The five stars are for the massive amount of cashews on top of the fried rice. At most other places, the number of cashews on the plate can be counted on the fingers from both hands. But over here, it's as if they were trying to pour out the cashews from a five pound bag and ended up with a mountain of them on top of the plate. The cashews might have been piled in this manner in order to keep them crunchy, so this was appreciated. The picture shows what it looked like after mixing the cashews together with the rest of the ingredients on the plate. The pineapple slices were not sweet this time, but the sweetness in the raisins made up for it. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Cashews over Rice - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

Came here in anticipation of trying Sa-By Thai's boat noodles. The hours of operation here are incorrect. The restaurant honestly looks rundown and its operation in general seems questionable. Not sure if this place shut down or heading in that direction?? I'll be doing a further drive to hit up another restaurant. How unfortunate. read more

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Super mixed feelings about this place after ordering take out twice from them. First, the good: Chicken drunken noodles at the spiciest level, SOLID! A generous portion of noodles and veggies, but not as much meat (which is fine by me). As a spicy loving girl, the spiciest level option was good as it was present throughout the entire dish, meaning it was mixed in well! I appreciated this immensely. Also got a mango sticky rice to feed my sweet tooth, and it was good too! Served with blue rice which made it pretty. The bad: Oh my god. I love Rad Nar normally, but when I ordered it from here through UberEats, I was severely disappointed and couldnt even finish a third of the dish. It was severely sweet. Now, I do love my sugar, but holy crap it tasted like they marinated the meat, veggies, and noodles in sugar and then added more sugar when cooking it. I also got the spicy option so it was really weird to eat something sickenly sweet with a little bit of spice when expecting a spicy, savory dish. Maybe it was a bad night for the chef or they mistook salt for sugar, but wow. I was in shock, and in the bad way lol. read more

Located in downtown, there is only street parking available. The restaurant appeared to look very unkept as the menus are sticky and obviously not wiped. We were the only dine in customers at the time, but I noted they have mostly doordash orders during the 25 minutes we were there. The sign by the entrance says "No cash," ok no problem, we can pay with card. Then there's another sign that says "Credit cards $1 surcharge, debit cards no surcharge." -- Paid with debit and still was charged $1 surcharge.. After paying, I saw a sign that says Zelle accepted. 1 entree + 1 Thai Iced Tea with complimentary waters + $1 debit card surcharge + 20% tip was a little bit more than $30. Roasted duck curry with rice $18.95 - 1/5 stars. I'd give this a negative star if I could. This consistency of this curry was more like soup as it was so watery and not thick. I was able to count how many tiny slices of duck + duck skin was given in this dish (10). By tiny, I mean TINY. If you were to put all the pieces together, you wouldn't even get a normal portion of a slice of duck LOL. It's all green peppers and like 3 slices of cucumbers. The flavor of this curry was more sweet than savory and way too liquid-like to eat as a curry over rice. Thai Iced Tea $5 - 4/5 stars. This was extremely sweet, good thing I have a sweet tooth! Only thing was I ordered regular iced tea but was served and charged for Thai Iced Tea. Omitting this from the overall rating because it's not what I originally wanted. Overall, the entire dine-in experience was... awkward. We walked in, was confused what to do, sat ourselves, stood up and slowly walked over to the cashier and grabbed the menus, looked at the menu, sat in confusion as we waited to order, then got up to order at the counter. It feels awkward and weird to even converse with the cashier/server when he brought out the wrong drink. Normally I give Asian restaurants with 3.5 star ratings a chance because the food is usually good and makes up for all the inconvenience (service, price, etc), however this is not the case LOL. Definitely will not be coming back or purchasing from doordash. Overall rating: 1/5 stars. I felt ripped off going here and walked across the street to get different and more filling food. Maybe the other location is better? read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Roasted Duck Curry with rice - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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I didn't eat in as I got my order to go. I got the pad see ew and a panang curry, which both felt pretty lackluster to me. The pad see ew was really dry which made it feel like it was undercooked or just not fresh. The noodles had that harder texture from undercooked/refrigerated noodles. The panang curry had some separation in it that didn't really go away when mixed up. It also felt a bit old and didn't taste great. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 33. Pad See Ew - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

One of my favorite Thai locations! The pad See Ew is one of my favorite dishes with tofu or chicken. Their chicken skewers are so yummy and flavorful. Peanut sauce with them is must! I also like their fried chicken over fried rice. Thai tea is a good drink too. The only thing that is not great is their parking, so thats why we only do to-go orders :/ also their inside seating is really small. They use to have a bigger location but I assume too expensive / inflation of rent must be wild! Service is pretty easy and quick. read more

$18 for a portion of seafood noodles.??? I feel scammed, the restaurant owner gets rich this way.? I really don't understand how they can be so bad. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 25. Seafood Noodle Soup - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

Tasty! Green curry, yellow curry, and pad kee mao were delicious. Ordered to go and no utensils were included :(. Inside looks really small.

