Chada Thai Traditional Taste

The beef masman curry is tasty and spicy, but the beef could be a little more tender. Pad ka prao (not too sure of the name) lunch portion is small, but it left me satisfied. It’s very flavorful. Lunch comes with eggroll (fresh and crispy) and salad/​soup. There’s only one server when we were there, but she’s pretty efficient and we didn’t wait long to get our food. She could use another hand though.

Checked this place out since I was nearby at the Cedar Park Center. We were greeted and sat down wherever we wanted to. The waiter was pleasant and we received refills without having to ask. That’s a plus in my book!
I ordered the beef Larb (spicy meat salad) and chicken satay as an appetizer. They do not have fountain sodas so be aware you will order by can. They do offer refills on iced tea (unsweetened) and hot green tea.
The appetizer was ok. The main dish was tasty and came with sticky rice. I ate the entire plate… so good! I will be coming back for more!

Excellent Thai place in town. My favorite vegan option Larb salad with tofu and Tom Kha with tofu in combination. The brown bag is excellent too. My fourth time with this combination never gets tired.

Our favorite Thai place in Austin so far! House fried rice was great for our kids. Pad See Ew was delicious as well! Good service and just overall a pleasant dining experience.

I’ve only had two things, but they are so good, I keep coming back for them. Someday, perhaps I’ll be in the mood to try something new, but that might be awhile. :) The staff is very nice and quick when you’re in a hurry. Love.

With limited Thai options in the area, this place is a great find. I have ordered carry-​out multiple times, and the food is always kept warm, and packaged nicely to go. When ordering over the phone they are more than happy to fulfill any special request; for instance I always order the Panang curry extra spicey with additional steamed veggies. My favorite dishes so far have been the Panang curry (both salmon and chicken are delicious), and Pad Thai. Last time I picked up my order, I noticed they were selling small jars of their ground spice/​oil mixture. I am so happy I purchased one, as it goes great on everything, adding a flavorful spicy kick!

I went there for lunch and was seated right away. The waiter was very friendly and attentive. I ordered one of the coconut curry dishes with potato, chicken and onions. It had just the right amount of spice. It came with an egg roll and soup. The egg roll had the nice thin crispy outside. The soup had mushrooms and chicken with a creamy spicy base. Everything was wonderful and very fast. Their lunch specials are $ 7.99. Will definitely be going back.

I’m torn, honestly. I want to give it five stars, but I can’t.
The food: 10 out of 10. Have yet to have anything that I didn’t think was absolutely delicious. I highly recommend the crispy rolls, and certainly the money bags. So good! Can’t go wrong with any of their pad dishes, and while the pineapple cashew fried rice isn’t to my tastes, exactly, it is still very good.
Their sweet tea is well made, but all carbonated beverages are sold per-​can, so be careful on your refills or you’ll find yourself with a large tab without any booze.
The service… Their staff seems to be three people. Whomever is in the kitchen is a wizard and I adore them. The male waiter is a young man stretched rather thin as the only server I’ve ever seen on the floor. The female server or food runner is very nice, but her quiet nature seems to make some of my companions assume she is unfriendly. As I have yet to experience any outright display of this, I’ll simply stick with she’s quiet.
The food is wonderful, as I said, but the timing is a bit off. You’ll wait a bit after finding a seat to get your beverage order taken. Sometimes it feels like you need signal flags and an air horn to get anyone’s attention. And then once you order, appetizers, then ten or fifteen minutes later, the entrées, they seem to arrive practically on top of each other.
So. ³⁄₅ overall. Be patient, try something new every time you go, but don’t skip the appetizers!

Went here with the family before the new Charlie Brown Peanuts Movie. I am Highly Impressed. The Pad Se Euw is excellent, so was the Pad Thai.
I also ordered the Shrimp, said it was lightly fried, and it really looked like grilled shrimp with a tiny bit of breaking crumbs. Had a sweet and spicy sauce in the bottom of the plate (not drowned in it) and also came with fried eggplant, it was Amazing! I’m very happy. The Pad Cashew stir fry was a smaller dish, but the taste was also very good. Waiter was very quick, we got there at 5pm on a Sunday, so it was very slow.
I would highly recommend this place.

