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| - I'm usually pretty critical of Thai places, just because I've been to Thailand and thoroughly tasted a ton of local dishes there, but this place was definitely a nice surprise - tucked in downtown Urbana! Note: this review is strictly based off of the restaurant week menu and not indicative of their whole regular menu (though they probably make the same items the same way).
Came with the BF during restaurant week in Champaign and was definitely overwhelmed with the amount of food we could get with it being $15.99 per person. First of all, we went for lunch, so I wasn't expecting to eat that much anyways. Turns out, their restaurant week lunch and dinner menu was the same - so...that meant three course meal with dinner sized portions for lunch.
For the first course, I got the House Salad with Onion Dressing - just meh in my opinion, didn't even finish it because the onion dressing was definitely too overpowering and I could hardly swallow it with the salad. BF got the crab rangoon and it was also pretty meh - I didn't really enjoy the crab rangoons, which were a little too flavorless and way too creamy/cheesy for me. Aftertaste was not to my liking, but that could just be crab rangoons in general.
Second course, we struck gold. I got the Chicken Pumpkin Curry, which came in this HUGE saucer pan that could probably feed my family of four and was paired with a separate small bowl of rice. Curry was mildly spicy and very creamy and sweet, and definitely had that coconuty-pumpkin-puree-milky flavor that coated the huge quantity of chicken, onions, and carrots submerged within. The chicken was definitely on the dry side and the carrots a little uncooked, but for the quantity and the taste of the curry itself, I had no complaints (in fact, I took most of it home as leftovers to recook and now it tastes much better). BF got the tomyum, which I asked the waiter to add the MOST amount of hot pepper he could....and yes...it was extremely spicy. With a little of the pumpkin curry and a side of lime added to it, the tomyum+glass noodles became the creamy, spicy, tangy, dish that I remembered tasting at the street vendors on Phuket Island. It also came in a gigantuous bowl...and if you've ever tried the Samyang Stir Fried Korean Ramen Noodles...that's how spicy their max level of spicy was for this bowl.
Third course was dessert (by this time we were both bloated) - and I got the sticky rice with thai custard and bf got the molten chocolate cake. Molten chocolate cake was delicious (not sure if it was made from scratch though since it really has nothing thai about it), and the sticky rice had sprinkles of sesame seed and was soaked in some version of condensed milk/coconut that gave it both a nutty and milky sweet taste. Not a fan of the custard though, though honestly by that time my taste buds were probably dulled from satiation.
Would definitely need to come here again on a regular, non-restaurant week day to try their other red, green, etc curries!
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