Thai 99 Kitchen (Curbside Pickup Only) — Restaurant in Lynchburg

i hate to leave a negative review, but it was such an underwhelming and disappointing meal that i can’t leave it be. for almost $50, my mom and me got the vegetarian rolls, pork thai fried rice, red curry and tapioca pudding.

the rolls claimed to have vermicelli noodles, and there was at BEST a tsp worth. it was mainly bland lettuce wrapped in rice paper. the sweet chili sauce was overpowering sweet, with no spice and no peanuts, when they were listed as a topping.

the thai fried rice was bland, veggies were not properly cooked and the pork looked (and tasted), unseasoned and boiled. they also didn’t mix the spice with the rice and when i took a bite, it was a scolding burn in my mouth. really sad. it even looked unappetizing, but i tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.

my mom got the red curry and she enjoyed it somewhat, but said she’d had a lot better. it was absolutely the best of the 3 things we’d had so far, for sure. i did take a couple bites of her rice when my mouth was on fire, and it was clearly unwashed, and had no butter or salt added when cooked.

we finished with the tapioca pudding, and to their credit the flavor was great. tapioca pearls were cooked right, coconut milk wasn’t too sweet and the combo was very comforting. the only complaint with the pudding was it wasn’t a pudding at all. it was such a watery/runny consistency.

we love good thai food, and lynchburg has some great options. unfortunately this is not one. and for the price we paid we expected something much nicer than we got. it’s very sad to be this disappointed in a small business.

i will say that our curbside pick up employee was very sweet, and helpful and attentive. i was thankful for her.

all in all, i will not be back. and i wouldn’t...

Update from 5 stars down to 2 QUALITY HAS GONE DOWN DRAMATICALLY

The previously flavor rich green curry was very watered down and had less meat in it. Right now in 2025, you see a lot of "shrinkflation" talk about products in grocery stores that cost the same but contain less... that was exactly this. Maybe they doubled the water in the recipe to make it go twice as far, but that was a terrible decision. The flavor profile was still the same, but so weak! Even the vegetables in it were no longer fully saturated with flavor; they were bland and tasted more like plain eggplant pieces, etc. Very disappointing.

We also bought pad see ew, and the noodles were not the correct shape noodles, which would've been forgiveable if maybe they just ran out, but they didn't mention that and they were also cooked poorly, leaving the texture off. As you might imagine, there was also very little meat added to our dish, very few pieces of broccoli inside, and far less sauce than ever before. At this point we're going to have to stop coming unless we get word from others that they've stopped skimping on the ingredients.

Old Review:

The food is delicious! Our favorite is the green curry, and if you haven't tried the Thai tea, you definitely should.

The signs telling you to stay in your car make it feel like they're hiding a dirty building, but the top notch flavor hasn't changed over time, so I...

I NEVER EVER EVERR wrote any review for any restaurant before no matter how bad they were. I usually just let it go and move on. However, this restaurant is the worse! So bad that I have to share on Google Review! I have never eaten any restaurant this BAD before in my life before. We ordered food today, 3/4/19 and I am an Asian who grew up eating Thai food. We ordered many variety of dishes and had it delivered using DoorDash (got charged twice). We ordered everything HOT(spicy), some Thai-HOT, but none of the dishes were remotely hot/spicy. The rice was under-cooked and hard, the curry was heavily watered down and barely tasted coconut. Pad-Grapao (with adding ingredients) was completely missing from my order, drunken noodle was dry, tasteless, missing basil, and sweet instead of spicy. Ruam-mit was missing completely. Mango custard and sticky rice had no mango whatsoever, sticky rice was over-cooked and mushed like mush potato. Everything about this order was BAD! If i could give less than 1 stars i would have done it, -5 Star. Everything was just terrible! Thai food should be rich in flavor and full with spices but these food they gave to us is just so blend, dry, and so...