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| - This place is awful. I don't understand all the good reviews when there's so many amazing Thai restaurants to go to in this city.
First, walking in you get the oddest vibe. Nobody looked excited to see their FIRST customer at 7:30PM. That should've been our first sign. Empty restaurants during dinnertime is not a good thing, especially when the sushi place next-door was packed. The decor is dingy and old. Like an unkempt takeout restaurant... oh why did we stay.
The only reason (besides lack of choice) for the one star was the young fresh coconut drink. It was a cold, fresh carved coconut. Right after that we ordered chicken satay and dumplings. They were OK, but nothing to brag home about.
After that, everything went downhill quick. We ordered beef Penang. I've been in the restaurant business a long time and I'm also a very good cook myself, when food comes out way too fast--that's a problem. it's either been sitting there, or it's going to be severely under cooked. The dish came out and it was small chunks of extremely fatty chewy "meat". It was most definitely not beef. After two bites we realized it was pork. We tell the waitress it's not only pork, but it's bad fatty badly cooked pork. She said "oh you want sliced beef?" ...um yeah. That's what we ordered. She said "ok this is stew meat" .. ew. Keep that "stew" away from me. I felt like I ate a few pieces of fat flavored gum. She tried to accommodate, I suppose. She brought the plate back to the kitchen and I heard a man screaming at her loud in Thai. Really unprofessional.
About 10 minutes go by, and our tofu Pad See Ew came out. Again---wrong. I don't know what's wrong with this place but whatever it is, isn't right. There were maybe 6-8 overcooked broken noodles, what feels like 1000° tofu on top at a different temperature (cooler) mix of vegetables. I'm starting to think they use microwaves because of the inconsistent temperatures throughout the plates.
Minutes after that, the replacement beef Penang came out. Slightly better but not by much.. at least it was beef this time.
We asked for the check and hauled out of there.
Never again.
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