Reviews for New Thai Elephant in San Mateo, CA
So I loved this place during covid, I ordered the crab fried rice and Tom kha. ???? Their roti though, damn yahll skip it. It's... oily and half cooked. Their curries are good, everything else was solid but this is a staple, how did yahll not do this right? Read more
Super quick and friendly service, the restaurant was clean, and the food tasted very good! I got the crispy tofu appetizer with... a side of rice Read more
Surprisingly great thai food ????. I always measure a place by their papaya salad and Tom Yum, and they aren't afraid to make... it salty spicy and sour like they should be :). I love the pickled peppers they always have on the side, really good with theirdrunken noodles :) Read more
We ordered from this place, the food was bad. There was a metal like piece we found in our pad see ew. There was mushroom in pad... see ew, never seen that before. There was some green which was not Chinese broccoli( it tasted bitter). The chicken satay waschewy. The quality overall felt really bad. We understand Friday evenings are busy but this is unacceptable. Read more
No doubt that this is probably the worst food I had in my lifetime. The food stinks. I could smell the bad smell coming out... immediately. The water they served were dirty. Also the Thai milk tea had tons of black stuff in it. There wasn’t a singlefood I could eat. I would rather starve to death than eat here. Read more
We had lunch outside on the road due to covid. It's the trend of most restaurants in San Mateo. The food and service was... average. The servers were all trying to keep a distance. We ordered three items: 1. Pad kee mao which is stir fried broad ricenoodles with chicken. It had a good taste but the more I ate the saltier it got. 2. Thai red curry with pork. Good taste and itseemed to be the most balanced dish. 3. Mango salad with fried shrimp. It tasted good but again it got saltier and saltier as weate deeper. This was probably my least favorite mango salad out of all the ones that I've ever tried. So I do not recommendit. It's basically a regular Thai shrimp salad then they top it off with chunks of green mango. It is such a lazy and sloppy wayto prepare a mango salad. The mango chunks were big, hard and sour and did not balance with the rest of the ingredients. Wewere struggling to cut the big chunks. A good mango salad will have the green mango shredded thinly and mixed well with the restof the ingredients. Amphawa on Geary serves a good mango salad. Unfortunately they failed to deliver that here. Overallexperience average. Read more
My sister brought me here for lunch. Service was pleasant and food was alright. There were a generous serving of prawns in the... Tom Yam goong, which I asked them to add the flat noodles. The spice in the papaya salad was just right. Read more
Small restaurant with great food. They were busy, but food came out quickly. Pad See Ew was amazing. Thai Ice Tea was great and... came in a half carafe. Read more