Im not sure why this restaurant has four stars! Food is so disappointing. We ate here last night and got the following:
1. Moo ping (griller pork) — too salty
2. Pineapple fried rice — seems like chinese fried rice! It had ham on it. It was diagusting and oily.
3. Crispy shrimp — it was ok. Just okay
4. Golden bags — too little meat!
At least the thai and thai coffee iced tea were good enoug! It was expensive and definitely not worth it at all.
If you want good THAI food, try Thai cuisine. You’ll be coming back for more.

I really wish I could award more stars here — the food is fantastic. Unfortunately there were some areas which could use a lot of improvement here.
My husband came in this evening and were seated by a friendly guy who coincidentally would be our waiter. He was great — very attentive from seating to check. We ordered an iced tea and an iced lemonade. He brought me my lemonade but also a water, which I very much appreciated. The lemonade was really unfortunate though — instead of a fresh-​squeezed drink, which is what I expected, I got something that tasted like Country Time Lemonade with a very sad piece of lemon in it — basically, a sugar-​bomb. Not great.
Anyways, we ordered the Golden Bags as an appetizer, and they were fantastic. For our entrees, we ordered pineapple fried rice, (sans shrimp) and the pad-​thai. Huge portions, hot and fresh — really, really good.
There were two other issues, however, that were super weird. While we were eating, at least twice there were really loud noises coming from the other side of the dining room wall that looks like it has the kitchen on the other side — something was shaking and booming. The people that were sitting next to the wall were very much like wtf, as were we even though we were seated on the other side of the restaurant. Additionally, when we walked in there was a strange smell lingering in the air — the faint aroma of sewer. We did become desensitized to it, but it took a bit and while we didn’t discuss it at the time, we did in the car on the way home. Just odd.
So anyways. food and service were great but there was some off and weird stuff happening here. I think I’m being generous on the three stars, but I feel that two is too low, considering the service and food. I’d like to come back at some point and have a less bizarre experience.

Yum yum yum. Can I just start off by saying, FREE DRINK OR EGG ROLL, with a Unilocal or Facebook check in! That’s right you can get a large Thai tea (or any other drink) for free!!!
Okay, now on to the food, chicken satay was good, tasted like the ones you find at the booths in Malaysia, the Lard Na was very flavorful and the pad thai was sweet and sour in all the right ways. Pretty much anything your order will be delicious, but I recommend the noodle dishes cause they have larger portions and are super yummy!
Dessert: fried bananas have a really nice crispy outer shell that pair perfectly with the two scoops of vanilla ice cream that the bananas come with!
Service: GREAT, Tammy is the best server ever!
Like Jacqueline L. said, «they’re like madam ma’ms» but in a way they’re not, a new Thai place that is hip and traditional all in one!

Went here this past Monday night. It was quiet. I had been looking forward to trying this as it reviews so well. I know Monday’s are quiet nights but the interior was super cold and uninviting. Im certain on a busy night it will warmup and have a nice buzz.
They don’t have their wine and beer license yet so BYOB for now. :)
Onto food, it was all good. According to Carl his salmon was great. Pad Thai was good not amazing. Next time will try a curry instead.
Will try again and update this review.

