THAI ORCHID

3.7/5.0
11 reviews

2591 N. FIRST ST.

San Jose, CA

432-3229

Category: Thai

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Recent Reviews for THAI ORCHID

May 21, 2008
Daniel M.
Las Vegas , Nevada
200 reviews
Excellent food !! We love to go there very often and we like Cashew Chicken and their thai iced tea. Would strongly recommend if one likes hot spicy food.
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June 28, 2004
Ffff H.
jasper , Alaska
121 reviews
great food and servers will give you all the little history and other info on certain dishes and the resturant itself. Well worth the trip and the bill.
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July 3, 2000
Partha C.
Sunnyvale , California
16 reviews
Small work lunch sort of place not hung up on ambience but just great food. When short on time, just take any of their lunch specials and you cannot go wrong.
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December 29, 1999
Collin L.
San Jose , California
20 reviews
My favorite dish at Thai Orchid is Pad Thai (Thai rice noodles sauteed with prawns, egg, tofu, bean sprout, green onion, and ground peanut). Yellow Curry (chicken, potatoes, carrot, opion, and coconut milk) is also excellent. Service is very good. Small family atmosphere.
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June 28, 1999
Toshi K.
Cupertino , California
9 reviews
I often go there. Very good food and not expensive.I like their prawn red curry, green curry, and yellow curry.Also their cashew chicken, basil chicken, BBQ chicken.Spicy spaghetti is my favorite, too.Their spiciness changes day by day. Be careful.
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February 20, 1998
Anonymous
56945 reviews
Small place with decent service and very good food. Just a note of caution -- their "medium hot" was my "hot". When I did ask them to make something "hot", I had smoke coming out of my ears. If you like seafood, go for the squid with sweet basil. Also try their soups with vegetables and coconut milk. Very aromatic.
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June 12, 1997
Kathy W.
10 reviews
I have been for lunch several times. Go early or late but if you go at lunch you will have to wait. I love their Pad Thai!
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April 23, 1997
Anonymous
56945 reviews
Good food, low price. All the dishes I've had there have been pretty good. I recommend the basil chicken and a dish whose name I can't recall---it's made with flat chow fun noodles, a dark sauce, and your choice of meat (chicken, beef, pork). The majority of the lunch specials are $4.95; quite a good value. Make sure you ask for spiciness if you want it. A word of warning: this place and the surrounding parking lot are PACKED at lunchtime. Reminds me of San Francisco. If you arrive in the lot between 12 or 1, you could be in for a wait for parking and again for a table, maybe about 15-30 minutes total.
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April 4, 1997
Mark S.
28 reviews
Wow. I would have rated it 5 stars, but it's a bit small, tables too close. This is the BEST Thai restaurant I've found. We ordered Basil Prawn. It was very good, fresh shrimp, fresh veggies, ordered it medium spiced, and it came just that way, very good sauce, almost oil free. We ordered Bamboo Chicken, medium spiced. It came VERY spicy, but the quality of the chicken, all white meat, no skin, fat, gristle, or bone, the tender bamboo, and fresh spicy sauce made us happy, although teary-eyed. It was free of grease, and so good, we finished every drop, with plenty of white rice and Thai beer. (By the way, they give you a lot of rice, a plus.) We ordered cashew chicken to go, and alas, it wasn't quite as good. While the chicken was the same ideal quality, it was a bit oily, like most Thai restarants. Still, it was better than most, so it rates a plus. Maybe since we ordered it to go, close to closing, they hurried. We ordered it not too spicy, and it was lacking spice at all, mild a ... more
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November 6, 1996
Anonymous
56945 reviews
Excellent food !! We love to go there very often and we like Cashew Chicken and their thai iced tea. Would strongly recommend if one likes hot spicy food.
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