thai basil stir fried/ padkaprau* **. noi thai padkaprau menu description does not match what we received. only 25% of meal consisted of ingredients listed on menu.
-----30 jan, 2015-----
worst thai i've had in years. it was snowy and bitterly cold on new years eve 2014. it was also my girlfriend's birthday so we decided to stay in for the night. i wanted to treat her to a delicious birthday meal, which would also be our last meal of 2014.
our delivery options were limited, but bend takeout advertised that they delivered from noi thai so we placed our order for 3 entrees...2 orders of padkaprau and 1 order of yellow curry (all vegan).
when our order was delivered, we excitedly opened the boxes. at first we thought we'd received the wrong order. the padkaprau we received contained 75% ingredients that were not mentioned on the menu. instead of the basil, bell peppers, bamboo shoots and fried tofu, there was an abundance of "filler" vegetables like big chunks of cabbage, bok choi, celery, baby corn, and broccoli. none of these vegetables were mentioned on the menu.
each order of the fried tofu padkaprau contained just 5 pieces of tofu and very few bell peppers or bamboo shoots. once we had pulled out all the filler vegetables that weren't mentioned on the menu, our meal had shrunk to just 25% of the original volume (see photo).
the yellow curry was at least a bit more faithful to the ingredients listed on the menu. it did contain broccoli which i've never seen in yellow curry and which wasn't mentioned on the menu either. the potatoes weren't completely cooked and were unpleasantly crunchy. there were only 6 small pieces of tofu in the entire order. our rice appeared to have been sitting in the rice cooker for hours and was crusty.
i spent $40 on this horrible birthday meal. bend takeout charged another $10 delivery fee and since it was nye, i tipped another $10. in all, i spent $60 for one of the worst thai meals i've had in over 20 years of loving thai food.