I hate giving them 3 stars because I REALLY wanted to love them, but I have to be honest and admit that our meal here last night was just so so. Some things I liked better than others so it’s best to break each item down to justify my rating further:
Service: What I feel is the most important part of any establishment. This is easily 5 stars as they were courteous, prompt, and knowledgeable.
Crispy egg rolls: Again 5 stars. Mostly because they were free with our Unilocal check ins so that gives me no right to complain; and secondly because they were piping hot, delicious, and came served with a truly yummy and slightly spicy dipping sauce.
Fried golden bags: 3.5 stars. These were basically a fancier version of fried egg rolls but instead bag shaped and tied at the top in edible string. The insides are filled with chicken and sweet potato, and they are served with what I believe is the same egg roll sauce mentioned above but with the addition of cucumber chunks mixed in. The negative of this dish for me was the curry powder they seasoned the inside mixture with (my palate has a sensitivity towards it that is unpleasant). I didn’t see the mention of curry on the menu until after we ordered them or else I would have chosen a different appetizer. That’s on me, not them. Without the curry though they would have been 5 stars.
My entrée of pad se ew with tofu: 3.5 stars. I liked that they asked if I wanted my tofu fried or seared and the thicker noodles they use in this dish. The flavors overall were good. Not the best but certainly not the worst pad se ew I’ve had either. Once I added some of their hot chili sauce I liked it better, but it was still lacking something to me that I couldn’t put my finger on.
My husbands pad Thai with chicken: 2 stars. He enjoyed it, but the bite I took (which just had noodles and no chicken) had an extremely fishy taste. It was almost like they sautéed a fish fillet and then used the same skillet to cook the noodles in. He didn’t taste that at all so perhaps I just got a weird bite? Either way, that is usually the dish I order when trying new Thai restaurants and I’m a little glad he got that this time instead of me.
To summarize, I intend to give them another chance because I understand that even the best of places have a bad night once in a while. Nothing we ate was terrible by any means, I think this was just another example of going in with my expectations set too high. Hopefully next time we will leave feeling much differently.

This place is a little far from downtown Austin but it’s just like madam mam’s. You get a free order of egg rolls or a free drink if you check in on Unilocal too! I got the Thai tea with extra cream. It was pretty good! They give you a large glass of it.
The service was amazing! We were allowed to pick where we wanted to sit. The waiter was super attentive, making sure we had enough water and asking us every now and then if we needed anything else.
I got the pad see ew with chicken. The portions are fairly large but not as large as madam mam’s. There were times when I got the pad see ew from madam mam’s and the noodles weren’t cooked perfectly. That definitely wasn’t the case here. Everything was delicious! The dish wasn’t too oily and I was full after eating half of it. We also got the fried bananas. THOSE WERE AMAZING! The bananas were sweet and delicious! The outside was a bit flaky and crunchy. It also came with some syrup but the bananas were great on their own. I would definitely recommend the fried bananas!

Chada translated in my mother tongue means fabulous or wonderful! And it perfectly describes this place. I love it so much I wanted to come back the next day but my husband adviced against it cause he said its embarrassing lol so we agreed to come back 2 days after instead. ;p Its that good!
The golden bags are yummy and crispy. My daughter loves the cheese rolls and the shrimp satay. My favorite is the Moo ping (skewers of grilled pork) and G1(grilled beef). The sweet and spicy sauce compliments the grilled pork and beef. I also tried the Salmon Panang Curry which was equally yummers. Try the Salmon and smother it with chili flakes like I did. It was sooooo good! Also, dont shy away from the fried sticky rice. Its sweeter than the regular sticky rice that come in the pretty basket. I promise!
The staff here are really friendly. It feels like eating at an Auntie’s house when we come. Please be nice to them. Lets not turn them into the Walking Dead… Ya know, the cynical and mean looking servers we usually see nowadays.
And lastly, dont be ridiculous and not have dessert. Try the sticky rice and mango. Ours was comped because they felt it wasnt ripe enough but the tartness of the mango balanced the sweet sticky rice very well.
I cant wait to try everything on the menu

