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Sang Jun Thai Review

Sang Jun Thai

300 King St

Alexandria, VA 22314
(571) 312-3377

www.sangjunthai.com

I’m not exactly sure where to begin with this restaurant review.  Usually we start with some location information, maybe tell you about the decor, but this time I’m going to start with the most important thing…This food was a HOT MESS!  I mean terrible, awful, and a low down dirty shame!  Dishes came to the table cold, chicken tasted like fish, the plates were smeared with food remains upon arrival to the table.  We are not even sure if the smeared food was from the chef or leftovers from the dishwasher.  All of the sauces used had a strange twang and on top of all that they were out of mangos and sticky rice! What self respecting Thai restaurant allows themselves to run out of mangos and stick rice, are you kidding me? 

The décor matched the food, dark, drab and boring.  Nothing at all about the décor was noteworthy or memorable.   There were plain wooden tables and ordinary yet slightly comfy chairs.  The floors were covered in carpet, which emitted an old, musty and repugnant odor.  If there are any restaurant owners out there reading this please, please, please do not place carpet on your restaurant floor.  There is not enough steam cleaning in the world to make having carpet on a restaurant floor a good idea. 

The service was surfacly polite.  I say this because our waitress smiled slightly while at the table but was inattentive.  When present, she was able to help identify mystery ingredients in our dishes.  The food took a long time to come out despite the fact that there were few customers in the restaurant. 

The restaurant is located in the heart of Old Town Alexandria VA so the only parking options are street parking or garage parking.  The prices here would be reasonable if the food was good.  We feel that this restaurant is unsuitable for anyone for any reason.  In the words of my mother..”this place is not fit for man nor beast.”  Overall we give Sang Jun Thai ♪ note, although we question if they are even worth of that. 

Duck Spring Rolls

When our spring rolls arrived they were nestled on a bed of carrot and cabbage curls which attempted to hide old food remains encrusted on the plate.  The duck inside of the roll was cold and the spring roll wrap was not in the least bit crispy.  The brown sauce had the strangest twang to it.  We could not tell if it was turning rancid or if someone had the awful idea to purposely create a sauce that tastes like that.  As if that were not enough, the chef decided to spread a heavy dose of mustard on the dish???  Note to self chefs, do not use condiments to cover up your food mistakes.  Just do the right things and make your food tasty.  

Eggplant with Chicken

So did you notice that the title of the dish is eggplant and Chicken?  C H I C K E N…why did the C H I C K E N taste like fishy shrimp?  I called the waitress over and asked this very question.  Her response was that the chef used shrimp paste in my eggplant and C H I C K E N dish.  Humm…that explained everything.  Epic fail people, epic fail!  If that were not enough, the dish was too salty; beat us while were down why don’t you! 

Crispy Duck

 Ok, the chef almost got it right this time.  He cooked the duck in a wonderful light and fluffy tempura batter.  He then ruined it with a yucky heavy sauce that made the crispy tempura soggy and limp.  Tear drop…tear drop…

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