Thumra Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Kirkland

Small and quaint, but overpriced and not authentic. Lunch specials are just full priced entrees posted on a "lunch" menu. Yellow curry is made with curry powder, not traditional curry paste...there's a difference! Red curry was tolerable, but the chicken tossed into it was severely overcooked and difficult to chew, possibly microwaved. Only things I can recommend here are the pad Thai and Thai tea, which were tasty, but not made to our order specifications. Overall, service is slow, not particularly welcoming or inviting, and the prices are rather high for the quality of food you get. I doubt I will go back.

UPDATE: I appreciate the owner's response, but it's not an honest reply. I've been eating Thai since I was a child, I have Thai friends that are as close as family, and I even had my honeymoon in Thailand! I cook Thai dishes myself and make my own curry paste at home. I can pick apart spices in dishes like few can. If you don't use curry powder in your yellow curry, then I don't know what was going on the day I visited! Perhaps you had a substitute cook who didn't fully understand how to prepare your dishes? Perhaps you didn't make the curry in-house? Either way, it was not a proper "Thai" style yellow curry. Also, I'm very familiar with Turmeric, as I cook with it regularly and also drink it mixed with ginger in a glass of orange juice every morning! That is not the flavor that made the yellow curry so disappointing. Also, regarding the chicken, there's a difference between "properly cooked" and "overcooked". Not only am I a cook myself, but I am also a ServSafe Manager, so I understand food safety and the appropriate degrees of cooking necessary in order to minimize health risks. Your chicken wasn't just "safe", it was cooked to the point of nearly...

Either we came on the wrong night, or some of the other reviewers never had good Thai food. Sorry. This was a very disappointing experience. I always try to write about the positives of an experience, but the best I can say is it's a clean and quiet restaurant - because there was no one there. Even the server kept disappearing for long periods of time (but when she came, she was on the phone most of the time - yes, having a long conversation while serving out food). We had two dishes: Bangkok Chowder (described as "Hearty Meat, Vegetables, and egg flour Soup with Cilantro"). I thought it was a typo and should be "egg flower soup", but no.. it was a bland (yet salty) chicken broth, heavily thickened with flour (the main ingredient), with shaves of boiled chicken, about a dozen hair thin slices of carrot (how did they cut it this thin? couldn't even taste it!) and two (2) cilantro leaves. There may have been some egg-whites mixed with the flour - I couldn't tell. My grandmother's Polish chicken broth (before adding vegetables and Sleazeballs) had WAY more flavor than this. Panang Curry (described as "Very creamy and spicy dish includes your choice of meat, coconut milk, bell peppers, basil, and lime leaves"). It was in fact a very watery and spicy liquid that contained very few pieces of meat and two (2) slices of red bell pepper - each less than 1/8th of...

The whole family works there and the husband cooks. FANTASTIC, AUTHENTIC THAI FOOD. So good. I've been going there for 15 years and they know my dad and me and our orders on sight!

ETA several years past that review - STILL fantastic. I always get the Thom Kar soup before the meal (shared) and I always get the massaman (peanut) curry with chicken and rice (only complaint - need way more rice especially when sharing!) And my dinner date (so to speak) got the drunken noodles with prawns. Everything was cooked to perfection, my friend cleaned their plate! I have never had some of the older reviews' problems with undercooked prawns (my dining partner's looked perfectly grilled) and my chicken in both the soup and curry didn't taste/feel "microwaved" (speaking as someone who actually has attempted to microwave a chicken breast to avoid the tedium of "real" cooking). Trust me - this is FAR superior to my microwave attempts! The ONLY food there that I wouldn't recommend is the pad Thai. It's not very peanut -y, has a strange red sauce on them. If you want AMAZING phad Thai, go to the crossroads mall food court. Seriously. Not kidding. Huge portion sizes, and you will keep eating until you can't anymore and still have half to take home!

ETA3 the family that runs this restaurant are very diligent with mask-wearing. They no longer require proof of...