I was disappointed with the quality and service here. I eat Thai food often and my favorite thing to get is Tom Kha. This soup had very little coconut milk, no ginger, no lemongrass, no lime leaf. I was served a mystery broth probably from a powder or paste. When I talked to the owner she was very rude and unhelpful saying since she “was from Thailand” (and I was not) she knew the “authentic” recipe. I definitely will never return there.
My favorite thing to eat when I have Thai food is Tom Kha. I was really looking forward to a satisfying meal only to have my hopes dashed. There was no ginger, no lemongrass, no lime leaf, barely detectable coconut milk. When I talked to the manager. She was rude and unhelpful. She said since she was from Thailand (and I am not) they know the authentic recipe. I will never return there.
Authentic Thai food, Nice atmosphere, excellence service, and kids friendly
Excellent food. Great service, quick and delicious food. Salmon green curry, egg plant and tofu, green salad, sticky mango rice were all excellent. Plus very warm and helpful staff.
Not a Big Thai food person…but I liked this.First time coming to Blue Elephant. We came because my mother wanted some Thai food so here we went.We got a bunch of stuff. I won’t lie. I’m not really sure what we got. A bunch of it was seafood. Im not really a big seafood person but what we got was good!Whatever that Hit Pot soup stuff was…it was awesome.I definitely recommend trying the Thai beer. They only had 2 options and they were both pretty good.We ordered too much food that we didn’t have room for the mango sticky rice (highly recommended I hear) something to look forward for next time.If your a Thai food person. This place is great!
delicious food, clean restaurant, polite and friendly staff. I feel lucky because I ate well today, and met the monk reading the Pali sutras at the table near me
UPDATE: I went in to get a refund on the food that was uneaten the next morning (food was put in the fridge immediately when we knew we were not going to eat it). The owner flat out refused to give me any sort of refund, future discount, remake of the food, or any appologies. He then hilariously tried to have me take the rejected food with me. He was also pretty rude and standoffish. Don't buy into all the rave about this place, I think the owner pays for reviews and to get bad ones removed.Got the blue crab fried rice, pad see ew, panang curry, tom yum, and chicken sate all for $86. The only things that were even edible were the white rice, curry, and sate. The blue crab fried rice had no flavor with big pockets of what tasted like black pepper, and it was majorly overcooked, with squishy clumps of rice. The crab had a really funky and bitter unfresh taste to it as well, no sweetness. Pad see ew honestly tasted sort of like spaghetti, like with marinara, not sure if they used a tomato base or something, but it had no flavor other than the strange background sauce, not sweet, nor savory. Panang curry was alright, not great, but it was very spicy (not advertised as such) and they put a bunch of cucumbers in it, which just didn't taste good with it. The tom yum was just gross, I couldn't even touch it. It didn't even taste like what I would have called tom yum, it tasted closer to minestrone. The chicken sate was actually pretty good, but I'm skeptical that the peanut sauce was not house made, too sweet and yummy to resemble anything going on in this kitchen. Avoid at all costs.
Extremely rude service and horrible food quality. Spent $85 on a Tom Yum soup, Panang Curry, Blue Crab fried rice, and Pad See Ew and it was most definitely the worst thai food I have ever attempted eating. It was inedible.
delicious food, clean restaurant, polite and friendly staff. I feel lucky because I ate well today, and met the monk reading the Pali sutras at the table near me
Traveling through Bakersfield and stopper here for dinner. We were not disappointed. The service and food are superb - the Pad Thai is excellent. We enjoyed our meals in a quiet restaurant. We will return next time we go through Bakersfield.