Thai City

the worst thai/​chinese food in bethesda… bar none. do not order from here. the cheesy neon signs day it all crapy food.

I’ve definitely had much better. I actually ordered from here because I was in The mood for papaya salad. Got a call 10mins after I placed my order and was told they don’t make it anymore. This place is actually like 3 in 1. They have 3 huge menus and they don’t carry the one thing I liked from them? Meh. Ka Pow beef was good, and green curry was okay, I prefer small eggplant as opposed to the huge long pieces they used. Here’s my biggest disappointment… The honey roast duck. A few dry shreds on barely cooked veggies (broccoli was REALLY raw) and what looks like angel hair pasta with a small side cup of honey. Hardly worth the 13 bucks and not really «Honey Roast». At least use lo mein noodles or cellophane noodles and not highly random angel hair pasta.

Yuck. The dishes were tasteless and the Larb Gai was cooked! Do not order from here– hopefully we don’t get sick tonight.

The only reason this $#!+ hole gets 1 star is that is the lowest rating it can acheive. I ordered take out from here for $ 65 and they gave me frozen battered shrimp and called it Fried chili some crap. I order 4 other dishes and no one could even stomach it.
I called the manager and explained how bad the experience was and he never once apologized. Instead he referenced another time someone from my home ordered there. It was a horrible mistake then as well. I figured out how the mistake is made, that same restaurant has three names so people order from there again by mistake!!!
I argued for almost an hour with the manager about the food. He asked if I ate all mine, I ate the fried shrimp for $ 16.99 with 8 store purchased Gordon Brand shrimp with some bland side sauce they prepared. He told me he wouldn’t refund my money because I had eaten some of the food!!!
Finally I told him I was coming to the restaurant to solve this in person. I brought the remaining food which was hardly touched and asked for a refund and still he refused! Then he called the police on me. So I sat down and waited 15 minutes for them to show.
He explained to the police how I was so wrong about how I requested my money back. He was amazed when the police told him to give me back all my money! As the only 2 people in the restaurant left they said they’d be sure to Unilocal this awful experience as well.

Very bland, not worth the money! Plain rice noodles would be better. Stay away, far away.

My family was visiting from out of town and ordered from this place for dinner. When we went to pick up the food, we discovered this «Thai» restaurant was actually a cheap greasy looking Chinese food place that sneakily goes by three different names depending on what you’re ordering: Golden City (chinese), Thai City (thai), and Sakura City (japanese). The «pad thai» was just non-​descript greasy noodles that bore no resemblance to actual pad thai. My brother found a long hair in his curry. Need I say more?

I am not one to bother with writing bad reviews, in fact I have never written one before but my experience with this place was so bad it’s almost my civic duty to write this. This place is that bad. Food was terrible and the person taking the call was so rude. The good finally arrived, and it wasn’t until I opened the bag I realize all the sauce was swimming in the bottom of the bag. I don’t blame the nice driver as accidents happen all the time. What annoyed me was the very rude lady on the phone who I called to ask for more sauce (absolutely crucial since the food was so bland without it). She was so annoyed at my request and said it won’t be for another half hour. They are two blocks away from my address! Never ordering from this place ever again. Ok done venting

Pretty lame. There were two of us; I enjoyed mine OK. On a scale of 1 – 10 it was about a 5 or 6. Decent, standard, not great. My friend’s was pretty awful, and they didn’t listen to any of our delivery order instructions. EXPENSIVE for what you get. $ 7 for 3 spring rolls, which were stuffed almost entirely with lettuce. These were served with a thick and overly sweet peanut sauce.

hmmm… ok, so I took the risk to order Thai food from this place which is also called Golden City and serves Chinese take-​out. I’ve had the Chinese food a few times and its nothing great, but it satisfies your craving for Chinese carry out. Anyway, I decided to ordered the Green Curry and the Pad Thai. Unlike the other review, I thought the green curry tasted pretty much like green curry. I never had it with asparagus or eggplant, but I’m always up for more veggies. I was surprised with the pad thai too. I don’t think I was expecting much, but at the minimum, I thought it tasted like pad thai. I’ve had pad thai at other places, and the noodles would stick together or be hard, but this one seemed normal and I thought they gave a generous amount of shrimp. I’ve definitely had better pad thai, and I wasn’t going in expecting 5 star food. Anyway, I’d go back to fulfill my Chinese and Thai carry-​out cravings. Not a place to take out-​of-​towners, but its a convenient place to fulfill your cravings, especially if its on your way home on a cold wintery/​rainy day, and you don’t feel like cooking!!! The food is usually ready within 10 or 15 minutes if you order pick up, but if you order delivery, it could take up to an hour.

So its nasty outside so I decided to order some yummy thai food. Went searching through my drawer filled with delivery menu’s and came across this one. Bad choice. I ordered the coconut shrimp soup smelled terrible and tasted even worse. Then I moved onto my pad thai thinking no one can mess up pad thai. Boy, I was wrong… this is the worst pad thai, the only bad pad thai I have ever had. It was dry, completely over cooked. I was making fun of my husband because he orders food like a ten yr. old but I’m glad he ordered the pork fried rice because it was the only edible thing we got besides the fortune cookie.

So I live a few miles outside of downtown Bethesda but for some reason no one delivers here. So after calling two places in downtown Bethesda, I called Thai City. Ironically, they are twice the distance from my house as the other places, but did deliver to my house. Go figure. They were very nice on the phone but the food took quite a while to get here… like over an hour. I ordered the Tom Yum soup with chicken, pad Thai with shrimp, and the green curry with chicken. The tom yum soup was ok… not too lemon grassy but very coconutty… maybe I ordered the wrong thing or they delivered the wrong item. Either way the soup was filled with… onion. Seriously. There was some chicken, some green pepper (really?), and tons of onion. The broth was good but just lacking in substance. So I moved on to the green curry… which was not really green curry. I’m starting to think that maybe the sent me the wrong order. This was a very soupy coconut chicken with eggplant and asparagus dish. I did not taste curry in it at all. Looking at the menu again I think maybe this was a different dish. This had a coconut broth with basil, asparagus, and eggplant. The eggplant and asparagus were cooked perfectly, but it wasn’t green curry. I’m not sure what it was. Don’t get me wrong– I ate it. And it was ok. It was not really what I was expecting. Now I know Pad Thai is a very typical dish for Americans to order, but I also think it shows how good the place is. And the pad Thai here is just ok. It was kind of dry but that may be because it was delivery. Either way, it was just ok. Not great, but had plenty of peanut flavor. The shrimp was nicely cooked just not super flavorful. If I had to again, I probably would not order from here again.

Wouldn’t bring my delivery all the way up to my apartment. I had to walk to my lobby. I live in a condo building with a driveway and a person at the door.
Oh, AND it was bland. I ordered Pad Thai thinking it would be hard for them to mess up. I was wrong.