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Thai Food to go in the Pacific Centre food court
I've tried Thai Express twice so far, and although I can't say it's the best Thai food I've had, it's more than passable considering that it's from a Food Court.
The price does seem a bit high, ranging from $6.98-$8.98, but they really cram a lot of food into the seemingly small Take Out container. Both the Pad Thai and the Pad Sew that I have tried tasted good and were very filling. The only disappointment was that both could use more meat and vegetables, so the value drops a bit for this. However, the meal overall is as good as any Take-Out noodle place that I've tried, and it's a nice change from the usual Chinese and Japanese places.
The service as mentioned by a previous reviewer is slightly rude, although they aren't openly hostile in any way. They are obviously geared for speed and efficiency so it isn't anything personal, they just want to serve as many customers as possible during the busy lunch time. A major positive is I've received my food within 5-10 minutes both times that I've ordered there even with a huge lineup, so I don't have any complaints at all.
Overall, I will keep coming back to Thai Express. The quality is good, and it's rare to find a cheaper Thai takeout place, especially in Downtown Vancouver.
I've tried this place several times since in downtown Vancouver take out Thai is non existent in the financial district. Each time I hoped, by some miracle, the food would get better. Well, now I'm done. This is by far THE worst food you will ever have, Thai or otherwise.
The mee ka tee soup has absolutely no flavour, which is a feat in itself.
The pad thai was made with the wrong type of noodle and the noodles were brown. (Most pad thai that I've experienced are pale, delicate noodles). The taste was a muddy, stale soy sauce flavour. Thank goodness I store "flavour" at my desk in the form of either soy sauce or garlic sauce.
The tom yum soup was hot vinegar water with a miser's portion of tom yum paste.
How anyone can take a beautiful cuisine, such as Thai food, and drag it down to a level that even McDonald's would be ashamed to serve and still have people eating there is beyound me. The Thai government should step in and force them to remove the word "Thai" from the name.
Grabbed a quick bite while doing some shopping. I ordered the vegetable yellow curry and is was quit nice. The vegetables (about 6 varieties) were cooked to order, so had to wait a few minutes, which was just fine with me. While I was eating, I read the menu board again and noticed it was supposed to have pineapple in it, and it clearly didn't, which I was actually pleased with, I hate pineapple. Fortunate for me. It was a good portion for the $6 and change. Service was quick and friendly for a food court location. The ambience is a tough one for a mall, so I'll rate it solid based on the fact the tables were kept very clean. I wasn't impressed with the pan handler coming table to table while I was eating, but I guess that's Vancouver.
I'd return if I was in the mall again.
Food- I ordered 2 items, a Pad Sew stir fried noodles and a beef skewer. Firstly, the noodles were hard (they're suppose to be soft) and tasted kind of like plastic to me. There were pieces of scrambled eggs that has absorbed with lots of the sauce. The sauce was overly sweet. There was also broccoli and shrimp in the noodles. The shrimp was not fresh at all (yes this is a food court place, what do I expect? But the standard of the shrimp was bad), it was wet like it has been dunked in water for a long time. Isn't it suppose to be somewhat dry after it was been stir fried?
Service- Poor because I wanted to order a beef skewer and I had to repeat myself many, many, many times before the cashier understood what I was trying to order. That required a lot of shouting on my part because the kitchen was very loud and she kept shouting back at me "What?! What?!"
THEN I had to wait for 15 minutes to get my skewer (my noodles were already done by this point). This is probably the longest I've ever had to wait for my food at a food court! The service was very slow. So the person FINALLY got me my skewer. But guess what? It wasn't even beef! She gave me a CHICKEN skewer when I specifically ordered beef. She said that I would have to wait another 10 minutes for a beef skewer. I was too fed up at that point to argue so I just took the chicken skewer.
Value- I paid about $9 for the noodles and $2 for the skewer. The noodles were definitely not worth the price because it did not taste good at all (as I already mentioned in Food). The skewer was alright if you aren't expecting too much but I've had better skewers.
Ambiance- Poor again because the people saw me there standing for 15 minutes for my skewer and I had to repetitively ask for my skewer until they gave it to me. The chef was shouting in his LOUD voice across half of the food court for the woman to come get her plate of noodles. It was a very loud bellowing voice and I thought it was rude to be yelled at for your food. People were staring.
It may sound very objective that I'm giving 1's for all the ratings but this is truly the worst food court experience I've ever had and I was very upset with it.
| 1. | 701 W Georgia St (55 m) | |
| 2. | Park Royal (5.2 km) |  |
| 3. | Richmond Centre (13.1 km) | |
| 4. | SW Mount Royal Gate (668 km) | |
| 5. | Market Mall (668 km) | |
| 6. | NW Northland Drive (669.2 km) | |
| 7. | Chinook Centre (671.2 km) | |
| 8. | Calgary Eaton Centre (672.6 km) | |
| 9. | Suncor Energy Centre (673.1 km) | |
| 10. | Deerfoot Mall (676.3 km) |
| 1. | Starbucks (1 m) | |
| 2. | Flaming Wok (3 m) |  |
| 3. | Umi Sushi Express (3 m) | |
| 4. | New York Fries (3 m) | |
| 5. | Koya Japan (3 m) | |
| 6. | A & W (4 m) |  |
| 7. | Purdy's Chocolates (4 m) | |
| 8. | Nu Greek Street (5 m) |  |
| 9. | La Brasserie Street (21 m) | |
| 10. | HBC Cafeteria (28 m) |  |
