Sticky Rice

Clean restaurant, friendly staff and always delicious food. I love the vegetarian yellow curry.

After a completely excellent experience yesterday, today wasn’t as good. The service was lacking. We intended to also get a Togo order and try the banana and coconut icecream, but after sitting and sitting, ooof, here’s the check and «here ya go»
We didn’t see either of the guys working today that were here yesterday. Sad, we were looking forward to trying new things.

My fave Laos/​Thai restaurant to go to! Everything is delicious but my favorites here are the kow piek (sp?) nam cao, lad na, laos style papaya salad & laos sausage! You can taste the authenticity in every dish & they def dont skimp out on the portions. Service is always on point. They come & check up on you, refill your water without asking, which is rare in an Asian restaurant. Lol Oh & theyre BYOB!

My wife, my 6 year old son and I’s absolute favorite spot to eat authentic Thai, Vietamese and Asian cuisine. Our favs are their Beef Phở, vegetarian and pork egg rolls, papaya salad, thom yum soup, pad Thai, spicy Thai basil, satay chicken… And on and on. More impressed each time we come with the quality of food and authentic flavors. Food is served quickly with a smile. We have been here 6 or 7 times in the two months. They already treat us like regulars lol. I guess we kind of are. Try it you will be impressed.

Yellow Curry! Enough said, now go get some you can thank me later. Every bite is full of flavor.

Was 5 star until our favorite waiter quit. The food is excellent. I’ve probably had everything on the menu. Nam Kao, basil chicken and pepper steak are stand outs. As is the tamarind shrimp.

Worst Thai food I’ve ever had. No taste at all
and not authentic. There was no flavor at all, very bland. Over cooked glass noodles and the chicken had no seasoning. There are too many options out there. Too bad, I gave it two try’s and both were bad. Location is perfect.

It was completely dead when we walked in. 15 minutes later, people were coming in and the phones were ringing.
I ordered the Lao’s style papaya salad spicy level 3 and good thing I did because my poor boyfriend had one bite and his mouth was on. Everything was on point! Food and service. I was a tad worried about how service would be since the greeting could’ve been better, but it started looking up when the waitress came.
Definitely happy that we stopped by! What makes it even better is knowing that it’s down the street from my house. Will come again!

The pork spring rolls and beef jerky were amazing. I could honestly go just for appetizers and dessert. I ordered sticky rice with coconut ice cream and had to fend off the attack of spoons by my 3 children. It was so delicious but next time I will order 2, so I can have one all to myself. Word of caution the portions are very large and enough for 2, either split and entrée and appetizer or be prepared for left overs. Also this place is BYOB.

It’s located in the back of the parking lot behind all the restaurant strips on the side of 544. I ordered to-​go only. Fairly quick service on a slow Wednesday night.
They didn’t skip a beat in my order, and the spice level is pretty true to their word. (They added three different types of chili spices on the side: chili oil, chili paste, and dry chili flakes). I enjoy a good heat, so I think I’ll order Thai level spice next time.
Pad woon sen was delicious and the vegetables were fresh and not overcooked. Papaya salad was cool and spicy. Can’t wait for mango season, so I can indulge in the sticky rice & mango. Great place to drop by for Thai food –xo

Excellent food. One of our favorites, and we eat out a LOT! It was recommended to us,
and we were not disappointed. All 4 of us try different dishes, and we all are very pleased, every time. Service is good, and prices are surprisingly reasonable for this quality of food.
Doesn’t really get much better than this.

Went to Thailand a couple of years ago and must say that this is the closest we have had to that eating experience since then. The cooks are from Laos and they grow all their herbs and spices themselves.
Everything we ate had good flavor and their rendition of fried ice cream was great too.

This is THE BEST place to eat Thai food in the whole Metroplex!
Fresh! Clean! Great customer service!
Delicious!!!

Family of 4, lunch service.
Pad Thai, panang, red and kids chicken nuggets
OK so lets start with the good:
Polite service
Fast service
Nice location
Nice décor
The food itself really was the flaw. I think they are taking shortcuts and that is ruining the quality.
1. Kids chicken nuggets were just store bought dino shaped.
2. The chicken within the fresh rolls was exactly like a grilled chicken fajitas piece.
3. Tofu in pad Thai seemed store bought and tasted like uncooked dough. Dry chicken in the pad Thai and the sauce was weak as well.
4. The chicken in the curry seemed like they were all cooked before hand and they feel more rubbery because it was reheated.
This is shame because the flavors in the curry were good. Panang was a little thin which means they didn’t fry the coconut milk long enough. I most likely would not return since there are better options for Thai than this.