I was a bit apprehensive about ordering my papaya salad here given the overall Yelp rating, but I had been craving it for multiple days at this point and found out that Dusita is closed on Sundays after I already left. I placed my order via DoorDash for pickup, one Thai-style papaya salad in large, medium spicy. I walked over and arrived about 10 minutes before the estimated pickup time. Despite DoorDash saying that the restaurant was still preparing my food, it was ready to go when I walked in. Looking at the restaurant from the outside did make me lose some hope. It's small, it looks pretty dingy and unassuming. Walking in, there are only a couple of tables available for seating but about half of them were occupied by customers on a Sunday night. The guy behind the counter looked pretty bored of his job, but I told him I was there to pick up, he asked if I needed utensils, I said sure, he tied up the bag and gave it to me, then I was out the door. I appreciated how I didn't have to wait the 10 minutes that I was fully expecting to wait when I arrived at the restaurant, but that's not necessarily always a good thing. I thought the large portion size was fair, but as other reviews have stated it is a lot of cabbage. It was a three compartment takeout container with the papaya salad in an aluminum foil boat in the main section and wedges of cabbage in both the smaller sections. I appreciated the aluminum foil boat as papaya salad is not the cleanest thing to get for takeout and that boat did a great job of keeping the juices contained. I was initially worried that medium may not be spicy enough as I usually get medium spicy from Dusita, but after many bites back to back I was definitely running for the water. This papaya salad is a bit heavier on the green beans and lighter on the peanut pieces, came out a bit more than I'd usually be willing to pay for this type of dish but satisfied my need to suffer from spicy thoroughly. I'm glad to have discovered a decent papaya salad spot nearby. read more

Great food! Friendly service. The food is always consistent never hot or miss. This is our only go to Thai place. read more

They have some really good lunch specials. Close to SJSU. Service was fast for my phone order...took 15 min and was ready on time. A couple tables for dine in. Very unassuming. I asked for medium spice and it was bland. I heard they are changing owners. read more

Honestly, I'm really impressed by Sa-By Thai. I came here through a reddit recommendation, and this was the closest Thai place that was recommended by the Westfield/Valleyfair. Sa-By Thai is right across the street from San Jose State, and me and my friends came here after shopping on a Saturday evening. We were the only sit in customers. We ordered the Papaya Salad, the Sampler, Pad See Ew, and Pad Thai. It was honestly, pretty amazing. One of the best places I've gotten Thai food at. Their Thai Tea was pretty dang good as well. I personally really enjoyed the Papaya Salad, the Sampler, and the Pad See Ew. The Sampler allowed us to try a bit of everything, so that was really fun, My favorite were the fishcakes. Salad was good. I really enjoyed the flavors of the Pad See Ew. It was light enough, and just enough sauce for it to be enjoyable. Noodles and meat were well cooked as well. While we were eating, there was a man across the street at SJSU who was on his knees for the longest time. Paramedics came to get him, so we hope everything worked out. Would totally come back. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Sampler - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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The Pad See Ew with prawns was incredibly tasty and full of flavor. It would have been nice if the veggies were cooked just a bit more, but they were still crunchy and delicious. The Panang curry with beef was also absolutely yummy. I only wish Thai food wasn't so filling because I wanted to enjoy even more! Definitely recommend. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 55. Panang Curry 33. Pad See Ew - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

The pad see mao and red curry were both delectable, bursting with spice and flavor. There's an option to dine in and enjoy the cozy ambiance. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 34. Pad Kee Mao 56. Red Curry - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

We ordered take out. The tofu tam yam soup with noodles was delicious. So was the spring roll. My husband enjoyed the chicken pad Thai. Great deal for the price and pretty quick read more

