Green Papaya

My hubby, 11 month old baby and I came here for late lunch. It was pretty empty at that time. There was only one waitress who seemed to have been misunderstanding orders for more than couple customers.
Besides that, food was mediocre… we had green mango salad, iced coffee, chicken satays, Szechuan spicy tofu with cashews, some beef dish (sorry, can’t remember the name) and got chef to make tofu satays. Tofu Satays was okay, wish it was marinated to get crispy taste like chicken, but glad chef agreed to try something different.
Overall, place and food were okay, may return if in area.

Food ** Service **** Ambience ****
Mediocre food, Good portion sizes. I was told the restaurant has new owners now they are cost cutting, which clearly shows in the quality of their food.
Not recommended

We ate in the restaurant last year and I remember the food tasting great. However, we were pretty disappointed in the take out we received tonight. Pad thai was ok, a bit ketchup-​y, not very authentic. Green curry was pretty good, but mango chicken was the biggest let down. Probably won’t return again.

Surprised that the reviews aren’t so great for this restaurant! My friend and I ordered a chicken pad Thai and lemon grass shrimp. Both taste pretty good! I personally can’t eat a lot of spice so I really like the taste of the pad Thai (not too spicey). Our servers are also really nice and we each received a free ice cream by checking into Unilocal!Pretty decent place so I’ll definitely visit again in the future.

Got take-​out from here a few weeks ago. The food was hot, yes. But essentially, it’s less-​than-​mediocre «American Chinese Food» under the disguise of some generic Thai Vietnamese label. I have no idea why a place that serves this kind of food would also be so rude to their customers. The manager guy acted like I upset him or something, really weird. I’ve never been here before, and I’m never coming back.

I used to live in the neighborhood and would go for lunch here.
Great specials and affordable. Loved pad Thai and noodle soup. Really good spot and recommend to everyone!

The salad and phở were average. It’s probably the worst Thai/​Vietnamese restaurant in the neighbourhood. The service was also really bad, the waitress was impatient and disrespectful. Will not be coming back again.

Such a let down.
I ordered delivery and got the crispy beef, chicken pad thai and vietnamese spring roll.
The crispy beef was soggy, it possessed some flavor which I think saved the restaurant from getting one star.
The Pad Thai was truly a let down. Truly was a bowl of mush.
Too many other thai restaurants in the area. I would definitely take a pass, at least on delivery. Not to say there was anything wrong with the delivery driver, it was quite prompt service. within 30 mins.

I’m not really sure how to rate this place, because it has its good points and bad points.
Bad news first.
My chicken pad thai was tasteless. When I go to a place where pad thai is available, it’s probably what I would order for myself. With that being said, I’ve had my fair share of pad thai. I’ve never been to Thailand, so by default, I have no sense of what is «authentic» or not. It’s really a matter of preference in taste I’d say, but this one, NO TASTE. I can’t understand how food can be so tasteless. I had to ask for Sriracha hot sauce, just so that I can taste something and this is something I’ve never added on my pad thai…*never ever*. I just wanted to be able to taste something.
The good stuff.
Well, the noodles were made to my preference. It was soft, but not soggy. The bean sprouts were crunchy enough, but not under cooked. The actual technical cooking of it was good and the size was reasonable. I was full at the end of my meal, but I was not satisfied.
I thought it was just me, so I actually planned on going back for a different dish. When I told my coworker about my experience, she also thinks the place is terrible. She ordered Thai Curry and she said of all the places she’s been to, they are the worst.
Overall, I would not recommend this place to anyone.

The service is very efficient. Being vegetarians, we find a lot of choice in soups, wok, stir fried and fried rice dishes.

Ordered delivery for the first time.
1) The veggie spring rolls were crispy and delicious.
2) the green mango salad was the best part of the meal — nice, sweet and tangy.
3) the phở was unfortunately not good at all. The noodles were soggy and overdone, the broth was very, very oily and it didn’t come with any accompaniments like the bean sprouts, onion, cilantro, etc. There was an odd bean sprout in the broth but not much.
Overall it was ok, but there are so many choices on Yonge St, I probably won’t be trying again.

It doesn’t taste like authentic thai-​vietnamese cuisine restaurant. Their papaya salad is the worst (I only smell and taste of strong vinegar). Their Thai ice tea is lack of strong flavour of the tea and quiet too sweet for me. And the Pad Thai is too soggy. 1 star is only for their décor and location.

I have eaten at this place about 7 times but I haven’t been back since my last visit.
I ordered the mango chicken plate with brown rice. I knew as I started eating the food that something wasn’t right — the chicken tasted like bad meat. Unfortunately I made the mistake of continuing to eat it. I left disappointed and ended up going to the movies with my gf. We couldn’t even finish the movie as I started to feel really sick — started to shiver and feel really light headed. I am not a doctor or expert so I can’t say for certain that it was the bad meat that caused my sickness, but the experience itself has led to me not going back again to this restaurant.
To be fair, the food was not bad the other 6 times that I went there. I may have given them a second chance had I not gotten sick after but now it is too risky to return.

