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    CT Bistro

    4.1 (251 reviews)
    ModerateVietnamese, Thai
    Open 10:30 am - 9:00 pm
    Updated 2 months ago

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    KevinTawny T.

    Good, tasty food though the service can be a little slower during rush-hour lunch time. The proprietress is alone and she does everything (waitress, bus tables, cashier) etc. Convenient location with plenty of parking and close to other shops in the same complex, so you can do all your errands at once.

    Garlicy greens with chicken
    Drew H.

    Hole in the wall of a strip mall with good food. This is not a fancy restaurant - lighting is dark and it isn't decorated. But the food is good. We got the garlicy greens with chicken and the shrimp, pork, and sausage fried rice. The portions were large for the price. Service was minimal and had to ask for water refills and hot sauce. But we will come back since we enjoyed our meal.

    Grilled beef short ribs with rice
    Winnie C.

    I ordered Grilled Beef Short Ribs and Garlic/Pepper Fried Wings. Both were delicious.

    Bun Ga Nuong
    Melinda G.

    Ok, a bit torn on this review. The meat was very flavorful. My dish had grilled marinated lemon grass chicken, vermicelli, lettuce, mints, cilantro, cucumber topped with scallion oil and fried shallot. Choice of egg roll or grilled shrimp. I want with the egg roll. I'm not going to pull your leg but the egg roll was the size of my pointer finger and the width of a sharpie pen. Not much to it and at first I had to study it to see what it was. The taste gave it away . Next, the noodles. Bland, bland, and even more bland. Absolutely not a lick of flavors so that was very disappointing. The meat itself was very good and had that grilled marinated flavor, but the flavor wasn't anywhere near lemongrass. More like Hawaiian marinade (which I like so it wasn't bad). The salad was delicious with the shallot and fish oil poured on it (I'm guessing that was what I was supposed to use it for as there was no other dressing). I also poured that oil on my noodles to try and add some flavor....Didn't work. Overall, my meat was delicious and my salad was fresh.

    5-piece chicken Satay pieces are large (3inch wide)

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    Food is delicious. My favorite dish is S4. We love this place and surely will come every time we in the area.

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    What a screwed up operation. They forgot to make the soup we ordered and the pineapple fried rice had no pineapple

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    Clean, delicious Thai/Vietnamese food. We all LOVED it. Prices are fair and the owners are delightful. Can't wait to go back.

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    Great food, good portion and reasonable prices. Chicken pad Thai is authentic. Beef pad kee mao is delicious. We eat there often.

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    My go to for Thai. I've had multiple different meals there and all of them were on point.

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    After days of working my way through Portland's wildly overhyped Thai food, I had begun to wonder…read moreif the problem was me. Maybe Thai food was simply better in Los Angeles. Then I walked into Eem, sat down, took a few bites, and realized the problem was, in fact, everyone else. Eem is a Thai and Texas-style barbecue mash-up that sounds slightly unhinged on paper and makes absolute, beautiful sense once it hits your mouth. This is the kind of fusion that doesn't feel like a gimmick. It feels inevitable. I started with the Sweet & Sour Fried Chicken, one of their most popular dishes, and for good reason. Savory, beautifully fried, shatteringly crisp on the outside, juicy and tender within. Exactly what fried chicken should aspire to be. Then came the Wok-Fried Yu Choy. And dare I say it? The best vegetable dish I've ever had? Yes. I think I dare. Spectacular. Deep, smoky, savory, with enough personality to make you briefly question why you ever needed meat in the first place. But the Smoked Pork Krapow is where they really got me. Krapow is traditionally a dish built around seasoned ground beef, but Eem takes the idea somewhere else entirely, folding in pork belly burnt ends. It sounds like excess. It tastes like genius. Smoky, fatty, spicy, deeply aromatic. Completely blew me away. And then there's the room itself. Warm, colorful, playful, beautifully decorated without trying too hard. The service was just as good. Welcoming, attentive, confident, and Portland hospitable. They know exactly what they're doing. Eem didn't just redeem Portland Thai food for me. It reminded me why you venture out to eat in the first place: to discover something you didn't know you needed. So do yourself a favor. Go to Eem first. Before you start categorizing Portland restaurants as Thai or barbecue, before you begin comparing them to other Thai restaurants, before you get trapped in your own expectations. Just go. Because if "Keep Portland Weird" means anything anymore, surely it means putting Thai food and Texas barbecue together, making it work brilliantly, and serving it with a smirk. Thank you, Eem. You just gave me another very good reason to come back to this weird, wonderful town.

    Eem was such a fun Portland food experience! We tried the white curry with burnt ends, and WOW, it…read morewas weird in a good way. A Thai-meets-American bbq. The the combination of smoky, tender barbecue with the creamy Thai curry was so good. The burnt ends brought that deep, savory, slightly charred flavor, while the curry gave it a completely different dimension. The flavors worked well. I just wished the burnt ends were more fatty. We also tried a pork belly dish, which was another highlight. The pork was rich and flavorful, and I loved the crispy fried egg, green beans, cucumber, and fish sauce with it. If you're visiting Portland and want something playful and different, Eem is absolutely worth checking out!

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    4.3(822 reviews)
    8.4 miVernon, Northeast Portland
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    I haven't been to Southern Thailand, but I have spent enough time in Malaysia and Singapore to…read morejudge roti canai/prata, and the roti and curry here is really excellent. You can watch them frying the roti in front of you, they have a great flavor (they're a bit on the thick side), and the curry is absolutely sublime, with an incredible depth of spices without being hot. I also really enjoyed the freshness and textural blend of the "rice salad," with great cucumbers and herbs, although it was too spicy for my dining companions. I admit I didn't think the fried chicken was anything special--the chicken was moist (even the white meat), but the outside could have been crunchier. But I'm not the biggest expert in fried chicken, nor in pad thai, and both were certainly competent even if not as exceptional. Sticky rice was also cooked perfectly.

    My meat-loving friends adore this place, so this review is solely for vegetarian food. 3 stars for…read moreveggie food, 4 stars on Yelp because I'm not interested in damaging a star rating, just sharing info for vegetarians. There is only one vegetarian item on the menu, the veggie curry. It's sort of an afterthought, throwing a bone for the vegetarians in the group. (Could they not make a vegetarian version of the Southern pad thai, just to be a pal?) The curry sauce is tasty, but the veggies were completely undercooked. Raw, tough, spongy pieces of underdone eggplant. It was like the person cooking it did not know what to do with a vegetable. The roti is tasty (I'm not familiar enough with Southern Thai to critique it). But if there's just one veggie item on the menu, and it's just vegetables in a curry sauce, I feel a restaurant should take pride in getting it right. Seating is a little tight, but somehow that adds to the atmosphere as you end up sharing a table with strangers, which is fun. Service is fast and food came out fast (too fast, in the case of those poor eggplants).

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