Easygoing Thai kitchen featuring classic curries & noodles, plus diverse Pan-Asian dishes.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 8900 161st Avenue Northeast STE 105, Redmond, WA 98052
Phone: (425) 497-8383
Website: http://www.rachathai.com/
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Reviews
I had to have them make me the exact thing written down to have them make it again and exactly next time!
We came here on a Sunday evening and were warmly greeted and then quickly seated. We all started off with the Thai Iced Tea, which was made well. We then had the Papaya Salad which was fairly tasty.
I then selected the Massaman curry with chicken and brown rice. For this dish, I felt that the curry was a tad too sweet (rather than savory) and that the onions could have been cut up a tad smaller. My brother’s curry selection (red curry) was a little better than mine given the reduced sweetness.
The portions here are massive. When paired with the price, it is very much so affordable, in my opinion.
Update
It’s been a while since I’ve been here but gotta say it was really good. Nice portions, good flavors, cooked well. I’m happy I returned and would come back again soon.
Chicken in the soup/curry was tender and juicy, pad thai was good, Singapore noodles was also good. The shrimp in the Singapore noodles was very dry, we told the waitress but they didn’t do anything about it (I would have expected them to offer to take the extra charge for the shrimp off the bill). Other than that, the meal was great.
I would recommend this restaurant for Thai food, just stay away from the shrimp.
When I arrived at the restaurant to pick up my order during the height of dinner time, I was surprised to find it completely empty except for the employees. This should have been my first indication that something was off.
I ordered sticky rice for $3, but what I received was a cheap plastic bag of hot, dry rice that seemed old and clearly scraped from the bottom of the pan. It was nothing like what I expected.
The disappointment didn’t stop there. The peanut sauce, which looked generous in the pictures on the website, was more than twice the amount I received with my order. It felt like a bait-and-switch situation.
To add to the frustration, I ordered pad see ewe with extra noodles and broccoli, but my order arrived as a standard one, without any of the requested add-ons. It was as if my specific requests were completely ignored.
In total, I spent $50 on my order, but what I received was worth no more than $20. Despite my disappointment, I still tipped 20% because I believe that the workers shouldn’t suffer due to the actions of their owners.
Regrettably, this experience has led me to the decision that I won’t be returning to this restaurant, and I can only give it one star. I even took photos to capture the disappointment that my order represented. It’s truly disheartening when a restaurant doesn’t live up to its promises, and this was a prime example of that.
This time I went, there were: no cashews, no carrots, hardly any shrimp, hardly any green onions, hardly any sauce in the noodles and worst of all was the salad portion of this “salad” dish. Someone literally (no exaggeration) took a large slice of an iceberg lettuce head and placed it onto the plate… I actually stared at it in disbelief at first. I wanted to go all Gordon Ramsay mode.
Furthermore, I found this detail rather odd but it spoke further volumes, all the heat in the dish was concentrated in one rather painful bite towards the end of my meal. Admittedly I am sensitive to spice, but it was as if, however the heat is applied, it was all lazily applied to one spot and one spot only.
The entire dish just screamed “made by a passive aggressive teenager for a parent after an argument.” And its quality was not only embarrassing for a restaurant, but it also embarrassed me after I bragged to my friend that was with me on how good this Thai food place was.
I am both sad and angry to report that I won’t be returning anymore because I do not want to pay full price for a meal like that ever again.