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    Mee Sen Thai Eatery

    4.1 (608 reviews)
    ModerateThai
    Open 11:30 am - 10:00 pm
    Updated over 3 months ago

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    Moderate noise
    Good for groups
    Good for kids

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    curry puff // thai iced tea with grass jelly
    Lisa N.

    Great portions and pricing. Lots of authentic Thai dishes offerings. Super friendly and polite staff. I ordered the khao soi gai and thai iced tea with grass jelly. I wanted to order something different and I loved there were pictures for every dish on the menu. We are a visual eater! It was actually my second time trying this dish, but first time at this spot. The curry itself was flavorful but I added more spice to my liking. There was a huge chicken leg in my bowl. I liked the egg noodles. My cousin and her husband ordered the ba mhee haeng puuu & mhoo dang (dry) and curry puff. They enjoyed the curry puff! We would have preferred if there was a side broth for the ba mhee haeng puuu. Overall, a nice filling meal! I would come back for the glass noodles dish!

    Cassandra Z.

    Amazing authentic thai food. On the top of my list for Thai food, I went with a group of friends and tried a variety of their dishes. Everything was very flavorful and well done, plenty of options for everyone. My favorite was the fried fish and their table side toppings/sauces were a great addition. Love seeing places that have the Thai chilies in fish sauce--which packed a punch! Service was attentive and friendly, but not overbearing.

    Creamy Tom Yum
    Sean R.

    With so much thai food options in Portland, it's hard to rank places but I'd say it's in my top 5 Thai since they've got some other offerings besides your classic Thai menu. - Spicy Basil chicken wings: not much spice or basil and a bit of unpleasant meat flavor, subpar I'd say. - Boat noodle soup: good cuts of brisket/tendon & meatball but the broth was too sweet and too much of some spice (maybe coriander or anise). - Creamy Tom Yum w/ pork belly: was my favorite. The pork belly was more like Chinese bbq pork slices if you know what I mean but still quite good. They also have some nice table side condiments to spice up your dishes like pickled peppers and chili oil. The inside is really cool too w/ deco made out of like old munitions crates and street signs and they have some upstairs seating too. In the summer they can open the front of the restaurant and it's open air.

    Sorry, I ate this too fast...it as the special banana boat
    Shelly C.

    Skip Eem for this unpretentious and absolutely delicious food. Some of the best thom kha soup I've ever had. All of their food is amazing! The prices are completely reasonable and the value is very high. The owner/server/bartender is super duper sweet! Our food came out really fast too. It's a really cute little Portland gem. It's rustic inside with board walls and cute little benches. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

    Tod Mon Fish Cakes $13
    Ben C.

    Spring into summer with supper at Mee Sen courtyard is PDX pleasure. The ambience inside is also quirky unique, definitely a lot to look at for a Thai spot. Good tasteful sauces on their entrees at better than most price point. Service is normally friendly and smiley, but at peak times you might find a lone server trying to hustle between all the tables. With all the Thai restaurants around, this is one of the more popular spots for overall ambience & food flavors.

    vegan Pad Kee Mao
    Keely N.

    It has been a while since I've eaten at Mee Sen, and I thought my dining experience was mid. The thai ice tea with grass jelly ($7) was delicious, but I was disappointed because the grass jelly lacked flavor. In fact, the grass jelly was bland, simply like flavorless jello. The pad kee mao was a bit salty from my perspective and needed extra spice, but they provide different options for hot sauce. The sauce for the larb jae was a bit too sour for me. Otherwise, the food came out quickly even when we submitted to-go orders. And, I like the decorations inside the restaurant. I would definitely come back to try more of their appetizers and cocktails.

    24. Khao Soi Gai 19. 20. Pad See Ew D5. Mango with Sticky Rice
    Ann N.

    i really loved this place the last time i came but i was pretty disappointed this time. we came at noon so we were the first people inside. our food came out super quickly -- way faster than i anticipated. this sounds like a good thing, but i think there could've been more attention to detail because some of the food didn't live up to my expectations. the khao soi was amazing just like last time. the meat was sooo tender and fell right off the bone. the broth was just right and i loved the texture of the noodle. the next dish was guay tiew tom kha which was good except the noodles were all very short. i think they were undercooked because they just fell apart :( the pad see ew was a bit more on the bland side and pretty pale in color. the crab fried rice had no flavor in comparison to the noodle dishes. i really loved this place so i'm sad that some of the dishes fell flat. please fix this!! would love to come back when they improve

    Drinks menu.
    Michelle R.

    This place was busy, so we ordered drinks from next door while waiting for our table. We were seated after 10 minutes or so. They do not take reservations, so first come, first served. The food was great. I had the tofu Phad woon Sen and really enjoyed it. Service was excellent. Super friendly staff. We'll definitely come back to this place.

