Thai Orchid — Restaurant in Hamilton

We ordered here fir the first time on Christmas Eve. Our favourite Thai restaurant was closed so we though we would give this a try since it had great reviews. We were terribly disappointed with our food. We ordered spring rolls and pad Thai. I have had pad Thai from many many restaurants and I would have to say this is the absolute worst pad Thai I have ever had. It was almost all rice noodles with two shrimps and the chicken was little bits that didn’t taste like chicken. The sauce/base was terrible!!!!!!!!! I am a foodie and open to trying anything and this was an extremely disappointing experience and we will never order from here again. I ordered my Pad Thai to be extra spicey and I couldn’t even taste spice in my dish. It is essentially a box of distasteful noodles. If you want to have quality Pad Thai I strongly suggest Lemon Grass. You would not believe the difference. I strongly suggest you give it a try. I never write reviews, but our food was so bad that I felt I had to write after such a disappointing experience. I wouldn’t even give it 1 Star but this was the lowest I could select. Sorry but it ranks as the worst Pad Thai I have ever had. The spring rolls were decent and mediocore but...

Wasn't impressed. I get the feeling this place's vegetarian dishes are more of an afterthought as what I got was not up to par with the two dishes my meat-eating friends ordered.

I don't recommend the deep fried tofu as an appetizer. It was bland and the middle wasn't cooked completely. The sauce was a mediocre sweet/sour dip. The server informed me that they used silken tofu for deep frying and only used firmer tofu in their Pad Thai dishes. Spring rolls were great however.

Then when my main order came, the coconut curry w tofu.. it was the wrong order. They instead gave me sweet & sour tofu which was the exact same mushy inside crunchy outside style tofu as the appetizer. Ew. The sweet & sour dish also was pretty much devoid of any veggies as well. The server came and resolved the issue by making sure I got what I originally ordered (coconut veg curry) which I found bland and the veggies hard or a little raw for my liking. I gave my friends and they also agreed it wasn't as delicious as their dishes.

Sorry!! I wanted to like this place but the food was just...

Great food and wonderful ambiance. The spicy basil chicken fried rice is incredible! I would highly recommend going just for that dish. We ordered it will a medium spice which personally was not spicy at all so I would recommend going higher if u have a pretty normal spice tolerance and would like to up the heat level. Other than that the other dishes we treid (calamari and the spicy basil beef) we ok. The service was very fast and efficient. We were in and out in a matter of 40 minutes! I would highly recommend going and will be returning in the...