Bai Plu Thai & Sushi Bar — Restaurant in Long Beach

Good: Huge variety Good quality sushi Generous portions Good service Full bar!

Meh: Huge variety (like 15 pages on the menu)

Friend ofine has been telling me about Bai Plu Thai & Sushi bar for the longest time now. Finally got a chance to try it out.

I was a bit leary with the sushi because, in my experience, se sushi joints that don't specialize in sushi usually tend not to have the best quality fish. I was wrong on this count. This fish quality was good, with no fishy smell, so it passes the smell test and taste test.

And also being a Thai restaurant that serves sushi, you never know what the Thai food is going to be like. Verdict: Good. We ended up ordering Pad Se Ew with beef ($16.99), Papaya salad ($14.99), Panang curry with chicken ($15.99), spicy eggplant & basil with chicken ($15.99). Oh, let's not forget about the Mango sticky rice ($14.99).

All delicious and definitely flavors you'd expect from a Thai restaurant.

Service was attentive and quick. Although family friendly, not really built for strollers. But I would definitely come back on the...

One of my new favorite Thai places, and I've tried many in Long Beach, and a few elsewhere. Prices were pretty much what you expect from a Thai place, not crazy cheap but not unexpectedly expensive, either. For the usual prices, though, I felt like the portions were fairly large, and quite tasty. I tried the pad kee mao, which did unexpectedly have green beans in it - I'd never seen that before in that dish, but it was actually a great idea. The food also came out -way- faster than I'd ever seen food arrive at a Thai place before, but I wasn't going to complain about that, either, as it still tasted entirely fresh.They also have a whole sushi menu and Chinese-Japanese fusion menu in addition to their Thai menu, which is kinda weird, but again, I'm not complaining. (Unlike Your House, which tries to have both Thai and Asian-fusion menus and fails at both, this place actually seems to do both rather well.)

My favorite Thai place in LB so far is still Thai Sky, but Bai Plu is...

They used the cheapest most tasteless nori (sea weed wrap) for the hand roll. It was served last, instead of first. It was so bad I couldn't even chew through it without tugging at the nori. The duck soup broth was over powering, opaque dark brown and very salty. They didn't even bother to loosen the noodles from its knot so it could be evenly cooked. The Thai salad was underwhelming and basically vinegar with raw shredded veggies and a chuck of cabbage on top, strewn with stale whole peanuts and didn't look anything like the photo. Total bill: $41 excluding tip. The table waiter was helpful except for the strange delivery order of the dishes. His associates were obnoxious and kept talking in little groups not far from my table, often loudly, possibly because it was almost 3PM and I was the sole customer. I was placed at a small dark corner table even though the restaurant was near empty when I arrived instead of near the interesting sushi bar or...