Thai Lanna Restaurant

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CLOSED NOW - Opens at 11:30am

I love this place and go frequently. Never disappointed and I eat around. :) ! It's not pretty and it IS in a shopping center, but the service is awesome and the place has never been crowded during my visits. I think it just doesn't get the notice it deserves possibly because of the location.

Thai tea- not too sweet, standards like cheese rolls, dumplings (GREAT SAUCE) and egg rolls are great. I can't do "Thai spicy", but my boyfriend can and we both get just what we want (I go VERY MILD). Everything is VERY fresh and there's lots of it. Great curry and fish sauce as well. Pad Thai and Masaman Shrimp Curry are favorites as well as the Beef Salad. AND IT'S BYOB!!! Nuff said.

I've been living out of a hotel in Houston for work and don't know the area very well. So yesterday, I was dying for some Thai food and decided to give this little restaurant a shot. It's in a dumpy shopping center, but some of the best food I've ever had was in a dive.



Well, this unfortunately wasn't the case. The fact that the sign on the building, "Thai Touch Cafe," and the name on the restaurant menu, "Thai Lanna," didn't match should have been a tip off for the dinner I was about to endure. I ordered the Pad See-ew with beef and green curry beef to go. Both things cost me about $16 which is average, so I would at the very least expect average Thai food.



The cook/owner? came out and told me that they didn't have any of the flat noodles for the Pad See-ew and if I would accept the thinner vermicelli noodles. I was disappointed, but let her do it since I wasn't in the mood for Pad Thai.



When I got the food, I was even more disappointed. The Pad See-ew, which is a very common Thai dish, was made with ramen noodles. Yeah, like the stuff out of the grocery store for .10 a package. And the beef looked colorless like it was simply boiled and thrown in. The broccoli tasted like it had been frozen to the point of frostbite. The flavor of the entire dish was indistinguishable. It tasted like it was just thrown in together and sauteed with soy sauce.



The Green Curry Beef was better but not a very good value. I got mostly sauce and bamboo shoots with very little beef, which was the same with the Pad See-ew. When you're paying about $8 for a dish, you expect to see more meat.



I took the menu with me, but I'll definitely never go back. The waiter was nice, but that was about the only thing nice about the place.