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Rao Thai Eatery

Rao Thai Eatery

5650 Whitelock Pkwy, Elk Grove, United States

Thai • Asian • Catering • Delivery Services


"I started watching a Thai cooking movie on one of those streaming services that rhymes with GetMix and it made me Hungry for some Thai food. I tried Thai years ago with my In Laws and I didn 't know much about the cuisine but they liked it so I ordered curry which was the only thing I was familiar with. Unbeknownst to me, Thai curry utilizes coconut which I 'm not a fan of but this Thai cooking movie made want to seek out a gem of a restaurant in my own neck of the woods...Elk Grove. I knew about Pad Thai but never knew about Pad See Ew which to me looks like Cantonese Chow Fun so I wanted to try it because maybe it has a flair of its own. I 'd have to admit, when perusing Yelp for a place to go, the crispy chicken skin appetizer is what caught my eye and that in itself sold me! Chicken cracklins or chicharrones or call it whatever you want but deep fried chicken skins and I 'm there!I decided to go family style and ordered several dishes for all of us to try. Some other Yelper raved about the tofu sticks so we had to try them and to me they were just okay. Next was the spicy eggplant and shrimp salad. The salad was delicious enough that the kid told us he 'd come here next week on his own just for that.Then came the chicken hell and pad see ew. The waiter asked how much heat to put into the wings and good thing the kid told him a 6 on a range between 1 being low heat to 10 being the hottest. 6 left my lips burning and I don 't think I could 've gone any higher. Both dishes were delicious and the noodle dish was indeed much like chow fun. The wings came in a shallow bowl with a soupy sauce with green beans, onions, bell peppers and chili peppers for heat but there must 've been something else to elevate the spice level. I should 've ordered some plain rice to pour some of that sauce over.....next time. The restaurant was very clean and nicely decorated with amateuristic Van Gogh art of people 's faces that could be family, friends of the restaurant or maybe just random folks. My only gripe is the water cups. I like having nice tall cups instead of little metal coffee style ones. I needed water to cool my lips down and got tired of refilling my tiny cup. Overall......Gochisosama!!! Totemo oishiikata! Arigato! Oh! After reading my review you may be thinking all that and just 3 stars? Well, I 'd have to go back to try other things like the beer crispy pork that I over looked and then see if I should add more stars. Yeah.....you wouldn 't like me as your stupidvisor on employee evaluation day!"