Zen Thai Cafe — Restaurant in Phoenix

Today must have been an off day for them. The pad thai with shrimp tasted so bad I had time to put my fork down and take a photo. It tasted as though the pad thai were made with a sweet spicy spaghetti sauce. And the peanuts were more of a brittle / Haitian tablet. The peanuts were all stuck together in semi coagulated chucks. You can see them on the left edge of the plate. They look like menced chicken but are actually conglomerate peanut clusters. As though they were wet, pressed into a brittle and then broken apart. The spaghettiesse sauce was too sweet for the splattering of fried egg and made my taste buds whence when I bit into a piece of the scallon coated with the sauce.

The thai chicken wingers were not bad. They use the same sweet spicy that sauce as the pad thai, alas the chicken is a much better medium. They had a pleasant kick.

I ended up just picking the shrimp out of the pad thai. They were buried at the bottom of the mound of noodles, as though the shrimp were sitting in a separate dish, put on the plate and then covered with the pad thai spaghetti. So I basically paid $15 for 6 shrimp with thai spaghetti sauce on them.

Lastly, the thai ice tea was ok. Not great, not bad. Just ok. The killer there was that the top was/is about 2mm bigger than the cup. Which means it doesn't actually close/gasp/clip on. It wouldn't really matter however, I spelt a good bit of it when I went to pick it up and the lid popped off causing me to squeeze the top and splash a good amount on the table and my head phones.

I'll try again tomorrow and order something else. Perhaps they just had an off day in the kitchen.

Oh, and I had to ask for chopsticks. Hence why my first thought when they bought the Pad Thai out was "This is spaghetti." Which was confirmed when I initially used the fork to try it. It's just wrong to eat thai with a...

Garbage establishment. They say they validate parking to lure people in, then rudely scoff at you when asked to do so. When I suggested they change their website and google page to reflect that they do not actually validate parking, I was sarcastically laughed at and hung up on. I knew I shouldn’t have gone in based off this interaction, but my friend still wanted to try the food, so we did, to our detriment. I was judged based off my body, because I ordered TWO separate dishes, and only received one. After 30 minutes of waiting, I questioned where the other dish was and the server ran away because she didn’t want to answer me. Instead she sent some rude guy in charge to basically patronize me and tell me that they only put in the order for one item, because why would I eat both? Excuse me??? Nevermind the fact that one was rice and one was a curry, to have a bit of both together!!! How stupid do they have to be to not understand that, why is that their business anyway, and how DARE they limit how much a person orders without their consent? I was flabbergasted and appalled. I then ordered an appetizer the server knew I wanted earlier, and out of spite, they provided me with so-called cold crab rangoons which had NO crab and ONLY cream cheese. It was absolutely disgusting, as you can see in the provided picture. There’s more to add, but there’s only so much energy I’m willing to waste on this sorry excuse of a restaurant. Please save your money and your dignity and do not give your business to this...

We thought the food was delicious. But the server was pretty short with us. I asked if he could substitute the eggplant and the green pepper for brocolli and mushroom. He said yes. When he brought the food he said " I kept the egg plant in there, its sweet. " I said, oh I left it out cause it makes my throat itch. But just picked it out and gave it to the person I was eating with. Then I noticed he left the green pepper in there to, which is something my partner doesn't like. That's why I asked if he could substitute. I picked that out as well. Then when we got the bill he charged me 20.95 for the tofu curry. I didn't understand why he charged me 6 or 7 dollars more than what the menu states. I asked and he told me it's because of the mushroom and brocolli. I was confused cause that should be just the substitution. So I mentioned that and then he decided to tell me that all of the menus have the wrong price for the tofu and the tofu with veggie items. I continued to wonder and mentioned that they should be charging what the menu says until they change it...or at least let people know before they order. He then just walked away in the middle of our conversation. We enjoyed the food and atmosphere but not sure we will come back due to our...