Thai Café — Restaurant in Tracy

Miserable ! The owner/manager is a complete idiot. Ordered Pad Ke Mao, a VERY common dish available from numerous street vendors in Bagcock and available in any of the numerous Thai restaurants I've eaten at all over the U.S. Was told the "chef" refused to make anything not on the menu. Obviously, they don't get the concept of trying to please customers. When I complained to the owner, first he said they didn't know how to make it. I called him on this obviously lie and then he told me they didn't have the right kind of rice noodles, so obviously he did know how to make it. He also said Thai restaurants don't serve that in the U.S. I told him that was B.S. and said let's take a look at menus for Thai restaurants on the internet and he would see they all serve it. He turned his back and refused to continue the conversation. Having worked as a server, assistant manager and manager in several restaurants, I was taught, if the customer has particular allergies, or simple requests, and it's not difficult, or time consuming for the kitchen to accomodate said requests, you do it. That's why it's call the food SERVICE industry, you idiots. BTW, their Tom Kai Gai soup was VERY medicore. I realize Tracy, Ca., is not as food hip as some other large metropolitan cities, but it's apparent it's citizens do not know what good/great Thai food is supposed...

So my friend told me about this place and finally last week we came here for some food and I am glad we did. During lunch time the place was pretty busy and they had a ton of pick up orders which because of that it would take about 10 minutes or so for the foods to be pretty. The first time I had the beef basil lunch and it was really tasty and a really good portion for the price. When we left i took their menu and gave to my colleagues and 2 days later they wanted to order some thai food so this time we ordered their pork specials with sides of jasmine rice. The pork was a bit spicy which made it taste even better. You really get a lot of food for the price you pay and since this restaurant is always busy, the food is always fresh and you can actually taste it. All on all if you're craving some good food, this...

This place has been in business for 25 years. We found it about 18 years ago When we were learning how to play golf at all river golf course, crazy. We would have lunch here.

The food is simply excellent in every regard. The Pad Thai is the best we've ever had anywhere. And that includes some pretty fancy 5 star places. They also have a house salad that is gangbusters. So for lunch, one order of salad and 1 order of Pad Thai takes care of us nicely. Yes, the prices have gone up a little bit but not that bad since the last time we were here about 5 years ago.

I'm just tickled to death that they're still here and there still as good as they used to be. This is proof positive of the old saying, "if it aint broke...