Located near downtown Lemoore is a Thai restaurant called Pad Thai.
I’ve been to numerous Thai restaurants up and down California and I noticed there are some that tend to use satay peanut sauce or those who tend to use peanut butter. Often when I go in groups with friends, they prefer to eat dishes with the peanut sauce, but in truth, I’m not into that as I prefer authentic Thai dishes in which the peanuts are coarsely ground but not as a sauce.
I’ve heard that Lemoore had a very good Thai restaurant and I remember when I was younger, my friend’s mother had a store at the same location a long time ago. But I’ve read positive reviews for Pad Thai and I had to give it a try!
I remember that the location where Pad Thai is located was once a gas station converted to a restaurant.
The location has gone through various changes in ownership over the years, but it looks like Pad Thai has a solid ground and when I went, the place became packed, so I decided to do take out.
I asked the owner what was the top dishes and she mentioned the Pad Thai, which is rice noodles, egg, bean sprouts, green onion, lime and ground peanuts.
She mentioned that the red curry duck which is pineapple, tomato, bell pepper, onion, basil and served with steam jasmine rice. Green curry avocado which is shrimp chicken, bell pepper, basil served with steam jasmine rice. And yellow curry which is potato, carrot, zucchini and onion.
I decided to order the Pad Thai, Green Curry Avocado, spicy fried rice which is rice with tossed with egg, onion, carrots, tomatoes, zucchini, bell pepper, black pepper and basil. And added fried calamari and crab rangoon for us to eat.
You get a good amount with this much food for 3-4 people and for the most part, we all felt it was delicious.
As for the location, it was clean and customer service was good, but I felt that when it got packed, people may need to wait a little longer as the owner functions as the cashier and server. When people want to pay, people want styrofoam containers or want to order or have questions, those wanting prompt answers will need to wait.
But for me, this is a positive sign that business is good. Many restaurants in Lemoore go out of business because the lack of customers and the fact that the customer base is thriving and for the most part, the reviews from patrons have been primarily positive, I hope Pad Thai is a restaurant that will survive and continue to provide delicious food to people in the area.
