Mai Thai

10 Reviews on “Mai Thai”

• Linu Varghese

  I went with family for lunch and the food was good but I believe the food was decent not so rich in taste as it used to be but still good food.We went there for lunch because they served Duck…. We wanted to eat a duck dish… However unfortunately we were late for the lunch time… They close by 02:30 and the grill closes half n hour before the closing time maybe their schedule…whatever but we did not get to order duck.Instead we ordered crab rangoons and fresh vegetables spring rolls… The crab rangoons were really good… But the spring rolls were just awesome they were very fresh and rolled to perfection within the rice wraps … The sauce was good but we could eat the roll so comfortably because the way it was put together. So the start was nice and we ordered for mud chicken and mango chicken… The guy serving us was good and gave us some extra rice when we asked for it…The dishes were just awesome tasted really good…However I noticed the mango skin in which the chicken was served had the label on it even when served which is not expected… I did not make a fuss because I do not think that was for eating but it was in the dish so I feel the care should be taken by the management…. If they read my whole review they would know anyways..But the food was good we enjoyed it thoroughly and our son had some good chicken with rice…I would love to go back there for the duck. Attaching some snaps from our plates…

  April 25, 2016, 5:02 am

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• JamesForJesus

  Delicious. I love this place. Their fresh rolls are perfect, and the sauce is wonderful. I like their Pad Thai, and lemongrass chicken was good. Service is iffy. Some servers are snotty.

  June 7, 2015, 5:19 am

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• Chad K

  Good. Stopped in here for a late lunch on a Sunday in December.Mango Crab Rangoon were good. They’re really stuffed full and that can throw off your sense of what the fried exterior to creamy interior ratio should be. Once you get used to the huge amount of filling they’re quite good. Though, I didn’t get a lot of mango flavor from mine. You’ll note that mango is a theme here and they try and flavor several entres and alcoholic drinks with it. It’s sort of their gimmick.Pad Thai was a bit one-dimensional. Usually Pad Thai has this multi-dimensional sweet, but savory and spicy too, flavor going on. Theirs was just kind of flat. You can order chicken, beef, or tofu. I chose chicken. It was cooked to perfection. Great textures. Noodles weren’t mushy. Vegetables had just the right amount of crunch to them. Chicken was moist, but scant (only had a few pieces that I could find). It was portioned well too. Plates are huge and so that makes a lot of their servings look a bit on the small side, but there was a decent amount of Pad Thai on my plate.Thai food snobs are probably rolling their eyes at my ordering Pad Thai (the Spaghetti Marinara of Thai cuisine), but that’s what I was craving. Since it is such a common (and extremely popular dish) you’d think every Thai restaurant would really want to hit this one out of the ballpark. Theirs was just okay. I have had other entres of theirs (which I will not review here as its been too long to accurately remember and comment on them) and they’ve all been very good.Service was just okay. Not particular attentive, but they were friendly.Restaurant is very modern. Has that super clean minimalist design going on that is so popular with new restaurants. I think the atmosphere is a little on the cold side. Perhaps it feels different when it’s packed full of people, but there were only 4 other tables of diners in here when I stopped by. Also, they had a lot of the overhead lights turned off and were using the daylight coming through the front windows. Kudos for saving power, but that left diners with a cold one-directional source of light. I was casting a dark shadow on my menu making it hard to read.Prices are a bit elevated ($13 for Pad Thai at dinner). You do get superior ingredients in your food, but I think you’re mostly paying for the dcor. There are certainly cheaper places to eat Thai food. In fact, many of the best rated Thai restaurants in Omaha are cheaper than this place. I suppose they’re trying to create a certain atmosphere here with their dcor and with their clientle-filtering pricing. I don’t mind paying a premium for superior food and service, but I’m not going to pay for their interior decorating choices.Overall, good food. Service can be improved and Pad Thai recipe needs some attention.This is just a quick note to my fellow diners that were eating with me at 2PM on Sunday, December 28th, 2014: STOP STARING! My God. I’ve never felt so self-conscious eating in a restaurant in my entire life. Every time I glanced up I was making eye contact with a fellow diner. Did everyone in there at that date and time just forget social norms? Don’t stare! My hair was combed, I was clean, dressed neatly, not making any odd noises or movements, and I haven’t grown a tail or a third eye.

  March 29, 2015, 11:39 pm

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