Thai Kitchen

I had the Charlie 's special and it was excellent!  It was chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, bamboo shoots and lemongrass  all stir fried together in a broth. It was yummy.  Hubby got beef and broccoli  and said it was average.  But he gets that all the time...no adventure there.

We drove all day & spent the night in Childress. Based on the reviews here,, we decided to give the place a shot. We went in pretty near closing time & placed a to-go order. We were hoping to get at least 1 salad, because every Thai/Lao restaurant I've ever been to offers a variety of salads. Strike one: no salad onn the menu.

We ordered hot & sour soup, but they were sold out...strike two.

Our order was pretty simple:

1) shrimp rolls, which were actuallly not bad.
2) wonton soup. The wontons were passable, but the broth was simply salty water with lots of white pepper. No hint of chicken & nary a vegetable to be found. Ate the wontons & dumped the soup.
3) cashew chicken: soggy cashews, dried-out chicken, a few pieces of green onion, & no flavor other than salty brownish sauce.
4) steamed rice. How can they mess this up, you might ask? Well, they cooked the rice in soy sauce & it was inedible, If I wanted to eat something that tasted like I was drinking soy sauce from a bottle, I woiuld have done it.
5) When we asked for plastic utensils & plates,, they gave us the utensils, but grudgingly searched tto find plates. We werre staying in a motel & didn't travel with our own plates.

Glad we opted for take-out, because the place could definitely used a face lift.

So....ate the shrimp rolls & the wontons, & a few bites of the chicken. The rest went into the trash. I know we were in a small town in Texas, not San Francisco or NY, & didn't have high expectations, but didn't think it would be quite THIS bad.

I'm a trucker and have been going to this restaurant for years. I am hooked on the tom-ka-guy which is a form of chicken soup that was  first made by the grand mother of the owner who lived to be 100 years old. Its made with coconut milk, fish sauce and fresh cilantro. You can get it in mild, medium, or hot, but buyer beware, if you order it hot, you really don't know what you're in for until you try it! The shrimp fried rice is very good. The food is excellent value. The restaurant is clean and very basic. If you are going through Childress Texas any time soon and want a good meal from some hard working people that care what they serve you, this is the place to stop. Try it out you will like it.