Yum Yum Thai

They’re struggling. We had some issues communicating our takeout order on the phone, and had to clarify upon arriving at the restaurant. We ordered Thai flavored chicken wings, masaman curry, and glass noodles with chicken.
The meat tasted super off in the glass noodle dish. The masaman curry was very authentic and tasted similar to what we have had in Bangkok. The Thai chicken wings fell very short. They were not flavored at all and barely had any spices.
We will not be back again, which is unfortunate because the owners seem very kind.

I had lunch recently in the middle of the week and ordered panang chicken and a spring roll. The last time I came to Yum Yum Thai I ordered the same dish but carry out. At that time, I got so little chicken on the dish that I gave up on this restaurant. Well, I think this was more than six months ago. I gave it another try since I live in the neighborhood. The panang chicken portions were just right but the curry itself was not done right. The spices and coconut milk did not seem to be «one». Curry, contrary to what most people think, takes time to get it done right. And unfortunately this curry was not done right. The spring roll was large, but not stuffed, and very, very greasy. The sauce for the spring roll was a commercially bought sweet and sour sauce that most Americanized chinese restaurants use. I think its time for them to get a new cook, new recipes, and remodel the restaurant.

Excellent Service and quiet dining: My husband and I were looking for a quiet place to eat in our neighborhood. We had been to Yum Yum Thai once before and enjoyed it, so decided to return. We were seated immediately and treated as honored guests throughout the meal. The wait staff were very attentive to any concerns and made sure our beverages were topped off throughout the meal. Our food was delivered piping hot and freshly prepared. We ordered two dishes and an appetizer and enjoyed sharing our dishes. The atmosphere was quiet and conducive to good conversation. We didn’t have to compete with loud music or TV screens. When we finished eating, our leftovers were packaged up for us along extra rice. We will go back!

Yum Yum Thai is a small yet quaint gem located in the shopping center behind the gyro place. I was in the mood for authentic Thai noodles so I ordered the drunken noodles. The noodles weren’t the best I’ve had although the flavor was better than most of the local pseudo Thai cuisine here in Atlanta, but very far from the worst! The portion for dinner was enough for two meals for me and it satisfied my yearning for Thai! Thanks Yum Yum, I’ll be back again.

All the reviews I read about this gem of a Thai restuarant are true!!! Lovely and quaint décor, attentive and gracious service, scrumptious food and beverages. My daughter and I had their wonderful Thai tea and samples two of their many seafood dishes. Seafood was fresh and tender and the sauces divine and just to our taste. We also had these cute little doughnuts with a creamy sauce and peanuts that was the perfect compliment to our meal. The proprietor truly shows that much care is given to the food, environment and the guests personal preferences too.

This is a great restaurant! The food was amazing. I definitely recommend going for lunch.

Been searching for GOOD Thai food in Atlanta and this is now on top of the list.
The struggle is real when you are looking for good Thai food in Atlanta. Sure, Atlanta has good Phở or Korean but chinese and Thai are missing from the landscape. Sure you can find «American» versions of Thai but the flavors all are a bit bland and just not quite there. So when in this area, we pulled up Unilocal and searched for a new spot to try. Thank you Unilocal.
When we arrived, I will admit that most people might not walk in. It is a hole in the wall. But that does not scare me. It was the Sunday of Labor day weekend at about 6:00pm and we were the only ones in the restaurant. So I was a bit worried about the freshness of the food, but that was not a problem.
We started with the Coconut soup. I first judge any Thai restaurant on if they can make a good bowl of coconut soup. This one wasn’t bad but also not the best in town. They use coconut milk (which a lot of places do) but the soup was thin. I Highly recommend that pl;aces should use coconut cream as it gives a much better richness and mouth feel. But the flavors in the soup were good. A bit expensive at $ 4 a small bowl. I would most likely skip this next visit.
I had the Panang Curry and wife had the Pad Thai. While I ordered my Panang «Thai hot», it was not very spicy at all. My wife ordered her Pad Thai «spicy» but it was not spicy either. That is ok, we can add heat later and I understand why the restaurant is careful with this. Many people order something «Thai hot» but do not really want something that spicy. A little chili paste and powder fixed that right up. The flavors of the food are what matter. The pad thai was one of the best I have had. No need for lime, flavor was in there. No need for wanting for depth of flavor because it had it. The curry was also good, once I got the heat balanced where I wanted it all the flavors rang through.
The service was good and it is definitely and mom and son ran place. Mom was wonderful and welcoming. You could tell they took pride in what they did and wanted their guests to have a great experience.
While this place is a bit far from our home in Loganville, it may be worth the special trip down and is going to be on the list anytime I happen to be in the area craving some good food.

