Thai In Fife — Restaurant in Fife

I visited this restaurant a few years ago when my husband opened his new office just down the street. I grew up eating Thai food everyday, and I wasn’t impressed in the least bit. They used some weird hot pepper flakes to “spice” up the dishes, and if you asked for five stars, it was drowning in the hot pepper flakes...which had no flavor. So I ended up picking through my noodle dish to get to the noodles.

Fast forward a few years. My husband would regularly eat here since it was near his office and told me that their food was much better now, so I decided to go here on a lunch date with my friend. HOLY MOLY!!! The food is absolutely FANTASTIC now and very authentic. The avocado fried rice is to die for, and I’ve never had a better serving of pad see ew in my life! The tom ka soup is my husband’s favorite. They don’t drown their dishes with flavorless hot pepper flakes anymore. The spice is actually there. When I ask for five or ten stars...I get it! I live in Puyallup and will have my kids drive to this restaurant in Fife for takeout anytime we want Thai food. It’s my favorite Thai restaurant...

I’m not going to trash their reviews because of this incident but I’ve spent $ here for YEARS. I worked for a corporation that was in Fife and we always ordered food from here for meetings. We spent thousands of dollars and I personally spent plenty of money here. Today, I went to Pick Quick with my granddaughter and she had to use the restroom. They don’t have one. I went to Gull, they wouldn’t allow her to use the restroom. We continued walking all the way to Thai in Fife and they didn’t want to let her either, I said ok, I’ll give you $20 (because that’s all I had in cash), then we proceeded to the restroom. When we returned a whole minute and a half later, she asked if we at least wanted a beverage I was like no I just bought a burger but we had a bathroom emergency and explained we’ve come here for years… anyway instead of showing some humanity and empathy toward a CHILD, she kept the $20. I won’t return here for future business because they’re very kind just as long as you are spending money but wouldn’t help a child in an...

The staff is nice enough and the service was fine. The food was only mediocre, unfortunately. I was also a bit put off by the fact that the Food Safety folks only give them an "OK" for their food safety rating based on the last 4 visits. The kitchen looked pretty unorganized and messy, lots of dirty dishes and they weren't busy. I had the Tom Yum soup. The broth was fine, but very little chicken, and the chicken that there was, was very tough and tasteless. Also, the soup was served in a plastic bowl, which I find to be very off-putting, I have always been served soup that hot in a ceramic bowl, but this was served in a plastic bowl that looked like it came from a child's play dish collection. For $15, it wasn't worth the money. It was unfortunate the food wasn't good, because the staff is very nice, but they really need to step up their food game in a place where really GOOD Thai food is easy to find. I'll be going back to my favorite tThai in Tacoma, Total...