Thai Power Restaurant

Stopped in after eating at Tselogs next door. Feels like a videoke bar in the Philippines. Populated by regulars who were definitely some old school manongs who stacked the videoke queue with Tagalog songs, Simon and Garfunkel and Don Maclean.
Was sorta charmed until after nearly 30 minutes of waiting it didn’t seem like we weren’t going to get a chance to sing ever. Closed out the tab for 2 rum and cokes — $ 22? WTF. Clearly they rip off non-​regulars.

DO NOT GIVE YOUR BUSINESS TO THIS GOD AWFUL PLACE!
my coworkers and I decided to stop by after work and at first sight it looks pretty normally, just your basic hole in the wall kind of place. we sat down and a girl came over to take our order. we sat there and chit chatted for a bit and we suddenly realized that it had already been 30 minutes waiting for our food. we called the girl over and we asked her what was taking so long and she had the worst attitude and tells us it’s still cooking. We again wait another 30 minutes and when she brings us our food it’s not even what we order and she was missing food that we did order. I was so pissed I decided not to pay for the food she brought me because it wasn’t what I ordered and we couldn’t get the attention of this god awful waitress.
While my coworkers were eating the rice that she did manage to bring us they started closing down the restaurant and even turned off the lights. while we were eating! We tried to get the attention of the waitress to pay for the rice and tea but she wasn’t paying us any attention and again we waited another 20 mins. Finally we all get up to go talk to the waitress to tell her that she made mistakes in our order and that we weren’t going to pay for it. She swore up and down that she got it right and that is what we ordered. The waitress was stumbling around like she was fucking DRUNK and kept telling us that she got our order correct. we asked to speak to a manager and she didn’t even want to talk to us ! We were arguing with them and I told her I want the chicken curry not the beef and she’s yells YOU WANT CHICKEN! I just had enough and this was the first time I ever walked out of a restaurant without paying! they couldn’t even figure out how to charge us for the things we did receive !! This is the worst establishment I have ever been to in my life and I am so close to calling the better business bureau on this place. They need to get shut down. I wouldnt even eat their food you might get food poisoning and I doubt they are paying their taxes because those girls are probably not documented and getting paid under the table!!! SHUT THEM DOWN!!!

I had 43. Moo Priew Warn and it was excellent. All the food is very well priced — excellent value! I like that it’s open late too! I went at 11:30 pm on a Tuesday and they had karaōke with a lot of reverb and Echo in the microphone and a lot of songs in other languages were being sung. That’s not to say they’ll be doing that at more regular hours.
I would give the restaurant 5 stars for value but I feel like 5 stars is reserved more for excellent fine dining restaurants which this is not. I personally wouldn’t bring a date here but it is a chill environment and place with great food at a great price! :)

How do you like your food? With or without maggots? Try their maggot-​filled crispy pata. It is simply to die for. The owner? She has been seen drinking with a customer and diving face-​down on the floor (twice). Food was better when Tong was still working there, but now, I see maggots on their food. They better shape up. I’m not gonna invite my friends to that place to have a few beers. Also, watch out for the Saturday night waitresses, Patty and Cherry. Once they start drinking, you better count the number of beers you have ordered or they can rip you off. What a shame!

This place is amazing! It’s soo not what you think of when you think of a little place.
Walked in and was greated with a smile and open arms. They were singing karaōke, which was really well sung and just awesome to see. The atmosphere was great, low lighting, friendly people, and more often than not people were dancing to the karaōke!
Love it!
Highly recommended and I plan on coming back as often as I can!

I stopped for a quick bite out of desperation (my mechanic is next door) and good god I didn’t think it could get any worse but it has. This place is awful. Stay away at all costs.
I didn’t even finish my food and if you know me you know that is fucking unprecedented.
What sealed the deal for one star was this: I again mentioned the difference between the menu price and the price I was charged. The waitress said they hadn’t gotten around to updating the menus. Please see me review FROM FIVE MOTHERFUCKING YEARS AGO to understand how outrageous of a claim that is.

Should have read Mary M’s review before ATTEMPTING to order at this hole in the wall.
Holiday week, after work, tired, decided to order in, Hadn’t planned ahead so ended up considering this place since 2 days before xmas, going to Sloat /​King of Thai near STONESTOWN was OUT OF THE QUESTION and not in the cards.
Find parking finally, walk two blocks, walk into a room blaring bad karaōke and finally get the attention of the hostess lady at the bar.
I ask about their pad thai. She walks into the kitchen to see if they can make it. Huh? It’s a restaurant with the word THAI in it, Pad Thai should be their bread and butter, no?
So after getting the green light on that, and then placing my order, she then says it’ll take 40 minutes.
Um… no.
I walk out, drive to Extreme Pizza on Alemany, finally get to feed the kiddos and family. Jeeez! I should just have opted for Pizza to begin with.
No idea what is going on at this place. Sad sad stretch of Mission Street anyway, you’d think Daly City chamber of commerce would do something about it.

