Thai Noodle

I only had a vegetable pad thai take out ($ 8). It was flavourful and big portion. I was not sure it was authentic, as it used Chinese pickled salt and sour vegetable. It tasted like a good rice noodle instead. If you don’t mind it doesn’t taste like pad thai, it is good enough, however.

A hidden gem in Kensington market.
The restaurant serves up an authentic Thai-​style noodle dishes and various other Thai dishes.
Thai noodle is definitely one of a few among the Thais favorites.
I always order Guay Tiew Tom Yum Moo ($ 8.95) with the thin rice noodle.
At Thai noodle, you have the option of thick rice noodle, thin rice noodle, glass noodle,
vermicelli and egg noodle for every Guay-​Tiew (which means noodle in Thai) dish.
They also have special dish of the week every week and those special dishes are really SPECIAL like how it should be.
All of the specials are what attract the Thais.
Those dishes are guaranteed to be 100%authentic.
If you find the food to be to spicy, make sure to order the Thai Iced tea (Chaa-​nom).
The sweetness of the Thai tea will be sure to cut down the spiciness of the food.
It’s definitely a good Thai restaurant when majority of the customers are Thai. ;)

Small & cozy.
Delicious, authentic Thai. If you ask them to make it «Thai Spicy», they will, Some restaurants are afraid to.
Good prices, attentive staff, sweet Thai tea.
Try the Tom Kha & spice it up.

Golden, Green and Red curries are all excellent.
The curries have a relatively diluted consistency, and you can taste the impact of various ingredients. They use a nice array of different vegetables.
Rice or Noodles is extra. I enjoyed ordering plain Noodles (pad thai noodles) and dipping that into the curry.

Cheap food, good food, friendly service and a big screen moving playing random blockbuster movies (LotR and Avatar when I’ve been here) can only mean that your meal here is bound to be memorable and pleasant!
There’s not much to say about Thai noodle because all their food I’ve tried have been solid bets (I particular enjoy the green/​red curries), they have the ability to spice it up for you, service is relatively quick and it is one of those hidden gems around Kensington.
There are a few other Thai restaurants in the area, but Thai Noodle would be my number one pick!

Thanks to Susan for organising a UYE at this place, being a big fan of Thai food I love finding places like this that normally I would just walk past and go to somewhere I am more familiar with.
Inside it is nothing fancy with suitable and adequate seating for a decent sized crowd although I do not think the service or kitchen would cope with a full house. Which is the only bad thing I have to say about this place. Oh that and I wish they put on Hancock sooner rather than later.
Ordered Fish balls for starters, but was given spring rolls which I totally did not realise until I had eaten one of them, so soon enough I had a decent portion of what I originally ordered.
For mains I went with a seafood red curry, and rice was an extra $ 1.50 — dislike paying for rice as always think it should be come with the dish. Anyway it was pretty puckaliscious with… and yes I counted 4 prawns, 2 oysters things and 2 slightly chewy squid type things.
The menu is very clear, not confusing and has a great variety of dishes.
I would definitely come here again as prefer this kind of drop by quick eat and continue galavanting in Kensington to a full stomach all for just under $ 20.

I love thai food and am always open to trying new places. I was looking at thai places to try (accessible by foot from work for lunch) and this place was well ranked among the Unilocal members.
The restaurant was clean, the hostess/​server was very polite and knowledgeable about the food. When I sat down I noticed everyone had soup however, I decided to try something I’ve never had before. I ended up trying the Pad Kee Mao with shrimp. The shrimp were yummy and the veggies were fresh. However, there was one flavor I would get every couple of bites that threw me off a little. This could have been also from the fact I did not know all the ingredients in my meal, but still good none the less. Lunch was reasonably priced at $ 11 for meal + tip.
With this being said, I want to go back and try either one of their noodle soups or wonton soups.
Also bonus, the candy they give you with your bill are my FAV and I seriously need to find out where I can buy them from lol

Nice! I am always a fan of a tasty, brothy soup when its cold out. Soup was truly intense, its thick with little bits of beefy goodness floating around. Also appreciated the flavourful herbs on top. Good service too.
Definitely a nice alternative to the usual phở noodle soup I go for in China Town.
I had the Guay Tiew Ruer Nuer (Rice Noodles with Beef, Beef Balls, Basil, and Beansprouts in an intense brown soup).

