Great Thai option in Chinatown Manchester. Service was kind and fast. We had the lunch option, but…read morebe careful to check the spice levels of each plate, the chilli's might make you regret your choice. The food was in generous portions, the king prawn spring rolls are a must.

I came here for the lunch special at ~10 pounds for 3 courses, and it was pretty good!…read more I ordered the duck salad, curry noodles with crispy pork, and ice cream. The duck salad appetizer was a o-kay and very spicy, while the curry noodles were delicious, creamy, and instant noodles just made it more flavorful (I know you might prefer fresh noodles over instant noodles, but I just liked the noodles that way) Ice cream was not anything special.

Stopped in the other night while on a layover for work with my crew (air hostesses/flight…read moreattendants) on the recommendation of another coworker. We had such a nice evening and dinner was delicious. I ordered the Chicken Sateh for appetizer followed by the Green Curry with Prawns and side of sticky rice for my main meal. The Green Curry was especially tasty and had just enough spice/heat, but nothing too overpowering for me. Highly recommend and I definitely hope to return soon. Also note, they do not serve alcohol but it is BYOB if you'd like to bring something!

Deciding to grab some quick nosh before a friend's birthday night out we headed into Chinatown…read more Though a few more well-known Far Eastern places were considered, such as Yang Sing, we thought we'd end up being too late if we had to wait for a table so opted for the less formal Phetpailin to chow down on some Thai. What an unexpectedly excellent choice it was... It's not the biggest of restaurants, probably seating 40 people at full capacity and it was fairly busy with couples and groups when we rocked up with no reservation. For a minute we thought we'd get turned down but to our delight they prepared a table and welcomed us in. They don't serve alcohol so you can bring your own bottle(s) (we opted for Riesling which my learned friend chose to accompany the meal - he was spot on!). Scanning the menu we opted to share starters so chose Thai Fish Cakes, Mee Grob (crispy noodles, prawns, spring onions and tamarind sauce) and Giew Grob (crispy wan-tons). The Mee Grob was by far the favourite of the three, we could have eaten a large popcorn container of it. Each. It was superb. For mains, I had 'Gai Kra Tiem Prik Thai' (stir fried chicken with garlic and pepper) which again, was fantastic and came out sizzling like crazy. I have to admit I was so enjoying my meal I didn't make a note of what my friends had but we all ate with gusto. One of the nicest Thai meals I've had in an age, it's set the benchmark high. Terrific value for money and friendly service.

Not my first visit here. Tom Yum soup was A+. Panang Curry B+. The only drawback is the service is…read morechaotic to put it mildly.

Went to My Thai few days ago with couple friends. We came on a Wednesday evening and it was fairly…read morebusy - and while we were there were a few Deliveroo deliveries/takeaways being picked up. My Thai is certainly a place you can go for inexpensive food. Most of the main courses was £7.50. I went for the Pad Cashew Nut rice dish - cashew nuts, pineapple, peppers, mushroom, onion with choice of stir fried meat. I went for chicken. For starter, for the Moo Yang Grilled Marinated Pork on Skewers. This tasted OK - the sauce was a bit overly sweet though for my taste. Going back to the mains, it wasn't the best unfortunately. The flavours were OK - a bit spicy (which it did not mention in menu) but the rice was a bit soggy and some of the veg was undercooked. For a drink, I went for the Thai Pa - a session IPA called My Thai's Pale Ale. Actually brewed by Northern Monk Brew Co. Tasted pretty good. The service was good though. Friendly, food arrived very quickly.

Authentic Thai food served by warm and friendly people. What more could you want?…read more What's that? "Free Thai crackers" I hear you say... they do those too!! Blimey. Mainly because I couldn't decide, I went for the mixed platter to start, which was good. The rolls and dips were tasty, some items were a little greasy but the prawn toast was great. The satay sauce was the highlight. I also tried a little of the cauliflower and chicken coconut soup, which was amazingly light but perhaps a bit soapy...? For main I had the masaman. Lots of tender beef, amazingly rich and fragrant nutty, sweet sauce and boiled rice. Incredible. I couldn't finish it as it got a bit sickly but boy, it was good. And meant I didn't need pudding. The Pad Thai was amazingly fresh with plenty of flavour, but didn't live up to (my impossibly high) expectations. Even on weeknights it seems to get quite busy so best to book.

