Thai Unique — Restaurant in Placerville

Edit: Response to owner's reply-- I'll edit my review as much as I want, thanks. Nothing personal here, sorry you're taking it that way. The only thing that made my day unpleasant and feeling bad was your food. I doubt everything is prepared fresh. I can taste fresh, and the food I was served that day wasn't. For you to imply I work for the competition (there's only one other restaurant in town that serves Thai dishes, afaik) is insult to injury. I don't. No, this was a genuine bad review for genuinely bad food. Maybe you guys were having an off day, I'll give you that. But to imply that I'm here to trash your business for any other reason than it was overpriced and underwhelming is a slap. If I was trying to sabotage (I don't need to) I'd mention another restaurant name, and I wouldn't advise people to learn how to cook Thai themselves. Duh. Read the original. The details about dishes were accurate. Anyone that thinks curry powder belongs anywhere near Thai food doesn't know how to make it, including your cooks. I said SLIVERS of shrimp, meaning they were small. Y'all butterfly the shrimp and it was a small amount compared to the bland stuffing of the spring roll. Anyway. I'll repeat: hope you get better, and your paranoia subsides. I thought about revising bc it did feel harsh at first, but deserved. Now I'm def leaving it up.

Original review: This ain't it chief. Man I had higher hopes for this spot. After two years gave it a go. I fig'd it would be at least average 'Thai' in a small town. Nope. Ordered takeout for my visiting parents. Dropped $90 with tip on spring rolls, papaya salad, pad gai, yellow curry, and pineapple/sticky rice for dessert. Every single dish was sub-par at best. I've eaten a LOT of Thai food including in Thailand, and, of course I expect Americanized versions of everything here. CA native. But this was straight up BAD. Like, wholly regrettable. I hate leaving reviews like this because I know the struggle in the restaurant industry, worked in it for years. My only hope is it makes them better. Thai Unique needs to step it up in a major way if they want more business than clueless locals and hit-n-split tourists. The 'local guide' reviewers raving about this spot have no idea what real Thai food is. Spring rolls: baby-arm sized, overstuffed with bland green lettuce and filler. Only slivers of shrimp. Not fresh, no flavor. Both sauces tasted canned and way too sweet. I don't know how you f up peanut sauce, but they found a way. Papaya salad: It was a toss-up btw this and the 'curry' for worst dish. Sickly sweet, soggily sitting in a pool of juice with flavorless tomato slices and waaaay too much garlic. Like it had been made the day before. Could barely tell it was papaya. Yuck. Yellow Curry: The pièce de résistance. Curry powder. Enough said. Pad Gai: wide rice noodles with chicken. The Okayest dish of the meal. Noodles were overcooked and dissolving. Seasoning was passable, still lacking in flavor dept. Pineapple w Sticky Rice: This was subbed for mango, which they were out of. More like sweet rice soup with pineapple chunks, that were miraculously not from a can. If 'meh' was the sixth flavor, this would be it. Dropping close to a hundo on such abysmal food obv left a bad taste in my mouth. Needless to say, won't be returning unless they blow it up and start from scratch. As in, make your food from it. You're better off buying a cookbook or two, watching YT and learning to cook Thai. Get better...

This place is absolutely HORRIBLE.

I give the food a 2.... They definitely shouldn't put photos on their menu, because the food doesn't come out looking anything like it. I'll leave an example below.

Server forgot to put in one of our appetizers entirely. When our food was dropped off, and I mentioned it, the food server got irritated with us for requesting our food, then printed out receipt to bring back and say, "you didn't order it."

Well, we did..... And then I started eating. I asked for "Thai hot" spice level. There was none. Another thing the server screwed up. Which would be ok if he acknowledged ANY of the mess ups.

No one came back to check on us or if our food was ok. It wasn't.

I sat with a full plate of food I didn't eat.

Pricing is WAY OVER what the food and portions are worth.

I overheard our server bragging about how he has his name on his shirt cuz he's worked there for four years.....ugh.

Don't eat here. And DEFINITELY don't order the fresh spring rolls. Why is there so much iceberg lettuce?!?! Where's the fresh greens and cilantro?? What is this??

One thing that should have been a tip off is the fact that THEY SEAT YOU WITH A SERVICE WARNING!!! It's a full three page menu that tells you why you're not allowed to request a refund!!!

Even if you order online, it pops up!! So let that be a warning!

I ignored it, like an idiot.

Do yourself a favor and don't go there.

Pics included are what they "offer" versus what you get. Second photo is day old leftovers but you'll still notice there is NOTHING GREEN OR FRESH like in their menu photos. Also, same photo in their ACTUAL menu. Their menu photos do not reflect the dish you...

Worst experience ever. The serving was awful. Avoid this place if you can. A big bowl of soup was served without bowls for everybody. We had to ask the extra bowls. They never gave the soup spoons too. They were brought later to the extra bowls. By the time they got the spoons, the soup was already cold. They took literally over an hour to bring the main course food. Kids got too hungry and When we asked to cancel the order, the Asian lady who was serving threatened us that they cant cancel the order. She was so rude that she won't listen and walk away for what we have to say. After all this, they got us the entry meal without the side rice. When we asked about it, she says it will be an extra dollar. She is bossing around with the boys in the counter and she won't let the boys cancel the order. When we inquired about the delay, they were boasting the restaurant was full on the other side when there were only guests in one more table other than us. The other side of the restaurant was actually empty with the boxes on the floor. we being the last customers eating, they switched off the AC when we were still eating. Imagine our plight being with little kids especially when the outside temperature was freezing (Around 38 F). Never tell them you are non-locals and you are visiting Placerville. They can surprise you with rude and very much ugly...