It’s a hole in the wall place with underwhelming food in terms of quality (with the assumption that a few dishes are good). Take it for what it is? When you live nearby, you have no desire to cook, you’re bored, and want a quick fix this place can actually be decent. It deserves a low score for obvious reasons that have already been stated by other patrons. But I believe that doesn’t necessarily make it an awful place to visit. If you’re a picky eater or don’t like their food, hey, just enjoy a cold beer and watch people. Sometimes that’s all you need to be entertained.

WTF?! Our favorite Thai place was closed… Super bummer. My husband remembered driving by this place, so we call up and ordered for pick up: shrimp pad thai, chicken pad thai, chicken satay and some spring rolls — nothing fancy. So they tell me it’s going to be 30 minutes. What? OK… so we drive around and get some slurpees for the kids and kill 15 minutes. We pull up and I walk in. I look around. There are some ladies singing karaōke, a bar and the place doesn’t look like a restaurant. I walk out super fast, look around and go to my husband and tell him, «You go in. I don’t know what the hell kind of place this is.» He thought I was kidding and when he realized I wasn’t, he walked in. He came out to smoke a cigarette while our food was still getting ready, mind you he thinks they just started cooking our food when he walked in. He thought the karaōke was funny.
So, I’m sitting there in the car and hearing the 4 woman singing Connie Francis. And I continue to sit in the car. So he finally comes out with the food… 45 — 50 minutes after we were told 30 minutes.
We get home and I look at the food. OK, the food was fine, edible. The spring rolls, were good, they tasted more like lumpias. The pad thai, well, it was good, but not like any pad thai I’d ever had and the chicken satay, tasted like chicken satay.
The place is weird. I mean we will never go back again, but my husband said he would make an exception and take some friends from out of town if they wanted to see something weird.
So, I guess if you’re into karaōke, this is a great place, but if you’re looking for a sit down Thai restaurant, pass this place up. I feel I can’t say enough about this place…

Called at 1am to order delivery — but never even got to order. Lady who answered the phone first questioned why I was ordering food so late, and then complained that if she made food for us she would have to stay up to 4am. Both Unilocal and their website state that their restaurant is open until 2am — if you don’t plan to take customer’s orders at 1am, why list your restaurant as open until 2am?
Don’t think I will try ordering from this restaurant again. While I sympathize with the lady for having to work so late, you should not list your restaurant as open at 2am if you do not intend to take customers’ orders. There are some people who like late night delivery.

Not recommended. Poor service. Not well kept.

As others have noted, this is more of a low-​grade Karaōke bar than a Thai restaurant, no matter what the sign says. I am not a fan of Karaōke so I have no way to judge it on those merits.
It was a Monday night and the Karaōke was going full blast (and got turned up, really too loud for me), with perhaps a half dozen middle-​aged or older Asian guys and one woman sitting at the bar drinking and watching/​singing. No other customers the whole time I was there, nobody sitting at the cheap/​shabby tables.
Seems to be a place for a certain middle-​aged Asian crowd that already knows everyone to hang out, drink, and do Karaōke; others shouldn’t bother.
I got the food as takeout, and it seemed to take forever. I don’t think it was much more than 20 – 25 minutes, but considering nobody else was ordering food, and I felt a bit out of place, it seemed like a long time.
Finally got the food home to have a so-​so Thai Ice Tea and yes, probably the worst Pad See Ew I’ve ever had. I mean, it’s noodles, those are always edible, but it wasn’t particularly good, and the shrimp wasn’t very good either. After the first bite I almost thought I wouldn’t eat any more of it, but somehow I got through it — I was hungry, and it wasn’t really THAT bad; it just wasn’t good.
The waitress at the bar was very nice though.

Stopped in on Memorial Day to grab some food. We were the only people there, after tracking down the person who was running the joint that day we were given menus and offered a seat at the bar. Only one person waiting, cooking and cleaning.
The menu is NOTHING impressive, but we really just wanted a nibble to take home and munch on while watching a movie.
Directly after ordering our soup we changed our minds and went back to the kitchen to inform the person who was working, she said no problem as she had just started, we also placed the rest of our order.
It took well over half an hour for us to get our food. Only a few other people came in, all together about 10 minutes before our food arrived, they wanted to sing karaōke.
Finally food, then payment, then home.
The soup ended up being the first one we ordered and not the one we asked to change too, it tasted OK, was very chunky with ginger and lemongrass.
The noodles were NOTHING impressive the «vegetables» mixed with our noodles were nothing more then broccoli.
While we were sitting at the bar alone for 30 minutes we had lots of time to look around, and we noticed that we couldn’t find their Health Code score card which is supposed to be visible.
1 Soup, 1 Noodle Dish w/​Pork and 1 TINY cucumber salad for $ 22.

