Siam Orchid — Restaurant in Bellevue

Amazing restaurant! Amazing food! The owner is so sweet. My husband brought me here for our first date 11 years ago. I was scared to order because I don't typically like most foreign foods. I am willing to try anything but I'm boring and picky lol. My husband loves spicy food and I do not. He has been eating here for several years before he met me. His whole family loves it here! I ordered the chicken fried rice for a long time. It was simple and I knew it was safe. The flavor was incredible! I was hooked! Waayyy better than any Chinese chicken fried rice I've EVER had. In the last few years I have ventured out to try the Sesame chicken. Again... AMAZING! If your palate isn't adventurous, you have to try it! It's sweet like a sweet and sour chicken but the flavor is so much better! Doesn't taste artificial like sweet and sour chicken at a Chinese place. The consistency of the sauce is thicker too. Wonderful over rice! Best of all, the chicken is so lightly breaded it's ALL chicken. Sweet and sour chicken at Chinese places are always all breading and hardly any chicken. It's my new favorite dish here at Siam Orchid. Even my picky teenager will eat it! My husband loves the Chicken Pad Thai and the Chicken Thai Spicy. He always gets the hottest level. This is our favorite place to go, especially for date nights! I have brought my family over from Cincinnati and they too have really enjoyed the food here! There is a kid's menu for picky little ones. Heads up, Siam orchid is always closed on Sunday. Lastly, their soft drinks are not fountain drinks, they're cans of soda. Some people may not mind at all. I am sadly a fountain drink snob, so I always know to order water when we go. Great beer and wine...

08-13-22 : Visited Bellevue and was very pleased with my lunch at Siam Orchid. My Siam chicken was delicious and the level 3 spiciness was just right. My wife had the Massaman curry with beef at level 2 and was very happy with it. Our server did a good job even though she had to handle incoming calls for take out as well as assisting dine in customers. I am happily raising my previous 3 star rating back to 4 stars. Looking forward to my next visit!

Had an enjoyable lunch. Ordered Siam chicken at level 3 (hot) on their 5 level spiciness scale. This was the correct choice for me. Food was spicy but did not overpower the flavor of the food. Service was good and I thought the price was fair. I will definitely dine here on future visits to Bellevue.

• Returned for the first time in a year and was a bit disappointed. Food was good, but portion size was smaller than previous visits. Also mixed up the spiciness level on my wife and my order. Hers was hot instead of medium, mine was medium instead of hot. Based on this I have lowered my previous 4 star rating to 3 stars. Hopefully next visit will be up to...

ordered Chicken Red Curry, medium spicy with white rice, Satsy with peanut sauce and fried Spring Rolls with Plum Sauce. First day of the spring rolls with the plum sauce. Those were very good then I ate the Satay with the Peanut Sauce. The chicken for the Satay was very good, the peanut sauce that came with it was not really a sauce it was ground peanuts in an orange gelatinous stuff. And the stuff really didn't have any flavor. The main dish though was a major disappointment it was chicken red curry which is always made with coconut milk there was no coconut milk in the curry it had look like a lot of different vegetables that might have been delicious but it had a huge Basil Leaf laying on top of it so all I tasted was basil no coconut milk taste the spice was on point but it was tasteless and I couldn't eat it first of all because I asked for white rice and they sent fried rice which taste nothing more than like a burnt Wok. I will not return there for the over $20 I spent the only thing that tasted good was the spring rolls...