Bua Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Claremont

Went here for dinner the other night. It is a nice place.

It's your standard Thai family style restaurant. You can order plates to Share and they have lunches specials too. The portions are not enormous, but getting 2 or 3 items will feed 4 easily. If you are looking for giant portions this isn't your place then. They also have some good appetizers too.

The selection is , for most items, pick what you want and then select your meat option to go with it. They offer Tofu and just vegetables too. So you can actually order the same thing and just get a different meat so it's a new flavor. I Got the Cashew Nut & Dried Chili with Chicken, the Drunken Rice with Chicken and the Glass Noodles Salad. It was all really good and filling. You can really get a lot of different items to mix and match.

As for drinks you will be able to get Water, Soda and Teas. I know they had beer, but wasn't really looking to see what other Alcohol they had.

Overall it was a nice place and the staff was very friendly. It was a little slow but not so much that your waiting a very long time, but be patient as they are a small staff, which is pretty typical for a shop like this. . They also have to go orders and order ahead, so that is always an option for you too. I will be...

Stuffed Chicken Wings are butterflied and stuffed with ground chicken and glass noodle. The chicken wing flavor works great with peanut broth sauce. There is a lot of meat and filling. These could be a meal in itself. The outside is very crispy and contrasts nicely with the interior which resembles chicken meatloaf. Rating: 4/5

Seafood Drunken Fried Rice is a generous portion. It has a lot of seafood, but the sauce used in the stir-fry is too sweet. It needs more shoyu (soy sauce) to balance out the sweetness. Medium spice level is perfect. Rating: 3.5/5

Garlic Short Ribs has a nice flavor, just sweet enough. The meat needs to braise longer before flash frying as it is tough and dry. The garlic flavor needs to be pumped up as it is not apparent. Rating: 3.3/5

Crispy Duck is too sweet. It would be better to serve the sauce on the side so duck stays crispy and customer can add the sauce to their liking. The vegetables helped to cut the sweetness down. It is also hard to tell what is bone versus meat with so much sauce in the dish. Rating: 3/5

Coconut Creme Brûlée has nice coconut flavor. They use coconut milk versus cream so it is not as creamy as a traditional creme brulee. It tastes more like a sweet Asian omelet with big bubbles inside....

Everything was so great! I can’t count how many times I said “mmmm 😋.” The Tom yum and Tom car soups were so flavorful and appetizing (10/10). The green curry had a nice kick to it and the chicken was well cooked (7/10 - watery, and lacked that intense green curry flavor but had an excellent hint of lemongrass. Also a drawback was that they did not sell rice with the curry and charged extra for rice which was a little dry). The Thai iced tea was a great way to wash down the spice. The service was fast and attentive and our waiter was very nice. I definitely recommend coming here!

Unfortunately, there is no cocktail menu. They had a ton of mocktails but no cocktails!! They only served beer and wine and did not allow wine sampling. Of their two wine options, the cab sauv was mediocre.

Overall, everything was very well priced. Keep in mind, they do not accept...