This restaurant is truly one of the most spectacular Southeast Asian restaurants in Washington…read morestate. Food: Don't miss the Nam Khao (crispy rice salad). It is unforgettable and is the best one I've had locally. Also, the Lao sausage is wonderful! Everything on the menu is good! Service: Always wonderfully sweet and polite waitstaff who remember you and what you like. Ambiance: The restaurant is tastefully decorated and clean like a old teak Thai house. Kitchen is also extremely clean. Also, this restaurant is no more expensive than other Thai restaurants, so is great value given the extraordinary quality of the food. Keep up the good work!

This place is the closest thing to home for me. My family isn't nearby, and whenever I miss them, I…read morecome here. The food is delicious, comforting, and always hits the spot. After my Grandpa Ong passed away, I found myself coming here every week. This restaurant became a place where I could soothe my grieving heart, feel a little closer to home, and find comfort through familiar flavors and warm hospitality. I absolutely love this place and adore the friendly staff. They make every visit feel special. I recommend it to everyone and bring all my friends here because I want them to experience the same comfort and joy I feel every time I walk through the door. My favorites are the papaya salad, kapic sen, kapoon, sticky rice, mi grate, and honestly... everything on the menu. Thank you for creating a place that feels like home.

I just discovered this place thanks to my older sister, and I'm so glad she introduced me to it…read more Sap Sap Lao Deli & Cafe is truly a hidden gem in White Center, tucked away near Grocery Surplus. It's the kind of local restaurant that's easy to miss but definitely worth finding. The owner and staff are incredibly friendly and welcoming, and the food was fantastic! We had the fried chicken wings with sticky rice, Lao sausage, papaya salad, Nem Khao, and chicken larb. Every dish was well-seasoned, made with fresh ingredients, and full of authentic Lao flavors. I absolutely love this place and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys Southeast Asian cuisine. Sap Sap Lao Deli & Cafe is a wonderful addition to the White Center food scene, and I'll definitely be coming back to try more of their delicious dishes!

Friendly staff - excellent service. Good variety of food…read moreand flavor. Definitely a try for those wanting Asian food but not quite ready for pungent strong anchovies smells. There's no strong smell but flavor was still good. Love the fried rice. Nice comfortable space and love there was a TV for the outdoor space to watch the soccer game while eating good food! Wish it was reusable cups for the hot tea. Would definitely come back

Lovely little place with friendly staff - I stop here en route to Eastern WA. Food is yummy!read more

Ordered takeout from Thai on Main Street as we were passing by this town. I placed order for Phad…read moreKee Mao with Tofu and no mushroom but instead was given chicken as can be clearly seen in the picture. This dinner meal was for a vegetarian friend and they had to go figure out another meal when we opened it up, since this was rendered inedible to them. We were looking forward to this place but are deeply disappointed by this goof up. To add on, there was just one party dining in which makes it even more difficult to understand as to how did they mess up the order. They charged $19.19 for this specific meal which totally went to waste. Based on this experience, I would not recommend this restaurant. As a courtesy of this goof up, I would expect this restaurant to refund this dish. Edit July2: I was reached out by the owner Amy, refunded half the charge for the incorrect order and was promised an on the house entree the next time I place an order. Considering the other dish was decent to taste and this follow up, I will add another star to the review.

I ordered the Lao-style papaya salad and the Lao sausage, and both absolutely hit. The flavors are…read morebold, funky, and packed with umami definitely on the "stinky in the best way" side, which is exactly how I like it. Some days it's a hit or miss if i'm going to be honest, like for the papaya salad it's like they don't put enough padaek but 9 times out of 10 they do it good. The spot itself is tucked inside a small grocery store, which gives it a really homey, lowkey vibe. It's not fancy at all, but that's part of the charm you're here for the food, and it delivers every time. And if you're looking at my photo... ignore the seafood boil they don't sell that here, I just brought it into the mix because I was feeling extra and felt like a big back.

Came through for the nam khao and it did not disappoint. Such a fresh and balanced dish with…read moreelements of crunch, acid, spice, and salt. Love how this unassuming market has a great variety of dishes to order. Highly recommend!