We were looking for a Thai place and this one had decent reviews. No, just no. The pad Thai is so sticky, flavor is just not there, and I paid $4 extra for shrimp to get 5 smaller sized shrimp in the entire dish. Shrimp was dry and over cooked. I literally threw this dish away after taking one bite. Not pictured: -Green curry was just ok, the taste was off like a sourness or something to it that makes you feel like you'll get sick if you continue eating. -Thai Iced Tea, flavorless like you're drinking water -My dad got the fried tilapia, he did not complain and ate the entire thing, but he may be the most accommodating person alive so take that for what it is. (Hence why I'm giving 2 stars instead of 1) read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Shrimp Pad Thai - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

The pandemic appears to have hit their other locations, but the original is still there. We wanted to go to one of the other locations near first Friday I went to find it closed so we went here. Glad we did! The food is as I remember it and excellent. Suffice to say if you like Thai food, you will like many of the items on the menu for sure. I had the silver noodle and my wife had one of the soups. Really good!! Now that we know of this location, will be back. Oh, I should add that it is a very small space so takeout is likely the better option, though we did sit at one of the tables and have our meal. read more

This closes mid afternoon so it's hard for me to get late lunch from them. However, I haven't seen much Thai restaurant around so I went to check it out. The place is a bit dark but clean. The lady who helped me was nice. Order pad thai for lunch. The flavor wasn't quite there but it was good. I think it needed for chicken but that's just my personal preference. Thinking I should go back and try other food in the menu. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Chicken pad Thai to go - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

Nice small place. Got the lamb curry, was sweet and tasted good. Service is pretty good since it's just a few tables lol

Tiny hole in the wall place with generous servings and yummy Thai food. My friend and I had the standard chicken pad Thai and beef panang curry with sticky rice. The rice is REALLY sticky! read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 32. Pad Thai - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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A small and friendly place to satisfy your craving for Thai food. Its menu is big enough to have different choices (besides the popular ones) and affordable prices (especially right now). Today, for lunch, I had: - BBQ Honey Pork Specialty (served with sticky rice, sweet sauce, and fresh salad) - Pad Kee Mao (pan-fried flat noodles with cabbage, carrots, white onion, bell pepper, broccoli, bamboo shoot, chili, and sweet basil). Side note: I asked for very spicy, and to be honest, it was the only thing that disappointed me. It was the first time I had gone to a Thai place, and the highest spicy level was not enough. Give this place a try if you are in the area, not looking for a fancy place, and on a budget. read more

I got the papaya salad, Yellow Curry with rice and Sticky Mango rice. They food was bland and could really use more seasoning and some love.

This is probably one of the worst Thai placesin San Jose. Not only is the staff inattentive, the temperature of the small dining area is higher than outside, and they use tables to store non-perishables! I spent $32 after tax and tip for one curry and a Thai Tea. read more

Our food was really good. The girl helping us was one of the best waitress ever. Prices were good for the area. I like this place a lot.

Not too impressed with this Thai restaurant. I was craving for a thai boat noodle, and when we were in downtown area, I stumbled upon this restaurant. I yelped it, it didn't have good ratings as well. But still wanted to give them a chance. We were going to take to go orders, but since the restaurant was half empty, we decided to have nice quite Sunday lunch there. First off, the place is just very dirty. Too dirty in fact. You could tell with bare eyes how dirty and slippery the floors were, and don't make me start on the table itself. We were seated next to a window pane, oh gosh, really had to ignore the fact that it was dusted and plainly disgustingly dirty. When I asked for a high chair, the waiter came with very slippery high chair, which I assumed he wiped it down with dirty kitchen rag that Lord only knew where that rag had been. I solely ordered thai boat noodle. Husband ordered the same. They came very brothy. Meat portion was generous. However, knowing the fact this place was just too dirty, I felt bad chewing all the meat. Broth itself was far from what I would have expected. If you have tried Pa Ord the one in LA, this one was nothing to compare to their boat noodle. Kids had Honey Bbq pork with sticky rice. The meat was too hard to chew, kinda felt the meat was too gamey as well. When we were there, there was only one waiter who worked, so we kept on waiting when we requested for utensils, napkins, etc. Tips: parking is in private lot across the street. Not coming back. read more

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Was here on a weekday for lunch. I heard about this joint from my friends who were regulars at the older place, so I wanted to try it out. Not very busy by the time we arrived so got a table pretty quick, and were able to place our order soon enough. I got the fried rice with fried chicken, and my friends got red curry with tofu. All of us liked our plates and the service was fast. I am now convinced this is a decent place to get Thai food when in DTSJ. 7/10 would go back again! read more

Original Sa-By Thai - brown fried rice with fried chicken - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