You’ll find Yum Yum Thai in the same shopping center as the newly moved Handy Hardware. The food here is solid with fresh ingredients and a good mix of flavors. They’ll also accommodate you if you’re looking for some extra heat. Service is excellent (I’ve only eaten there for lunch). I’m not sure how busy they are for dinner. In any case, it’s nice to have some variation in Tucker, especially on the spicy side. The food is more in the 3.5÷5 range but I’m rounding up because I like the people here so much. Lunch is well under $ 10 and the the portion is large.

My husband and I eat dinner here about once a month. The service is always great and we love the food. All the curry dishes are good. However my favorite dish is the Basil Duck, which is insanely good.

My girlfriend introduced me to this gem!
Service here was amazing, the hostess is very friendly and keeps your drinks refilled.
The Oceanica with Basil has Sea Scallops, Shrimp, Squid and Mussels, Bell Pepper, Bamboo Shoots, Celery, Carrots, and Onions in a Spicy Basil Sauce.
The seafood was perfectly cooked, the veggies were still crisp and I asked for really spicy and this chef delivered a dish that not only was delectable but all of the different flavors were very well balanced including the spiciness. The Thai Iced tea was good as well.
Awesome Service, Delectable food and drink, and very inexpensive, for both my girlfriend and I the tab was only about $ 35

My favorite take out place for Thai. The food is good and can’t beat their prices with a stick. I love all of their curry dishes. Spring rolls are great too. The spicy basil rice is highly recommended too. Their pad Thai is not my favorite… a little too much fish sauce. Nothing near a five star restaurant but in the low standard take out category, I’ll give it a solid 5.

Don’t let the outside discourage you. Once inside you’ll forget about the plaza. They are more Thai comfort food than high end cuisine. The staff is always friendly and provide great service. It’s also a great value for the price.
Their coconut chicken soup (Tom Kha Gai) is my ultimate I’m sick comfort food.

The restaurant is in a dilapidated strip shopping center. Only about ¹⁄₈^th of the stores are still occupied. I was very reluctant to visit the restaurant, but there were a lot of people at the restaurant. I’ve visited India, so I should be able to handle anything.
The restaurant’s décor is. ambiguous? Old and dated, but comfortable and somewhat Thai like. We were greeted enthusiastically by our waiter. We only saw one other employee. Mom ordered pad see ew and I ordered pad thai for lunch. The menu wasn’t extensive, but they offered basic Thai dishes.
The vegetable spring roll was good, but very greasy. Mom liked her pad see ew. That’s nothing new, since she loves all food. I ordered my pad thai with tofu at level 3 out of 4 spiciness. It still wasn’t hot enough, but I asked for the spicy condiments and that helped. The pad thai was far from the best I’ve had and far from the worst I’ve had. It was extremely mediocre. It had a bit of a weird taste.
One really great thing about the menu is that all the menu items can be ordered with tofu for vegetarians. The tofu is cooked perfectly.
I have very high standards for restrooms and Yum Yum did not meet that standard. It felt dirty and dated.
Our waiter was one of the nicest waiters I have ever met. He liked my elderly mother, so he gave her a thai tea to take with her, since she went crazy over the tea we ordered. It was way too sweet for me, but I don’t like sweet drinks. He packaged our takeout food for us and put our drinks in to-​go cups. The price for 2 meals and 2 drinks was less than $ 17.00. The lunch portions are ginormous.
Maybe I will give Yum Yum another chance. I’m interested in trying one of the curries. Having experienced some amazing pad thai from restaurants that are no longer in business or are in different cities, I’m still on a quest to find some outstanding pad thai. I’m starting to think that I need to stick with the curries and other noodle dishes.

I am going to give this place three stars for now. I most definitely want to come back here because it wasn’t by any means terrible — I just think what I ordered was terrible. Hopefully I will be able to come back in the future, and try this again and change the rating.
The place is located in a strip mall about a mile from my house. It is a dingy, little corner restaurant with a big spirit — you can tell by all the newspaper and magazine articles detailing it’s incredible culinary ventures. I was pleased to find that it isn’t the streamlined, sophisticated Thai place that I find so often in Atlanta. Interior is nice and clean, but still dingy. I am a fan.
The menu is great, good selection… seems authentic. I ordered the Drunken Noodles — I lived in Thailand for a bit but I never had this dish but heard good things. I was pretty disappointed. It lacked any flavor. All these veggies and little tofu. No spice at all. It was just blah. The tofu tasted pan fried and was amazing and the noodles were great, but the flavor was so mundane and the ratio of meat to noodle so off that I just took it home and poured sriracha all over it. Other people at our table complained that is wasn’t spicy — maybe they make food not spicy to appease the American palate, but I would have liked to have an option of making it spicier during preparation.
That being said, the waiter was so nice and friendly and said «Good choice» when we picked our items out. Very affirming. The service was unbelievably quick. So overall, it wasn’t a bad experience. However, the food was so unmemorable that I wouldn’t even bother to go back unless I believed that this place had more to offer. So for now I give it three stars with the hope that I will go back and find that what I ordered was the only mundane thing on the menu.

