Nara Thai Cuisine — Restaurant in Stafford

Our family of six had a variety of dishes. The dumpling appetizer was good and vegetable spring rolls were pretty typical. Those of us who ordered non-spicy (which is below the one pepper dishes on the menu) got dishes with some kick but overall we’re good. That said, they were not the non-spicy level that the waitress explained they would do. My daughter ordered mild to have some kick in her dish but it was a bit over spiced with hot pepper. Same with my wife. I also ordered mild and my dish was far hotter than my daughter’s. I did not enjoy it. The waitress asked me if my dish was too spicy when she saw me sweating and I told her yes. She just smiled like it was amusing to her and went away . I’ve been to Thailand dozens of times and had fantastic food there. Occasionally a place would over spice on purpose to see if I would eat it. It’s just something they do there to westerners. The experience here reminded me of that. At least in Thailand, they always immediately took the dish away and replaced it with a mild version. The bleach smell was heavy at the table but I understand that. The service was a little slow since they had a lot of take out business going. Overall, there are other better options close by, so I don’t need to go back. I would have tipped much better had they not been so heavy handed with the hot pepper and at least responded appropriately when I told them it...

I am disappointed because I trusted this place and will not be going here again.

For the past few years, my family and I have been going here and have always mentioned to the waitress or person on the phone that we were vegetarians and we’re looking for vegetarian-friendly dishes to order, which means dishes with no fish, no oyster sauce, etc. The waitress would happily say they’d be able to replace fish and oyster sauce with vegetarian friendly sauces in the dishes, and so after they confirmed that we’ve been ordering Pad Thai and Drunken Noodles ever since. My family obviously got excited that we finally found a place that had options for us.

Fast forward to today, I tried ordering the same dishes, mentioning the same thing about being vegetarian and then after all this time they told me it’s impossible to make those same dishes by replacing the fish and oyster sauce with a vegetarian friendly sauce, even though that’s something they’ve confirmed several times in the past. After hearing that, I lost trust in this establishment since clearly they initially gave false information just to keep customers like us, which can be dangerous to those that have allergies and can get life threatening reactions.

Do not order from here, especially if you have dietary restrictions/allergies. Looks like they are not as transparent as they should be about what’s...

I got the mango sticky rice, pad thai and the yellow curry.

Mango sticky rice- it was absolutely awful. I’ve seen so many people eat this and even looked it up to see what exactly it was and what it tasted like.. so I was excited.. the rice was so hard and dry and the mango’s didn’t taste fresh at all. And it wasn’t as sweet as it said it was supposed to be because of the coconut.. Very disappointing.

Pad Thai- I don’t really have anything negative to say about it. It’s spicy and it taste normal

Yellow curry- I love yellow curry but I felt like the carrots in it was too hard & there was maybe like 2 small pieces of potatoes in it which is my favorite part…

Overall, I ordered everything “medium” in spice. The curry was hard to eat in one setting as the spice was a bit too much. It isn’t American medium so keep that in mind. But I still ate it. The food is ok except the mango sticky rice. The lady who gave me the food was ok as well, I had takeout. Nothing special about this place. Maybe would try again. I spent about $40 for the...