Love my Thai food but have only tried the Thai restaurants in town. Heard a few good things so…read moredecided to tram it out to the burbs. It didn't disappoint. As we went midweek we could take them up on their midweek specials - 2 courses £14.95 3 for £17.95. Not restricted to just a few courses we had the whole of the a la carte menu to choose from. Food was lovely, fresh and good sized portions ( see pics) one friend went for the Thai style fish which was a whole fish served on a platter with separate veg - waitress assisted with removing it from the bone. Had a really lovely evening here - don't be put off by the outside whilst not bad it was clearly an old pub in its former life but a lovely restaurant with nice staff and good food now reside inside. Big car park also resides behind for the drivers amongst you although it easily reachable by tram.

Went for tea at nam ploy last night as we wanted to go out for a meal where we hadn't been before,…read moreI have only ever got take away from here and after that being really good thought we would give it a try! We ordered chicken satay and squid for starter but they actually brought out ribs instead of the squid but they looked so good we didn't actually tell them they got it wrong- and they tasted just as good as looked! Then for main I had chicken stir fry with noodles and it was delicious The atmosphere was pretty quiet to say it was a Saturday night it was dead there was hardly anyone in! However there was a magician and called tony and he goes round to your table and asks if you want to see some magic he was so lovely and did a few then went away but we asked him to come back over once we'd eaten because we was so impressed! He works there every Saturday night and it really made our night!

We didn't really want to venture into Manchester for dinner, especially as we would have a very…read moreearly morning the next day, so we decided to give Nam Ploy another go since we enjoyed it so much the first time. It was a weeknight, not busy at all. Most of the business seemed to be takeaway, but we decided to eat in. We wanted to try something different this time... of course we seemed to be having difficulty making decisions on dishes. Eventually we decided on one of the set menus. It is funny that the items Mr. Snarky were excited about, I wasn't, but I was also excited about items that he wasn't. Go figure. We went with Set Menu B, which is a lot of food. The starter was similar to what we had on our last visit, so of course it was a pleaser. Next up was the soup. Our waitress had advised us that the prawn soup was extremely spicy. We asked if the soup could be made less spicy, to which she said no, but said we could substitute for a different soup. So we went with the Tom Tam Gai, a coconut milk based soup with chicken. Mr. Snarky was excited about it, but I wasn't quite so excited, mostly because I have tried a couple of coconut milk based soups and I tend not to enjoy them. I also remember my mom making a dish with coconut milk when I was kid and I always ate something else for dinner because I just didn't like it. However, as an optimist, I continue trying dishes I don't like in the hopes that one day I might like it. The soup came out and it was quiet pungent. However, it tastes much better than the smell. I ended up liking and Mr. Snarky ended up not being a huge fan. The other issue is that his bowl was mostly mushrooms with only a couple of pieces of chicken... he doesn't like mushrooms. If we had to do it again, I would try the spicy shrimp soup. For our mains we had a creamy shrimp curry, stir fried chicken with garlic and pepper, and Beef with Oyster Sauce. This comes with egg fried rice as well, but I believe we did order another bowl of steamed rice... I'm part Asian, I can put away a lot of rice. A word to the wise, try the chicken and the beef first. We made the mistake of trying the shrimp curry first, but because of all the spices and spiciness of it, it just dominated our palette. I will say that I was a bit worried about the creamy shrimp curry, 1) I have never been a huge fan of curry (although we are working to correct this) and 2) because it said 'creamy' in the description and I am lactose intolerant. However, I enjoyed the shrimp curry... the flavor was amazing and the while it isn't instantly spicy, the spice does intensify. We were absolutely stuffed! I think an extra course, even if it is soup probably put us over the edge, however, we were definitely happy with our food (the soup being the exception for Mr. Snarky). And at just under £20 per person, I think it was a pretty good deal.

The place has very flavorful and well cooked food. Hard working servers and did I mention the…read morefood was excellent. Mojitos good too. Enjoy

