loser at thai boxing. if you have no idea of what thai food tastes like, then you won't be disappointed. the service was nice and the ambience was pleasant and my food came out in no time for dinner on a saturday. but what i had tasted nothing like any thai food i have eaten, some sweet and sour concoction with chicken. and they were missing half the element, the sour. only about half the items on their menu did i recognize too. so, i am not sure if they were impersonating as a thai restaurant or if the cook or owner is from a remote part of thailand like by burma or way in the south coast. the only other thai restaurant i've eaten at here in abq is orchid thai. and i will say that their food tasted pretty authentic. i will only try thai cuisine ii again if someone offers to invite me there. otherwise, i will be trying some others in abq.
my impression of asian food in abq is that the food is made to accommodate the western palet much like the chinese restaurants did years ago. and yes they did. that is why there is soy sauce in the fried rice. true fried rice is made without soy sauce. and there is no general tsao's chicken in china. so, authenticity is subjugated to creativeness where they put their own interpretation of what is appealing to someone with an unknowledgable palet. but my problem with tcii was that it didn't even taste like thai food no less good asian food.