Omg. The truth is that the majority of places you go to eat are cutting corners to increase margins…read more(buying and serving sauces or purees) and you can taste it. Not Taurus Ox Everything we had last night was gorgeous - fresh produce handled with care, layered flavors built up with intention, and fun little moments left and right. I believe that everything we ate was prepared by hand by an expert. I think the best surprise of the night was the sausage (I wasn't even gonna order it originally) and the guava martini. The sauces were also amazing and the pork belly. Truly the best meal I've had in a while.

I first visited Taurus Ox back in 2022 at their original location and loved their Lao Burger so…read moremuch that I made it a point to bring my family to their new location during our 2026 visit to Seattle. The new location is much bigger, with plenty of seating and a warm, inviting atmosphere featuring Lao-inspired decor, bamboo walls, and ox head sculptures. We were warmly welcomed and seated right away. We ordered a couple of Lao Burgers, Lao Beef Jerky, and Coconut Mango Sticky Rice for dessert. The Lao Burger was still very good, although it wasn't quite as delicious as I remembered from 2022. Perhaps the recipe has changed over the years, but it was still worth trying. The Lao Beef Jerky had great flavor, though it was drier and tougher to chew than we expected. The highlight for us was the Coconut Mango Sticky Rice: delightful, perfectly sweet, and topped with crispy puffed rice that added a fun texture. Overall, we enjoyed our dining experience and would recommend Taurus Ox to anyone looking to try Lao cuisine with a creative fusion twist. I'm glad I came back after all these years!

This place is definitely a hidden gem in renton! Ordered…read moreall dishes with 4 stars and they don't mess around with their spicy level lol (which is the reason why i love this place) Ordered papaya salad, larb gai, and pad krapow and all dishes were so good! Flavors are very potent and spicy. I would definitely come back here. Price was also very reasonable (each dish was ~ $15).

Very disappointing experience. We came here on a Tuesday at 6:30 PM after checking both Yelp and…read moretheir website, which said they were open. We drove an hour to get here, only to walk in and have two ladies sitting inside tell us they were closed. If you're going to close early or have different hours, please update your website and Yelp. We wasted two hours round trip because the posted hours were inaccurate. Extremely frustrating and disappointing.

Saap Fusion was a place Steve and I went to a few weekends ago and we were thrilled with our dining…read moreexperience there. We had another stop to make in Auburn and figured we wanted a bite to eat and this place showed up in my bookmarks. They have some Laotian food here which isn't the easiest to find. They had the Laotian Sausages which I had once before and these were delicious. Perfectly spiced and juicy. This dish didn't stick around long. Also we had a mushroom appetizer that we really liked as well. For our main course we had Avocado Rice which along with everything else we had was fantastic. Very abundant in flavor and fresh in preparation. I have to give Saap Fusion five stars all the way. There were lots of other enticing dishes as well we saw on the menu so a return trip certainly should be in order.

It was a hot day so I decided to treat my mom to halo halo. I heard Saap Fusion had good halo halo…read moreso since we were in the area I checked them out. I loved the ube taste throughout but they need more of the mixed in beans and jellies.

Theary Cambodian Foods is a tiny restaurant with only seating for only 12 or 13. They have probably…read moreone of the most chaotic and confusing menus I've ever seen, but they serve some really excellent food. Walking in for a Saturday lunch into this establishment, the entire restaurant smelled like sizzling meat and aromatic herbs. This was a little past noon and most of the staff were in the back taking their lunch break. There was only a single guy in front managing everything. We placed our order at the counter and were given an estimate of 20 minutes for the food. It took exactly 20 minutes, and he even gave us a 2 minute warning when it was almost ready. #4 Combo ($28.99) - This is a huge portion, easily enough for two people. In fact, this was the only thing we ordered (they had run out of the other item we wanted) and we finished only around 75% of the meal. The plate includes an entire mound of rice under all the meat. The photos of this dish are deceptive - the meat on top hides what's underneath. It's actually an appropriate amount given all the protein, a far cry from other places that only give a small bowl of rice. The rice is fried until dry and leathery, sticking together into larger chewy structures. It's actually an excellent texture for this dish. And the flavor is phenomenal, giving the fragrance of herbs, ginger, garlic, and other spices. In terms of meat, the dish includes two Kroeung meatball that taste of lemongrass and aromatic herbs. There's crunchy garlic stuck to the outside and everything is pan fried until a crust develops from the great sear and char. The inside is so meaty, with lots of whole pieces of meat rather than ground. It gives a burst of fragrant umami. There's a chicken wing, stuffed with vermicelli and shredded chicken meat. Again, it has a very fragrant and lemongrassy flavor. The chicken skin pulled along the stuffing gives an extra oomph of texture. Finally, there's an entire chicken leg/thigh quarter. It's so good, one of the best chicken quarters I've ever eaten. I especially love the scoring on the skin of the thigh that allows the pan sear to really develop an extra crusty layer from the additional surface area. The chicken meat interior is so tender and juicy and gives such an amazing coconut enhanced flavor, full of umami. The chicken fat and skin gives that crispy fattiness that enhances the chicken to the max. Now that's how to cook chicken! On the side are some spicy and crunchy daikon pickles mixed with some mint. Also, a fragrant and really spicy minced pepper mixture that gives an instant fresh burn. It's not smoky at all. (5/5) Everything Theary Cambodian Foods serves is a flavor bomb right to the gullet. Delicious, delicious, delicious food. Too bad it's so far away from me, otherwise I'd be a regular.

