Orchids Cafe

The food is amazing. BEST Thai I have EVER had. They have very short hours now only serving dinner, but if you get there before 6 (they are very strict about this rule!) the pre fixe dinner is a great value! Also BYOB and next to a liquor store… so I don’t feel the need to go anywhere else lol! The curries are amazing and the tom Kha soup is my favorite!!!

Drove a half hour to get to this place. The website states they close at 9:00pm. I see here on Unilocal they close at 8:30. Which is it? We got there at 8:10 and they told us they were closed. What business stays open only three hours and will shoo away customers? I’ll just stick with Rama Thai in EHT or Thai Orchid in Pomona. HORRIBLE customer service here. Would never return.

Great food, great pricing, Generous Portions and delicious desert and a great homely ambiance. Would give higher than 5 if possible.

Pretty good option for Thai food. I’d probably even go as far to say it is better than Rama Thai in EHT though the location is not as convenient.
They have a pretty decent lunch special for masaman curry (one of my favs) that comes with soup and dessert. Of course we ordered thai iced tea, Tom yum soup, masaman curry, and the mango sticky rice. The lunch special satisfies your craving of delicious Thai food. And note that when you get spicy here, it’s SPICY!
The owner is from Thailand so this is as authentic as it can get. She is a super sweet lady! I definitely want to go back to try their noodle dishes (pad Thai).

Went here on my birthday and was definitely not let down. The service was great, our waitress was more than friendly, and our food came out in less than 15 minutes. I got the vegetarian green curry which was fantastic and my mom got the priew waan shrimp which was great as well. The prices are very good also. My only wish was that their flowers weren’t all fake, but that’s just me being picky. I will certainly be back soon.

This was one of the worst dining experiences. Thankfully my wife calmed me down and I didn’t complain. Service and food were horrible. Sorry excuse to own a business. Eat at your own risk. Being Vegan I wanted to love this place.
Maybe Kitchen Nightmares with Gordon Ramsey will do this makeover.

Excellent Thai cuisine. I have heard complaints about the service being slow, be we came on a Monday night, so I guess it wasn’t too bad. Cucumber yogurt soup outrageously good. Shrimp, mussels veg stir fry was excellent, my wife got the pineapple red curry duck, mild plus spicing, she loved it although there was a lot of fat on the duck. I thought it wasn’t as good as mine, too bland. If in the area, one of the only places to go to get great food! Desserts, coffee awesome, choc rum cake and sweet rice and coconut ice cream were standouts.

The owner of this restaurant is an retired Thai gentleman who runs this place for fun. I consider him a friend. I worked at Orchids in high school almost 10 years ago, and am always greeted as if I left yesterday.
Everything at Orchids is homemade. The Tom Yum and Tom Kha soups do not come from a paste. They come from a broth where lemongrass is steeped for a week. The pad thai sauce, also, takes about a week week to make. The tamarind must be fermented. That is why you can’t get a pad thai that tastes that good anywhere else. It’s a pain to make. Orchids only does it because the owner — PS — likes to cook. This translates into herbs from a personal greenhouse in the summer and locally sourced substations because, frankly, you can get fresh/​local cabbage, but not fresh bean sprouts most of the year.
Orchids also serves continental cuisine. PS trained with a continental chef when he came to this country. That’s why it’s on the menu. You can get a really good very reasonable crab cake here. Personally, the thai food is why I always come back.
The service is SLOW. This is a family operation, and the chef was retired when I met him and worked with him 10 years ago. The wait is worth it, and especially worth it if you have good company. If you’re a regular, the trick is to call in a order ahead of time.
I’ve worked up an apetite. What I wouldn’t give for a pad thai, tom kha, sticky rice/​mango, and accompanied with a my own blend of thai tea and thai coffee with splash of condensed milk and a mint leaf (the drink use to drive them crazy but I swear by it).
You don’t have to take it from me. Check out the other reviews. This place has a cult following.

The food was great. Soup is wonderful. However, expect more than 2 hours of dinner time. I feel like French tonight. But who cares, as long as the food is good.

