We wanted to eat somewhere close by for mother deer’s birthday so we decided to go to Chad Thai restaurant. Chad Thai restaurant is located along Burnaby Heights and focuses on Thai street food and contemporary Thai cuisine.
Lettuce wrap
Chad Thai doesn’t offer many dishes that aren’t spicy so lil’ bun didn’t have much to choose from. We ended up ordering the lettuce wrap ($9.99) for her so she could have something to eat in case she didn’t want the other dishes.
The lettuce wrap came with a stirfry of crispy fried vermicelli noodles, mushrooms, onions, chicken and carrots. We thought that the stirfry was well seasoned and appreciated that we got half a head of lettuce to wrap everything in. Lil’ bun enjoyed this dish and had a majority of it.
Thai suki with seafood
We decided to get the Thai suki with tiger prawns and squid ($10.99) for our first entree because it was one of the noodle soup dishes I hadn’t tried before. It was a bowl of glass noodles with cabbage, celery, spinach and tofu. We thought that there was an abundance of seafood in the dish but it really lacked in the noodle department. We also found the broth to be much too sweet and even though we ordered it to be medium heat, we didn’t taste any spice in it at all.
Pad Thai Gai
Brother deer got to choose the next dish and he decided to go with the Pad Thai Gai with mild heat($9.99) which was a stir-fried rice noodles, tofu, chicken, radish, bean sprouts, chives, egg and peanuts in a tamarind.
Even though I’m not a big fan of stir-fried noodles, I didn’t mind it at all because it wasn’t very oily. I also found that the tamarind sauce gave the noodles an almost sticky consistency but it wasn’t to the point where the texture felt unappealing. What surprised us the most about this dish was that it was actually spicier than the Thai Suki we ordered at medium heat.
Lil’ bun’s said that it was sweeter than the Pad Thai from Thai Cafe and Bai Bui Thai though. I guess the food here tends to be on the sweeter side which can be confusing because they are savory dishes afterall but once you get past that, the food here is very enjoyable.
Tom Yum noodle soup
The Tom Yum soup was sweeter than most I’ve had in the past so it threw me off a little bit. It was also creamier due to the addition of coconut milk which helped dull the heat present in the soup. I would have liked it better if there was more lemongrass in it but that’s just me being picky about it. There was a good amount of mushrooms, shrimp and noodles in the bowl and I was happy that no lemon grass was in the bowl. There’s nothing worse than biting into a bulb of lemongrass!
Thai noodle soup
The last dish we ordered was the Thai noodle soup ($8.99) which was a dish that reminded us of pho because it was rice noodles, bean spouts and chicken in stock. Mother deer was not impressed with this dish at all because she felt that the stock had too much of an artificial msg flavor and had no real depth to it. She thought that this dish was definitely not worth the price.
