Kinaly Thai Carlsbad x 78 Thai Kitchen — Restaurant in Carlsbad

When I walked into the shop, it was very quiet with just one customer inside. I'm not sure why, as the food I had is great. The restaurant is quaint and clean. Although there was no one up front to take my order for a few minutes, once they came out, I was greeted with a smile and a very polite cashier. She was attentive to my order and very pleasant to talk with. I placed my order to go and then stepped out for a few minutes while they prepared my order.

The menu here is robust. I chose the pad see ew with tofu as my protein. I additionally ordered their Thai spring rolls with tofu as my protein.

The pad sew ew was extremely flavorful! The portion is huge and actually fed my daughter and I. The flat, glass noodles were tender and packed with flavor from the brown sauce. You get hints of sweet, savory, and a mild hint of garlic as well. There are plenty of vegetables and tofu strewn within the dish. Excellent is what comes to mind when I think about its flavors.

The spring rolls were my highlight. The rice paper wrapper was pliable and held up to the heavily stuffed roll. You could taste the fresh flavors of the thinly sliced and crisp carrots, bran sprouts, rice noodles, fresh mint, and crunchy lettuce. The peanut sauce served on the side for dipping was creamy, with a great combination of sweet, spicy, salty, and savory. A perfect compliment...

My boyfriend and I were staying in the area craving some Thai food and came across this place. We were driven to try this because it had great Yelp reviews. It was incredible! Coming from Las Vegas, we have tried some wonderful Thai restaurants and we were skeptical that this area would have had great Thai food but omg it was amazing! Their Thai tea was seriously the best Thai tea I have ever tried. I love that they put it in a to go plastic cup with a straw so I was able to just take it with me when we left instead of asking for a to go cup. Our waitress was attentive, so sweet and the food came so fast! I was so surprised there wasn’t more people in here. We tried the chicken wonton soup, which was literally incredible! Some of the best we’ve ever had. The cream cheese wontons are amazing, I wish they had crab of some sort in them but still good! Orange chicken was good, came with a side of white rice. Boyfriend got the chicken pad Thai which he said was good as well. We would definitely be frequent customers if we lived in the area! This is a hidden gem, truly. I hope they see more business! Try the chicken wonton...

If you’re looking for NOT AUTHENTIC Thai / Lao cuisine, this place is for you.

I ordered the beef laab expecting to get a lot of mint cause it’s usually served that way and when the dish came out there wasn’t any. I spoke to the server and she said she saw the chef add some. Clearly no where to be found in the salad but I believed her and I simply asked for extra mint. She comes back out and tells me they ran out. lol. So you didn’t have any mint. And didn’t give me any but swore the chef added some. Haha. The food always is spoiled over silly lies. The beef laab was just stir fried beef over a salad bag you could get at Vons and some chopped cabbage. It was $20. I could stir fry my own beef and get a bag of salad for $6.

Crab fried rice was wet and had barely any crab. $18.

Tom yum soup was $13 but add the 3 shrimps and it came to $17. lol

Really wanted the mango sticky rice but I can’t justify it being $15.

What bothers me the most is the service is not for the people. When you make a complain to these people the just shrug it off and pretend they don’t know...