Thai Paradise — Restaurant in Monterey Park

This is a five star restaurant. We came for Mother’s Day and ordered 4 entrees. Literally everything was perfect. We didn’t take pictures we just saw the food, it looked amazing, and dug right in lol. I highly recommend ordering the striped sea bass if you’re sharing with a small party (we were 3) or not ordering much else. It’s big. It comes with a sour-ish sauce with several kinds of onions mixed in. SO GOOD. The next winner was the Thai Paradise Beef. This was nicely seared and comes with an amazing sauce which I would buy if they bottled it up. The green curry with chicken at medium spicy was a perfect level of spiciness for us. The kind of spicy that if you only ate the curry it could be too much but since we ate family style it was perfect. The chicken in the curry was surprisingly soft and not rubbery. We also ordered the ong choy. It’s a classic, nothing too unique but it was well cooked so that the stems were not overly soft and still had a bite. Our server was friendly, checked in on us just enough, and quickly got us our...

It’s a very casual dine-in Thai restaurant that serve authentic food, well, based on the menu because I ordered BBQ Chicken 😅. Either way, the food was good and it came around $23.

The chicken I ordered had a good sauce glazed on top and it also can with rice, a fried snack, a salad (or soup), and a sweet sauce you can pour on your meal which went very well with the rice. After I finished they offered me a small sweet bean soup as dessert for free which was also good.

For drinks I ordered a Thai iced tea w/ boba to go along with my meal and a Thai iced coffee to go; both were very good.

Next time I’ll try to order something more ambitious than something from the appetizer section.

Edit: Around year after, I went back to this place and tried the shrimp cakes. Beautiful, this shrimp tasted good and the bread was very crispy. The black rice pudding is still...

Our server was great, he was able to answer right away and asked me about the texture of the brown rice and gave feedbacks to their chief.

We love the fresh coconut (my car license plate reflects my love affair with the coconut). Yummy tom ka shrimps. I finished the soft-shell crab by myself and ate some curry duck.

Sorry I forgot to take pictures, today was the last day to dine out for who knows when the "law" permits to reopen for dine-in. Plus, I do not like to let camera eat before me! I will be sure to take some pictures next time as we will be coming back.

(Update): After they reopen the patio dining, was happy to be able to dine in at the patio again, although it was cold. Almost half way done, I remember took just one picture of my...