Thai Monkey - Roanoke

We had Thai Tea, Cheese rolls, corn patties, pineapple fried rice with Tofu and Mango Sticky rice. Mango Sticky was yummm!!! Overall great food.

This was my first and last time trying out food from here. I placed an online order for the following: Tom Yum Soup with Tofu, Basil stir fry(with jasmine rice) and drunken noodles with tofu(No eggs). When I go to pick up the order, the lady at the counter tells me that she already gave my order to Uber driver that came to pick it up. I showed her the order on my phone, and she repeatedly told me it 's gone gave it to other person. She refused to re-make the order, even when I showed her that I paid for it. Her manager then came, and apologized that they accidentally gave it to someone else. They are making it again. When the order did come, instead of the Basil stir fry, they had given me fried rice with eggs with basil leaves. I told her that 's not what I ordered, she then made the right item. She told me in the end, sorry, we don 't make veg items too much, hence the errors. If you don 't make veg items, why do you have them on the menu to begin with. This was a terrible experience and I would not come here again. Also the restaurant is pretty run down, chairs with their covers ripped, and dirty floors. Since I was picking up take out, I will not elaborate on this too much.

Service was good with drinks arriving quickly and food arriving nice and hot. But then the restaurant was just about empty at 6:00 on a Wednesday evening (our table to four and just two other tables). A couple of things struck me as odd at the restaurant. One was that the “placemat” was nothing more than a thin black unfolded napkin that when you sat a cold drink glass on it soon dissolved to nothing and with the slightest breeze (walking by) fluttered up. Second was that in the actual napkin napkin the only silverware anyone had was a fork. That just seemed odd leaving no way to cut anything served and no way to get up any of the sauces with noodles, other than to use the serving spoon which we did not want to do because we were sharing four dishes between us. In fact we had to ask for individual plates, which I have never had to do in any Thai or Chinese or other Asian restaurant. Those three things just felt like really cheap moves to us. On to the food. We all got small dinner salads which were complimentary and a nice touch with a nice dressing. Crab Rangoon was good, but not as filled as other places. Shrimp Dumplings were not what was expected, but were actually excellent. Larb Chicken was a good portion but lacked any kick at all even though we asked for it medium hot. In fact, that lack of spice was a theme across all of the rest of the dishes. We asked for everything medium because at other Thai restaurants we have been to an order of medium means a good kick and sometimes even too hot for some. Here “medium” seems to mean no heat at all, which leads to bland and in a couple cases flavorless. Ginger Delight – excellent flavor of ginger. Basil Fried Rice – pretty average flavor. Drunken Noodle – totally flavorless. Pad Ka Po – it tried to have flavor but just never got past bland. Thai Tea was well done. Overall, just lacked the punch we were looking for. The lesson for next time and for others is to ask for more spice than what they consider medium and absolutely do not ask for low heat because we can’t imagine how bland that would be.

The food my wife and I had was excellent. I had the Pad Ka Pao while my wife had the mixed vegetable delight. Everything tasted fresh and delicious. I would say if you are familiar with spice levels and Thai food, error on the side of less spice than what you ask for. I asked for a spice level three out of five, and while there was spice to it, there was not as much as I was expecting. Service was decent but this restaurants primary focus is takeout and delivery. Vegetarian options: It's Thai so you are bound to find plenty of vegetarian options.

Simply the best Thai food I've had in a long time. Everything was so good. I had my standard order of Pad Woon Sen and my wife got the Red Curry. Both fantastic. The chunks of pork in my Woon Sen was surprising. Couldn't get a bite without a piece of pork! We got the fish cakes for appetizer and they were really nice. The Thai Iced Tea comes in a neat traditional Thai water jar which is a much bigger serving than you normally get. The inside of the restaurant is clean and nicely decorated. The staff we interacted with were all very friendly and helpful. We will definitely be back again!