Wednesday, 01 June 2011
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Taste Of Thai: Review
This is a guest post from Kirbie's Cravings.
A while back, I purchased a groupon for Taste of Thai. Taste of Thai has two locations: Hillcrest and Del Mar. I’ve known about Taste of Thai since I first moved to San Diego. When I was in college, it seemed that the two most popular Thai places were Taste of Thai and Celadon. At the time, the two were located directly across the street from each other in Hillcrest. Celadon has since relocated and revamped its menu and style.
I was a loyal Celadon patron when I was in college, so I never visited Taste of Thai. Lately, when I pass by Hillcrest, I see the signs for the lunch specials, so I have been wanting to check it out for a while. So when the groupon appeared, I purchased one.
We went for a weekend lunch. Unfortunately, the lunch specials are only during the weekdays. We started off with the Mee Krob appetizer, something we’ve never tried before.
The dish wasn’t what we were expecting. There was only a few pieces of chicken, which were fried and really dry. The majority of the dish consisted of the crispy fried rice noodles, which were tossed in a sweet and sour sauce. The dish reminded me of eating the crispy noodles dipped in sweet and sour sauce at American chinese restaurants.After our appetizer arrived, our food took a really really long time. I don’t know what the hold up was because there were not many customers in the restaurant.
Fiance and I both really love the various Thai noodle dishes, so when we go out to eat Thai we always tend to order quite a few noodle dishes instead of more entree type dishes.
We ordered the Pad Thai.
I ordered it with Thai sausages, but the sausages in this dish were the chinese sausages. Still, I liked that they offered another option other than the standard chicken, pork, beef, shrimp. The pad thai okay tasting, but not great.
We also ordered the Pad See Ew.
I thought this dish was way too salty. I couldn’t eat more than a few bites. The noodles were also too choppy and cooked a little too long. They should be a little chewy and these were too soft.Going into this experiences, my expectations were not that high, especially since we’ve had a lot more different thai places since our college days. But I was really disappointed by the food here. The servers were really friendly and our waters were constantly refilled. It’s too bad the food wasn’t as good.
Taste of Thai
Do you like Thai Food? How have your Groupon restaurant experiences been?
527 University Ave
San Diego, CA 92103
www.tasteofthaisandiego.com
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Comments (7)
It's funny - there's a restaurant that's also named Taste of Thai in upstate NY... and I got excited, thinking that someone had come here!
i love thai food, it's one of my favourites
On average, I eat Thai food once a week. I could eat Thai, Lebanese and Indian food all the time and never get sick of it. The Thai place down the street from me is really cheap, really tasty, and has surprisingly good quality food for the price. You can easily feed two to three people for $10 there. There are many Thai restaurants in metro Detroit, and I love trying new ones when I have the chance.
I'm on Groupon, but I've never taken advantage of any of their deals. I don't have a working printer. :\
thai is one of my favorite style of food. if you ever come to vegas, go to lotus of siam. the best thai food i have ever had. mmmmmm
I had the best little studio nearby for a couple years - near Whole Foods in Hillcrest! My boyfriend, my friends and I LOVED walking to this restaurant to eat lunch or dinner. It's tastefully decorated and sets a nice mood. I've never had so many word-of-mouth recommendations from so many people for a single place, but everyone seemed to have eaten there, and highly recommended it. Sometimes the service has been hit or miss, but the food was pretty good and it's not too expensive.
I'm sorry that this isn't even relevant, but I'm kind of desperate here... Does anybody know anything about either Thai or Tai culture? (I'm not sure whether the girl is from Taiwan or Thailand.)