As good as it gets! Great authentic tasting Thai food for a reasonable price.
Get the Nam Kao with cured pork as an appetizer. It’s a kind of lettuce wrap that can’t even compare to the PF Chang’s sort.
Our family ordered 6 more dishes to share: Spicy catfish, green curry, pad thai, pork salad, basil chicken, and pineapple fried rice. All super good. I’d say I enjoyed the basil chicken the least, which is usually my most favorite Thai dish. But I think it was because everything else was that much better.
So glad I have leftovers to enjoy!

First off, I’d love to address the staff because for me, customer service is very important. Sweetest family and any questions you might have about a dish or anything on the menu, they do not mind taking the time to answer. If you ask for a suggestion, chances are you won’t be disappointed.
The food is delicious. Since they’ve opened, I’ve been here at least once a week. If you’re really big on papaya salad, Sticky Rice (SR) serves THE BEST I’ve had. Almost as good as when my family makes it. It’s packed with authentic flavors that I haven’t found anywhere else. Most places just use fish sauce and lime juice to mix the papaya but I know SR uses way more ingredients. Their fried quail is an appetizer I recently discovered with my mom and I will have to say if you pair that up with the papaya salad, you’ve got yourself a delicious entrée right there.
If I can make some suggestions for the newbies reading this review or even guests who have already been here but just curious to see what other people have to say, here are some of my favorite dishes that will most likely become yours too :)
Papaya salad and fried quail for appetizers.
Pad kee mow, pepper steak, yellow curry and Kao poon chicken.
I hope my review will be helpful for any new comers and returning customers! I’m sure through this novel of a review you can see the 5 stars were an easy give :)

Sticky rice has very little to no flavor to me but it’s like crack to all my non-​Lao friends. That being said, I can’t be fully satisfied with a Lao meal if I don’t have sticky rice. It’s like eating Italian without bread, it’s just plain silly.
The wife and I came here on a Sunday afternoon, a little bit after Noon. I was fully expecting a packed dining room but was pleasantly surprised when the place was half empty.
The food was not as good as I was hoping, especially for the price. There’s other places around DFW that is more reasonably priced if you’re willing to make the trek. For example, they charge $ 3 for a little basket of sticky rice. That’s nuts! Just for comparison purposes, Nalinh (Irving) charges you $ 1 for all you can eat sticky rice.
The dish I really wanted to try was the Beef Larb (side note: I hate when Lao restaurants call this dish Larb. When we pronounce it, there is no R sound at all. A more accurate spelling would be Laab, but I digress…) but it was priced at 9.99, now add the basket of sticky rice to eat with it (there is no other way to eat it) and you’re looking at a $ 13 meal that would normally cost about $ 8 anywhere else. Ok, I get it, it’s apples and oranges. Beautiful outer suburb Murphy vs dirty, inner suburb Irving but still…
I ordered the Kao Poon, which is a vermicelli noodle soup. The broth was good but not what I was expecting. I grew up eating this dish and the way mom makes it is heartier. This broth was ok but left something to be desired.
My wife had Nam Kao. Most Lao people would have this as a main course but here, they have it on the appetizer menu. It’s basically a rice mixed with herbs and spices. You can add cured pork for an extra charge. Lao people wouldn’t eat it without the pork so it’s a shame that they make you pay extra for it.
The worst part was the service. Our server was Richard, or at least that’s what our receipt said. He seemed to always be in a rush. Even when he talked, it was hard to understand him because he was talking so fast. He said twice that he would refill my water, never did. I had to ask the hostess, who was helping him bus his tables, for a refill. My wife ordered a Thai tea and wanted a little bit more milk for it, again, he repeated what she asked for and never came back with it. The kitchen staff had to help him with serving the food because I think he got overwhelmed. Nice guy but I think he needed to slow down and take a breath and compose himself.

