Little Bangkok

I can’t begin to count the number of times i’ve passed by this placed, but never stopped in. That changed last week! My hubby stopped in and picked up some take out for us. Here are the things that stood out:
Pad thai — their tamarind sauce is so flavourful! Loved it and it had just the right amount of tofu, chicken, shrimp & bean sprouts. Generous portion for only $ 10.99!
Cashew Nut Chicken — good amount of heat, ample chicken, veggies etc.
Coconut rice — Soooo good — nothing else to add!
Appetizer sampler — loved the fried tofu, chicken, satay, shrimp & spring rolls and cold rolls.
I have already been back for a second round in less than a week. Stopped in for some of their yummy pad thai.
Friendly staff, clean restaurant & lots of seating. Great lunch specials
I will definitely be back!

A-​OK Thai food with good service in a great, clean atmosphere.
Very polite waitress, good flavourful food. Clean dishes with nice little flares (ex: carrot flowers). Would give it four stars if it had a bigger portion size. I only got 5 shrimp in my red curry dish. Good service.
Thai iced coffee was good! Not too sweet but great! Way better Than the Thai iced tea I’ve tried at other places.
Would come here again based on this experience.

Ordered takeout green curry chicken and tamarind fish with coconut rice. Good portion. Great flavours. Fresh ingredients. Would definitely come back.

I wanted to really like this place as its right beside my house. But disappointingly the service was extremely bad to the point where I felt that they were discriminating against our table for some reason. The waiter gave us really blunt replies and basically we had to ask if our order was out yet after 20 min of waiting.
Food wise a disappointment as well. The price point was pretty high considering that all the curries didn’t come with rice and the portions were small. The biggest problem was the green curry, as it had a spoiled taste to it and smelled really weird… We tried informing the waiter but was ignored.
The fried rice that we ordered was on the dry side… The pad Thai was the best out of the three but I’ve definitely had better around the area. Overall I will not be back.

Little Bangkok was something I just had to try because I had to see whether if this would be my new main Thai restaurant. It was tucked into a plaza across from the Main St. Go Station and easily missed.
I went in as a group of 4 and there was nobody else in the restaurant at 1PM on a Friday.
The lunch menu had all the popular dishes for a discounted price as a smaller version and came with soup and a spring roll. (including the curries and pad thai)
The lemon chicken soup that came as an appetizer was very condensed and overpowering. The spring rolls were crunchy and each came with their little own dipping sauce.
I ordered a chicken noodle soup that came out somewhat disappointing as it was bland but did have many pieces of chicken.
My boyfriend ordered the chicken fried rice and it was amazing. They had large pieces of chicken in there and was very tasty.
My sister’s boyfriend loved his pineapple curry but had to pay for rice on the side (as it wasn’t part of the lunch menu). He said it was sweet from the curry & went really well with the rice.
My sister got a curry from the lunch menu (no idea what she ordered) but it was spicy and creamy at the same time.
I’m definitely getting the fried rice or her curry.
The 2 issues I had with the restaurant was
1. Even though it was a lunch menu set — the portions of the main dishes were really, extremely small.
2. The server was always missing and he had a really bad attitude. It was like: Okay, what do you want? & when you were trying to tell him the number of the dish he would look at you like «wtf?» and would not acknowledge that you said anything. No smiles. No greeting. Or as my friend put it «I’m trying to figure out why the server’s so pissed off at us.»
I will return to try their mango sticky rice and dinner menu!

