Tiger Bite — Restaurant in Broken Arrow

I'm a fan of Thai food, so once I saw a new Thai restaurant near me on Google Maps, I had to check them out. Ironically enough, there's at least 3 other Thai restaurants nearby, so they have some competition. Unlike the nearby Thai restaurants, they are structured differently. You get inline at the counter, place your order, and pay. They have a row of tables inside, a few outside, and a lounge area with single chairs and a couch. When your order is ready the call your number. Water is served by the bottle while pop is by the can.

Being the Oklahoma sun controls the weather outside, we sat inside with the air conditioning. Since they were slow, when I arrived and waited, they actually brought our order to the table. It was packed to go, which was fine by us. We never asked if we were dining in or taking it to go. I'm actually fine with it being served to go. We usually never finish our meals and would request boxes to take leftovers.

Each container was packed to its max. Plentiful is a good word to describe it. My wife went with one of their popular dishes called Pad Pak, aka B3, with chicken. Veggies were fresh, the chicken was tender, and there was plenty of sauce mixed in. My wife enjoyed it but wasn't completely blown away. She felt the sauce lacked some depth of flavor.

For my entrée I went with the Buddha delight, aka C1, with beef. For myself, there was no choice besides the hottest level of spice, extra hot. My veggies were also fresh with a nice crunch on the carrots, water chestnuts, and baby corn. Fyi, they only serve red curry. The red coconut curry sauce had great flavor. Heat wise, it was mediocre. I barely broke a sweat. Very few places locally offer an actual Thai hot. I suspect the beef has gone through a velveting process to be as tender as it is. If you like the beef as tender as the Chinese restaurants make it, you'll like the beef here.

Overall, the place was inviting and clean, and the workers were friendly. They lady helping us easily answered our questions, like what is popular. The wait was very reasonable for fresh cooked food. Pricing is roughly average. The starters menu seems disappointing with only the usually basic items offered. I'm happy to have another Thai restaurant...

Tiger Bite, a clever name for the restaurant.

It is a family-owned restaurant setup primarily for takeout. There are 6 tables inside if you want to dine in, and a sitting area if you want to relax, stay out of the heat, and sip on one of those bubble tea things. Several families came in to day with kids just for the popular drinks.

We asked the owner about the menu items. She walked us through the various compositions of the dishes describing the predominant flavors and the type of sauce. Our choice: N4 Peanut Curry Noodles: Stir-fried egg, broccoli, rice noodles, bean sprouts, green onions with peanut curry sauce, topped with crushed peanut with Shrimp, and C1 Buddha Delight: Stir-fried broccoli, baby corn, water chestnut, bamboo slice, mushroom, carrot with coconut curry sauce with Chicken.

We went with the medium heat which was more than adequate with today’s heat index of 105. The food didn’t burn your mouth from the red pepper, but combined with the temperature of the food it did bring up your overall body temperature. The food was served very hot. A good thing to know when you make a to go order this winter.

It is a pleasant, modern, brightly decorated restaurant, with a large screen TV playing nonstop Asian pop music. The owners are very nice friendly folks. The freshness of the food is remarkable, which made for two delicious meals.

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The vibe of this place is pretty hip. Nice and clean with a TV that plays kpop music videos non-stop.

The employees were nice and greeted everyone.

The food, price, and presentation is where I had to give it some gripe.

We got the special combination fried rice, pad Thai, and imitation crab cream cheese wonton.

We had to ask for water cup as they don't have any for people to freely grab. Not that big of a deal, but one would expect a place that would seemingly be mostly self serve to have cups and a water jug sitting out by the tables.

The food came out in Styrofoam containers. Yeah I get it, saves people time to not have to ask for Togo boxes if they don't finish their food, but for the price tag of the food. I was just expecting a bit better presentation.

Lastly, the food itself wasn't bad, but it wasn't exactly good either. I know everything is going up in price and so I get the pricing, but for nearly 19 Dollars for fried rice, I wasn't expecting almost a soup. The pad Thai was drenched in sauce and again, almost just a soup. The wonton that we got I felt were mostly cream cheese and a hint of imitation crab. Honestly, might as well have not put the imitation crab in there because the amount was so little, it made no difference.

Overall, spendy meal that...