I've been loving this place. I'm a very simple Pad See Ew with soft tofu order but they give an amazing portion! Every time I go to pick up the staff is extremely friendly. There's always a great crowd dining in.
Well that was one of the most disgusting and sad meals we’ve had in a while. Everything was swimming in low quality oil, nothing tasted good except maybe the purple rice. All the sauces were not good. Super expensive for the shameful quality of food we’ve received. We had to throw away $100 worth of food. We love Thai food and wanted to treat ourselves so we ordered take away. The terrible waste, the high price point, and frankly, the feeling of the cooks not caring about our experience, all drove me here to write this review.
Best Thai I have had in CA. The duck salad and chicken satay are very good. Thai iced tea is phenomenal.Staff are all very friendly and attentive.
Man this is the real deal .. good Thai food in a clean establishment .. below we have .. todd mann (fish cakes) … pad kra pow moo krab.. pad kanarIt came out fast too which impressed me bc some places take forever to make these dishes lol
Average taste for Thai cuisines, the soup is too sour for me and the curry was too spicy than I expected. But overall the taste is not bad and I'll be willing to comeback to try other dishes.
Food was pretty good but they forgot my Thai ice coffee so they lost a star. I got the crab fried rice. It was a lot of food, I had left overs to take home - may want to order for the table and share. The prices are fair.
Lum-Ka-Naad used to be my favorite Thai restaurant in the Valley. I was first introduced to it in 2013. And I rediscovered it when I moved back to LA in 2020. I went several time in 2021 because they have make my favorite Khao Soy in The Valley. In fact, it’s one of the few Thai restaurants that have it on the menu. Lum-Ka-Naad used to make it perfect; it was my comfort food and I never ordered anything else off the menu. But last week, it didn’t taste right. It didn’t taste authentic like it used to. The staff warned me that they didn’t have the chicken leg available and that they would be substituting it with shredded chicken and I was okay with the substitution. But the actually soup was off. I ordered the medium and it wasn’t even spicy. My wife ordered the chow mein and was massively disappointed. It was so sweet, she couldn’t eat it. She told me that the chow mein was so bad, that even Panda Chinese’ chow mein is better. That’s saying a lot, because I can’t even bring myself to eat Panda. My wife told me she will not be returning to Lum-Ka-Naad again. After the disappointing Khao Soy, I don’t think I will be, either.
We got a small soup and an order of pad-thai.The order was almost 40 dollars.Not a lot of taste either andNever Again will we go to this restaurant.Talk about taking advantage of people. And guess what?Nobody was in there at the restaurant either.Nor picking up "To-Go" orders.Now we know why.We are going to be one of those too.Waste of money Big Time.
Long story short, it was alright. However, you should ABSOLUTELY NOT under any circumstances order takeout. The food is much better in person. This place makes a mean bean donut, by the way (it's on the secret menu).Short story long, I believe in giving every restaurant I try a fair chance and opportunity to impress me. So we went here to try the best dish here. The waiter recommended the Grilled Mackerel (20 minute prep time) and advertised it as "pretty good." While this waiter had a convincing smile, we decided to trust him halfway. So we ordered the chicken pad thai (an iThailian classic, to be sure), 2 oz cucumber sauce, and the Grilled Mackerel (20 minute prep time).The first thing to come out is the 2 oz cucumber sauce. The colossal portion could keep my family full for minutes. I couldn't even finish it. Next came the chicken pad thai. Pretty standard stuff, the seasoning was well balanced, but I would have felt some severe second-hand embarrassment for the restaurant had they NOT gotten down their freaking chicken pad thai. Finally, the pork and beans out comes the Grilled Mackerel (20 minute prep time). And let me be straight up, the Grilled Mackerel (20 minute prep time) was nothing short of "iffy," I have no clue what the waiter was thinking recommending it to us. Regardless, I do like a meal that stares back at me while I'm eating it. Kind of annoying that the chef left the meat on the fish (lol), but after picking all the bones out, we could finally discard the flesh. The fins were a little soft, sickening if you ask me. Absolutely would not come back for mackerel dorsal fin. The bones were pretty bland and very awkward to actually chew and swallow. Pretty much the only redeeming part of the fish was its eyeballs. I'll be honest the Grilled Mackerel (20 min prep time) had prepossessing eyes, and they tasted equally as beautiful. However, the bean donut was fantastic. Frankly, the only reason I gave this place 4 stars was that 1. google will delete my review if I go any lower, and 2. the bean donut was BOMB. It's not on the main menu, you have to ask your waiter for it, and they can only make it for dine-in. Ultimately, This is why I will never order takeout from this place.Also would like to mention that I found a small slab of 12L14 steel in my pad thai, not sure if that was intended or not. =/
They lost a customer today. I accidentally made a mistake on my order. I tried calling the restaurant after 5x with no one answering and sent a text explaining but no answer..I went to pick my food and explained to them what happened and they had an attitude. I will go spend my money where there is better service..