Tropika Malaysian and Thai — Restaurant in Heritage Valley

We use to come to this location when it was caffeinds so walking in gave us hints of our old favorite coffee shop. They kept the long community table and fireplace. Looks like the Italian espresso machine was left behind so they still have that. There are subtle changes such d the lighting. Floating fairy lights gives the space an intimate feel. Good for date night. Just missing candles. It was weird being back here. Kinda familiar but different. Hard to explain. Now to the food! We had the PINEAPPLE FRIED RICE which was delicious. There were pieces of ham and chicken with egg and vegetables all tossed in. The tumeric gave it a nice balance with the sweetness of the pineapple. CRISPY SWEET & SOUR PORK was also tasty except that they need to lighten up on the vinegar and add more sweetness. My tongue was raw after eating this. Just ask for more sweetness. Also the onions in this dish were undercooked. Another 30 seconds in the wok would be in order. VIETNAMESE SPRING ROLLS were crispy and delish. Can’t go wrong with these tasty starters. The service was great! No complaints there. The friendly servers kept our waters topped off and maintained eye contact when needed. We did not feel ignored. All in all a good experience especially for a soft open. They are not fully open yet with a partial menu. No advertising yet. The only way we knew they were open was because of the flashing open sign. We would recommend. Just a note: the prices here are a bit steep. For all three dishes pictured…our bill came out to 58 bucks. That’s PF CHANGS amounts. Good food...

I usually frequently the Calgary trail location and when I saw that Tropika had opened a new location I thought we would give it try. Pros: nice casual dinner room with a relaxed atmosphere. The server was very attentive and provided great service. Cons: The food is not up to the same standard as the Calgary trail location. It's the wok it does not get hot enough and the flavor and texture is softer almost soggy. One dish in particular the Pad Thai has been modified so much it does even taste right. The dish seems to be missing the tamarind paste, fish sauce, soya sauce and substitute vermicelli instead of noodles and the sauce taste like sweet ketchup instead of the sweet, sour savory flavor one would expect. Final note meat skewers are delicious but expensive at $3.00 a skewer. If you like the westernized version of Malaysia &Thai food give this place a try. For me I will stick to the...

We were excited to try this place having heard good things from the other location but overall we were pretty disappointed in the food.

We tried the pork with peppercorn which was absolutely flavourless. We also didn't like the texture and for $21 definitely thought it wasn't worth it. We had also ordered the Thai mix vegetables which was an ok size but for that dish we could also only taste soy sauce and there was no spice whatsoever.

None of the dishes included rice so we took the coconut rice for $4 which was fine. The service however was excellent the staff were super friendly and when refilling our water she actually remembered no ice and would take extra care to make sure no ice fell in the glass!

We will go back simply based on the service and because we do want to try other dishes to give them another chance so hopefully those...