Thai Lotus Restaurant

Where do I start? The service was ridiculously slow. I ordered drunken noodles and I waited over 30 minutes for it. Did I mention it was to go? I arrived to work late and hardly even had the chance to eat the meal. It was as if they went to the store to buy the ingredients to make the meal. First and last visit. If you have nothing but time, by all means, this is the place for you.

Got phad Thai and portions is very skimpy and hardly any chicken in it and almost no vegis. basically it was a skimpy portion of noodles with sauce and a couple little prices of chicken .and the lady with fuchsia colored hair is not very nice and acted like I was bothering her when I asked for red pepper. and never thanked me for doing business there I went 2 times for lunch in two days because I was working close by .but never again will I go there again. .sweet home Thai is lot better, big portions, and employee shows appreciation and gratitude for customers. If sweet home Thai was open for lunch I most certainly would have gone there. especially the second time!

Worst Thai Food I ever experienced. Poor Quality, Poor Service, and Poor portions. Im surprise this place doesnt have a drive thru window. Just very bad tasting food. nasty
If you like 1 dollar Chinese food this place if for you, without the one dollar. Also They like to tack on the tip as well before you sign as if they deserve it. which in my experience they dont. G-​R-​O-​S-​S that should be the name of the place.

They will overcharge you for subpar food, skimp on dishes, and by the way, if you want real tempura, better look elsewhere. Here, apparently, batter means breadcumbs, and shrimp is very obvious either precooked, or over cooked. It should not come out rubbery.

We used to love this restaurant but in the last couple of years it has gotten worse and worse as far as portions. The rice portions have become smaller and smaller.
I ordered pannang curry with chicken and it is literally a ton of green beans with 2 or 3 shreds of chicken. The flavor is great but these owners have become more and more stingy with portions and up with the price.
Sorry but we won’t be back. We are done. We have heard this from other friends as well.

This used to be our favorite Thai restaurant; however, the owners have gotten very stingy with their servings. The amount of rice has gotten smaller and smaller each time we visit. We used to eat here a couple times a month but haven’t been there in several months due to the stingy servings. We got talked into going there with friends just to be disappointed for the last time. Because of our history with small servings, we ordered extra rice. And they brought us half a bowl; not even a full bowl. And heaven forbid you order a dish with meat in it. If I order a dish with chicken it it, I expect to get chicken. Not a few measly slices of chicken that you have to hunt for in the dish. Come on guys, you’re going to lose customers!

I get pad Thai all the time at various places and this was the worst. I just threw it away. No flavor at all. Their idea of ‘veggies’ is a few paper thin carrot slices, half of a baby corn and a couple bites of cabbage.
The egg rolls are ok

I eat a lot of Thai food; this place has the best Thai Fried Rice in Oregon and Washington that I’ve ever had, out of ~25 Thai restaurants.
If you like awesome Thai fried rice go here, get the regular, not spicy Thai fried rice and order it spicy; I sincerely doubt you’ll regret it.

Very very very standard Thai fare. I went for the lunch special and had the Pan Fried Noodle with chicken. Again… quite standard. At 7.50 it was a pretty reasonable portion and it was good but not outstanding. I also got an order of the steamed dumplings (I’m a total sucker for dumplings/​gyoza/​potstickers). I hesitated when I saw the price (6 bucks) but did it anyways because steamed dumplings aren’t super common and I really like them. I figured the portion would be pretty big since it was nearly the same price as my lunch entrée but they it wasn’t. The serving was six small dumplings, quite good but not worth 6 dollars. If only Sweet Home Thai had a lunch service!!! :(

Best pad thai hands down in the Salem keizer area. I read a few reviews saying their food isn’t spicy enough. This makes me laugh. They can make it as spicy as you want it. Believe me, they have a few peppers that aren’t on the menu.
Rin the waitress there is very nice and speaks very good English. She is often juggling many different orders and does this incredibly. I suggest this place to anyone who enjoys thai food!

