Thai Jin — Restaurant in Houston

This place is very well decorated. The colors and warm lighting are consistent throughout, and it is neat and clean.

I ordered the Red Curry with Chicken lunch special. The waitress brought me a hot cup of soup while I waited. It was a bit spicy with a strong lemongrass flavor with a few veggies. It was nice, especially on a chilly day like today, but the lemongrass was a bit overpowering.

When my food was brought out, it came with the red curry chicken, a bowl of white rice, a small fried spring roll, and a tiny side salad. The spring roll was fine, nothing interesting to note. The salad was a few pieces of lettuce with some watered down thousand island dressing, probably a pre-mix from a store.

The curry was quite disappointing for a few reasons: -It was heavily salted without much flavor -It seemed watered down. It was either not full-fat coconut milk, or it was literally watered down -The vegetables didn't taste or feel fresh -The chicken was just a few small shreds of chicken

The curry was so salty that it could not be eaten without rice.

Overall, it's hard to give a restaurant a rating based on a single visit, so you can consider this a first impression. At the same time, curry is such an important part of Thai cuisine, and you would expect a Thai restaurant to get it right, even if they serve a mixture of dishes from other cuisines.

I probably will not return to try...

I had one of the most disappointing experience here. Walking in to an empty restaurant at 7 pm on a Sunday evening, I was surprised by how spacious the place was. Being the only customer there, I thought why not be a lil greedy and take the booth for myself to enjoy.

I had an idea of what to get due to my prior detective work of the place. Pad thai and calamari. Now I made sure to ask the waitress what was in the pad thai but she didnt seem too sure of it. So I just told her not to put any bean sprout in my food. Few minute later, I got a salad and my calamari shortly afterward. I was quite surprised at the little portion I got for calamari. Roughly around 8 pieces of calamari with their special sauce on the side. Calamari was battered quite nicely but lacked seasoning. You have to eat the calamari with their sauce or else you're just chewing on crispy squid. Next off pad thai, remember I said no bean sprout. Well, you guessed it, they got it in there. The entire time i was just trying to pick the bean sprout out of my food as I ate it slowly. Did I enjoy my meal? Not quite. Felt like a monkey trying to pick out lice from another monkey. Told the waitress about it and she said sorry. I mean not sure who made the mistake but it wasnt busy because I was the only one...

Good restaurant. Nice new owner. Enjoyed the food

----- Edit 9/13/2022 -----

Ordered Japanese Curry and it was... not even edible. Typically when you order japanese curry you can actually taste the curry in the soup and the veggies are softer. This time the potatos were almost raw and the carrots were still so crunchy that they were almost raw. The soup didn't even have curry in it.

This time.. it was extremely horrible. I regret even going there that is how bad it is. I would rate this lower but I have to give it a star. This was like literally trying to eat raw vegetables thrown into a bowl of broth and a small/tad bit of curry in hopes the 'white' person doesn't know the difference. I'll contact the management (since they closed before I could call) and see if they will correct it. God.. I'm hungry. Thanks for ruining my night.

--- Edit 9/15/2022 ---

The owner herself made sure this was good. I got my curry and it was good....