Talay Thai Restaurant — Restaurant in Los Angeles

Wish we hadn't gone to this place. I've been feeling queazy since we left. We ordered 2 entrees and an appetizer and all were pretty gross. Perhaps the regular cook was out but everything was off. The mee grab tasted funky - something was wrong with the sauce. I couldn't eat my seafood dish, the imitation crabmeat was definitely bad. I took a bite and moved the rest to the side. The sauce was bland, the seafood looked like it was out of a frozen mixed seafood bag. My daughter's panang was watery and the chicken was off as well. We ended up eating a few bites and we took it to go thinking we could doctor it up at home but when we got home we both felt kind of sick so I threw the whole thing away. I should have sent it all back but my politeness won out. We paid and hightailed it out of there. Ugh. Was such a disappointment - with all the Asian restaurants and the large Asian population, it's hard to believe we found a bad Asian restaurant. We went because of the reviews and I don't get why the reviews were so good. Also, the restaurant was grungy...

Not sure why all the other reviewers have the food here such high marks. The food was good, not great. I've had better, and MUCH better in West LA. The chicken satay looked like it was coated in some florescent chemical. The chicken was just ok, kind of thin, and a little stringy and tough. The peanut sauce had been sitting out long enough that it developed a dry "skin" on top of it. The cucumber/onion vinegar sauce was pretty good but again, I've had better.

The Tom Yum Kai again was just ok. The chicken in it tasted kinda weird. The mushrooms were good, but the broth itself was not as complex as that soup can be at good Thai restaurants.

Lastly, we had the Pad Woon Sen with chicken. This was probably the best of the three. Probably because it's normally not that spiced of a dish. It had an ok mix of vegetables. What got me was the mini corns. I'm guessing they came from a can. I shudder to think that other vegetables we were served might have also been from a can...

The food here is pretty darn great, but I have to give it a 3.5 because the customer service and delivery experiences have not been very good for me.

I have ordered several times from here for lunch and they have repeatedly been so late that I miss my lunch. To make it worse, I have even tried to order 1.5 hours early and their have still been late...

If their pad see ew (with shrimp), wonton soup with veggies (which is THE CURE for any cold), chicken and salads weren't so darn good I would not order from here ever again. Unfortunately it is, and i continue to remain hooked for that...