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| - I haven't had much experience with Thai food. I was first exposed to it at Blue Spice in Albany, NY, and it was AMAZING! We enjoyed the restaurant so much that I never had a desire to venture out and try other Thai restaurants. Fast forward to the fact that I am now a resident of North Carolina, and we were craving Thai. We found that Thai Emerald was pretty close to us so we headed there for lunch one day.
The restaurant was clean and well kept. We were immediately greeted by a very friendly hostess, and all the waitstaff was very friendly. While one server took our order others came by to fill water, drop off food and clear the empty plates. I think most, if not all, of the lunch items come with a bowl of soup and a spring roll to start with. The soup was a very plain broth-based soup with some egg in it, and it was pretty good. With the egg, and the egg flavor infused in the broth, it was a little rich, but I enjoyed it for the most part. The spring roll is more like a mini roll, and if you didn't care for social graces you could probably polish it off in one bite. The roll was nothing special, and I have definitely had better rolls elsewhere, but I guess that's what you can expect from a free spring roll.
The lunch menu (which isn't posted on their site, though the dinner menu is) is basically a selection of different dishes where you pay based on what kind of meat you choose (or tofu/ vegetarian if that's what you're thing is) and what kind of dish you want. It seemed like they had a selection of different items from their dinner menu that were offered as a smaller portion for lunch. I ordered the Gaeng Kua curry with pork, which was a red curry with pineapples and some other veggies. It was pretty tastetacular, and I loved the pineapple mixing with the hot spiciness of the curry. It wasn't too hot where it burned going down, but it was spicy enough to give my snoz a small case of the runs. My wife ordered the Pad Thai with the vegeterian option (though she 86'd the tofu). She really enjoyed it, and when I snagged a bite I whole-heartedly agreed. I also have to say that not only is the food great, but the portions were huge! There was so much that I didn't finish mine (and that rarely happens) and my wife had so much leftovers that there was enough for her to have lunch for two more days! If what we ate was the lunch portion, I would love to see what they consider the dinner portion.
All in all, it was a very good Thai experience. I don't want to make the same mistake we did in Albany by making this our go-to Thai place, and I definitely want to "shop around" to see which restaurant in the area serves up the best Thai, but I know I'll be coming back here again at some point.
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