DTK Thai Kitchen — Restaurant in Asheville

To be totally honest, I am brutally disappointed. I came here, prdered fried tofu and beef pad Thai. The tofu was over fried and filled with searing hot oil that poured all over my arm, the sauce provided was 90% peanuts, and the tofu was over-breaded. The pad Thai was nothing short of disgusting. Since it is a universally known dish (even called "the most popular dish in Thailand, according to the menu) I was hoping for it to be at least passible, but they served the dish with a heap of wilted cabbage, no peanuts, and no fresh anything. The pad Thai itself is repulsive, because they drench the noodles in incredibly thick tomato sauce. They used more than any self respecting Italian chef would even consider putting on a pasta dish. It tasted more like burnt and overlooked spaghetti o's. I will not be returning, and I highly recommend a change of chef.

The only good thing was the Thai iced tea, which you get one...

This was hands down the worst Thai food I’ve honestly ever had, and I’m an avid Thai food consumer (including having eaten authentic Thai). I don’t understand the high reviews at all. It arrived stone cold, and the pad Thai was dry, burnt, and flavorless. The “papaya salad” was some weird concoction of raw cabbage, overly thick green beans, overload of peanuts, whole sliced tomatoes (rather than grape), hardly any papaya, and some kind of pink sprite-tasting sauce without a hint of fish sauce and no chilis whatsoever. The fresh rolls were fine, but the peanut sauce was completely bland. The mango sticky rice had three chunks of mango (not nicely sliced thin like it should be) and was SWIMMING in coconut milk. We literally threw over half of it away because it was inedible. Please don’t waste your money and time here, there are much better Thai places...

Sadly my experience and food wasn't great. I'm not one to post negative, but hopefully the management/owner will see this. I'm from out of town and love Thai cuisine, my sister thought to try this due to decent reviews. I walked in to order to go and was just greeted by "are you picking up?". No greeting, just a quick in a hurry attitude. Then I take a moment to order and walk a few steps to counter were another employee is texting on their phone, then looks up to help me. Sadly my experience with staff was a feeling of rushed and impersonal, no genuine friendliness. The food was bland, no spice or flavor and I wasn't asked how I wanted it. I got Kee Mao. I hope this translates to bettering customer focus. Maybe one day I'll...