Grandma’s Thai Cuisine

Enjoyed authentic Thai cuisine on my Europe trip and came to Texas, this restaurant has not disappointed me… Great customer service especially if you know what you want ( used to Thai food menu) and the food comes out incredible. We eat there once a week and there are always leftovers for the next day

I’ve had phenomenal Thai food in Thailand, excellent Thai food in Queens, NY and really good Thai in Toronto, Ontario Canada however today, I had mind blowing, super nasty-bad Thai in Harker Heights, TX! I entered Grandma’s with a friend hoping to have a taste similar if not as good as what I’ve had in the past only to have my pallet assaulted! I explained to the staffer who serviced my table that I would like to have a spicy prawn soup, steamed dumplings and chicken satay with a peanut sauce on the side. What came first was a over deep fried skewer of chicken with a peanut butter flavored thick textured sauce that tasted so nasty!! I took only one bite because I don’t generally like to self punish. Next came the rest of the order. The soup as you can see in the provided images looked nice. We where dooped! This soup I tell you was sickening and sour. Tomatoes as many people are aware can be acidic, the tomatoes in this soup where not cooked. The tomatoes where simply blanched from the heat and gave a very strong flavor that was unpleasant. Their was no potato in the soup, only a pinch of vegetables and large shrimp but, the shrimp where over cooked, thus a bit hard. The dumplings where strange so, we didn’t finish those as well. We ordered one additional item, Crab Rangoon and this was the only palletable item. Crab Rangoon $6.95 Satay Chicken $7.95 Thom Yum w/ Shrimp $11.95 x2 Plus tax we paid $42.- total because the staff at this place didn’t have the decency to remove the chicken satay from the bill when we sent it back because it was over cooked. At the end of this horrid culinary disaster, the wait staffer had the audacity to ask if we wanted to go packaging for all the horrible food that he saw that we where not eating!! This was truly the worst Thai food that I’ve to date encountered. Just to be clear incase I haven’t been already, when we left there we had a strong sour taste gripping our throats so, we headed to Freddie’s to get vanilla custard with chocolate sauce to help cleanse our pallets however, even after having finished the custard;.the sour taste remained… It took a long while for that disgusting sour taste to dissipate.

I simply asked if the pad Thai was made with soy sauce and if it had wheat/ gluten in it, and was met with a blank stare. The waiter had no idea what’s in the food, how is prepared, and is apparently too scared of the cooks to go ask! Terrible, TERRIBLE customer service. We left.