Thai Up!

The Thai Up! in Midvalley is the best one — if you can go to just one, make it this one. Why? The make-​your-​own noodle set is my favorite thing from them. Green curry + rice noodles + chicken = pure deliciousness. The service is a bit splotchy but the food has never disappointed. And averaging under RM25 per person, you can’t go wrong.

Anytime I have a change to get some thai food I do not pass it up.
The restaurant is small and can’t really decide if I would go back or not. My friend had a soup which was pretty good and I had the shrimp noodles but I know that some other dishes are pretty spicy and not as tasty.
One thing I noticed in Malaysia is that a lot of staff in the hospitality segment doesn’t speak much english so if they don’t understand you they won’t really say much so your dish may not be what you expect.

This restaurant is located at the ground floor in The Gardens Mall. I love Thai food so I decided to check this small restaurant to see how it is. I ordered here Tom Yum soup which I have to say that it wasn’t the best I had until now. The taste was good but the vegetables were not so good.
The restaurant is quite small, and they have the menu on a paper… so you can’t expect so many from them. The place is open so it’s a lot of noise which can bother you and everyone can see what you eat.
The drinks are good and the price for the food is acceptable.

I am an avid Thai food lover. So my review might be a little bias. But Thai Up is just not up to standard at all.
The restaurant (more like an eatery) looks nothing authentic for starter. The menu comes in glossy paper, straight-​forward and predictable.
So we went on to order something safe — Tom Yum and Pat Thai. I mean, if you cant do both of these dishes right, there’s no excuse for that.
The Tom Yum comes in a bowl of pathetic mixed of vegetables and slices of chicken. It was a watered down version of usual tom yum you would taste. The pat thai was the most soggy version we ever tasted. Drinks on the other hand, were quite decent. Even though price point is friendly, we are certainly not returning.

Finally a new thai place in mid valley/​the gardens mall. Previously if you are craving for thai food here you have pretty limited choices.
You can get amarin and absolute thai but these two would be considered the rather premium restaurants, which means even though the food are really good, you have to be ready to splurge first.
So as usual i was doing the ‘where to eat ’ ritual with my friend and we were walking for so long in the mall. Finally, both of us agreed on this restaurant!
I was craving for tom yam soup, so that’s exactly what i have gotten for myself. And i picked seafood. Given the price, which is slightly cheaper than the restaurants that i have mentioned previously, their food is actually good and worth the price.
The only thing you’d have to bear with is the rather open restaurant area. This means that you’ll have audiences watching while you’re eating.
I’m okay with that and i will come back again!

It’s time to Thai UP!
Most of my friends prefer Thai food to any other food in Asia! I am not the biggest fan, but of course when you pick a restaurant you have to follow with the majority vote.
I definitely can not say that I highly dislike it, I’m just not the die hard fan. :) However, I have to say. I’ve had a super delicious meal at Thai up the other day.
Of course it was curry with cashew nuts and cinnamon. It was truly glorious and I didn’t even realise how in 5 minutes my plate was empty.
My friends wasn’t that lucky and het yellow curry was way too spicy. Even after she asked the waiters to make her meal less spicy, it was unbearable. I didn’t even dare to try it out.
Hence, I suggest to ask about how spicy the dish is, before you order it! :)

My fiancé and I were looking for a place to have lunch until we came across Thai Up at The Gardens, Mid Valley.
It was something new to us and we gave it a shot. It has been a while since we had Thai.
The waiter waited us to the table and gave us the menu. First thing I looked at was the price, decent, I must say.
The hard part came when I had to decided between having Pad Thai or Tom Yam soup noodles. It is like torn between two lovers and really loving them is like breaking all the rules (need to lose weight).
It came to a point when the waitress asked me what would I like to have and without a thought I said Pad Thai. No tomyam today, maybe another time.
My pad thai arrived, and I requested for more chili flakes, spicy ! I mixed the chili flakes and the crushed peanuts with the squeezed lime together. I could smell the aroma and it made my mouth watery.
Within minutes, I devoured the pad thai and it was gone. All gone in my stomach.
The prawns were fresh so were the squid.
It was a decent experience and I wouldn’t mind going back there again but for the tom yam soup instead.

Got up early today to have my slimming session at Dora, Midvalley.
Felt so refreshed and «thinner» :p and so I indulged myself with fairly good lunch.
If you do notice, the Lower Ground of Midvalley Gardens has sprung up with many food outlets which most of the names I haven’t heard of. The complex is very clever in providing plenty of choices for customers to choose ranging from Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Western and Thai.
So, today I decided to have Thai at Thai Up. Honestly, I wasn’t quite impressed with the menu that is displayed at the entrance as the food portion in the photos look rather small and pathetic. Still, I gave it a try.
I ordered their Green Curry Chicken Fried Rice. I thought it would come with a bowl of Green Curry Chicken served with a plate of fried rice but in actual, the rice is fried together with the green curry. My rate for taste and quality — 4/​5, pretty impressive, huh? Yes, I did’t expect it would taste that good.
I also had the Lemongrass juice to help soothe my bloated tummy. I loved it as the taste is strong and I kept burping after that. I guess it worked!
Overall, my dining experience at Thai Up was great. I paid RM 13.90 for my food and drink for RM3.90…pretty reasonable!
They are obviously open everyday from 10am — 10pm. :) And they are located near Ding Tai Fung and Purple Cane at one of the food outlets outside… don’t be confused with the restaurants.