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I ordered carry-out today from Lotus Thai House, so I can't speak much about the service. Food was ready a quick 15 minutes from when I placed the order, props to that. The outside of the restaurant still looks like a janky strip club (which is totally fine, don't let that turn you away), and supposedly they renovated the interior, I didn't get a chance to inspect that carefully.
My favorite dish at the old Mekong River was the garlic fried rice, and they've done away with that on the new menu, which was disappointing. One great thing is the prices have definitely come down as compared to before, albeit slightly.
I ordered the pad thai and the "three-way pork fried rice", which sounded a little kinky. I don't have the most discerning palate for pad thai, but it tasted a tad on the bland side. I got the fried rice because I thought it would be really unique, but it turned out to be basically regular "American style" Chinese fried rice, not the explosion of flavor the old 'garlic fried rice' was. The menu said it comes with three types of pork: grilled pork, pork sausage, and fried pork belly, but there was no sausage to be found, leaving it a plain-old two-way. The pork belly was fun, but there was very little of it compared to the mounds of grilled pork. The onions were a little raw for me as well.
That all sounds bad, but I still had no trouble scarfing it down; all in all a decent meal, just not a 5 star meal. I will be back to dine-in sooner or later, and will try some other (hopefully better) dishes.
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