    Curry puff ($10.00 USD)
    Jonny M.

    Met up with a couple of friends for Saturday dinner at Mee Sen Thai Eatery. It's next door to Stem Wine Bar. Entrees are $14.00 to $21.00 USD. - Tamarind margarita ($13.00 USD) - decent - Curry puff ($10.00 USD) - three small puffs - Peek gai tod ($15.00 USD for 10) - good sized chicken wings. Opted for the spicy basil sauce - Somtum puu ($15.00 USD) - good portion. Green papaya salad was light and refreshing - Guay tiew tom kha ($16.00 USD) - coconut soup was serviceable. Ground pork was tasty - Panang moo ($15.00 USD) - curry was solid. Good portion of pork, comes with a bowl of rice - Mhee krob rad nah ($15.00 USD) - same sweet gravy sauce that you get at Chinese restaurants. My least favourite dish of the night Mee Sen's another solid Thai eatery.

    Mhoo Dang Moo Krab
    Hannah M.

    When there is so many great Thai restaurants in Portland it is sometimes hard to stand out. Mee Sen overcomes that. Every dish we ordered was amazing and the flavors were perfect! Some things were very spicy (which we like.) Here's a breakdown of what we ordered: - Chicken Wings (great fishy sauce) - Mhoo Satay (we wanted Mhoo Ping but they sold out. Still great and liked the peanut sauce) - Yum Woo Sen (one of my FAVORITE things, spicy but loved the flavor) - Khao Gai (not a fan of the bone in chicken but broth was great) - Hat Yai (great crisp) - Moo Dang Moo Krob (preferred the spicy pork to the pork loin) - Lychitini (yummy drink) Overall really impressed and we'd be back!

    Panang Moo
    Anna K.

    Omg I can't explain to you how good this food is, you won't get it until you try it. The staff was super friendly and they had indoor and outdoor options, great location to walk around and shop and bar hop.

    Po Pia Tod...what remained after we ate so quickly
    Ellen H.

    We were headed to The Siren and wanted to eat first. Spotted Mee Sen across the street and decided on the spot To give it a go. So glad we did. As we sipped out Thai tea with bourbon (Rika) and waited for our Po Pia Tod and Shumai, we congratulated ourselves on picking a winner. In fact, the appetizers were so great, we forgot to make a photo. Then came our entries: Gai Manow and Moho Dang Moo Krob. Beautiful presentations and so good. Thank you for beautiful food, and charming service.

    Som Tum Thai 46 Somtum Thai
    Danielle H.

    Once again I am giving a double thumbs up for This authentic Thai restaurant So good ! If you want real Thai food you must try this place

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    Such a great local place for Thai in Portland! Great service, fabulous food, would definitely recommend!

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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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    Love this place but it is not cheap....plan to spend about 20-25 for lunch and more for dinner but…read morethe food is absolutely scrumptious here....no matter what you order. Chicken with gravy and flaky bread is absolutely awesome and most people try it but the brisket curry is also amazing here So flavorful so unique u will love it

    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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    2.0 miDowntown
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    How do I know about this restaurant?…read more For a very brief period of time, I decided to DoorDash... on a bicycle. It was very brief, due to the fact that Portland's hills are... well, I'm in a good shape, but I won't be in the Tour De France. A side benefit is that I learned where a lot of good food in Portland resides: Thai Peacock and Little Peacock made up a fair amount of my orders. How much do I like Thai? So much that I learned to make it myself, and I make a better than average Pad See Ew/Kee Mao... So when it came time for a lunch break, well, I couldn't wait to order from Thai Peacock. I got the Pad Ka Phrao (there was not an option for super hot / Thai hot... my one complaint about their system... more on that in a minute)... and started walking. It was easy to pick up, well labeled, and hot when I arrived. The reusable bowl (for the paper bag crowd who are taking notes.. this is Portland ya know)... was full of delicious meat and vegetables. The rice was packed separately, along with the single serving of added sriracha. The serving was more than generous, and good in its preparation. There are some caveats here: Thai Peacock does not make their dishes in the same way that many other Thai restaurants do... they do it with minimal ingredients, hoping you'll add on vegetables. It gets annoying when you're looking at ordering pad se ew, and you might otherwise get a similar dish for $7-$10 cheaper. The lack of an ability to add additional heat is also unwelcome. However, I understand that each Thai restaurant has its own way of making a specific dish. The generous portions make the bare bones dish a good value, if not the best representation of the dish I've had. This would be 5* for a group meal (no shortage of options, and consistent service), and 4* based on comparison to other Thai dishes at similar price points I've had. 5* here based on what most people would likely say. An extremely reliable restaurant with tasty food and generous portions deserves it.

    best thai food restaurant in Portland. everything we ordered…read morewas good. and it was inexpensive.

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