Taste of Thai — Restaurant in Meridian Charter Township

I am from the area. I have tried every Thai restaurant from here to Lansing. This would definitely be the #1 compared to all others. The atmosphere of the dine in is very comfortable. I observed the cleanliness within the restaurant from the eye view kitchen opening, to the restroom, to the entrance and our table. They really take pride in the restaurant and it shows. The lunch prices are very fair and affordable. They also take 10% off your entire bill if you pay with cash. How awesome is that! The portions are fair and worth the price. I was able to take home left overs. The flavors of all the food are a 10+, it was all very very delicious. They really know how to incorporate the correct amount of spice and season to every dish. All the food is top notch quality and freshness. It looked and tasted as if everything was just picked from my garden. Amazing! I can't rave enough about the quality and freshness of our food. The best part was the staff! Our waitress was out of this world, a sweet heart! She was amazing with my toddler, was able to interact with him in a way that made him happy and content. Then I believe it was the owner/manager came to our table. A older lady, who was also amazing. She also interacted with my son as if she was family. It was so cute, my son who is only 2 had a great conversation with her, a funny conversation. Not many places are like this. Where we feel so welcomed and like family! When staff come up to the table to actually have a conversation and act like people. We definitely need more of this in our society. Everyone enjoyed their job and what they were doing at that moment. It showed! One lady was stocking the sweets cooler, I watched her be so perfect in everything she did. From the placement of the cakes to the placing of the food. She would stand there at look at it as if it was a center piece or like it needed to be placed so perfectly. It mad me happy to see that, because they pay attention to the small detail. Small details do matter. I wish this restaurant, staff, family so much success. It really is the best! My family and I will always come back...

vegetarians, read First time here, loved it! I got the Pao Prik fried rice dish. Very tasty— the chicken was cooked perfectly, and tasted very fresh. Despite the dish having little-to-no heat (I love heat usually), there was still tons of flavor. Definite comfort food, will absolutely come back for this dish again.

As an ex-vegetarian, the one gripe I have and cringed at when I saw it on the site—and perhaps I am incorrect on my assumptions— but… this dish, and others, are marked as requestsbly-vegan (assuming they mean them omitting meat/eggs). However, a lot of these dishes are inherently what they are with ingredients that are in nooo way vegetarian, let alone vegan, and wouldn’t likely taste quite right without them. Ground up seafood all over the place, albeit in small amounts. I guess it’s the customers responsibility to be knowledgeable about common ingredients and bases in new different regional cuisines that they’re trying if they’re vegetarians/have food restrictions. They are usually used to reading up on such things beforehand, so so be it. But still, if they really are using the traditional recipes and ingredients, they are not being honest in their vegetarian labeling.

Then again, maybe I’m wrong, and this restaurant was able to find an alternative ACTUALLY vegetarian-or-vegan recipe which provides a similar flavor to the traditional ingredients that are fish-based. And if that’s the case, they reallyyyy should advertise more about that fact because that would be AMAZING and way more staunch-vegetarians/vegans would come visit for that, I think.

In any case, the food...

If I could give this place negative stars it would be -100. I used to cook in a restaurant for over 10 years and have cooked in a wok before. In Thai food, if you ever see a lot of black little specs in your food we used to call that wok spice. This isn't an actual spice but rather burnt pieces of whatever was left over in the wok before cooking the food or during cooking of the food where the food becoms burnt. The black specs is not black pepper I'll tell you that right now. Someone that is advanced at cooking in a wok will never have wok spice and will make sure the noodles aren't mush and have texture. My wife and I order a chicken pad Thai and a chicken drunken noodle to go and the noodles we're mush, had wok spice all over in it, and was so extremely spicey that it was not enjoyable to eat. The only reason why I ate about half was because I haven't eaten in 7 hours and needed at least something in my stomach. In all honesty I literally would rather eat food that hit the ground and was dragged in mud than this. This is so disappointing I will never come here ever again and make sure I let everyone I know about my experience here. How this place is even in business is a shock. Probably because the majority of people don't know what the term "wok spice" is, since restaurant workers would be the only ones to know. Horrible. Just save your money and go...