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Reviewer: Jason
Total Reviews: 1040
Reviewed: 2/10/2005
Rating: 8.5
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Another excellent wish list item submitted by Catherine. We need to put her into our RD department searching for our next restaurants to try. Thai Delight is exactly what you eat, Thai food thats delightful to the stomach. We got there around 12:30 and luckily took the last table in this packed establishment.
For lunch, I went with a thai bbq chicken and pork satay appetizer.
Soup - I dont know the name of this soup but its always full of flavor and exotic herbs. I love this stuff.
Pork Satay - tangy marinade and grilled, served with an excellent peanut sauce. The appetizer comes in 5 pieces and can literally be eaten as a main course if served with rice. It also came with a cucumber dish with vinegar and sugar? (Picture #4). Try the chicken satay for an appetizer.
Thai Chicken BBQ - The chicken was very good but could have been prepared a little bit better. It was fully cooked and everything but looked like it had been sitting out for sometime. It was a tad dry and would have been outstanding if they would have served it to me after it was cooked. Just take a look at the picture, it doesnt glisten or offer any shine (Picture #5).
Sure Im picky with the Thai BBQ chicken but it doesnt mean I didnt enjoy it. The whole meal was super good. I would easily come back to Thai Delight and hopefully will get to eat this place once a month.
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Reviewer: Terry
Total Reviews: 739
Reviewed: 2/12/2005
Rating: 8.5
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I had heard good things about Thai Delight from a number of sources and decided to finally try it out. The first impression is the nice interior. It is decorated with a number of Thai artwork and designs, and really gets you in the mood for the culinary treatsy you are about to discover.
Once at the table the menus were brought out quickly. I found the lunch menu to be of good size and provided enough different options to please anyone. There are a ton of Thai places in Cupertino, so a good one has really got to stand out here.
I ordered the #14, spicy.. It consisted of a Prawn and vegetable soup mixture in a bowl. A nice pat of rice was on the side with a salad. Between the soup starter, the main course, and the Thai Tea I ordered along with it, I found myself to be VERY full. Probably one of the most filling Thai places I have had the pleasure of reviewing. The spicy here wasn't terribly spicy - maybe a Nuclear on the University Chicken scale.
I would have no problems returning to Thai Delight. I hope to try another dish, perhaps a tofu one next time and will report back.
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Reviewer: pyunnyhana
Total Reviews: 47
Reviewed: 1/31/2006
Rating: 8.5
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As a student at De Anza, Thai Delight came as a great convenience, being about a 2 minute drive away from campus. My friend and I had a 3 hour break from classes and decided to splurge what little money we had at a -gasp- dine-in restaurant.
The interior was cozy and clean, and it was probably less than half full at around 1:00pm with a diverse group of diners. Service seemed impersonal (no eye contact, stone cold face), but the food made up for it.
I ordered the Kang Kheawwhan Gai (Medium spiciness: Chicken served in coconut milk, green curry, bamboo shoots, bell peppers, eggplant, and sweet basil. Lunch special) and a thai iced tea. The lunch special included rice, soup, salad, eggroll.
Thai Iced Tea: I thought this thing was beautiful! Deep orange at the bottom and milk on top.
Soup: Came out right after I ordered. It was tangy and had a hint of shrimp flavor to it. Very light. I liked it because it tasted like what my mom makes at home. For some people (like my Filipino friend who was dining with me) it may taste like a punch to the face if youre not used to tangy, sour and sweet.
Salad: THe dressing pretty much makes up for the taste. The dressing on the thai salad was sweet and peanut buttery. It's a little thick, and it practically flooded my salad. Would've been perfect in moderation.
Eggroll: just cabbage inside. I wasnt particularly fond of it. The outside was nice and crisp but the inside was a bit soggy. I gave it to my friend/garbage bin, who was more than happy to take it off my hands. Vegetarian egg rolls arent my thing unless it has tofu in it.
Kang Kheawwhan Gai: Ive died and gone to heaven. They served it in a little side bowl and rice to accompany it. The spiciness was exactly perfect; enough to feel it, but not to the point where you have to hesitate every once in a while to regain yourself. The curry was fragrant and was perfect either by itself or with rice. The proportions of ingredients was even (nice amount of chicken, eggplant, bell peppers, and the curry itself)
Pros:
For $9 for the lunch special and thai tea, it's affordable and filling. Not to mention absolutely delectable.
Cons:
They just need to warm up to customers.
Score: 8.5 |
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Reviewer: ne00
Total Reviews: 187
Reviewed: 11/2/2006
Rating: 8.5
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All week I have been having issues with my car and my friend at work was kind enough to car pool with me and drop me off at home and to pick up my car from the shop. I invited him to dinner tonight at Thai Delight in Cupertino. I wanted to eat somewhere listed on Jatbar.com that I have not been to yet.
We suffer through 6pm traffic on highway 85 and still manage to arrive at 6:45pm. The place is near empty with only three tables occupied next to the window. We wait a bit as the woman tends to a person who phoned in his order to go. The woman seats us along with our menus and brings us water shortly after. We scan over the menus; I was not that hungry as I just had a bag of chips and soda before leaving work.