Once upon a time my sister lived in Thailand. Eventually she moved back and one fateful evening she made me the best (and first) Pad Thai I have ever tasted. For years to follow I would see a Thai restaurant and immediately get weak in the knees and flush in the face hoping for some kick-​ass authentic Pad Thai or other tasty dish. Yet, time after time, I would leave a newly found restaurant depressed. I wondered if the drunken noodles I tried actually meant someone splashed beer on top of them as a joke and then served them at my table.
After half a decade of searching I finally found some damn good Thai food: Thai Lotus. When my fiancé and I arrived we almost initially left as we stood in front of the wait to be seated sign for almost five minutes before anyone acknowledged us. Luckily we waited.
We ordered and shared pad see ew, yellow chicken curry and some appetizer that I didn’t really pay attention to. The pad see ew was off its rocker. The chicken curry — not too spicy, not too hot and a whole lot of just perfect. If I had any complaints about the food, I would say that the rice was hard. I soaked my meal down with a bottle of Coors light. (BTW, crappy beer goes great with Thai food if you didn’t know.) When the meal was all said and done our bill was $ 24. We have left overs and I am super excited to eat them come morning.
I am both overly excited and disappointed that I have found this place as it will now become a staple in my fairly gluttonous diet.
A few more notes:
* I expected this place to be slow to produce our food and it was actually quicker than anticipated, yet I still wouldn’t advise you to try this place on your lunch break.
* The portions were fine. I’m supposed to weigh 185 and I actually weigh 220 meaning I shovel a lot of food into my mouth. I asked for to-​go boxes tonight.
* Know what to order. You wouldn’t go to a burger joint order a steak and be butt-​hurt because it sucked.

This used to be my favorite Thai food in the Salem area. Unfortunately I took my friend from out of town here. I ordered the Orange chicken and my food came out on a ice cold plate. After one bite my food was cold. I asked if they could take it back. She offered to microwave it which I did not want. She also kept arguing with me about the cold plate. The plate felt like it had been in the fridge and therefore made the food ice cold. I did not want to eat or pay for cold food. Also the portions have become smaller since I started coming here in 2012. It was an odd and unfortunate experience.

This restaurant never disappoints! Vegetables as fresh as can be and deliciously prepared. My husband and I love the Thai Basil with Chicken. This dish is absolutely delicious and prepared exactly the same each time.
The service has always been tops– timely, efficient and pleasant.

First and last time eating here. My husband and I gave it a try for dinner last night due to the fact our usual Thai place is closed Mondays. Ordered the Hawaiian rice, had little flavor and rice was hard like it was old not under cooked. Spicy beef salad was not spicy. Garlic pork was over cooked bitter and tough. Not to mention it was pricier and portion size was smaller to boot. I felt ripped off and unsatisfied.

Half a star. They didn’t screw up the sticky rice. Everything else was disappointing. Small portions, flavors were flat and unexciting. Had the pineapple rice, bland, color was grey almost unappetizing, did not taste like curry and peas and carrots overwhelmed the dish. Spicy beef salad was not spicy and flavor was unimpressive. Portions are small almost child portion. Spent 50 bucks for bland, small portions. This place probably won’t be around much longer unless something drastic done to improve menu flavors, portions and prices.

I do like their food. During lunch they have one waitress and this makes service slow. We sat and waited for our order for an hour and then we had to get back to work. We ate no lunch on that day and we haven’t returned. The order was taken within fifteen minutes and they had only one of the six entrees ready when we left. I suggest getting there early or expect to wait.

My husband ordered a glass of Pepsi but was served a glass full of ice with a few ounces of soda. Refills were free but nonetheless be prepared to ask for more. I ordered Thai iced tea with little ice. I received a ¾ full wine glass. Very little Thai iced tea for the price. Refills for that are not free.
For entrees, my husband ordered Pad Thai with shrimp which cam with maybe 6 medium pieces of shrimp. I ordered the sweet and sour chicken and received a plateful of veggies and pineapple with perhaps an ounce of tiny slivers of chicken.
The bill came out to about $ 28, including tip. We sadly left still hungry. For the price and what we got, it’s unlikely that we’d return.

Good food, good service and a fair price. The server was very nice! The décor and set up was extremely odd but that didn’t take away from the food. I had the Pad Thai, which was very good! Not too sweet. My husband had drunken noodles and liked them as well. We ordered an appetizer as well, spring rolls and they were underwhelming but the sauce was delicious!!!

My favorite Pad Thai in the Salem area. Service is friendly. I’ve dined here for several years and it seems their prices have increased while the portions have decreased. Still very good and worth it.

«As good as it gets!» rating? Yeah, even though I can’t that it’s the best Thai ever, as this is only my third Thai place. It blew the others out of the water, though.
We dined with a
certificate and, being anxious to hit the $ 35 mark, ended up spending well over $ 50. On lunch. With two adults and a kid. Sheesh.
The piggy back and moon wedge appetizers were fantastic! As was the duck curry and crispy basil entrees. Omg… I gotta go back soon!
Super friendly service (just one lady for the place on our weekend trip) and more than happy to accept my certificate.