After almost three weeks of meats and taters, I came back to TO craving coconut rice. Then my friend’s coworker recommended this place and a day later, there we were.
At first glance the restaurant sign is simple. Had we not been searching for it, I would have missed it. Heck, I did miss it until my friend (who had street viewed the place prior) pointed it out to me. The exterior is nothing fancy, but the interior is nice: warm atmosphere, nice blue table cloths, soft background music — great for a girls night, I’d hold off on bringing any young families though.
Several people came in and out before we ordered to pick up take out. The place seemed popular enough. The service was prompt and the food came out quickly. I ordered the roasted duck curry and a coconut rice and my friend ordered the tamarind beef curry with a coconut rice instead.
Why this place lost a couple of stars: we ordered two coconut rices, only one bowl came. Although it was larger, there was an assumption we would want to share. We did not. The coconut rice was also not creamy. Unlike my favourite Thai place in Hamilton, the sweet coconut milk taste was lacking. My duck curry also had lots of skin, fat and bones in it. I ended up wasting a lot of an already small dish. My friend enjoyed her tamarind beef, her only complaint was that they charge an extra dollar for all beef dishes, even if beef comes standard with the order. This seems to be an add on as a label was printed and taped to the cover of the menu.
Overall, the food was not bad, it just was not great. I haven’t found a Thai place in Markham, like the hole in the wall in Hamilton, but until then, this will do.

Strong flavours and its the sauce which makes the food taste good.
Started off with a green mango salad $ 7.99 — had a sweet and sour flavour in the dressing and it went well with the thin crispy wafer which had a hint of sweetness. Decent size and good to share between two people.
Couldn’t stop myself from ordering chicken satay when its found on the menu. For $ 8.99 you get 4 thin sliced chunks of chicken. Nicely grilled on the outside and the peanut sauce is to die for. Underneath the chicken was a small bed of salad. The dressing for the salad was sweet and sour once again but also had some chili flakes to give it some heat. I found this dish to be a decent size which was good to share between two people as well.
Yellow curry with beef lunch special $ 7.99 which comes with a bowl of rice, a single spring roll and a bowl of lemon chicken soup or coconut chicken soup. The spring roll was nice and crispy and of course it came with a dipping sauce which was once again sweet and sour. I went with the coconut flavour soup and it definately had a strong coconut taste. It tasted weird at first but it slowly grew on me. The soup also had some sliced mushrooms and small chunks of chicken.
The actual yellow curry with beef was pretty good too with flavours which range from sweet, a slight spicy and a coconut milk taste to it. Along with the yellow curry was potatoes and onions and a decent portion of thinly sliced beef. I found the yellow curry sauce to be overly sweet or it may have been the combination of all the food I ate which had a sweet flavour to it. They must have drenched honey over almost everything.
Also had the tamarind beef curry lunch special $ 7.99 which is pretty much the same as the yellow curry with beef.
Service was good. The place looked clean and nicely decorated. Lots of parking for a restaurant found on Markham Main Street. The price is decent but when you start adding up all the small dishes that I want to try it could get expensive. I had to hold back and stop myself from ordering the pastry puff which was advertised on a little sign on the table and also the dessert of the day (mango pudding with sticky rice) which was advertised right when you enter. The guy next to me ordered a Thai ice coffee which looked amazing and I had to stop myself from ordering that too. If I actually ordered all the things I wanted I’m sure I would have spend $ 40 on just myself.

Conveniently located directly across Markham Go Station, I used to come here with my family sometimes for Thai dinners. My go-​to was the red curry roast duck.
Came here a few weeks ago after a hiatus for a few years, and it seems things have gone a little downhill.
A friend of mine arrived to our reservation before me, and said that the front of house gentleman (I suspect he is at least part owner if not full) was curt at best. However, our server (a young lady) was sweet and friendly.
The duck curry seems to lack the coconut cream it used to hold, and the hubs suspected that the roast duck is purchased from a random Chinese BBQ’d meats place (you know, the kind with crispy roast ducks or char-​siu/​reddish BBQ pork hanging by hooks in the windows?).
The curries don’t taste like they’ve been simmered with all the ingredients, and taste rather like separate components that have just been thrown into a pre-​made curry at the last minute.
Rice is sold separately from the entrées. If you order two orders of rice, they will come served in the same bowl.
The location is truly convenient, but it’s not a place that comes to mind for me when in search of a satisfying Thai meal.