thai bamboo restaurant

comparing thai bamboo with a few other thai places in spokane might not be a good idea as the famous ones are mom 'n' pop family styled eateries and thai bamboo is kinda established restaurant .. but just like any other place across the globe (a lot of times) it has been found that the family styled places somehow serve more delicious food .. stands true here as well
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the place is huge btw .. neat clean tidy - yes .. service is good too .. the menu is having a vast array of food items .. a section dedicated to vegetarians as well which is nice .. everything, to be honest, is great except the food which could draw mixed reactions.

we ordered the vegetarian spring rolls to start with and the famous sodas .. the spring rolls were bland, bland to the scale where you forget to put anything in the food .. no salt no spice .. i have had 'em earlier too but they were pretty nicebackthen.
we wanted mango sodas but they weren't available .. ours were raspberry and didn't have much flavour ..

the food, yet again, was just sweet sweet sweet .. asked for less sweet but apparently their sauces are based with sweetness and they can not change it, which is okay .. (made me think, if the quantity of the sauce could have been adjusted) .. the hotness of the gravy was all the same .. 2, 3 choose anything ..

i had this chicken hot garlic with veggies .. except chicken and veggies everything from the description was missing .. garlic, hot and spicy - nope. the chicken was dry too.
the best was in the order was the massaman curry which was vegetarian btw.
the other good thing was the quality of tofu they used .. which was better than anywhere else i have had in recent times ..

all in all, the food was just good at its best, given the decor and all i expected the food to be really really good .. and not dangling between mediocre and good and a miss here and there.

ps - surprisingly the mains do not come with a side of noodles or rice or anything which should not happen.

this is the best of all the spokane locations. they have good food and generally good service. the only time i've had bad service was during off hours and the server was a little too personal with us. that and when i sentbackmy tofu and veggie dish due to the veggies being warm but raw, the server told me that the raw veggies are good for nutrients and that other vegetarians don't send it back. he must have been a rookie...

overall they have good service though. this was the one time it wasn't that great.

my husband and i visited on a saturday night. they were busy, but it seemed terribly understaffed. it took 10 minutes for us to be greeted by our waitress who brought us waters, and didn't give us a chance to order drinks. our appetizer was almost thrown onto our table by the food runner, no one asked if we needed anything with it, we did. our food came and mine tasted delicious, but my husband had basic phad thai and he said it tasted off, sour almost. after not refilling our waters all night, it took forever for her to comebackwith our credit card. we won't be back.