Tonkin reopened with a new menu in August and so cool, they now have pad kee mao on the menu. I had it a couple of days after they reopened and it was good.
So I had their pad kee mao again last week, and disappointment: no thai basil. None at all. Nada. Now thai basil is the ingredient that makes pad kee mao, plus it's listed on the menu. So that's plain deceitful. Plus, bummer that it hasn't even taken Tonkin one month and the quality went down. One month. So guys, you want to go the way of most Vietnamese restaurants in Prague and cook vegetables in oyster sauce and call it exotic names, sure, go for it. But then you don't deserve those four stars. If you think customers are stupid and won't know and won't notice, you are wrong. We've been to Asia, we've had pad kee mao elsewhere, we've bought thai basil, we've cooked with it. We know what to expect, and what you're cooking it ain't.
I first left this review on Tonkin's feedback page on their website, suggesting that I expect them to react. They didn't bother, so public it is. And for anyone looking for Thai dishes, do yourself a favor and check out the blue Thai restaurant on Jindřišská.
Edit: I also had their bun bo nam bo a few times. It contains zero Vietnamese herbs and the beef is...
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