The owner of the restaurant is always friendly, unfortunately the quality is not what it once was. My boyfriend and I wanted to relive our first visit there ordering a pad thai and a basil chicken. The pad thai was okay. The noodle to meat ratio was way off, and the vegetables and garnishes didn’t taste anywhere near as fresh as they did at our previous visits. The basil chicken though was the biggest let down ever. My favorite Thai dish just completely and utterly butchered. It was American Chinese style with lots of oily soy sauce looking sauce in it. Almost no basil whatsoever. Vegetables were not fresh. Chicken was not tasty juicy or tender. It was just awful. I suppose the fact that our dinner was so horrible does make things easier for us in the future when trying to decide between which Thai restaurant to eat at in Tucker.

This restaurant is located in the corner within a plaza off of Lawrenceville Hwy. If you know where the Grecian Gyro is located then that’s the plaza I’m speaking of. The sign is very plain and simple (like a white board and i used a red dry erase marker to write on it), which could make the place deceiving at first. Makes you think twice before wanting to enter. Check out my picture I uploaded and you’ll understand why.
I came here for the first time with a friend who has been here years before. It’s definitely a mom and pop shop and a hole in the wall.
SERVICE was on point. Water refills and all.
FOOD: As an appetizer we ordered pan-​fried dumplings. They were crispy dumplings consisted of pork and vegetables inside. They were okay – nothing too exciting. As an entrée, I ordered the Panang Curry (I chose chicken over shrimp and it comes with white rice) and my friend ordered the Red Curry (choice of meat and comes with white rice) off of the Lunch Menu. Each entrée was about $ 7. Both entrees tasted delicious. Although they were tasty, I noticed that there weren’t a lot of chicken added. There were a lot of belle peppers and other vegetables. The portion was fairly smaller compared to other Thai places I have been to considering the price.
Overall, not too shabby. Don’t let the exterior make you not want to try it out because this place has a very clean interior and well decorated. I just wish they invested in a new sign.

No problems with the food quality (the beef dish and the noodles were both good), but portion sizes were pretty small (even for the noodle dish, and noodles are cheap), and they only gave us one small bowl of rice even though we got two entrees.
I probably *could* have gotten more rice, had I gotten up and gone to the counter/​register area, but they didn’t check up on us at all.
We almost never dust our meals, but we dusted the meals, the one small bowl of rice, and the spring roll appetizers. We won’t let it deter our culinary adventures in the Tucker/​Clarkston/​proposed Lakeside City region, though.

I’ve been going here for the past 10 years and the service and food has always been consistent. The owners and staff are always so friendly and attentive-​sometimes overly so. But I always feel like I’m a guest here, instead of just another patron.
I highly recommend the basil duck. I have never had duck the way they prepare it here. It’s all deboned duck breast, with a spicy sweet brown sauce with bell peppers. Deliciously mind-​blowing!
Others that I’ve brought here rave about their drunken spaghetti, but since I don’t like spicy I’ve stayed away from it. The papaya salad is spot on and great!

I’ve grown to anticipate food more when they’re tucked in the corner of an abandoned or run down strip mall. Those forgotten restaurants usually offer up some awesome food. Yum Yum Thai is in one of those very strip malls, and their staff was very friendly and fast, both fantastic signs.
I got their drunken noodle with chicken, which didn’t come with a spring roll, so I also ordered spring rolls (2) for a total of about $ 12 to go. The flavor was far from what i’d consider the best Thai i’ve had, but it’s a decent meal that’s simply «okay». The noodles were slightly bland and there just wasn’t a ton of flavor to work with here.
I was asked how spicy I wanted it and maybe I should’ve said spicy, because «normal» spice had no kick at all. Benefit of the doubt given… I usually get cashew nut chicken as my Thai barometer, and I chose not to this time, so i’ll give them another shot just for that test alone.
Spring rolls are fried, tiny, and come with dipping sauce, but they’re pretty good, and don’t let the size of the outside fool you, as it’s a spacious restaurant with lots of seating.
I’m giving yum yum four stars because like everyone says, the service is great, and while I waited for my order, a glass of water was poured for me and regulars showed up and the server would greet them, ask about specific things and treated them like friends. That’s awesome. The flavor and spice of the food were simply okay though, and based on that alone, it’d be a three star.

This is my favorite Thai Restaurant in the World!
Eat here and you won’t be disappointed.
Try the Whole Snapper, or the Dyno-​Mite Red Curry, or the oh so spicy Green Curry mmm yum yum!
Any thing you order on or off the menu will come to your table fresh, hot and spicy cooked by the Owner/​Chef Nicky and served with a great big smile by your Hostess/​Server/​Owner Nat. They’re a great couple and they run a great place.
Enjoy and come often