I would totally give this place a 4.5-4.75. My friend and I…read moretried out this place for lunch. We got there around 12 Noon on a Friday and we were the only ones dining in. A few people came to pick up. We ordered the #1 stuffed chicken wings and the #11 clear vermicelli noodle salad with 4 meatballs. The owner was working alone so she was the cashier, waitress and chef. I've never been to Cambodia so can't comment on authenticity but the food was definitely homemade with love. Inside the ambience is very "hole in the wall" but that doesn't bother me. The owner had left our Clorox wipes so we wiped down the table ourselves. The food was absolutely incredible. I loved the noodle salad with bits of kale, crunch of cucumbers, and a refreshing sauce. The meatballs did taste like lemongrass as someone else had mentioned. It was a perfect balance of flavors. I'm not a huge fan of fish sauce but there was no fishiness whatsoever. The stuffed chicken wings were made from the flat part of a chicken wing except without the bone. These are a labor of love for the chef to extract the bone and wrap the meat and stuffing with the skin. It was delicious but seemed like an ingredients of the stuffing was already in my salad. The rice was scorched a tad like Korean scorched rice which gave bites of texture. I liked the wings and they were good but I really loved the noodle salad. I don't know if the owner has other employees but I would warn you to order in advance and be prepared to wait. We didn't mind as we were catching up but I could see that if it gets busy, she will need more help. If you are in the area, want to try new and different flavors, and have time to spare, give this place a try. I'm looking forward to going back to try other dishes.

My boyfriend and I ordered take out because we previously had a positive experience. However, our…read morerecent experience was so awful. When I called in, the lady that took the call struggled to take down my order. She was not familiar with the menu at all. I patiently repeated my order several times but she responded by naming different dishes. I was not confident that she would place my order correctly, so I asked to speak to another staff. Once I arrived, the same lady asked me if I was dining in and I told her multiple times that I had ordered take out. Then I found out that the order was never placed so the kitchen never made our food. There were no other customers there so I don't know how they didn't put in my order since I had placed it 10 minutes prior. To make matters worse, once we got home, we found out that they gave us an incorrect order. Instead of crispy garlic chicken and rice, we received a shrimp pad kee mow. This was extremely disappointing because my boyfriend does not eat seafood and doesn't like noodles in general. We went out of our way to come to this restaurant and chose Sweet Rice over other options that are closer to us. Considering the poor service, we will not be coming back or recommend it to others hence the 1 star review. I generally don't rate restaurants based on the service but the service was so bad that I lost my appetite for their food. I understand having to train new employees but there should be quality control measures in place to ensure that customers have a decent experience while new staff are training.

Brought a group of 13 ladies celebrating September and October birthdays…read more One of the gals celebrating is Laotian, so she did yes let's go for it. I was the only one who had been here, and I love it. It was everyone else's first time. We all live about 20 minutes away so it's not bad at all. The service was amazing, Michael did a great job taking our orders, with no stress, he was actually pretty calm with having such a large group during lunch. Everyone loved what they ordered. Thank you Aileen for the complimentary chicken skins...mmm!!! Now that all my friends know where this place, I have to take my own family. Next time I want to try other items in the menu. The only reason I even heard of Sweet Rice is because as an Elite Yelp All Star I was invited to check out this place months ago. Thank you Yelp for introducing me to this place, and now my friends know about it Thanks Aileen!!