I wouldn't do this if I didn't feel I had to. This place was actually my go-to place for a very very long time. Until tonight. My wife ordered the drunken noodles I ate the pad thai. I did finish my plate but my wife before taking another bite of hers push her container in disgust to realize a cockroach was dead in the middle of her plate. DISGUSTING!!!!!! This was completely unacceptable and to think that I finished my plate made me gag. We called the place and the lady wanted to "see it for themselves". The lady kept taking orders while we waited to show her how serious this was. I would stay away from this place because if they paid this much attention to their cleanliness where they prepare the food, one could only imagine the kitchen. I know times are tough for restaurants right now, but this is not acceptable by ANY means. At least show you care for those eating out once a week to support our local restaurants. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Spot the insect. I'll give you a hint it came from their kitchen. - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

This used to be my favorite Thai place. It looked like they changed ownership because the food tasted so much different now and more pricey. Parking is like usual, very limited but I never struggled with finding parking here so it wasn't a big deal. Service was always good with super attentive staff. My friend and I ordered padthai, seafood tomyum noodle, and roti with curry. I loved the roti with curry. The curry sauce was absolutely good and they stepped up with a better display, but the price for just an appetizer was crazily high. I didn't eat the Tomyum noodle so I have no comments about that. However, the padthai tasted a lot worse now. It was too sour. The noodle was all clumped together and so hard to break them apart. I gave up eating it half way. I'm not so sure if I would come back here again. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Roti with curry - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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Cute little Thai spot right outside SJSU campus. Friendly waitress and good service. The curries were well-seasoned. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Panang Curry - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

This place is good if you're hungry later in the evening and just want that quick Thai food fix. My fiancé and I were craving Thai noodles and this was the only place that's open until 10 PM. Our food was delivered to us and surprised that restaurant lined the inside of the to go box with foil so that the food stayed warm the entire time. 2 thumbs up for that! Pad Thai w/chicken: 4/5 - Lots of flavor, huge portions (definitely enough for 2 people), but the chicken needed more flavor. The overall dish was great and I would get medium spicy because mild was not enough for me. Pad See Ew w/chicken: 4.5/5 - Great flavor, the veggies were cooked perfectly (not soggy like some other places), and noodles tasted amazing. The chicken could have also been seasoned more in this dish. What I enjoyed the most about our food was the portions of our meals. It's just lacking a tad bit of flavor but overall we would only come here for just to grab a late evening dinner. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - 32. Pad Thai - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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Came by for lunch the other day and it was a lackluster experience. Stopped by the other location on William and it was closed at 11:45 am on a Tuesday... Ordered the fried chicken fried rice and it was okay. The chicken was nicely fried and quite tasty, especially since this was a chicken breast! The fried rice was so-so. Ordered the Thai Tea which was way too sweet...bummer $15/head after tax and tip for lunch read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Thai Iced Tea - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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This location is currently open for take out only. My bf and I stopped by today, I ordered the seafood noodles and he ordered the big chicken. Our orders were done in under 15 minutes, this was very impressive timing. The seafood noodles were good although they were missing a bit of flavor. Usually when Sa-By is open they offer chili sauces to add over the noodles which take the dish to the next level. Also there was very little actual seafood involved. My boyfriend gave me two thumbs up for the chicken bbq, this is his typical order from this joint. The cashier was very cheerful when we came in, she offered us hand sanitizer and the QR menu. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Seafood Noodles - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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Great Thai food barring no other Thai places in the area. The atmosphere of the place is also very accommodating to restaurant customers. Try having something besides pad thai as well -- menu is varietal and the hot dishes are excellent. read more

I hadn't eaten at Sa-By Thai in years! This one did NOT disappoint! I ordered tonight through DoorDash. Thai Tea, Waterfall (beef) Salad, & Sweet Roti. The Waterfall Salad is one of my favorite salads! It's so flavorful & refreshing! But this one was EXTRA tasty! I literally could NOT get enough! And then there's the Sweet Roti!! read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Waterfall Salad - Beef - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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their pineapple fried rice was very good but the restaurant was kinda quite when went in at around 6-7pm

