Singha Thai Cafe Slidell — Restaurant in Slidell

Stumbled upon this place using the backroad from the shopping area so I looked it up on Google reviews and took a chance. I grew up eating Thai food so i can be extremely critical. My mother is from Thailand and was an amazing traditional Thai cook. Let me say, the food was excellent! Although im a traditionalist, i appreciated the modern menu with subtle twists. The main thing about Thai cooking is flavor balance. Spicy salty sour sweet bitter is what we are taught by our mothers when we learn how to cook Thai. Whoever is cooking here has a good palette! My mother would have approved if she were still living and had i brought her here. I had something a little different from my normal. I always test restaurants with their Pad Thai. The pad thai was prepared just the way I like it, perfectly balanced but I wanted to try the "crispy) pad thai where it's made with crispy fried noodles so I told the waiter I'd like to try it but was concerned I may not like it so he suggested a half and half so I ordered that (pad thai with half crispy noodle) and I loved it. The other appetizers were great too from the crispy spring rolls, the thai steamed dumpling (shumai), and the tempura veggies were so light and crispy. We finished off the meal with the most amazing homemade coconut ice cream that I need to go back for! Do not pass up the homemade tropical ice creams to complete a meal (and I'm not even into sweets), my husband ordered it and I ended up eating half of his. So creamy and coconut-ty, rich and silky sweet but not to sweet. It was a perfect ending...

The New Singha Thai that replaced the shut-down THAiLiCiOUS is NOT GOOD those who were wondering. They spent more money and time on renovations, menu aesthetic, marketing, food presentation and putting a flower on everyone's plate than the actual food quality, food menu accuracy (just threw random veggies in curry instead of specific ones listed. Was told they don't even have some ingredients listed in stock in kitchen. Which is fine but that has to be communicated ahead of time on 86 list for servers to know the customers dishes won't be accurate), flavor, balance, or portion sizes. Very small portions put on shallow plates because that amount of curry would look obviously sparse in a bowl. The Thai Tea $5 came in water goblet so portion smaller than any other Thai Restaurant around here for more money. Then the tea was already mixed with cream on cart in back unrefrigerated & they pour even more cream on top. For $7.50 you can get the same tea but in bubble tea cup with chewy tapioca pearls. They are still getting use to the amount of people in there to try it out, service is very slow. All of the...

We visited this restaurant after trying a few times and catching them on closed days.

We ordered the steamed dumplings and veggie/tofu pad Thai and chicken pad Thai.

-Cons -The dumplings were the least impressive I have had on the Northshore. The texture was that of commercial fish or shrimp balls wrapped with dumpling wrapper. Chewy and off putting. Dumpling price is comparable to baan Thai who makes their dumplings and have a tender rich flavor everytime I have ordered them. You also get +1 dumpling at Baan Thai.

-Serving size of pad Thai is smaller for the price compared to their local peers.

+Pros +Vegetable pad Thai had a pleasant mix of vegetables with tofu, bok choy, lime leaves (I think), mushrooms, onions, celery, carrots, squash and very fresh beans sprouts.

+Good pad Thai sauce, less brown from tamarind than some others, but I enjoyed this none the less.

+Service is great and the restaurant is in a convenient location with a clean interior. They also serve coffee and bubble teas/milk teas.

I would go back...