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    Sam's Thai Food

    4.5 (15 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 8:30 pm

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    Penang Beef (dinner. Cost a little more but a lot of food!)
    Betty H.

    What a nice surprise to find this hidden gem on our trip. The owner is Thai. The restaurant has been in business for 14 years. We ordered Pad Thai, Penang Beef and Gra Pow chicken. The portions were generous. The food was delicious! Authentic (my husband is from Thailand so he knows what real Thai food tastes like ). Will definitely order from them again when we come to Fairbanks. Highly recommend to everyone!

    Amazing, fresh and delicious Thai!

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    4 years ago

    The drunken noodles are so good! It comes with a spring roll and the noodles are homemade. So good! Worth the drive.

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    Massive portions, good price. Incredible owners who work hard to feed the goldstream community.

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    Awesome, Authentic high quality Thai and Chinese food in Fairbanks. Hit up this place for a great meal!

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    Lemon Grass Thai Cuisine

    Lemon Grass Thai Cuisine

    4.4
    (389 reviews)
    3.7 mi
    $$

    Food: Food was very good. Flavorful, tasty and generous…read moreportions. Spice levels can be adjusted. Great presentation. Reasonable prices. Enjoyed all the dishes we ordered. :) Service: Food took a bit to arrive but considering how busy they are, it is understandable. Very good service by our hosts who patiently responded to our queries on shellfish allergies and spice levels. Thank you so much Koi, Bambi and team! :) Ambience: Nice decor with musical instruments, interesting paintings that remind you of Thailand and they have paid good attention to details on their tables, mats and the menu. Casual chatty vibes too. All good. Restrooms: Clean and well maintained. Parking: No issues at all. Plenty available!

    Solid Thai food in Fairbanks! We stopped by with a party of 8 on a Wednesday for early dinner and…read moredidn't have to wait too long for them to move some tables around for us. Tried a little bit of everything: Pad thai, Pad see ew, Khao Soi, Pineapple fried rice, and the duck curry on the specials board. The duck curry was the standout for us. The restaurant dining area smelled amazing and I have to wonder if we missed out by not ordering some of their stir-fry dishes. Being from LA with close proximity to Thai town, I appreciate that this option exists for variety reasons, but taste-wise, it is hard to compete with what I can get easily at home. Service was friendly, and portions are pretty reasonable for the price (comparable to LA pricing). It was a great meal to start our family trip in Alaska! Parking: easy, large strip mall

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    The Aurora outside the restaurant over Chena hills. Spectacular show!
    The Aurora outside the restaurant over Chena hills. Spectacular show!
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    62. Drunken Noodle Pad Kee Mao
    Duck noodle soup

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    Nim's House of Thai Food

    Nim's House of Thai Food

    4.5
    (93 reviews)
    7.6 mi
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    Grandmas are always right! Visiting family is always a treat made even more special with nanny's…read morerecommendation to try Nim's. Truly a tasty and flavorful experience. Like any good Alaskan dining establishment, you'll find this hole in the wall a simple yet worthwhile experience. Try: definitely get the garlic chicken and fresh rolls. Their curry is also 10/10. My friend tried their beef noodle soup which was so flavorful and soul warming.

    Came here as one of our friends were craving hot Asian food, and it was one of the only Thai…read morerestaurants that were open past 8pm. The staff in the restaurant were nice and we were able to get seated right away during dinner hours. The decor inside was very simple and casual. We ended up ordering chicken satay and egg rolls as appetizers, which both were decent. For entrees, we ordered pineapple fried rice (which you have to ask them to add pineapple to the fried rice item on the menu), beef massaman curry, tom kha gai soup (one with coconut milk), and drunken noodles with chicken. All the entrees were also pretty decent and flavorful, although I did find most of them to be on the saltier side. The meat in the massaman curry did also taste super soft but almost in a canned meat kind of way. We were also served water but everyone in our group felt like the water tasted weird, almost like there was some kind of cleaning supply or chlorine type after taste. We saw that they put lemons but there were no lemon taste in the water. We were all concerned by the taste and ended up not drinking any of the water (despite the food being salty and we really needed some). Overall, not a bad spot outside of the water situation, but not a spot I'd necessarily recommend given the price of dishes and value.

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    Drunken Noodle with pork
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    Yes Noodle Soup

    Yes Noodle Soup

    4.5
    (51 reviews)
    7.1 mi
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    Staff is very nice but it's basically one server at the counter waiting on multiple tables. We…read morearrived when they opened for dinner and soon after, other customers showed up. Because we were the first few in the door, our entrees arrived sooner than others who came after. I was disappointed with the Thai iced tea, it lacked tea flavor and was more of condensed, excessively sweetened milk drink. I could only finish 1/2 and poured out the rest . We ordered 3 dishes and the portions were generous such that we had leftovers the next day. 1. Veggie Tom Yum Soup - was OK but I've had others with better flavor and wouldn't order this again. 2. Chicken pad Thai was the best dish of the bunch but it was very skinny rice noodles. It tasted better as next day leftovers after the flavors marinated overnight. 3. Pork green curry was watery and not green but looked more yellow. We had yellow curry at a Thai restaurant days earlier and thought that curry tasted more authentic and wasn't watery. Overall nice staff with average food.

    We came here just on a whim and it's such a cute lil spot. We started with the crab Rangoon which…read morewas pretty good. Could use a little more crab. Alone it was kinda bland but with the sauce it was actually very good. I ordered the pad Thai with chicken. Honestly the flavor is very good but it was very unfortunate that the chicken and tofu came out very dry. Had it not been for that I would have given my dish an 8.5/10 but because of it unfortunately I can only give this a 6/10. My buddy got the pad kee ma ( drunken noodles) with chicken and again the chicken was very dry. It was also just kind of a bland flavor. Just a little disappointing. If they maybe added some garlic and a little more sauce I think it would have really elevated the dish. One thing I really like was it seemed like all the sauces were house made which is fantastic. I would still come back here to try some other food. But hopefully they can just get the meat to not be so dry.

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    Pad Thai with chicken
    Pad Thai with chicken
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