Best Thai food in town. Be prepared to wait very long though. :)

I went there and the staff was very knowledgeable and helpful. I had never had Thai food before and my waitress was able to suggest something delicious. The food was great and the service was fast and friendly. Also, the desserts were great. I would definitely recommend Orchids to anyone and I am sure to go back again soon!

Great food, but with OK slow service. The food is good, and the prices are decent, with a quiet atmosphere.
They have a great $ 9.99 3 course meal: salad/​soup, entrée, and dessert. There are about 8 choices from the entrée list, which differs from day to day, so there is always something new to pick from, all things from the menu! The dessert selection is always the same: sweet lace rice, or vanilla ice cream with kahlua crème, or chocolate ice cream.
The sweet rice is delicious, something I always get! And some entrees I suggest that I have repeatedly order are the Pad Thai (comes with chicken/​shrimp/​no meat), the Masamun Chicken, and Chicken Nigril.
Only thing I didn’t like was that the $ 9.99 deal is only from 5pm — 6pm. So sometimes it is very hard to catch. Other than that, I recommend!

This place is delicious! It is small and cozy with great service and food to match.

Delicious Thai food with some Americana options that are equally as yummi!!! I go everychance I can. Curry, Fish, Shellfish, Tom Yum are all wonderful!!! Food is made to order so always fresh. Wait staff are sweet as can be. Small café atmosphere. BYOB. Only slight downfall is from sitdown to dessert can take up to 3 hours, so dont be in a rush or bring small children. But, food makes you overlook the wait and is a great opportunity to catch up with friends and family. Great early bird special. $ 9.99-Satay Salad or home made Soup, Entrée (4 – 5 pre-​chosen options), and dessert sweet laced sticky rice or scoup of homemade ice cream. I am local and this is the best food in town.

My wife and I came here after some friends told us to check it out… It was great… Very small but homey feeling. And the price was great…

Food was pretty good to just ok. Price and value are amazing. 10 $ for three courses. Service is also good.

The best Thai restaurant in South jersey. If it was in NYC it would be the second best, since Sripaprahi will always be my number one.

at first thought, i would give orchids five stars. it’s my hometown thai restaurant and i basically crave this place at least once a week.
but on second thought, i think it’d be more fair to give it four stars b/​c there is a little more room for orchids to get better.
The Cons:
— Hours are limited. Used to be open for lunch, closed for 2 hours, and reopened for dinner. But after a couple of years, and lack of advertisement, they are now open from 4 – 9. And closed on Sundays.
— Um, the location and the décor is less than par. Orchids is located in this shady looking strip. At night after hours, it looks like a perfect place to shoot a really bad teen horror flick. Saying all that, you will be fine while Orchids is open, it’s safe. The décor is kind of like someone may have been thinking, oh let’s make this place look kitsch and then decided just to put some thai art and décor instead. Orchid plants all around the place, some thai art, some thai magazine pix of orchids. The place has a romantic «ambiance» which really means no lighting other than the candles at each table. I think it’s also because they have plastic tablecloths and the walls suggest that this place used to be a hair salon back in the day.
— Service is on the slower side. Not terrible, but don’t expect a quick meal.
The Pros:
— Food is delicious. Hands down. It’s authentic Thai as well, not all that MSG crap that they have in other Thai restaurants around the area. And the chef (also the owner) makes everything fresh.
— I just have to put the Tom Yum soup down as the best I have tried to date. I have eaten Tom Youn soup at Thai restaurants everywhere I go but nothing beats Orchid’s Tom Yum.
— If you love spicy food, you can challenge yourself here.
— If you have a friend that isn’t into Thai, but you refuse to have anything but, there is a continental dishes section here. Also really good.
— Since Orchids is now open for only dinner. They have a $ 10 special from 4 – 6, appetizer, entrée, and desert. Can’t be that.
— Take out is available.
— You can purchase their ingredients from the restaurant if you want to make Thai food at home.
— BYOB
To sum it all up, if you are in the area, make sure you make it out to Orchids. It’s worth it.

One of the only worthwhile restaurants in the Galloway Township area, Orchids serves pretty good Thai food for a place in a dumpy little shopping center. I especially like any of their curry dishes.
I’ve certainly had better, but when you’re in Galloway and want something besides pizza and Chinese, this is a great place to try.