We decide to order the Chicken Satay, Panang Gai (mild), Mussaman Curry (mild), and chicken fried rice. My friend orders a Thai Beer and I order the Thai Iced Tea. Our drinks are first to arrive. My Thai Iced Tea looks gorgeous, with a brown tea based on the bottom and the white cream on top, which allows me to blend on my own. The tea is a bit sweet but was very good.
Our curry dishes arrive next with a tin of rice. I felt a bit strange as we ordered fried rice and now they are also serving us rice, which by the way is $1 per person. I was thinking to myself that they were trying to gouge us. Later, they brought us Chicken Pad Thai. I waved down the woman to inform her we ordered chicken fried rice and she seemed a bit confused. She asked us if we ordered steamed rice or wanted the rice but we did not answer her, afraid she would charge us for the rice. She took back the Pad Thai and later brought us our fried rice.
A breakdown of the dishes:
Chicken Satay: Five pieces of chicken, grilled to perfect with generous portions of peanut sauce. This is a must get appetizer if you need a starter.
Panang Gai (mild): Chicken in coconut milk with veggies. Great choice for those who love the coconut milk to pour over their rice. Plenty of coconut milk, chicken, and veggies. Chicken was tender.
Mussaman Curry (mild): The coconut milk was the same as above. The difference is this is beef with potatoes and tomatoes and the above is chicken with green peppers and other veggies. The beef was tender for most part but had fatty pieces.
Chicken fried rice: Right above there with the best of them. Plenty of Thai flavors, a tomato based sauce fried with the rice. The rice was served hot from the frying pan and sticky the way I like my Thai fried rice.
There was a lot of food and we requested to take the dishes to go as we could hardly eat much more. I requested from the woman an order of FBI (fried bananas with coconut ice cream). About 5 minutes later, three pieces of fried bananas along with a scoop of coconut ice cream arrived in a dish. We were each given a small dessert fork and a plate to share the dessert. Fried bananas were perfectly fried, crispy on the outside, flakey and gooey on the inside. The coconut ice cream went well with the fried bananas, with flakes of coconut pieces in the ice cream. I would have preferred vanilla ice cream with the FB.
Through out our meal our waters were refilled without asking. They would stop by every so often and fill our water glasses, empty or not. Besides the awkward moment with the wrong dish, the meal was enjoyable and service was friendly. Final meal came to be a little over $46 with tax and tip. Would definitely come here again with other friends.
Pluses: Accepts credit cards, friendly service, affordable prices, great lunch deals, plentiful parking (located in the McDonalds square).
Minuses: Make sure you tell them no rice if you order a rice or noodle dish unless you want it. Rice is extra $1 per person. The place might be too quiet for some as others can hear your conversation even in whispers.
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Reviewer: takeru
Total Reviews: 31
Reviewed: 2/13/2009
Rating: 8
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For me, Thai Delight has always had a several good qualities - it's walking distance from work, clean, has decent service, moderate prices, and most importantly, the food has been consistently good. Today was no exception.
I had the lunch special #4, chicken w/ green curry. One nice thing about their specials is that, unlike most other thai restaurants, soup, egg roll and salad are included.
The soup was tom yum style, and had a nice lemon grass flavor. The vegetarian egg roll had decent flavor and crispiness from being freshly fried. But the starter I most enjoyed was the salad, primarily due to the dressing. Similar (or maybe even the same) as the peanut sauce used for satay dipping, put this on just about any vegetable (even yuck brussels sprouts) and I'd probably like it.
My main dish was a tasty combination of green curry, coconut milk, chicken breast meat, eggplant and bamboo shoots. The spice level at normal/medium was just about right when mixed with steamed rice. One nitpick - the proportion of chicken to veggies/sauce could be higher.
TD is a good solid choice for thai food in this area, I'd rank it slightly below Old Siam in Sunnyvale. They also deserve props for not raising prices over the last few years. |
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Reviewer: wchane
Total Reviews: 148
Reviewed: 10/5/2006
Rating: 9
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I used to come here often as my office was within walkind distance, however I've moved on and have not visited this restaurant in over a year until yesterday that is.
A few of us met here for lunch.
Located in at the very back corner of Homestead Square it is unpresumptious and never struck me as anything more then a awesome lunch secret. Upon further thought I'd have no qualms about bringing friends and family over for a meal.
As we walked in we were immediatly seated, given menu's and water. Our orders were taken without much of a wait and our waters topped off. Then the tom yum soup arrived, flavored with lemongrass, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and carrots. delicious. 10 minutes later our lunch arrives.
I had the BBQ chicken and a Thai Iced Tea.
The lunch special is served with a palif of steamed rice, a simple salad w/peanut dressing, a eggroll sliced into 3, and a plate lined with boneless bbq'd chicken with a tangy dipping sauce.
I thought the chicken was perfect, a little on the dry side but I prefer it this way. Combined with the dip it's something that I crave for.
The thai ice tea is also one of the best I've had in a long time.
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