This review is for the karaōke Bar not the Thai food.
I started going to this place in 2010 when I moved to Daly City. My wife and I are avid Karaōke hobbyist– just a way for us to relieve stress after a long week of work.
I’m pretty used to different karaōke bars ranging from dives to upper scale karaōke with laser lights, the whole nine yards. The crowd in Thai Power is predominantly Asian (35 and over) however you will see a more diverse crown on Friday & Saturdays. Unlike other bars, the crowd here is very mild. You won’t see kids getting drunk and starting any fights. Just people wanting to have fun. Go up to the big screen TV an belt out your song and whether you sound like Michael Bolton or Mike Tyson the crown will cheer you on lol.
There is a full bar and the drinks are ‘ok’, nothing fancy. The waitresses who work there are really nice. There is no Karaōke DJ just a karaōke juke box with like 40K songs. Write your song request (2) songs at a time and give it to the waitress. They will program your song. On the weekends you’ll probably have 20 – 30 songs ahead of you but it goes pretty fast.
Very nice people go here just like me lol ENJOY =)

Vile. I don’t care how hungry you are, how late at night it is, or how much you’ve had to drink. Go anywhere but here.

Had to select a star but it deserves zero!!! I called to place a delivery order and to make sure I asked if they delivered where I lived. The lady I spoke with said yes. As I was placing my order the lady started to complain that it was a lot of food and how many people were going to eat. What’s it to her! I had only ordered five things! She then said «I change my mind, I don’t want to go there anymore, order from somewhere else»
That is horrible customer service, never going to go there!!!

One of the most Bizarre Thai food experiences of my life — apparently they do Karaōke on Th evenings? I walked in and there were 4 people in there, one of who was singing what seemed to be a song in another language until I looked @ the screen and saw English words on there.
It was WAY TOO LOUD. I had NO idea what the bartender who took my order was saying, and vice versa, we had to communicate in sign language.
The food was meh — I’ve had much better. Portions were okay, and they seemed to have some kind of a happy hour, but I really doubt I’d go there considering there is NO way I would be able to withstand that kind of cacophony for longer than 30 seconds. I may have stayed there and had a drink waiting for my food to get ready (or hey, maybe even eaten at the bar if it hadn’t been for the ruckus).
Last time I go trying dive-​joints without looking on Unilocal first.

When I walked in, I wasn’t sure if this place was a bar or a restaurant, as there was karaōke on full blast on entry. The waitress assured me that food was served though, so I took a seat at the bar. Hmm… had some of the worst Pad Siew I’ve ever had. Smelled like horse feed when it was served to me on a plate, and it was over-​sweetened, as if to mask that odd odor. Noodles weren’t fresh — seemed dry, hard and not particularly elastic, as fresh noodles would be. The chicken was rubbery, to top it off. Well, I ate it anyway, gas and bloating be damned, afterwards.
The karaōke is okay — the sound system is sufficiently loud and the mikes pick up your voice well. It seems to be mostly an older Filipino/​Asian crowd though, so their song selections won’t be very mainstream American.

If you don’t mind being stared at and given some pretty strange customer service this place is pretty good.
I love the coconut milk soup with prawns.
and the pad thai, however, pad thai isn’t too hard to mess up.
Got the food to go once and enjoyed it even more because I didn’t have to hear the hollering of the karaōke-​ers.
The bar sucks though. They have like 3 beers to choose from. I’m a picky beer person.

This place gets one star only because 0 is not an option. I went with a bunch of friends last Thursday night and, despite the place being empty aside from a group of karaōke regulars at the bar (singing nothing but 80s love ballads) and one other group for dinner, it took 15 minutes before we even saw a menu (and a menu it was, we had to share). Once we finally managed to order, each dinner entry came out separately, with so much time in between that no one ever ate at the same time. My boyfriend and I decided to share an order of pad thai and ended up canceling it after we had been there for about an hour and a half because a) we couldn’t take waiting for it any longer, b) everyone else was done eating, and c) a friend had ordered the same thing and it looked disgusting.
So yes, unless you want to mock mediocre but serious singers performing to a backdrop of ducks and random Asian women (oh the video screens at Asian karaōke bars), avoid this place at all costs!