Bangkok Street Food — Restaurant in Bakersfield

We have no idea why this place is not overly crowded. It's really hard to find authentic and good tasting Asian food in a small City like bakersfield. But alas we have found it! The Thai food restaurant is a place to make a destination on your travels or if you're a local you should certainly take time to come here yourself. You have not ever experienced spice until you have tried any of their spicy food. For a spice lover my spouse had the medium and was about in tears! We love to the vibe that the restaurant itself procured from the declarations and the music going on in the background. Once again very surprised that we were the only ones in the entire restaurant. They had quite a few takeout orders coming in. Our service was actually very quick, he believed this is because they put their sit down customers above takeout customers. This is something to value in today's restaurant industry. We hate it when we have to go into a restaurant and sit there for 2 hours when the takeout would have only taken 15 minutes. The service was above par with the friendly staff who was not...

I didn’t know what to expect when I approached the storefront. I honestly thought I was walking into a fast food style place. But after walking inside I realized it was as a sit down/take out type of restaurant. I approached the young lady at the order counter and asked if they did take out as I didn’t have time to sit down.

The young lady said they did and handed me a lunch special menu. It was a minimal list of options but that wasn’t a bad thing in my opinion, as it was concise and offered some good sounding options. I ordered the Spicy Basil over Rice with the chicken option. The young lady at the counter told me it would be about 10 minutes until my order was ready. I sat down and started watching something on my phone. I would say my food was ready 7 or 8 minutes later.

When I finally sat down to eat it at my workplace I opened up the container and was pleasantly surprised at the appearance of the food. As I dug in to eat the flavors were really bright and bold. I really liked it and I will be returning. Next time I...

Normally, I like to cook at home, but was not feeling up to doing it this evening as I was tired. Ordered some Tom Kha soup along with some fried rice. Fried rice was good for takeout fried rice, but had some issue with the soup. It’s edible but out of balance with a slight strong fish sauce taste to it. Also, they left whole leaves of basil, as well as inch long shards of lemongrass, and galangal which are fibrous and difficult to eat. These are normally taken out at the end of the cooking prior to presenting, but they chose to leave them all in. No one wants to have to spit out food into their hand because it’s not edible. Also, I asked for spicy and I couldn’t taste any heat at all in my soup. Maybe I’m too tolerant, and their idea of spice is different from mine. Other than being a little sweet for my taste, which I also find often in their pad Thai. It was an acceptable soup minus the bits that should’ve...