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    Water Lily Cafe - House Noodle with chicken, fresh, perfectly seasoned, delicious! - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York
    Water Lily Cafe - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York
    Water Lily Cafe - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York
    Water Lily Cafe - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York
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    Water Lily Cafe - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York

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    Water Lily Cafe - Thai Near Me - Cheektowaga, New York

    WATER LILY CAFE ATMOSPHERE

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    Quiet
    Casual
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Param Long Song
    Vicky B.

    First time at their new location. Definitely feels like a cafe, there are just a few small tables. In order to view the menu, you had to either look at the wall, or scan the QR code. I didn't have any issues since I'm pretty familiar with Thai food, but I could tell my mom felt lost. I also heard another patron ask for "a menu that has descriptions". For these reasons, I think it would be nice if they had paper menus with descriptions available at least upon request, especially since not everyone has a phone that can read QR codes. I ordered the param long song (peanut sauce on veggies with a side of white rice) with tofu, and an iced jasmine tea. Both were pretty good! Service was good too.

    Spring rolls
    Nikki G.

    With the Yelpies later that night, I decided to grab some takeout from somewhere local to celebrate the virtual awards ceremony. I happened to choose Water Lily Cafe. I called around 4:30pm to place my order for pickup at 5pm on my way home from the office. I ordered sesame gai, which was a chicken sesame dish with broccoli and white rice. I ordered the spice at a 2 out of 5, and I should have went with a 3. I also ordered shrimp spring rolls, which there were 2 in the order, and that came with peanut sauce. The staff are always pleasant and friendly when either on the phone taking your order, or when you arrive to pick your order up. The food was hot when I got it home. The sesame gai dish was very good. It was my first time having it, and is similar to sesame chicken. The spring rolls were good, but each only had one shrimp per roll. The peanut sauce was very good and complimented the spring roll well.

    Dawn H.

    Yes, 5 Stars. Family owned, charming, clean, inviting, warm personable service with a smile and a witty joke or two. Now the food - we started with two appetizers, chicken satay and potstickers. Potstickers were extra crispy and extra flavorful - how did they do that? And the satay was like nothing I've ever had before... it blew all the other satay away, so far away that I now think I never really have had satay until arriving at the Water Lily Cafe. Although the menu is posted on the wall and I'm not truly familiar with all the Thai dishes, I simply picked a dish and what arrived to the table was a melange of wonderful things! Juicy chicken pieces floating in a creamy, moderately spicy curry with the "eggie-est" noodles I've ever tasted. All this was cooked to perfection. We fawned over other diners orders; everything that came out of the kitchen looked tempting! Before we had even finished our appetizers my husband asked if we could come back tomorrow. after dinner we both agreed, it was by far the best Thai food we've had in Buffalo. Dinners were filling, service was excellent. We'll be back soon!

    Coconut shrimp
    Syanna L.

    Service was very slow. We were the only diners, 9 of us, but there were take outs. Still, didn't think we would wait over an hour for our food. Food was ok. I asked for Thai hot on my papaya salad and chicken holy basil, it tasted like medium hot. Had to get extra spice on the side. When the bill came, price on menu was not the same as what they charged. When I brought it up, they said menu prices was cheaper during Covid. I advised they changed it so it won't confused the customers, she just ignored me with even apologizing or acknowledging.

    Lemon Ginger Tea
    Douglas S.

    First time here and loved it, my wife has a lot of dietary issues and they were so helpful! The food tasted fresher than anywhere I have ever eaten. Vegetables were cooked perfectly! Can't wait to return and try more on their menu!

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    Delicious pad Thai! Fast and friendly service. Will be back to try more from the menu.

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    Place an order and the order went through, but the restaurant is closed ((currently 11:45am).

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    2 years ago

    This place has the best gluten free Pad Thai in the area. Sadly they are rarely open so trying to get it is limited to never.

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    Great food pickup set up, friendly staff, super tasty food. Will definitely be ordering from here again!!

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    Love their Pad thai.. specially the spicest one. This restaurant is my go-to place for Pad thai.

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