First thing is first. Today’s my Dad’s birthday! Happy birthday, Daddy!
Last night, Kevin and I met up with Kevin’s childhood friend, Ben, who even published a book inspired by their hometown. I was in the mood to try a new restaurant, so we went to Sea Thai, since I kept seeing them pop up in “Best of Orlando” lists in the Thai category.
Everyone else must have had the same idea because the place was pretty crowded for a Wednesday evening. I’m not sure if they’re quite used to their recent fame because our service was a little spotty. It took quite awhile for us to be seated (not because people we were waiting but because everyone was preoccupied). We also were sitting awhile before anyone came to take our drink order.
We decided to start with an order of their summer rolls because Ben and I share a love of peanut sauce, but they had sold out. Instead, we opted for vegetable spring rolls with dripping plum sauce. I’m not quite sure what a dripping plum is, but the sauce was sweet and tasted a lot like duck sauce, which I love. Next time I’m showing up early for summer rolls.
For my main dish, I ordered panang curry with tofu.
The curry was delicious. It came with a side of rice, which I promptly dumped into the bowl of curry, which already contained mushrooms, snap peas, onions and peppers, to soak up all the sauce. Even after I ate all the rice, tofu and veggies, I was left with a pool of sauce. I seriously contemplated drinking it but resisted the urge.
Kevin ordered chicken fried rice, and Ben ordered shrimp pad Thai.
Both seemed to really enjoy their meals. I stole some of Kevin’s veggies to dip into my endless bowl of curry.
The food at Sea Thai is very good, but the service was very slow. There were many times when drinks went empty for awhile, and it took a very long time to order food and then a long time to wait for the food.
Luckily, the company was good so the time was well spent chatting. Plus the food was really good. I’m really glad we were able to try Sea Thai. I would have been a lot more frustrated if the food didn’t end up being delicious.
Do you have any bad restaurant service stories to share?
I never was a big subway fan, but the service at the downtown one is dreadful! I’ve walked in and stood in front of the counter for five minutes before the worker walked over from standing at the window, staring into the street…
Sea Thai is one of my favorite restaurants in town! I almost always order green curry with tofu & brown rice.
Now I am in the mood for Thai food. I don’t mind slow service at restaurants as long as they are apologetic and make every effort to make sure you are comfortable.
That’s a good point. I don’t think I would have even mentioned it if they were apologetic.
I <3 Thai food! Your curry looks great, and I probably would have slurped it haha.
I pass by Sea Thai a lot and always think it’s in such a dingy looking area but I wondered about the food. Thai is my fave and I would be so bummed about the summer rolls. And I ALWAYS order panang chicken at every thai restaurant. Soooo delicious. Maybe I’ll try this place out…but I’ll go early.
What do you do with the leftover sauce??
Happy Birthday to your Dad!!
I’ve never had Thai food before. I want to try it so badly! I hate when have bad service at restaurants. Going out to eat can be expensive. You should get good service because of how much you are paying to eat.
That all looks SO good. I haven’t had thai in forever. Maybe sometime soon I hope!
I love panang curry curry. They are so good! But my favorite will always be pad thai. haha.
I went to this restaurant called strip once for my sister’s birthday and they took forever to seat us and they were really snobby about it too. But at least the food was decent.
My husband and I go through a lot of soda at restaurants. It’s like when we treat ourselves to it so we’re always bummed when the service is bad with that. But the food looks amazing!
Happy Birthday to Your Dad!
My biggest compliant about a restaurant is this NYE…the server would not give us our check. We had a late reservation at it was. We left the restaurant at 11:55, we were running down the street looking for a bar to get into quickly!
I love the food at Sea Thai but you’re right, it’s always very slow! Wish they stepped up in the service department!