It has been too long since we had a UYE in Cedar Park. A big Thank You to Alicia for doing a great job of organizing it.
Our newest Thai restaurant is in the 1890’s Ranch shopping area. It is near the Cinemark theatre, which everyone knows the parking is sparse. It was well worth the long walk to this restaurant. There were about ten of us for lunch. Some old friends and a few new Unilocal friends, all were is fantastic spirits.
Speaking of spirits, this is a BYOB to date. Alicia brought a bottle of wine and beers.
We started with 3 or 4 appetizers, don’t ask me what we got. Why, you ask, because we all ordered different entrees and Alicia ordered the appys. My favorite was the Golden Pouch: crispy, chewy, slightly spicy, and Oh, so good.
I ordered the crispy shrimp in Tamarind sauce, and managed to get two shrimps. Very good. I believe we also had Pad Thai, something in Green curry, a rice noodle dish, Papaya salad, a grilled pork on a stick, salmon in a red sauce, and larb. I enjoyed all of it except the rice noodles. Those innocent looking noodles packed a punch. I was crying from the heat.
They also have about four dessert option. We didn’t partake as we were all stuffed from the samples of all the dishes.
The service was surprisingly good for the chaos we created. Maybe, that is why we were seated in the back.
The prices are reasonable. Most definitely, I will return.

Thanks to Alicia K. for hosting a fabulous UYE here. Had she not, I may never have found this place. It is located right next door to the Cinemark theatre in the Target strip center. There’s a lot of stuff tucked away in there. There was a nice group of us that showed up.
We ordered a lot of food and passed plates around for sharing. That is the best way ever to explore a new restaurant. I was thinking our bill would be right at $ 200, but, was surprised to see it far less. Cheap delicious food. I can’t remember all of the dishes that were ordered, but, I can tell you they were fresh and delicious.
One appetizer that we ordered was called golden bags. It should be called crack bags. I could’ve eaten those all day. Everything from those balls to the curry’s (especially the green) to the pork on a stick (OMG that pork was so tender and delicious-how’d they do that?) to the papaya salad (not for wimps) to the sea bass and salmon to the gluten free noodle dish (nice spice to it) to the sticky rice to the tomato wedge that I found isolated on a plate. Yes, I grabbed it and ate it. Really good tomato wedge.
That’s how our afternoon went. It was feast or famine. We feasted and feasted and feasted! Our waitress was on top of her game and provided fast and friendly service. I can’t wait to go back. I now have another Thai place to add to my list! For CP, this is as good as it gets! :)
**NO MSG**

So what’s the coolest thing about Unilocal?I can do the «Wonderful Camaraderie & Special Moments» spiel as well as anyone else, but I think the coolest thing is when a Unilocaler hosts an unofficial event at a new restaurant they really like, so we can try a whole bunch of dishes at once. It’s the most efficient way for me to decide if I’d go back there.
And that’s exactly what Alicia K did at Chada Thai, and yeah, I’ll be back. I never heard of this place, the only thing I know about Thai food are the usual Pad Thai suspects, and I can take or leave stuff requiring a peanut sauce. Didn’t even see that here.
I also have no idea of what we ordered, I’m just enjoying the pictures. I can tell you the sea bass & salmon entrées were attractive & ambitious, but the family-​recipe native Thai dishes were superb. Whatever that Yum-​Yum stuff is, try it — it definitely kicked my ass. Let’s rephrase that: It seemed very authentic.
Chada Thai is next door to the Cinemark movies on the Super Target side of 183A & East Whiteside, and this whole strip mall complex just keeps getting bigger, with lots of new restaurants & shopping. And now they have a new Thai place. And it’s a very good one.

Dare I say it? This is my favorite Thai restaurant in Austin and it’s in my neighborhood. Located next to Takara in Ranch 1890 Cedar Park, Cha-​da Thai is everything I hoped for. The interior is modern so this can be a place you would actually want to dine in. There are many familiar dishes as well as some that are not. In addition, they also have a small selection of Thai street food. The restaurant has a Thai chef and they claim to make high quality, unAmericanized Thai food.
We ordered the pork Masman curry, chicken larb, seafood tom yum and moo ping. The moo ping was grilled excellently and the dipping sauce, delicious. Every dish was flavorful, with an excellent balance of sweet, sour, savory and spice. I can’t wait to try every item on the menu.
We were very impressed. If you are looking for high quality, flavorful Thai food with good service with a nice ambience, Cha-​da Thai is where it’s at.