Thai Express

Its a convenient spot, being very close to St Clair Station. Its also attached to a café in case you want a coffee with your curry. I had a Thai soup with veggies, beef and some lemon grass. I ended up adding a lot of hoi sin sauce and hot sauce because the broth was not that strong.
This place is decent in a pinch but there is a family owned Thai place near the St Clair Sobeys that is much better.

If it wasn’t accessible from within my work building, and if the windchill wasn’t –33 degrees Celsius, I would never return. I actually much prefer the country style in the same room, the sandwiches are better, the service is slightly better.
It’s overpriced noodles/​rice with ketchup or watery sauce and way too much onion/​green pepper. Not very good at all. Take your money to the New Thai restaurant down the street next to sobeys instead. Better prices, better food, better service all round.

Sup homies and Asians (you Asian and you readin this and you know it)
Well lemme hold it down for ya and go easy on me cuzz. And shout out P.I.M.P squad. Momma I luhhh u.
Normally a brotha like me don’t goto these kinds of places but homeboy called us out and we respectfully accepted. Now listen when a group of your Asian friends brings you some place suspect they know and all of them order something you’ve never heard of before. Trust them more than your choice
I was the odd one out that didn’t get the pad Thai. I decided to go with the Curry rice with chicken.
Here’s where da horror begun bruh. I open up this little box that cost 10 bucks and was like lol wut. The pad Thai filled up the box to the top but with my Curry rice the chicken took up half the box and half with rice.
Soo I unno bout y’all but I know what Curry is and all but I seen some liquidy ass milky rice that tasted sweet. I ain’t even know what I ate. On a suss note the chicken was good lol.
Now I gave this an extra star because we came during closing and he offered me free rice which I gladly accepted because I wasn’t close to full. So daps to the homeboy there.
Now next time ima go wit the Asians brothas and roll with pad Thai but if you brown and you think this is some Indian typa Curry rice. Bruhhhh; you ain’t know the feel. This ain’t a feel you wanna feel.

Pad thai (beef)
— The beef used was tough and chewy. The pad thai was too saucy. Lunch special for pad thai is 6.59.

Meh. They have a daily $ 7 special that’s fine for what you’re paying.
I love green curry chicken and theirs doesn’t have enough of the good stuff: lemongrass, coconut milk and spice. It’s edible but doesn’t wow me — but that’s to expect from a fast food chain.

This place doesn’t honour it’s posted hours, supposed to be open until 9pm seven days a week. Arrived around 8:45, the doors were locked, two men were cleaning up and they completely ignored me when I knocked on the glass. When I called the number, the voice message was full.
The food is ok, we go because the place is convenient just out of the transit, however Mr Thai a short walk up Yonge Street is just as good and open and friendly!

Even though they apparently make the food fresh in front of you, it is still a bland brown mush. Sitting here a couple of days later, I can’t even remember what I had. I remember what it looked like — monochrome. Checking my receipt, I see that it was veggie Pad Thai.
I could not identify any veg, they were cut so small. Except onions, which were plentiful. So, for. $ 8, I left still hungry, not satisfied in any way. Except that the tea, which is free, was quite good.
Staff either didn’t understand English at all or spoke English but just gave any old incorrect information to answer questions about the food. Like another reviewer here, the tofu I ordered never materialized, but I didn’t care to try to communicate with them again.
While eating, I watched the guy who made my food go out for a smoke (where he was visible just outside the window, yuck), and return to the restaurant without washing his hands and start to cook again.
Too expensive, not good, dubious cleanliness, won’t go back.

It really only deserves 2.5 stars, but something makes me go back. It’s… it’s not that bad. Look, it’s not thai food, and I am the first to admit that. But sometimes I am at St. Clair station with an empty stomach and 25 minutes to kill, and I’m not proud of this, but I will go to Thai Express to get their chicken pad thai (skip the floppy oily tofu).
Why? Because it is a hot mess of saucy sweet noodles, and I cover it with lime and fish sauce and peanuts and I eat it. Because there’s always a table at the weird times I go. Because the staff are nice. Because, and this is the big reason, because they make it to order, so you don’t get those dreadful tasteless pink «pad thai» noodles, but a huge hot saucy plate. It ain’t great, but some days it’ll do.

my first 1 star rating.
I love thai food. I love when the take out is packed in cute chinese take out boxes. I love when the food is made fast so I can save time.
so I run in here to get some quick lunch before my class.
they had two veg options for almost everything: 1. Vegetables 2. Tofu
So I choose stir fry. that’s the dialog that happens:
me: I’ll have vegetarian stir fry with tofu
girl at the counter: vegetable stir fry (and starts typing it in and shouts the order in I suppose mandarin to the cook)
me: it’s the tofu version right?
girl at the counter: tofu?
me: yes. it has tofu right?
girl at the counter: yes yes it has tofu (no smiles offered at any time)
I wait for 2min and get my order and run to the streetcar stop. I get onto the streetcar and start eating.
for $ 8 I got mini mini portion of food. but it gets worse.
40% of my meal was onion. 55% — rice and the rest 5% mix of 2 slices of broccoli and 4 slices of carrot… where was the tofu I don’t know but I guess it stayed at the kitchen.
result: I was hungry in an hour. and unsatisfied with my food and money spent.
am I coming back again? no. not to this location neither to any other of thai express. thank you.

Really good food and they are fast.

Fast food thaïlandais comme on aimerait en voir en France.
Service rapide, plats proposés très copieux et pas mal.
J’ai prix un pad Thaï aux crevettes qui m’a couté 9 $ et c’est facilement mangeable par deux personnes.
On peut prendre à emporter dans des sortes de petits cartons à la chinoise comme on en voit chez les traiteurs chinois.

It’s mediocrely delicious. It’s open till 10pm. Comes in a paper take-​away box. Hence why I come here all the time.
Can’t comment on the rush at lunch time. Although the line has always been fairly small when I come here — anywhere between 6pm to 10pm.
Also, I was here about two days ago and the place was PACKED with Asians. I never gave Thai Express much creds as legitimate Asian food but the swarm of Asians states otherwise.
Will I continue to come here for Thai Take away? Yes. Did I wish it wasn’t so overpriced? Even a heartier yes.

Review on the Run:
Not a lot of choices for fast food in the area which explains the long lineups here for lunch. I find the food ok. It’s an alternative to burgers.
Conclusion: Eat Here? Yes.

I adore Thai food!
I tried Thai Express in the Scotia Plaza a couple years ago … I wasn’t impressed.
The St. Clair E location recently opened and I thought I’d give it a try.
I ordered the yellow curry chicken. They boil the chicken to heat it up! Ewwww!!! They add it to some fresh peppers, onions and pineapple. Then they mix in some heated yellow curry sauce. Finally they dump it on top of a bed of rice. With the pop, it was almost $ 11!
I know it was fast food but it was nasty! There are some good Thai fast food restaurants that blow this one away. I don’t understand the line-​ups I see for this chain at other locations … there are much better places to spend your $$.
Never ever ever again!