First time I tried this UPDATE: Welp, I'm really trying to like this place, but it is just so inconsistent. I ate here with some friends a a while back and the experience was enjoyable and the food was all good. I ordered take out two nights ago and was disappointed again. I ordered the shrimp spring roll and a side of fried rice. The fried rice was tasty, but over cooked and almost mushy. Forgivable enough. The only thing that saved the roll for me was the peanut sauce. The roll was mostly made of just cabbage, which was bitter. You can see from my picture how much cabbage was left over. Also, all of the herbs inside were VERY OLD...it gave the entire roll a bad smell. The leaves, as you can see in the photos, were old, dark colored, shriveled up and almost crunchy! At least the shrimp was cooked this time... I would enjoy this place is they were consistent with the quality of their food! read more

Original Sa-By Thai - STUFFED to the brim with cabbage. - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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I am baffled by the tremendous amount of positive reviews of this place. It questions if Yelp is the right place to seek out good restaurants... literally. We ordered: yellow curry, chicken, extra spicy; pad see ew with beef, and larb with chicken, extra spicy.. and what we were served was: 1) EXTRA SWEET YELLOW CURRY WITH MINIMAL CHICKEN, POTATOES... NO CARROTS, nothing. In short, a bowl of sweet f**king yellow curry. ABSOLUTELY NOT EDIBLE. 2) "Pad See Ew", supposedly, CHOW FUN WITH SWEET SOY SAUCE WITH SLITHERS OF BEEF. 3) Larb- HALF PLATE OF GROUND CHICKEN DRESSED WITH SUGAR, FISH SAUCE, LIGHT LIME JUICE WITH HALF A PLATE OF SPRING MIX PRE WASHED SALAD. Well, at least this wasn't sweet as the other two dishes. All in all, this place is TRASH for a "Thai" restaurant (if that's what it even is). But it'll be one of those fusion dessert house with a twist. I suggest you fellow Yelpers, skip this place unless you've got a intense case of sweet tooth cravings... with a funky twist. read more

Came in last week with my friend and we ordered boat noodles, kao soi that should come with a side salad and lemon wedge(but it didn't come out), and chicken combo with smal side order of papaya salad with sticky rice. Kao soi was different style then what we had before. It comes with soft egg noodles on the bottom And crispy egg noodles on top to garnish. I requested vermicelli on the bottom instead of egg noodles and still keep the crispy egg noodles on top. Guy server said he would have to charge more just because I wanted to switch noodles. Ok no biggy... order Came out and I was happy I got my noodles I asked for. Chicken combo with side papaya salad and sticky rice was disappointing. Chicken looked like it was grilled this morning and reheated up and glazed with oil cuz it looked shiny. (Pls refer to picture) Meat was super dry. The boat noodle was decent. We was happy with the decent noodle soup We ordered and how it opens late so I came back today. I order kao soy and asked for vermicelli. It came Out wrong so I asked the waitress if I can order a side of the vermicelli I wanted and I don't mind paying even tho it wasn't my misorder. Waitress was every nice but when she told the guy waiter he waited about 10 mins to come out to ask me what I wanted. My food was already cold. But I was still ok with it. He then argued with me saying they don't have that noodle there and I must have remembered wrong. Pls refer to my pictures of last week and today's dish. I would have been ok with him saying they are out instead of saying they don't have it there and that I remembered wrong. Bill cameOut and it was $15 and something. I asked For Change and they said they don't have change. What kind ofRestaurant doesn't have change? I would have to say they lost a regular customer due to attitude of waiters attitude. The waitress was really nice and friendly. I feel that customer service is important for myself when I go anywhere read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Egg noodles replaced regular vermicelli - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

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I am giving this place a 1 star rating for the worst pad thai i've ever had and for my overall experience eating here. I ordered a pad thai with no beansprout and my cousin's food came out first. After 15-20 minutes of waiting, it finally came out but the noodles were now cold and mushy not to mention there was a good amount of beansprouts in my noodles. There was no flavor whatsoever, SUPER BLAND I'm assuming they took forever because they had to pick out everything and by the time they finished, the noodles had already soaked up all the sauce. The roti with curry was delicious, and so was my cousin's panang curry so I would only come back here for those two items. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Super bland and nasty, idk why I took it togo lol - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California

Can someone confirm with me if this is what the bbq chicken salad suppose to look like?? And where is the sauce?? It was my first time trying this place. The bbq chicken was pretty good but I was hoping it to be chopped salad with chopped bbq chicken. I'd like to try this place again but I'm just a little put off about my order. Maybe my expectations are just getting to me. It was good at least. Not amazing but good. I'll give this place another try next time since my chicken was still good. read more

Original Sa-By Thai - Bbq chicken salad?? - Thai Near Me - San Jose, California