Virginia B.
Yelp
This place causes great anxiety in me. It is definitely where you will get the best meal possible in the town of Marble Falls, with Thai food as good as any I've had in Austin. However. The space itself is dark and inattentively designed. Something about the vibe is wickedly off. Which might not be so bad if a trip here didn't mean spending the near equivalent of a prison sentence in the joint. Service is slow, slow, seriously slow. I don't think you could devise a system, on purpose, to make things any slower. Get there for lunch at a regular lunchtime and expect to spend two hours. Once the two of us were there at lunch when the only other table was a threesome of robed Buddhist monks. They got their entire bountiful meal, plate after plate, before we were served our appetizer. An hour we spent watching three Buddhists eat. One of us was a hungry child. Not a very Zen scene, and aside from the weird ju-ju of the place the reason we are reluctant ever to go back.
Still, sometimes against all reason you end up hungry in Marble Falls, and if so, this is the best place you can hope to be. Avoid the mass-appeal Chinese-style menu items and go for the traditional Thai offerings. To the best of my knowledge, the owner's Thai mom still runs the kitchen, as she did in their old gas-station locale. She has the touch. Green curry, glass noodles, pad thai, beef salad--all super fresh and made to order, balanced, nicely presented, flavorful, and spicy as you can take it. The kid's chicken lunch special is awesome--fresh, tender, moist slices of chicken breast in a thin crisp batter (fried in clean oil at the proper temperature, a masterful achievement for a kid's plate), with an artful mound of steamed rice and a bowl of dipping sauce. My son loves it. He cleans his plate. And would ask for another, except that neither of us is willing to spend another couple hours there, watched over more closely by bad subtitled cable on the dining room TVs than by the people who work here.