I was at Sachse taking pictures on the Bluebonnet Hill and a friend suggested coming here. Since we were hardly ever in the area, we thought why not! It’s definitely my first stab at Laotian food so I wasn’t sure what to expect but overall I think I had a very enjoyable experience. The place was very busy when we arrived and our server was helpful on suggesting items and letting us know what flavors are in the dishes we’ve picked out. We started off with the nam kao and the laotian sausage. The nam kao was delicious! It had a great combination of flavors and the texture with that crispy but not hard or burnt rice was wonderful. The laotian sausage had a really good flavor to it but the texture was just so odd! It’s normal initially then gets mushy (not too crazy about this dish).
However, I wasn’t discouraged and looked forward to our entrees! We got the tamarind shrimp and the spicy catfish. Our server suggested certain spice levels for these dishes and I was a bit disappointed at how not spicy either one was, not even a hint of it, at least for next time I will know to level up! The tamarind shrimp came in a pretty big portion, each shrimp was lightly battered and they were huge! The flavor was a bit tangy and had a fish sauce taste to it. It also had mixed veggies on there which went very well with the dish as well. The spicy catfish reminded me a lot of this catfish in red curry that we typically get at Thai Places. The portion was very generous with lots of catfish filets and lots of veggies. Both of our entrees were absolutely delicious!
Sharing this much food between two people, you can expect a lot of leftovers and we wanted to try the dessert so we packed away a good bit of our food. We ordered the fried banana with coconut and green tea ice cream. The banana had a good batter on it, it was light and crispy. The coconut ice cream was yummy, it went very well with the banana. The green tea ice cream was alrighttt. it didn’t have a strong green tea flavor.
I would give this place a 4.5 but the overall experience was so good I wish I didn’t live so far so we can come back and try other dishes! It was a great introduction to Laotian food and now I’ll be looking forward to trying more of this cuisine!

From the moment I walked into this place, the staff was friendly and quick to welcome me. The place is very clean and the food smelled great upon opening the door. I always start my Thai meals with Chicken Satay; their Chicken Satay did not disappoint.
Again l, I will say; as I say in a lot of my reviews, service is important to me. I can dine many places, so if I chose to spend my hard earned dollars at a restaurant, I want great service. I received better that great service, the service was EXCELLENT.
When my meal arrived, it smelled so good I wept tears of joy, my Yellow Curry Chicken was perfect.
I don’t get out to Murphy often, but when I do, I’m coming her EVERY TIME!!! Super impressive! This place makes me happier than a one legged man in a butt kickin contest!

I rarely feel right about 5 stars because there’s always room for improvement but I’ve been exposed to a lot of Laotian food hanging with the Special Friend and this was like eating at home! This is a family owned and family run restaurant. Must be family recipes because the food is authentic and traditional, although the presentation is modern. We watched the Mavs game there and when Dirk hit that 3 before overtime, the restaurant cheered! It’s not a sports bar by any means, but it’s definitely casual and comfortable.
The Special Friend, his bestie and I started with the crab cream cheese rolls because I love anything with crab & cream cheese in a wonton! It could use more crab. I like how it’s lightly fried so it’s not too soft or too hard.
The yum woon sen was something I have not tried before. It has a vinegary, sour and sweetness to it with fresh veggies. Special Friend thought it was refreshing, light and flavorful. Glass noodles are carb free so it’s a good choice if you’re looking for something healthy. Even with ordering it mild, it still has a tinge of spiciness, which I could accept because it seemed right for this dish.
The pad kee mow was flavorful! I love flat noodles because it is simply something I cannot cook myself. Special Friend says it’s a mouthful of flavor. He honestly thinks it’s the best pad kee mow he’s had. I actually wanted the kao poon but this guy ordered the pad kee mow for me! But it’s all good. I didn’t pay so whatevs. I really liked the basil and the ground chicken all mixed with eggs. It’s better than chunks of chicken.
I’ve had the kao poon chicken at someone’s house so I know I like it and I wanted it but the guy ordered it with 4 peppers. He wants me to say it’s a very traditional dish served at many Laos house parties and has never seen it on a menu! It’s a flavor I can’t describe because I’m not really a cook, but i taste coconut, and it’s a thick broth. It actually wasn’t too spicy so I had a few spoonfuls. He asked for their spice rack but changed his mind and asked for shrimp paste and Thai chilis, and they had it! The bowl was all his after that… too traditional haha
We were ready for dessert but ended up ordering nam kho with cured pork (make sure you get the cured pork!). I’ve also had this before at the house parties he takes me to, but this is my favorite dish here. So glad we decided to pig out! The rice is crunchy and I guess it’s the coconut that makes it sweet? So good! It’s an excellent lettuce wrap. I thought I liked this dish before, but I really love it here. I would definitely like to come back for this and the kao poon but it depends on my taxi aka Special Friend.
The fried banana is a large serving! It’s actually a plantain banana, not the regular banana, so it’s less sweet, which goes well with ice cream. We didn’t know it was 2 scoops of ice cream so we had coconut ice cream, but I suggest getting one of each (other flavor is green tea)! The coconut ice cream has chunks of coconut in it. Good stuff.
It was a long ride to endure home after stuffing ourselves, but we’d definitely come back. There are just a few Laos restaurants but this menu is different, serving foods made traditionally for family and friends. Love it!