Walking around the area and at first wanted to go eat somewhere else, but decided to give this place a try. This place use to be super popular, along with Lemongrass. They were the ‘Asian Legend, or Pai Northern Thai Cuisine’. We came in around 7ish and it was very quiet, maybe because of the warm rain temperature.
We started ordering two drinks. My gf got the Ice Lotus Soy. We both tasted, and it was quite powdery like and the flavour is quite light. (Didn’t like it)
I got the ‘Passion Fruit Juice’. And it had a sweet/​sour taste. Which is the norm for this fruit, but this is the plus that it even had this juice. (Rarity in resto)
I got a pre-​fixed dinner for $ 19 which gives you a soup, app and the main with dessert.
Lemongrass Veggie Soup– Consist of beansprouts, tomato, onion, cilantro, lemongrass. The broth for me was kind of boring and it tasted sour which I presume is how lemongrass taste. Not really an exciting soup.
Chicken Satay/​Mango Salad– You get two skewer of chicken with peanut sauce. This is cooked well. Chicken was not dry, and tasted fine with the peanut sauce. Mango salad was okay.
They called the main «Drunken Shrimp w/​Pad Thai», but it turns out its actually «Garlic Shrimp w/​Pad Thai». The taste in general of this dish is okay, but not so good. Maybe average at best. The pad thai is ketchup flavoured (no tofu btw). This place did say on the door that they’re ‘Pan Asian’ cuisine, so they may not have much signature items.
My gf had the ‘Glass Noodle w/​Chicken’. Chicken was moist in pieces, and noodle tasted fine with sauce. I would say its better than my pad thai.
Overall: Food is okay. Service style is drop your food to your table and leave you alone. We didn’t get any water when we ordered our beverage. This is likely a one-​time trial deal for us.

Food was delicious, excellent service, diversity on menu and great service, will definitely come back!

Stumbled upon this place while I was with a friend. We ended up ordering the rolls, coconut soup and pad Thai. The soup was decent but overall the food was bad. Not your traditional Thai fare. Most of the rolls lacked flavour or was too greasy. One of them even had the freezer burn taste. Yuk! The chicken used in the dish (rolls, soup and pad Thai) had a pretty bad taste to it. Would def not go here again. Service was decent.

I was craving Pad Thai when I came to Green Papaya for a weeknight dinner with the family, so I ordered the Pad Thai.
I am still craving Pad Thai.
Green Papaya isn’t a terrible restaurant, and it’s clear that they’re at least trying. The «Pad Thai» that I got was fairly edible, and the Tom Yum soup we had wasn’t bad either. But Green Papaya, despite its name, isn’t really a Thai Restaurant. It’s another one of those pan-​Asian restaurants specializing in sugary General Tso’s chicken and half-​assed renditions of other Asian specialties. They have some decently priced combos and the food isn’t too bad, but I’m tired of going to these places.
Give me some real food. The kind that people eat.
I did get a small scoop of ice cream for checking in on Unilocal,which was kinda cool.
As with my earlier review of Thai Island, I might actually be able to recommend Green Papaya if you really like mediocre whitewashed Asian food.

Have had lunch here a couple of times because I work in the area. They have a lot of lunch specials for a very reasonable price. I always order the chicken pad thai and I manage to have enough left over for it to be another meal. Service is good — quick and efficient. As mentioned, I find the lunch specials to be very reasonable. For under ten dollars, I get a starter salad with a spring roll and a generously portioned pad thai dish. The last time I dined here, I also ordered an iced Vietnamese coffee, which was super tasty.
Anyway, when I need a quick lunch, I usually go to Green Papaya as you can’t go wrong here.
Good for: lunch

On a never-​ending quest to find reliably good Asian delivery in Forest Hill, we decided to place an order from Green Papaya. Twas a cold wintry night, so we ordered:
Chicken wonton phở — verdict: great! Yummy broth, excellent little chicken wontons. Very tasty.
Spicy thai tom yum soup with chicken — verdict: pretty good.
Crispy beef — verdict: excellent! One of the better versions of this dish that I’ve tried via local delivery… great ginger/​soy/​sesame flavour. Though by the time we cracked it open, it definitely needed a crisp-​up in the oven…5 minutes or so did the trick.
I’d order again from here in a heartbeat.

More like 2.5 stars. Nothing really wrong with this place, but not spectacular either. Ordered the lunch special — Bangkok chicken w/​steamed rice, spring roll and lemon veggie soup.
Lemon veggie soup — good flavour, not spicy, but fresh. 3.5÷5
Spring Roll — it was acceptable. ³⁄₅
Bangkok chicken w/​steamed rice — ²⁄₅. Rice was dry and not moist (felt like it had been in a fridge or they didn’t add enough rice to the rice cooker) and chicken was chewy and I expected it to be crispy.
While cheap ($ 8.50), I’d probably rather go to Lemongrass in the Yonge-​Eglinton food court for Thai fusion type food.