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| - Looking to knock off another bookmark for the Yelp community I went here for lunch at about 130 today. I was meeting a girl and she was nice enough to reserve the WHOLE restaurant for her and I! I found out the night before I was going here that this place was associated with Siam Terrace (which I have had before and reviewed the same exact star rating). There was no one...NO ONE...else in the restaurant
I was in time for the lunch special. I knew that I would be getting Pad Thai, but the meat and appetizer were TBD! I asked the girl I was meeting to get the summer rolls (she obliged even though I ate three she only ate one :-) and since we were getting the lunch special we also got miso soup (me) and a salad (her). What an idiot I was for ordering miso soup on a 93 degree day. It's a good thing I wasn't in a soup mood (nor should I have been) because there was barely anything in the cup!
I think there was two basil leaves and two tofu cubes. That was horrendous.
As Justin Timberlake said, "This just can't be summer rolls...you'll see". He didn't say that, but the summer rolls were fresh with lettuce, carrots, tofu, and cucumber. Saved by the Bell? No, saved by the cucumber.
Anyways, our dishes arrived about seven minutes and thirty three seconds after we ordered. I guess it's not too difficult to cook up rice noodles, pork, bean sprouts, some other vegetables, and stir fry chicken with broccoli. Especially when the restaurant is empty...so that was awesome.
To review:
Salad with ginger (her...didn't look great)
Miso soup (more like Miso SUCK)...God punishing me for ordering soup when it was hotter than Bill and Monica were in the White House together...hi-yooooo!
Pad Thai Pork
Stir Fried Broccoli
I had to ask for the following: a straw, chopsticks, a water refill, and an extra napkin since I am savage eater. The waitress checked on us a few times, but it was obvious there was a telenovela on it the back or something.
I had high standards coming to this place. I figured, "oh, there must be other good Asian places in Champaign-Urbana, with the large student Asian population. Siam Terrace and this place are owned by the same people, similar prices, similar menu, and similar "A-OK" rating.
My Thai?
It left me saying "my bad".
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