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| - I often talk about reviewing and never do but I just have to share this experience. We were excited about a somewhat new Thai place opening up nearby as we're huge fans of Thai. Sadly, this excitement faded quickly.
We ordered online for delivery at around 5:45/6 PM on a Friday night with a good selection of staple dishes that really determine whether a Thai place is up to scratch. They estimated delivery for 6:45. I had to call them at 7:10 PM to ask what's up and she told me the driver left 15 min ago. (I live less than 15 min away). At around 7:45 PM, almost 2 hours later, the driver arrived. He was very nice and apologised multiple times for the wait.
Starving, we eagerly opened the boxes... and tasted them. The beef satays are huge! And pretty tasty (thought very mild) but there's not enough peanut sauce for the whole box.
The grilled chicken (Kai Yang) was so-so. My girlfriend said that it didn't even taste grilled anymore after sitting in tinfoil for so long. It certainly didn't look grilled as it limply came out of the foil. She also ordered the Yum Woon Sen and it had no minced chicken at all even thought it says that on the menu! Lots of shrimp though. Fish cakes (Tod Mun Pla) were all right but it's really difficult to make a terrible fish cake.
I ordered the Pla Rad Prik (sweet chilli fish) and was shocked at how small the piece of fish was considering it was the most expensive thing we ordered. It was over-fried and the sauce was too mild (watered down it seemed) and full of useless vegetables to bulk it up. Unlike other places I've had this dish, I'd rather eat the fish without the sauce!
Next was the green curry -- which is my favourite thing at most Thai places. This had the perfect heat to it, and none of that cloying sweetness some places have ....but it was far more like broth consistency than curry, and not a thick hearty soup either. I couldn't believe how INCREDIBLY thin and watery it was! Furthermore, I asked for chicken and they gave me the not-as-expensive tofu instead but charged for the chicken -- with the typical weird Canadian additions of carrots, broccoli, snow peas (Why?!). Granted, I'm mildly allergic to all eggplants (which I told them) but I doubt they would have had Thai/pea eggplants anyway. Possibly one of the worst green curries I've had in Toronto, and there are quite a few bad green curries in this city. Very disappointing.
For some odd reason every Thai restaurant here insists on putting sweet peppers, broccoli and carrots in everything! We specifically asked for no sweet peppers knowing this. I can't really fault this place for doing that as well cos that's what all the (Western) people want but this place is NOT authentic Thai by any stretch of the imagination.
Finally, I had the Indeed Pad Thai just because it's an easy way to fill my belly and judge a place. It was awful. A lot of Canadian-ized pad thai is just as awful but at most have flavour? This was just noodles, filler veg, and NO flavour, other than something too sweet. NO taste of lime, shallots, tamarind, fish sauce, garlic chives, etc. Nothing. No egg. And they *really* scrimped on the crushed peanuts. Not nearly enough. And served with a slice of orange, not lime? So confusing. Really need side lime. At least they don't use ketchup however. This one I actually ordered tofu so of course, it comes with broccoli and carrots... To top it off, this had clearly been sitting in the plastic for a long time as all the noodles condensed and formed a big lukewarm lump that was very hard to tease apart.
Every dish was garnished with parsley for some reason, and oranges.
PRO: Nice big helpings of side rice.
I'm sure the people are very nice and they listened to all of the special notes we included but the food wasn't good, especially for the price. Prices are good, not exorbitant but for the quality and quantity you actually get, it's not worth it. Especially the pla rad prik and pad thai (you get a lot of noodles but they have no flavour other than sweet). Best deal was the satays both for the size of them and how many you get.
Considering the 2-hour wait, messed up orders, missing chicken, congealed noodles, watery curry, small dry fish, and flavourless chilli sauce and pad thai, I don't expect to every try it again. One thing wrong, I can handle--and maybe they were having an off-day--but so many things weren't good at all. I really, really wanted to like it and have another Thai place near home to give my business but sadly this won't be it. Let's hope they were just having a bad day and other times are better for other people. I thought about calling and complaining but I didn't see much point. There's nothing they could have done after the fact although I'm sure they would have been nice.
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