Warm, casual institution offers straightforward Thai cooking, including curries & noodle dishes.
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With that out of the way, the red curry with shrimp was also a fantastic dish. The flavors were balanced very well, and the spice is very mild. While I love hot curry as much as the next person, I really like it when you can taste more subtle flavors and not the heat.
The papaya salad is a little messy, but it’s also a great starter to share, and I would recommend it if you’re trying Blue Elephant for the first time.
Overall it was a dinner that left my wife and I smiling, and we will definitely be back for more!
First, the Papaya Salad had a PIECE OF HAIR in it and that alone already ruined our experience. Of the few bites of Papaya Salad I had before I noticed the piece of hair, the green beans and cherry tomatoes that came with it ruined the whole dish.
We wanted to leave at this point, but we had already ordered our main dishes and felt bad about leaving. I gave them the benefit of the doubt and hoped that our main dishes wouldn’t also have hair in them, but that was the least of our concerns by the time the Pad Thai and Pad Kee Mao came out.
The presentation of the food looked like it was not authentic Thai AT ALL. After taking a bite, it was literally THE WORST Thai food my mom and I ever had and Thai food is my favorite so I’ve eaten at countless places in several other cities. The Pad Thai was mainly made of bean sprouts and the noodles were hard and not fully cooked. The flavor was also lacking. The only good thing about it were the chunks of tofu, but we could’ve cooked up some tofu at home.
As for the Pad Kee Mao, it was watery, had zero spice at all, and tasted purely of soy sauce and MSG. The flavor reminded me more of Pad See Ew, but a poorly executed Pad See Ew. Pad Kee Mao (aka Drunken Noodles) are supposed to be spicy!!! There was no ounce of red pepper in it at all so I had to ask the waiter for red pepper and a side of peanut sauce so I could add some spice and dull the soy flavor to it. Also, the noodles were not the normal thick noodles that come with Pad Kee Mao, the whole dish was white instead of the usual brown look to the noodles, the peppers and the cherry tomatoes weren’t cooked all the way, and there was hardly any basil in it.
The only reason I’m giving them two stars instead of one is because I liked the elephants on the menu and the blue elephant statue in the window.
If you work in Clayton or nearby, lunch here is the best, you will definitely run into me at least 2X a week!
We had family lunch after a graduation ceremony!