If you look at my reviews, it's mostly really positive. It's super rare that I really don't like something. So take my word for it, when I say skip this place. I went here a long time ago, (sounds like that was when they had the previous owners) and it was great. I got fried rice another time, and it was solid. But last night we ordered curry and it was not good.
1. It smells bad on the inside, like sewage. I saw that other reviews said this but I'm really not picky so I was like, "as long as the food's good!". Hole in the wall questionable interior restaurants often have amazing food.
2. Buttt somehow this sewage smell transferred to the food? Seriously, the red curry especially smelled so off, eerily reminiscent of how the interior of the restaurant smelled. We got takeout so didn't notice this until after we were home. The yellow curry had less of the sewage smell, but it was still faintly there, which I didn't realize until after we opened the red curry and were immediately turned off from the smell. Unfortunately I started eating my yellow curry first so had a few bites in before we opened the red curry and noticed the smell. Then upon closer smell of the yellow, it was there too, though much fainter.
3. My yellow curry didn't have potatoes in it. What? That's one of the main ingredients in yellow curry. It's not like potatoes are expensive. There was just a lot of cabbage and seriously like 6 or 7 very thin slivers of carrots, and some onions. The broth was very watery and thin, and too spicy for yellow curry. I don't mind some spice, but it feels like they just used chilis to flavor the curry and nothing else. Also yellow curry shouldn't be as spicy. Even if the food didn't smell suspicious, I would have been fairly disappointed to not have potatoes (one of the basic ingredients of yellow curry), and very thin slices of a few carrots. We didn't really even poke around in the red curry to see what ingredients were missing because it smelled so bad.
We threw away the food, which was really painful to do (hate wasting food) but we couldn't stomach it. TBH if it didn't smell I would have eaten it, and probably gave a 2 star review. So far I'm not sick, but I only took a couple of bites.
I feel bad for the community of Palmer to not have a good Asian food option anymore. It is so much more worth it to drive to Wasilla for Thai food. Thai Asian Cuisine is the next one closest to Palmer (I think) and is solid. Mekong, Pho Vatsana, and Pataya are all solid too. Cafe Khao Neow (not Thai but similar) and Pho Lucky are the best Thai/Lao/Vietnamese foods in the valley. If we are talking curry, Pho Lucky has the best in the valley. It's near Pittman but seriously so much more worth the drive than eating at Nudee. Their curry is loaded with fresh veggies, the portions are larger, and the flavor is fantastic. I think it is more expensive but very worth it. read more