After reading about Tida Thai on Hampton Road.com (http://home.hamptonroads.com/dining/reviews.cfm?id=1035), my husband and I had to go to try this place out. It's in a crappy location and the... More

After reading about Tida Thai on Hampton Road.com (http://home.hamptonroads.com/dining/reviews.cfm?id=1035), my husband and I had to go to try this place out. It's in a crappy location and the restaurant is dark and the decor is horrible. The service was slow because the restaurant is understaffed. It's seemed like an unorganized mess. We've been to numerous Thai restaurants but the food here was by far the worst ever. I would never just bash a restaurant but it was not like the reviews I had read. First of all, the bad review is soley based on the food. First some PROs: 1. The thai ice tea is good. That's because you can't screw up Thai ice tea. lol, if they did the place should be closed. 2. The shrimp pad thai was pretty good. They was no lime on the side and there weren't enough bean sprouts. At least it was served hot. And the CONs: 1. Appetizer numero 22. Wow, it was nothing like the description. More like a sausage of random stuff wrapped in bean curd paper and fried. The plum sauce was the best part of the dish. 2. Beef Kapaw. This dish was WEAK! First of all, I wouldn't even be so mad if it wasn't COLD. This dish looked more like beef and broccoli. I think beef and broccoli at any Chinese take out would taste better than this dish. They used the cheapest cut of beef and the pieces of scrap meat was pink in the center. The dish was swimming in a pool of watered down sauce -- I guess they forgot to thicken it. The beef was flavorless because the sauce was flavorless and disgusting. You couldn't taste the basil until you ate the lone basil leaf floating in the pool of sauce. The broccoli was cut into tiny florets, the size you feed your 4 year old so they don't choke on their veggies. The rice was the worst tasting rice ever. Definitely the cheap stuff. Needless to say, if you really are craving Thai food you are better off staying at home and making it yourself. I'm positive it will be better.
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