White Elephant Thai Cuisine

10 Reviews on “White Elephant Thai Cuisine”

• Icecreamaddictyyc

  White elephant is Thai restaurant, it is located inside of a hostel, it might be difficult to find at first. You need to walk into the hostel and enter the restaurant, there is no other entrance. We visited before the opening because they do not take reservation but it gets really busy on weekend. As we thought, within 30 min from opening, all the table were filled. We tried pad Thai noodle with shrimp, some skewers, noodle with coconut curry, and Tom yum goon the seafood spicy and sour soup. Our favorite was the soup, we ordered large and they werent kidding, it was large, almost like a whole pot. And it tasted delicious! It was not too spicy, but very flavorful with big shrimp inside. I definitely recommend you to order this soup. Pad Thai was not my style, I like the one without tomato sauce, and this restaurant only offered the one with tomato sauce. It was sweet and flavorful, but not my favorite. Besides, the noodle was thin and a bit overcooked. The noodle was stuck together and after a while became unable to eat like noodle. The good thing was, again, the potion size was very generous. Skewers were just ok, it comes with peanut sauce. And the noodle with curry was also ok. Noodle was crunchy and the sauce was not spicy, its very rich and creamy. It almost reminded me Chinese style deep fried noodle with sauce dish but with coconut curry on top. Overall, the food was nice and the service was very good. Price wasnt very cheap but the potion size was really big.

  December 26, 2020, 8:13 am

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• Kelso002

  White Elephant is well known for its Thai food in Calgary. I had a chance of trying this place out for the 1st time. Their interior space is rather small and can only fit around 10 tables so I would recommend visiting when they open as they don’t take reservations. We tried the chicken skewers, spicy noodles, fish curry, and green curry. Chicken skewers were okay, chicken was a little dry, but the flavors were nice (curry with a side of peanut /coconut sauce for dipping). The spicy noodles had a good mix of green / red peppers, gai lan and onions but a little too sweet for my taste (practically eating sugar). The fish curry was tasteless and had no seasoning (breading was also hard on the bottom), and the green curry was okay but a little too watery. We paid over $70 for our dishes which wasn’t too bad (skewers was around $12). Overall, the food here is only okay hence the rating.

  October 13, 2020, 6:14 pm

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• Kevin O'Donovan

  Ive never had Thai food with such authentic flavours out of this world. The space inside the hotel makes you feel like your in a little piece of Thailand and the staff are amazing people

  August 14, 2020, 4:28 am

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