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My Thai Restaurant
Rating Details »
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Parking:
- Street
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- No
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
- Alcohol:
- None
20 reviews for My Thai Restaurant
Good service, good food. We all ordered from the 3 course menu. I had the pumpkin and chicken soup for starters, which was a very nice mix of textures and flavors. Sweetness of the squash with the spiciness of the chicken, combined both firm and blended squash. I may be a little biased (I love all things pumpkin), but this was definitely a hit.
Second course was the yum salad. Fresh greens and decent dressing, but nothing special.
Third course was a pork chop with sweet & spicy curry and pineapple. Again, it was nice - well cooked pork chop, nice side of vegetables, decent sauce - but overall I just wasn't blown away. My girlfriend had the basil shrimp with green beans, which I tried and really liked. I might have been happier with that than the pork chop. The server rated the spiciness a 4 out of 5, which was a little too much for my girlfriend but just about right for me.
I ordered the Shrimp with Bamboo Shoots (also asked them to add tofu) over rice and it was not good. There was barely any rice and I ended up with major heartburn (despite the fact I can tolerate spicy food like no other!). The flavoring was okay, but there was just too much going on - thai basil, chili, and pieces of lemongrass that just did not go - or maybe less of lemongrass or chili would have been better.
This dish cost me $17.50 which is think killed it for me. This price should be for 2 dishes or at least 1 main dish and a side of soup. My Thai is TOO expensive for the quality of food. Service was good however.
Stopped in My Thai last night.
I should preface this by saying I hear everyone say "there's no good Thai in Philly" and I've some Thai that I thought was really good so I might not be the best reviewer. Take this as an amateur's view.
At 7:00 on a Friday night the place was pretty much empty, only one table of two. The atmosphere is very cozy and quaint, as reviewer said below, it is like dining in someone's living room.
The help was very friendly.
My fiance got the Pad Thai and I got the Hi-Ma-Pan shrimp and chicken. We also shared and order of spring rolls.
The food was good, solid. The Pad Thai was good, not a peanut apocalypse like others I've had. My Hi-Ma-Pan was also very good, it was marked as "very spicy" but I didn't think it was. The spring rolls were excellent.
I see the reviews are sort of hot and cold on this place, I actually might not have tried it except that I got a recommendation from someone I really trust. I am glad we did.
The only thing keeping this at 3 stars instead of 4 is the price. Two dishes, one app = around $38.00 and for that I would expect something a little more exciting.
Stopped here the other night with my mother. First, we asked to move from a table on the left side of the place because we were sitting on a pretty steep incline. As for the food ...
I had My Thai Duck which was duck with thai sausage and crabmeat. The crabmeat was virtually nonexistet aside from a few tiny white fleks which was dissapointing (anything less than lump crabmeat should never be called crabmeat), the chunks of sausage were good but the flavor of the ample pieces of duck was fairly overun by the tasty brown (soy-sauce?) based sauce.
[An aside: I've come to the probably not-so-original-conclusion that if duck is not roasted and the centerpiece of a dish (i.e. peking duck, hongkong style duck) then it probably should be passed over -- it's delicate flavor can't be appreciated otherwise].
My mother's dish was more successful: traditional chicken curry was well spiced and tasty.
Both dishes suffered from a lack of rice as well as being too pricey. Good service and ambience, may try again.
I went to My Thai recently with a friend and was relatively happy. My experience with Philly's Thai food has been a little disappointing, and My Thai had some definite pluses that other places haven't.
First, the service was friendly. We were lost in conversation and ended up hanging out for over 2 hours, long after we finished, and service didn't hurry us along, or act like we were in the way (the place wasn't super crowded, so we weren't sitting at a table someone might have been waiting for).
Also the red curry was actually spicy--not sadly sweet and bland like in too many places. No complaints about my request for tofu and veg either.
Red curry is a good thing to get right, but I do like appetizers too and sadly the veggie spring rolls were sort of mushy and generally not so appetizing.
Bottom line: service, location, and spicy curry count for a lot to me, so I'll be back. But I'm going to keep searching for the best thai Philly has to offer.
I lived in Bangkok most of my childhood, and developed a sharp sense of what authentic Thai food means. I think My Thai falls in the middle in terms of how true it is to the original cuisine.
