered the same thing. Her order came first and I commented that the skin did not look crispy at all! It was coated with a dark soy-looking sauce, "glistening" on it. She poked at it, NOT crispy. I called the server and she said it wouldn't be crispy because they put a sauce on it. Do I want it without the sauce? I said yes. Well as soon as I said Yes, the dish came out of the kitchen and it was "too late".
The sauce was good (given rice was insufficient to eat the sauce with, like other reviewers said), but the duck, two legs of dark meat (I prefer dark meat) and some small additional pieces were so overcooked, hard and dry, that parts of it were like old jerky, and I had to spit it out (like eating bark). When I told the birthday girl, after we all left the restaurant and went home, she said I should have sent the duck back. Yes, trying to eat the leftovers, so hard and dry, tasting like vulcanized liver, I should have sent it back, but the restaurant was so busy serving 30 people and their different orders. I find it really hard to pull the meat off the bone, so tough the duck is. I did tell the manager the duck was so hard and dry, when I left the restaurant, but I also commended them many times for their good service.
I tasted other people's orders such as Pad Thai, but nothing tasted good enough to come back here. I am giving it 2 stars because I felt the service was not lacking like the duck was. They handled 30 people very well and the food came out relatively quickly, without mistakes. Otherwise I'd give it one star if service was lacking or rude (like Yelpers know Chinese restaurants are famous for), and food was bad too.
The thing I liked the most about the dinner was the Costco chocolate cake that the birthday girl bought for us. I ate two pieces! Yum !
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