***½~ (3.5/5)

Today I went on a lunch hunt to Lhy Thai in Burnaby. I have to say, this place looks really ghetto from the outside. Really ghetto. As I walked in, I was immediately hit with this funky mix smell of grease, food, and wet.. dogs? Not sure what it was but not very pleasing.

The place is really small, and busy, but I did get a table right away. When I sat down, the waitress was wiping our table because previous customers had just left. The cloth that she used left my table smelling like bleach for quite sometime. Again, not very pleasing, since now it’s a mix smell of grease, food, wet dogs and bleach. Bleh.

It wasn’t too long after I got there that I realized that there was only one waitress working there.  It took forever for us to order our food. This is not very good if you have work to get back to. We should have ordered right away like the table beside us. And it took forever for our food to come. This is not very good when you’re really hungry, and the people came after you keep getting their food first.

Anyways, on to the food. We ordered Stuffed Chicken wings for appetizer. I had combo #1, which has chicken red curry, spring roll, chicken satay and cucumber salad. And my friend had Pad Thai.

The the stuffing in the chicken wings is similar to the stuffing in Vietnamese spring rolls. It had clear vermicelli and minced meat. The whole thing is boneless although there was a random shattered chicken bone in my stuffed chicken wing. And later I found my friends’ chicken wings also had random bones in them. So I guess they did that on purpose. It does taste pretty good though! I would order it again.

I was pretty satisfied with my lunch combo. The chicken satay with the peanut sauce on it was really good. It’s sweet, and it goes really well with the rice. The spring roll was crunchy, big and drizzled with sweet and sour sauce. The chicken curry is also good, but nothing special. There were more bamboo shoots in it more than chicken. I asked for spicy, but it didn’t taste spicy at all. Maybe next time I’ll ask for extra spicy.

I also tried my friend’s Pad Thai, which she ordered it to be spicy also, and it was very spicy! And very tomatoey. It was much spicier than the red curry, but still tasty.

I also had a dessert there, because I saw Coconut Ice cream on the menu. Mmm I love coconut. The coconut ice cream there is soooo goood! The 2 scoops of coconut ice cream was topped with real coconut meat, and coconut sauce. So coconuty, so yummy.

I think I can only describe the food at this place as homey. It’s definitely comfort food, and I also found myself to have sticky hands from the all sauces before I started eating. Weird.

I would give higher ratings if they didn’t have the funky smell and if the service wasn’t so slow today, because the food was 100 times better than Charm Modern Thai. And it’s cheap! It’s so cheap, our  appetizer, 3 entrées and dessert came to  $30.98 dollars. And, they take Visa / MasterCard too! That’s pretty huge for a small Asian restaurant.

Tip: Order right away as you sit, because it might take a while for the one waitress to come back to you.

Most popular items: combos 1, 2, and 3. #9, #13, and #17.

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Lhy Thai
7357 Edmonds St.
Burnaby, BC V3N1A9
Tel: (604) 526-8085