Thai Gai Yang Cafe — Restaurant in St. Louis

I’m a huge fan of the St Louis food scene, and I rarely have bad things to say about local restaurants. Unfortunately, the service and food I received at this restaurant were beyond disappointing. When we walked into the establishment, there was only 1 other patron there and the room was 100% silent - no talking and no music. This was a minor discomfort, but the disappointment continued when they served us obviously rancid tofu in our curry - it smelled and tasted unlike any other tofu I’ve ever had (and I’m a vegetarian, so I eat a lot of tofu). The waitress apologized and said they were going to get new tofu from the other location to remake the dish. We had somewhere to be, so we asked that they just comp the curries with the tofu, and we’d be happy to pay for the non-spoiled appetizer we consumed. She claimed she couldn’t take anything off the bill, and offered us 50% off each curry. I have never, ever asked for food to be taken off my bill, but the food I received was so bad that I couldn’t walk out knowing I paid for rancid/rotten food. I’m disappointed that I even had to pay 50% for the inedible meal. Unfortunately the ambience, service, and food were all a flop here. Avoid...

So when I walked in I was told they no longer had Khao Pad Thai, they kept trying to get me to order something I didn’t understand. I kept asking them do you have a plain fried rice with chicken, they said no. But then I told my 5 year old son they didn’t have fried chicken, the hostess then show me the kids portion of the menu that had the chicken fried rice. It was really the best thing we ordered. I also ordered the crab Rangoon which had a stick of what looks like imitation crab in it, the pot stickers were cool. My teenager usually gets the chicken pad Thai… it’s usually really good but tonight the glass noodles are slimy and hard to eat. The pac peanut sen shrimp comes with glass noodles and it’s no lie I can’t eat it bc the noodles are so slimy and gross. The chicken satay were good. I never had this experience with them before. I spent $75 with them and it wasn’t worth it. My family and I will not...

New review February 2022: Something has happened to the quality, and its not good. Maybe new ownership? This shop had the BEST tom yung soup, now it is not as good even as done by a poor Thai restaurant. The soup was (hard to believe, from Thai food) almost bland. The pork dumplings were not worth half of the cost. Try one of the nearby Thai restaurants first.

Thai Gai Yang has been my favored restaurant (of any) in STL, but now, no more, until they get back to the high quality they used to posses.

Prior review (2018 or so): Several Thai restaurants in the area, and more spread out in the county, but this one has the best food of all. The Tom Yum soup is superior to ALL the others, and their multitude of other foods are...