Umi Nom

I wanted to try a new place. This place had great ratings.I will never try a new place again. Sometimes u should stick to what u know. There menu miss some food choices that every thai place should have like coconut curry. ( I ask just to make sure) They did not even have thai ice tea. I order fried rice and it taste nothing like fried rice. ( which I taste from many places like SONG'S, BORN, AND JOYA). The rice taste like onions, a lot of onions, and it smell like it also. I want back and change my order. My new order was okay, but not the best. Maybe all of the good rating was from some ago when it just open. I will never come back.

I love this place. It's not typical you Get a BYOB place but the eat is great too! It comes when it comes, so don't try and think you're getting courses, you're not. It's chilly sometimes in winter too. Try the black bean clam, coconut rice, chili sauces, mango drink, mackerel, thin pork chop, and pork buns. All are great!

Great place and a neighborhood gem. The food is excellent with precise and flavorful. My favorite dishes include the thai sausage, the clams, the fried rice special, and the pork wrap special. The service and friendly and welcoming, and the fact that it is BYO just makes it even better.

I usually don't spend too many of my calories in my neighborhood (the borderlands of Bedstuy and Clinton Hill), but this place is one of the few exceptions. As others have noted, it's on an...unassuming street, right in the middle of some, well, dumps. Don't be deterred from this wonderful little culinary haven. Actually, while the menu had impressed me when I read it weeks before moving to this 'hood, the first time I got food there I was a tiny bit disappointed. I ordered the Fish & Chips: panko crusted tilapia, wasabi tobiko aioli, fries for $12 on their dinner menu. This was pretty good, , but not as good as it sounds. There was not as much tilapia inside the panko as their should have been, the fries were just okay (a bit thinner and slightly firmer than optimal), and the wasabi tobiko aioli was a little weak. I don't know if they've purposefully made some improvements, but today's experience was far and away better. Off the lunch menu this time, I ordered the grilled Pork Belly Sandwich with sliced pork belly, atchara, cucumbers, sweet chili aioli, and fries for 9 bucks. This was quite possibly the most delicious sandwich I've ever had. The juices from the pork belly were soaking the inside and edges of the roll in the most delightful way, a bit of a slightly greasy au jus effect. The sweet chili aioli was so good it gave me pause, "Do I need to take a Lactaid pill? I don't think I ordered anything with cheese on it..." No no, that was just the creamy deliciousness of the aioli wrapping itself around all that pork belly. They don't call this a banh mi, though they could (and next time I think I will ask if I can get some jalapenos and/or sriacha on it as a little spiciness is the only way I can imagine improving this masterpiece), but then that might distract us from the Filipino contributions like the atchara (pickled papaya). And I think the pork belly technique is Filipino too, but in some ways it tasted like my dad's brisket back in Texas. Oh my, what a coalescence of flavors! Also, the fries were a lot better this time around. They were a bit thicker, slightly crispy on the outside and softer on the inside, and ridiculously fresh. Oh and this has got to be the nicest restaurant with the best ambiance and service for at least half a mile around. Living in this city, it's very hard for me to go to restaurants more than once or twice because I have so many to try, but this is probably going to become a rare exception. Now if only we can convince them to stay open late!

Terrible, never got a chance to eat. Arrived, and no one seated us because the waiter was seated at a dining table hidden from sight. It was 10, and they close at 11. He noticed us, came over and took our order, then said they were out of soda. Either he was rude or he couldn't speak English, I couldn't tell. Then 15 minutes later he said a cook "had to leave" and our food would take a long time. How long? He didn't know. We had already been there 20 minutes by now. We left. P.s. they have a B rating currently

I like when I go to restaurants and get to try a bunch of different things. Not only is the experience fun, but it's a good way to get a sense of the restaurant. So here we go. roasted manila clams spicy black bean sauce - It's all about the broth. The clams are small and tasty, but the broth is good enough to eat with a spoon and to order a side of rice to soak up. Which I did. Greedily. fish & chips panko crusted tilapia, wasabi tobiko aioli, fries - "Wasabi tobiko aioli" in non-pretentious Brooklynspeak is "spicy mayo". Except it wasn't that spicy. Worked though. The tilapia was nice and light, and the fries were adequate. grilled mackerel toasted rice, cherry tomato, jicama, garlic-chili lime dressing - I tried, but I'm not a big fan of mackerel. Lots of little bones in the fish. Very dry. shrimp pad thai rice noodles, tamarind, fish sauce, peanuts - I always think it's interesting to try traditional favorites to see how different places approach them. The big thing that set the pad thai aside was the sauce. It tasted fresh and complex. It brought all the various elements of the dish together, the way most places fail. adobo pork belly - I forgot the exact name for this, as it was a special, but it was very good. Super tender pork in a delicious sauce. The fries got dipped in it a bunch. warm thai chili chocolate cake - Not very much chili taste, but it was gooey and chocolatey and delicious. There was a little dollop of fake cream or something served next to it that didn't have much taste. Didn't matter though, the cake was yummy. A few random notes - Probably in the running for best restaurant that's across the street from the projects. Their sign out front is truly beautiful. I lived in this neighborhood a decade ago. Where was this then?

I have been here three times. Two times the food was great, the third time the noodles were overcooked. It tasted like it had been sitting out for a while. Since it was one time out of three, I will go back so they can redeem themselves.

Still BYOB and always good. Sort of fusiony (coconut milk in the adobo!? Not in my momma's...) but still delicious. One caveat - the pork bun sliders not that good. Everything else is delicious.