Lakeside Thai Food — Restaurant in Cottonwood Shores

The short of it is very average Thai food. We wanted something can came across this on Door Dash. From the other review and some of the pictures, we thought this would be a good choice. Very easy to order online.

It's not a long drive so we decided to take the drive and pick up for ourselves. Plenty of parking and as everyone has noted, pretty clean inside. I gave my name and within minutes, had my order. It was wrapped up nicely to avoid any spills during transport.

We had the Tom Kha soup and it was okay, but not great or what I would call traditional. For the most part, like most Tom Kha soups I have had, but this came with onion and something orange I couldn't make out, but I've never seen onion or this other item ever in Tom Kai.

For entrees, we had the Thai Chow Mein with chicken and Drunken Noodle also with chicken. The Thai Chow Mein was very disappointing as it doesn't come as advertised. The carrots were just sliced and typically they would be Julienne and crunchier. I think these carrots were previously frozen. It's also advertised to come with bean sprouts. In the photo on their menu, there seems to be a handful and look fresh and crunchy. I think I found two bean sprouts and they were overcooked. As for the meat, we ordered it with chicken and there were only a few pieces. And worst of all, the sauce. It was completely bland, flavorless sauce.

For the Drunken Noodle, it was mostly the same. We ordered this also with chicken but they put very little meat in their dishes it would seem. And per their menu, it's cooked in a "dark soy sauce" but again, whatever sauce they used was very minimal and lacking any flavor.

We were really excited to try this new place, but unfortunately, it is just average at best. The food you get will be hot and that is about the best thing I can say...

Unfortunately this was a miss for us… I’m shocked because the reviews were so positive… but everything was just… pretty bland and dry. The Pad Thai really didn’t have any peanut sauce on it. The Pad See Ew noodles were all stuck together with no real sauce to be seen. The fried rice tasted flavorless... the one thing I didn’t get a pic of was the crab rangoon because we did love those! But those are hard to mess up haha.

I think we’ll give this one more shot, and do dine-in instead of takeout, in case that was the issue? But we won’t be rushing back for sure.

Mostly sad as this would have been our go-to Thai spot based on location! But it definitely won’t be our take-out...

Best Orange Chicken I've ever had!

The crispy texture and fresh orange taste of the dish was excellent. I typically only order orange chicken when there is no General Tso available, but this is different. My new favorite Asian restaurant, it's just unfortunate that I don't live in the area.

My wife had the spicy veggie fried rice and she enjoyed it as well. Our only complaint is that the food wasn't as spicy as we expected (we ordered as 4 & 5 spicy levels). They had hot oil available however, so that helped.

I'm going to make it a point to come back every time we pass by the area. Please keep this...