Bangkok Pad Thai — Restaurant in Orion Charter Township

Update 12/15/2020 - 6 months and probably 60 orders later, I'm super late in giving the wonderful family that runs BPT a full 5 stars. My family and I have worked our way through most of the menu and have NEVER had a bad meal. I do take back my comments on the spice level. I now order mild and feel it's close to other restaurant's medium heat. You can't go wrong with BPT!

Happy to see they are finally open, taking the place of Alex Chinese and Grill. I'll really miss Alex, but the new owners were super friendly when I stopped in for a menu, and I wound up ordering some cashew chicken to give them a try. The first thing I noticed was amazing portion size! Easily 3x the meat and cashews of the other new Thai restaurant in the area and it was NOT drowned in sauce/soup. You know what I mean if you've had the other place's cashew chicken.

For now I'm taking one star off because I ordered it medium and it was pretty bland / no heat. I'll have to wait until my next order to see if it was a fluke, or if I need to remember to order a few spice levels above normal at this restaurant. The flavor profile of the sauce was also not as complex or garlicky as the "other place" and almost had a sweetness to it, but it was still very good and I ate way more than I should have...again, the dinner portion was plenty for 2 people to share for $10.95. Can't wait to try a variety of other dishes here.

Bottom line, well worth giving them a shot and welcoming them to the...

I've lived in and around Lake Orion since 2006, and I've had pad thai from every thai place the area and Bangkok Pad Thai is consistently the best testing out of them all and by a noticable margin. Whatever they do to these noodles is next to magic, I am always putting this place as my first option when I'm craving Thai noodles. The curry pad thai especially is my personal favorite. I also like the wider range of heat level you can choose. Most places are mild-medium-spicy. Here you can choose mild-medium-spicy-extra spicy-thai spicy, which is really nice because I'm always finding that other thai places are lacking in the spice department and I have to end up asking for it to be at the "burn my face off" levels of spice in order for it to be what I consider spicy. You get huge portions too, I can only eat half most of the time and I'm a big guy 6' 4" so it's you basically get two meals for the price of one. I highly recommend going here. I will go 15 miles out of my way, past all the other thai restaurants in town, to get noodles from here instead of going to their competition. Keep doing what you're doing Bangkok Pad Thai...

I can say that my family and I have traveled far and wide for Thai food. Frequently traveling from Michigan to Montana, we are always on the search for good Thai cuisine. Its awesome that we no longer have to travel too far (40min) after finding this tiny spot after visiting a family member in Orion. We all agree, hands down unanimously,, this is the most authentic and best Thai food we've had. Even though there's been a price increase, the portions are far worth the money. The owners are so incredibly personal, they have gotten to know us so well that usually all i have to do is mention my name and they know my favorites, heat preference and even special accommodations. They even remembered my birthday. We will go nowhere else. Thanks for making us feel like family. I give this place 100...