the tropical finally let me down.... i have been coming to the tropical for months, it has been my favorite newly discovered restaurant in tulsa this year and have not had a bad experience up until today. i have worked my way through over half of the menu and let me tell you there are some amazingly flavorful dishes at this restaurant: the tom kha soup, green gang curry, panang, prikking, kaprao, pad see yu, nam prik-pao fried rice, and penne keow whan (penne in a curry dish?!) were all fantastic and made me want to lick the plate/bowl when finished because of how tasty they were. on top of that, the service has been impeccable up until today. tonight my boyfriend and i ordered the lettuce wraps to start which were great (as usual) and then i ordered the gang pah with pork and he the garlic pepper with beef. his dish came out cold and with pork instead of beef as the protein and my gang pah upon first glance looked far more watery than i was expecting but i picked up my fork and went for a taste. though the dish had a decent amount of heat (i had ordered it hot) it was not that spicy but more importantly it was extremely bland and flavorless, i couldn't believe this was the same restaurant that i've been going to all fall and winter. when seeing that i had barely eaten any of the dish because there was no point, it was basically inedible, the server asked if it was too hot and i told her no, i thought it tasted watered-down and bland. she asked if i wanted it re-made with coconut milk and i said no and then asked if i was ok with it and walked away from the table. when she came back again to get the plates she asked if i wanted to take it home and i said no and yet there was never any offer to take the dish off even though it was essentially untouched. we go so often one of the servers knows us by name, i tell everyone about how great this restaurant is and i don't feel like we were taken care of tonight. i loved this restaurant but i will not be going back for a while...i was very disappointed in the food and service this visit.