I can’t believe I’ve lived so close to this place for so long, and haven’t gone in until this weekend.
The food and service at this place gave it the five star review — because both are amazing! Sure, the décor could be spruced up a little, but with food like that, it really doesn’t matter.
We had:
— Shrimp Tom Yum Soup: delicious, perfectly spicy, wonderful lemongrass flavor — love the fresh cilantro on top
— Wonton Soup: pretty hard to mess up, and they didn’t — it was delicious
— Tofu Green Curry: vegetables were fresh, crisp and delicious, tofu was fried to perfection
— Chicken Red Curry: also amazing, same fresh vegetables and tender chicken!
— Steamed Rice: came in the shape of a star! (pictured) which was just the best thing ever
Now what made this delicious food even better was the fabulous service! The servers were extremely friendly, always there to refill our water (we are big water drinkers), and wondering how our food was. They noticed I was avoiding the mushrooms and told me they would be happy not to include them next time, and they also told me they would adjust the spice next time if I wanted it less spicy (I don’t! I can handle it!!). They also asked if we had ever been to Thailand, and were really friendly and conversational with other diners as well.
There are so many other things I want to try on their menu — lots of noddle soups which are their specialty. I picked up a takeout menu, and I can already tell I’ll become a regular there!
My only complaint about this place is this: they are fork-​assumers! I can eat with chopsticks! I hate it when a restaurant assumes and brings a fork — also I definitely noticed that they were selective about who they were giving chopsticks vs. forks to — and I unhappily fell into the fork category. Next time I’m demanding chopsticks!
But their fork-​assumptions will not keep me away.

The others in my party ordered standard Thai food, which was delicious. especially the tom kha soup.
I had the Guay Tiew Ruer Nuer. Having never been to Thailand and with not many Thai restaurants offering noodle soup, this was new to me. It is quite different than phở as it seems to be made out of beef broth that has had beef pieces cooked so long as to disintegrate into the broth — truly intense and rich. The beef ball and meat in the soup were delicious as well.
As other viewers mentioned, perhaps a tad pricy on the noodle soup though prices for regular Thai dishes were pretty standard. Friendly and helpful service and very clean.

*Name*
Guay Tiew Ruer Nuer ($ 8.95)
*Description*
Rice Noodles with Beef, Beef Balls, Basil, and Beansprouts in an ~INTENSE BROWN SOUP~ !!
*Decision*
MMMmmmmm intense, brown, translucent soup. WTF
They sure know how to make Food sound scrumptious (sarcasm)
SOLD
Side note: Fellow Unilocaler looked up Brown Soup on Urban Dictionary.
*Warning* DO NOT look up Brown Soup on Urban Dictionary !!!
Intense fresh Basil triggered my saliva glands on Guay Tiew arrival.
As described, all things came in one bowl.
Friendly waitress explained how condiments works.
Taste Intense Brown Soup.
Add equal proportions of each condiment to taste:
Dried Chili — Fish Sauce — Chili in Vinegar — Table Sugar
Cleared the bowl.
Drained the Brown Soup.
Needs to be more wallet-​friendly. 2.5 *Star*
To compete with Asian Noodle places within strides from here.

nice friendly and welcoming place in the hearth of kensington and chinatown. been there enough times now to know that i know i won’t be disappointed; they threat me very nice, and the girl took her time to recommend what would be best for me. the soups are good.(though i never been much of a soup person) but the stir fry is what keep me going over and over…

Slurping down my bowl of guai-​tiaw at Thai Noodle brought back memories. my favourite memories of vacationing in Bangkok… chowing down bowls of noodles at street vendors…
Here at Thai Noodle there are 15 or so different combination of Thai noodle you can choose from. with different meat (pork/​beef/​chicken), seafood or even vegetarian versions from $ 6.95, in spicy or non spicy broth.
Guay Tiew Tom Yam Gai ($ 8.95)
— Rice Noodles with chicken, crispy wontons, fish balls, tofu in Tom Yum Soup
— Really savoury soup. seasoned with fish sauce, salty in a satisfying way
— Peanuts, green onions, and coriander added great flavours
— Portion size is a little small… great as snack… or you might have to order a second
Love how condiments are on the side so you can adjust to your own taste:
— dried chili for spiciness
— fish sauce for saltiness
— chili in vinegar for sourness
— sugar for sweetness
Of course for me will be dried chili to fired up my taste buds! :)
Thai Iced Tea ($ 2.50) was a great drink to cool me down while I slurping those rice noodles and drinking the soup…
They accepts Visa and Mastercard.
Too bad. the Guay Tiew here is not as cheap as Thailand’s! :)

This place is right on the border of Kensington and Chinatown, and easily overlooked (I drove by it). The outside betrays what’s inside; a very nice, clean and recently renovated restaurant. This is a refreshing change from many of the other establishments located in this general area.
We ordered the pad thai, tom yam w/​shrimp and green curry. The Tom Yam was a bit too salty for me, but they don’t cheap out on the shrimp like a lot of place do; they gave 4 whole shrimp!
The pad thai w/​chicken was also good. Not as tomatoey as many places often make it. I can almost imagine the chef at those establishments going through lots of ketchup for that dish! None to be concerned about with this one.
Finally the green curry was very nice. I would say my favourite dish.
We also got ginger tea + honey as well as a thai iced tea. All said, less than $ 40 with tip. Pretty good value considering a lot of other Thai places would charge much more for the same dish.