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| - Came here on a frigid winter day with a large group of over 20 ppl for a birthday lunch celebration. We arrived for our reservation just before noon and occupied three large tables. For round 1, I had the mango salad (tasty!), crispy spring roll (average), fried chicken wings (good), fresh spring roll (average), pineapple tofu stir fry (average), pad Thai (under average!), spicy beef (tasty), chicken curry (tasty), and beef curry (tasty).
Second round I had a bowl of noodles made to order-- you could pick your meat (cooked shredded chicken pieces, beef balls, fish balls, fish cake, and shrimp balls. You could get your soup flavoured with scallions, picked vegetables, red birds eye chilli in vinegar, dried chillies flakes, fish sauce, sugar, crushed peanuts, cilantro... I asked for beef balls, fish cake and requested she make it 'extra spicy' and it was! A pretty good bowl of soup to warm me up.
For dessert, there were banana fritters and yam fries with honey, fruit (pineapple, cantaloupe, grapes, watermelon), double layered coconut jello, green jello with coconut flakes and peeled rambutan stuffed with pineapple. Dessert was a nice ending to the meal.
For $16, it was just ok. For that price, I would rather have a really good bowl of curry with authentic Thai flavour rather than this watered down (westernized) Thai food. Even so, this place seemed popular. You could see the restaurant filling up and thankfully the food got refreshed quite promptly. Not recommended for anyone with peanut allergies though since peanuts are everyone!
The thing that put a significant damper on the whole outing was the process of paying the bill. The waiter that we were working with was clearly not very happy about accommodating a large group and limited our entire group to 3 credit card payments.
More than 3 people did not have cash and he was visibly exasperated and not very service oriented. When the first few ppl tried to pay with credit, the machine stopped working and he had to take out the old school credit card imprinting machine. Such a hassle and not fun overall. Sad how one person ruined our celebration.
I seriously don't understand how a business can allow for this kind of poor service when we are clearly bringing significant revenue through their doors. Will not be returning if I can help it!
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