I went to Thai Kitchen No.6 a few weeks ago with some friends. Thai Kitchen No.6 opened around June…read morethis year - its taken over the site of the vegetarian restaurant 1846. I had never been to 1846 before but looking at photos, a lot of the decor is still the same. It was one of those very warm days in Manchester we had in July - remember them! Actually its apparently a heatwave this weekend! Anyway, arrived at Thai Kitchen and we had a table near-ish the front door - which was open wide to get whatever breeze there was through. I was looking forward to going to Thai Kitchen No.6 after hearing it was a family run business and things are homemade. I heard about it when it was mentioned by chef/restaurateur Gary Usher - Thai Kitchen No.6 is pretty much next door to his restaurant Kala. As I looked through the menu for what food I wanted, the most important at that moment was to see what cold drink they had. Ordered a beer - helped me cool down! For starter, we sort of shared. So I tried some of the Esan Sausage (deep fried Thai sour pork sausage) and the Paw Pia Tod - crispy spring rolls. Both tasted good. Never had Esan Sausage before but tasted good. For the main, I went for the Pineapple prawn fried rice. It tasted good but unfortunately I did not realise it had currants in it - not really a fan of currants (or raisins) so had to pick around the currants - although I did eat some and tasted OK. Maybe absorbed flavour of the fried rice. The pineapple was nice and sweet and fried rice tasty. I should have realised though that it was never going to be a "massive" portion because its served in a pineapple and pineapples are not that big. Next time I go, I think I will go for Hainanese Chicken and Rice - which I almost ordered.

The Royal Orchid is a very traditional Thai restaurant. It is pretty dated all round, the neon…read moresigns outside should give you a clue. It is open late and fully licensed though, it its defence. The food we had their was typical Thai; nice but some was too spicy for my liking. The Royal Orchid did seem a bit lazy. A friend who took my there commented that she hadn't seen the menu change in years. Clearly they have their own way of doing things here and it would take a minor miracle to change anything. Not one of my favourites.

Definitely worth a visit. It's the best Thai place in the area, and its great value. It is, as…read moreSophie says, pretty dated in terms of its décor. In fact its pretty tacky, but that seems to be part of the charm. In fact they've had a little re-furb lately and got rid of the pink table cloths..... but kept the china cats, thank god. The do an excellent red Thai curry, which you can have as part of the £5 lunch deal, available between 12 and 3 on the weekdays. The lunch deal includes a starter and rice. Starters vary from day to day but they're all nice authentic deep fried Thai-ness. My ultimate advice to anyone having Thai, not only here, would be to get on the Pad Kee Mao, a spicy noodle dish. You may have to ask for it specially if its not on the menu, as it is usually sold in its rice form, but here they would be happy to do you the noodle version. I must warn though, its very spicy. Unfortunately they've decided to end the Friday buffet for the time being, but they've assured me that it will be back, so keep an eye out for that. Its an all you can eat, which only has 3 or 4 main dishes, but all of them are lovely and you wont be disappointed. They also do a pre-order sharing thing for large parties. When we did this they really made an effort to look after us and make sure we had enough, so I'd really recommend it for a party.

Argh! This was not what I expected…read more My friend and I were pretty excited to try Siam Smiles after all the good reviews and were looking forward to some Thai culinary sunshine but both our dishes were seriously sub par. I had a soup with roast pork belly - the soup lacked any depth of flavour; the meat was just ok. My friend's chili and garlic chicken and rice dish looked totally uninteresting and was basically just a pile of raw chilis on top of some boring looking chicken and rice. She really didn't like it. Drinks wise they were out of lychee and regular Coke (my nightmare!!! Jk. But kind of not jk) so I decided on jasmine tea which cost £1.50...for a mug of hot water with a tea bag dumped in it. Hm. There are two menus shown on yelp at the minute - from November 2014 and January 2015. Neither are what we were shown, and I think the prices have gone up slightly again. In fact, the dishes now aren't that far off what you would get in nearby Thai restaurants like Phetpailin or even Try Thai or Chaophraya that have far nicer (and warmer) interiors. Might go back and try it again at some point but certainly not chomping at the bit!

Siam Smiles is neatly tucked away in a Chinatown basement. Word has spread fast about this…read morehalf-restaurant, half-supermarket ever since a critic for Guardian Weekend magazine dropped by to eat here in October. The setting is pretty basic, but very clean, with white tables and simple orange plastic chairs. The menu, on the other hand, is pretty comprehensive given that all of the dishes are made by just one cook in their tiny kitchen at the back of the store. Some of the dishes we tried were as delicious as you'd find in places much more salubrious than these surroundings. Sharing is definitely recommended due to the wait - see above re: numbers of cooks. The drinks you can order (all non-alcoholic by the way) are simply plucked from the shelves by the waiting staff (bottles of soft drink) or made by the cashier behind the till (hot drinks such as jasmine tea). It's not particularly vegetarian-friendly here, and some of what we had could have been presented/prepared a bit better (I'm not a fan of eating raw ginger slices or whole red chillis, for instance) - but for meat lovers who like their spice, this place is worth trying.