New Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Merced

I really enjoy New Thai Cuisine. Most of the time we order take out and pick it up. This time we came to dine in around 630. Tonight happened to be a busy night (Friday and the first). We didn't have to wait too long for a table and were informed that food was taking 15 to 30 minute wait. We did not mind waiting bc we know the food is really good. We ordered an orange chicken, pad Thai, and fried rice. Fifteen minutes later the waitress came over and was real sympathetic about their rice maker not coming properly. We ended up ordering bed and broccoli and instead of sticky rice we got steamed vegetables instead. I must say that I was extremely happy with the broccoli and beef, it had lots of garlic and I could taste the fish sauce and the steamed veggies were delicious. The shrimp pad Thai was wonderful as was the orange chichen, as it always is. This is a place that my picky eater 13 year old will eat at. The three dishes and a soda was a whopping $35, you can't beat that! We even had left overs! We will definitely...

Heard this was a good pho place, so my little family went to try it out. Bad customer service, there were no friendly greeting and waiter from the start was not in the best of mood. We were missing a food item but the same waiter whom checked us out said they did not know what happened. No REFILLS asked, ever seen Reservoir Dogs? I was pulling Mr. Pink but wifey gave it anyways. We only tried the combination pho and the kids pho. It was alright, not your typical soup base. There were no onion oil, if you're a true pho eater. The combination comes with shrimp, calamari, beef, beef balls and imitation crab (which to me throws off the taste). The kids pho only comes with one side of meat and when you order another side they do not put it in the soup. Final Verdict: Not the best of Pho in my own opinion, portion was good. Customer service was not great. We did not try the other food there and it was our first time there, so I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt (hence...

The review is for the food, not the service.

So the place I normally order my Thai Food from was closed, so I decided to try a new place for my favorite food.

I ordered Chicken Panang and Pineapple Fried Rice. Let’s start with the Panang. It wasn’t a curry, it was just water with some panang curry paste mixed together, it wasn’t a sauce, it was legit water. The chicken was dry and chewy. The panang was so bitter, I couldn’t smell or taste any peanut or anything. It was so disappointing.

My only problem with the Pineapple Fried rice was that the tails were left on the shrimp in the fried rice. I had to sort thru the rice and remove each shrimps tail, but I missed one and my boyfriend almost choked on it, cuz we mix our panang with our rice so it’s all blended for him. But yeah otherwise the rice was okay.

I don’t know if this is an everyday occurrence but this meal definitely did not do this place the best 4.5...