The food is worth it, and the customer service is more like family welcome. The atmosphere, is warm and cozy and the restaurant team makes sure to let you know that they remember you and invites you to come back. Such a pleasant and personable, dining experience to thoroughly enjoy
I personally do not understand the bad review of this place. First of all, I’m a first generation immigrant here. I’m Asian. I know how Asian foods are supposed to taste like. And I’ve had plenty of authentic Thai food when I was in college. It is probably true if you expect to taste more peanutty flavors, you will not find here. The food here, arguably you can say it is less authentic, but let me tell you, it’s as Asian as a small quirky business can be while thrive in the US community that is not specifically catering Thais. The posts that complain the food is too sweet, I don’t get it; Pad Thai is just about any other Thai’s place, if not less sweeter. And with taste I don’t think the sweetness is overwhelming. Ok, with that out of my way, let’s talk about how I discovered this place. Around 2015 when I was living in Long Beach, I was in search for some healthy alternative takeouts rather than feeding myself fast food like McDonald all the time. I’d found this place on google map and decided to be adventurous to give it a try. The result was not disappointing. The most impressive part, aside from a lot of seasonal greens and healthier food than what I would normally eat, it was the portion and price. I was glad I could find something that’s good portion, relatively healthier, and superb price. Now, you would say that the price of everything had gone up, but let me tell you a more recent experience. I took my bf there for a dinner date, and the combined weight of two of us excess over 500lb. We ordered two appetizers and two main dish, and I was estimating that this meal would be well over 60. After we finished our food, we were actually stuffed and would not need any food for the rest of the night, the bill came out to be under 50. That was something you have to put in consideration. And now I do not live in Long Beach anymore, even so, from time to time I bought folks to this small business. Each time I was impressed. Once I took a white friend who’s like, born and raised in Missouri, and he even liked this foreign food, where their people were infamously picky for the food’s taste and textures. Other foodie friends I’ve bought to there over the years have had about the same effect. Condolences to the grandmother. I haven’t seen her at this place for a long while now. My own grandmother used to chat with her while we ate there. My grandmother had Alzheimer’s. But I was pleased to see the children were helping out in the family business; positive stuff like this made me like life more altogether. TL;DR: give it a try, and definitely won’t disappoint you. Impressive? Probably not if you’re expecting full blown authenticity. This is Long Beach after all, not like it’s in San Gabriel valley or something. PS: no, I do not get paid for this review.