The staff provided warm service, and the place is cozy, but I found the interior a bit tacky rather than romantic.
So far I'm not impressed with Philly's Thai food offerings. The food really wasn't that good - it seemed rather Americanized, and the sauces were bland. It was expensive for what they served. The service was decent...but it didn't make up for the expensive and unexciting food.
This place is cramped and over hyped. It's Thai food like most other places but the prices are ridiculous. Plus, my gal had an allergic reaction to something they served...and she has no food allergies.
Stay away.
I want to like My Thai, in fact it's fine and certainly comparable to any other Thai place in Philly but the food just doesn't quite hit the spot. Service is always good and at the very least, they are consistent.
I ate here one time about 18 months ago. Service was great and the Thai ladies who served me were very cordial and friendly. Food was only so-so - and now the Thai Chef is in business there is really no reason for me to go to My Thai,
However, I will say that Thai food is not as abundant in Philly - so I am glad they are here as they do meet a need - but I am still on a quest for truly awesome Thai in Center City - there is some great Thai in the Suberbs.
Maybe I should have given them 4 stars? But that really is pushing it.
This is one of my favorite restaurants of any kind in the city, have been going there for years. Consistently excellent food. Strange thing is, first time I ate there I did not like what I got. But later tried some of the other dishes and loved them since, esp. the "gang ped" and the shrimp and chicken w/ peanuts. The service is great, everybody is very friendly. Someone else noted it is like being in a friend's house and that is right. If you ask for something extra-spicy they will not hold back!
We tried My Thai the first day they came back from their summer vacation. This may not have been the best idea, since they were packed and service seemed a little overwhelmed/slow so we were there for about 2 hours!, but that was really the only downside of the evening.
Aside from that, the staff was very friendly, and the place has a really cool neighborhood-y feel. They have a nice sized menu, with a lot of authentic dishes and a few old faves thrown in. The food was really good, we had the dumpling sampler, pad thai, and a curry rice bowl. My favorite part, however, has to be in the menu where they several times remind you that "we can make dishes less spicy, but curry cannot be made not spicy".
This food was not very good. The Pad Thai was bland, the shrimp tasted fishy, the tofu was raw, and the dish was oily rather than peanuty. Ginger chicken was okay and the My Thai soup was good. The menu is very Americanized and many traditional Thai items (such as Pad See Eew) are missing.
The wait staff are very friendly and attentive, but they could not save this meal.
Small, cute and just a nice place to hide. That is what I think about this place. Want to eat Thai and hide from everyone in the "scene" then this is the place. The food is good, they have nice specials & the service is awesome (don't know why but they are super nice in this place). I'm not an expert on Thai food so I would just say I loved eatting it and I cleaned off my plates...plural..and I like the wooden cat box that is on the window sill...it reminds me of being in some friends house.
I'm shocked this place has such good reviews. Yes, an average of 3.5 stars is good considering how horrendous the food is here. "Americanized" doesn't even begin to describe it - it's basically bland, pseudo Asian food for people who like to put soy sauce on their white rice.... who taught you people to do that, anyway?!?
The menu is limited if you're looking for Thai food and the food itself is either horrendously under-seasoned or over-sauced. While there is definitely a lack of decent Thai food options in Philadelphia, keep right on walking past this one, and ignore those "best of" or Zagat's signs in the window - they must've stolen them from somewhere else.
Gross!
This is one of the few good Thai restaurants in downtown Philadelphia. They have been around for over a decade and despite the mixed reviews I would not hesitate to have dinner at My Thai. The atmosphere is cozy and the staff is attentive.
granted, i've only tried the pad thai here, but ive taken friends and all i've gotten are great reviews. After four years in St. Louis where there were literally 3 (now 4) thai restaurants within 2 blocks of each other, ive had my fair share of good and bad thai food. this is the first time i've actually tasted the dish the way its supposed to be done (or at least how i like it). Slightly spicy and yet sweet, if i ever get a craving I always come back here.
Heard a lot of really good things about this place, but nothing really special. It's not very spicy, and doesn't have a lot of basic curry dishes you would expect from a traditional thai restaurant. Ultimately decent food, yet rather bland.
My Thai gets my vote for consistency. We've eaten there for over ten years, only once getting a second-rate meal. I've eaten better Thai food, but this is always good in a pleasant room with wait-staff who listen.
