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Thong Thai
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Category: Restaurants [Edit]
Neighborhood: Forest Glen6247 W Touhy Avenue
Chicago, IL 60646
(773) 763-9918
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Take-out:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Good for:
- Dinner
5 reviews for Thong Thai
Oh food. Why do you have to be so good... but the people that make you have to be so jerky?
My Mom lives just a minute away from this place and the food is really very good. But seriously... the owners need to take a customer service class. I am not one to complain about CS but I have been annoyed by the treatment here one too many times.
A couple bits of advice:
- order the meekrob. Delicious.
- order the thai basil chicken with noodles. Make sure you specify "noodles" three or four times or you'll get the one with rice.
- if you're doing pickup and they say "20 minutes", make sure you add another 20 to that total. I have spent what feels like years of my life wasting away in there waiting 15-25 minutes longer than I was told.
- you will not understand the owner answering the phone. No one does.
- he will get your order right probably 70% of the time. Ask for more than that and you WILL be disappointed.
But... yeah... the food's delicious. Just take notes on what I said and you'll have a great experience.
Don't let the outside scare you, the food is great!
It is very small but the taste is HUGE! Lots of delicious dishes that are hard to find everywhere else.
My favorite Thai spot in the neighborhood, and one of my favorites for carryout in the area.
I love their yellow curry. Pad Thai and Pad See Ew are solid.
Matt D. is correct. They have Thai dishes you won't find anywhere else. It is very ethnic, and not commercialized. It's a mom and pop run operation, she cooks, and he tends to the front of the store. I like either the ginger chicken, or the brandy chicken. The brandy chicken is very good but has gotten a little spicy as of late, you might request it not so spicy. I also ask them to leave out the mushrooms. Take a look at the chicken satay, you can tell from the nice long thin cuts of meat that they're made there. I love that. I don't care for the fat chunks of chicken that they give you when you order it elsewhere. There is another good place called Thai Elephant which is around the corner, but it's more commercialized, think Penny's Noodles. But definitely go here when you want the real deal.
I hate to review based on looks.. cause it is bullshit. But, as my friend pointed out to me as we pulled up and thought about walking in.... the appearance is unappetizing. It looks like a tacky joint on a tacky stretch of Touhy. Borrowing a statement from my "broil". Every meal should be a good meal. Can they deliver a good meal?
