Menu for Khao Kang Thai Kitchen in Mountain View, CA

Perfect casual Thai food place with on point flavors and spicy levels that don't hold back. Always have to appreciate the Thai... restaurants where spicy actually means spicy even after they give you a "warning" about spice levels. Go mild for a pleasanttaste or medium and higher if you're already familiar with Thai spice. You won't be disappointed. Other than that, the food wason point and had your Thai spicy savory salty sour and sweet multidimensional flavor profiles. Would come back again. Read more

Lots of options to choose from and they have Thai street food menu as well. If you are a vegetarian, they have good options for... you too! We ordered a Thai Basil chicken fried rice and a veggie pad kee mow with a spring rolls. Everything tasted good. Theservice could definitely see some improvement. Read more

The restaurant does have unique Thai street food options. I did not try them due to dietary restrictions. One of their signature... dishes I did try is the fish curry cooked in wrapped banana leaf. It was good but not excellent. I have tried this dish inThailand. My comparison maybe a bit unfair. It is a much milder version of what I have eaten. I feel they could have added morecurry paste and spiced it up a bit more. The restaurant staff are very kind. It is a good place to bring family and friends.There is parking around. I had the Thai papaya salad. It was standard papaya salad. I have had much better in other restaurantsin bay areas. They use French beans I would recommend them to use Chinese long beans. They use large tomatoes I would recommendusing small cut cherry tomatoes that will look nicer and easier to eat. Also have options to put dried shrimp. Also out a tinybit of tamarind water. Papaya salad has to be sour spicy salty and sweet at the same time. The Thai fish cakes was also good butnot great. Again more on the bland side. Kafir lime leaf and red curry paste flavor should stand out. It was very mild. Thequality of ingredients is very good. The execution of dishes can be more authentic. I would rate this place more like 3.75 forthe food but due to it's staff and good ambience for family get together will round it up to 4. I will come back to try thechef's seafood specials in a few weeks. Read more

Good/decent although we had too much food ? the waitress encouraged us to order too much, and that was a bit of a downer. In... general the food was decent ? well presented but average in terms of execution. Read more

Flavor is the most authentic in this area, but meat quality is a zero for me every time. Also, we do get stomach aches... afterwards, so after three tries, we will go back to making our own Thai food with Thai basil etc. from the farmers market fornow. However, if you are in the neighborhood, not too picky, like spice, we do recommend them over Shana Thai (usually, notalways, has better meat quality but extremely sweet) for flavor . We gave it three tries, do not recommend to-go. Packaging wasleaky and crispy pork smelled piggy, had a warmed over flavor and could not eat. Flavor was spot on, and spice level was great(what you would get in Thailand). We chalked it up to COVID and tried dine-in twice. Both times, the pork has been piggyagain. Crispy pork tends to be hard, crunchy (like poorly fried chicharon) and has that warmed over flavor and strong odor. So we tried minced pork (less piggy) and that came with huge pieces of pure fat chunks and gristle. Flavor is always good,although stingy on the basil, so I ate around the meat and fat chunks. Fish cakes are very oily, wish they would blot them. Smelled very fishy one time but also fragrant with Kaffir lime leaves, 2nd time no fishy odor but also zero fragrance and taste. Sauce served with is just a very sweet syrup with a thick coat of crushed peanuts. Spice levels are inconsistent, (it is a veryarbitrary system but if you run a restaurant you need to figure out some consistency) with 'mild' being spicy one time and zerospicy another time. 'medium' being incredibly spicy one time and mildly spicy another time. Not a big deal but we have had somecommunication problems. First dine-in one of us received the wrong order, instead of crispy pork he got long strips of stirfried pork loin. (We had both ordered the same dish, pad ka pow w. crispy pork) We inquired and were told it was pad Ka pow w.ground pork, and we let them know we were ok with eating it as is, but we didn't appreciate their attitu Read more