Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky

This is now our go to Thai place and now that we know to order everything with 0 heat we love it! Very good! Since I read about the delivery problem, I ordered and just went and picked it up 20mins later with no problems. Always good food but as everyone else said it can be very hot so order heat level lower then you like because a 4 here almost killed me!

This place is great! It is super close to where we live and the food is awesome! Everyone here is very friendly also, and the prices are more than fair. Just a word of warning however, when they ask you how spicy you want your food on a scale of 1 – 10, 3 is medium! Our waitress told us this as well, I ended up getting a 6 on the spicy scale and it was pretty spicy, but I’m into that so it was great for me. Check this place out!

In a blighted little part of the NW valley lies a ray of sunshine in the Thai cuisine of Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky, a discovery I made on a grey, cold afternoon. I love Thai food and I love great service coupled with a charming ambiance and Sun’s possesses all of these features. It actually made me feel like I was on vacation!
I had the yellow chicken curry and chicken larb. The presentations were minimalistic but elegant. The crumbles of chicken larb flavors were resplendent with bold chilis, bright lime, and mint juxtaposed with the crisp cabbage, just wish there was more of the latter. The curry was a comforting bowl of meat balanced with large chunks of perfectly cooked potatoes and carrots. Jasmine rice was served separately so I could have a customized balance of creamy curry and rice.
Giant chalkboards featured the day’s specials and a nice offering of international (Asian) beers, and across from the board was a small stage where apparently live music starts at 7 pm. Two big screen HD TVs play what appears to be cooking and travel shows featuring Thailand, but the audio was off so I couldn’t be sure.
Overall, I was really impressed with the quaint atmosphere, the menu selections as well as my choices. Most of the time I find my way to Commercial Center which is quite the haul for my favorite Pad Thai and rad na, but now I will have a closer place to visit! So glad I had the nerve to venture into a bit of a dodgy area because I was rewarded with the warmth of Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky.

Spicy! Good! Friday nights… Elvis sings karaōke! What else do you need to know? This is a unique dining experience– don’t miss it!

They didn’t want to take my order for pick up 20 minutes till closing and all I wanted was papaya salad. I live 5 minutes away. Guess they’re doing good money wise.

Although little bit out of the main strip of Las Vegas. Looking for local Thai food. Never regretted this place. Referred here by a Thai guy who I met at Pier 39.
Worthy. Big serving too. Lots to choose from. I let me Thai Roommate order.
Verdict. YES …

Just went to Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky tonight for the first time, It was hands down some of the best Thai food we’ve ever had! In Vegas def. at the top of our list now. My husband is Vegan, we had the Red Curry Tofu w/​vegetables (The Best) & Tofu Veggie Pad Thai which was also very very good. Our friend had the Orange Chicken & loved it.
Sun & her husband are absolutely adorable, their staff super nice, their restaurant had a karaōke set up, & fun unique style that was def. all their own. I give this restaurant 10 stars, because everything they got going here is on point! & they have great prices as well! I bought some of the chicken jerky that they make themselves on the way out & it was awesome! Will def. be coming back here when I’m on this side of town. :)

Location is the epitome of a hole in the wall– from the outside. Inside, the décor is cute and full of personality. There’s a stage area and instruments set up for karaōke and performances, though I’ve never seen them actually in use.
Sun herself is there at the counter, day or night, offering samples of thai jerky and anything else on the menu– what that includes, exactly, I’ll never really know, since I only get the jerky. They do have cute chalkboard menus suggesting chef specials and customer favorites, but I still come for the jerky.
The regular beef teriyaki is my jam, though I sometimes snag a bag of the hot for my guy– all of their hot flavors are generally pretty mild. They also have buffalo and salmon jerky, the latter of which I’d never heard of and don’t really care for, despite loving salmon in all of it’s other forms.
TLDR: Come for the jerky, stay for the karaōke?

I’ve ordered twice from them; once was delivery and once for take out and both times I was disappointed with the quality of food.
The first order was one of those chow fun, wide flat noodle dish and the favor was just plain weird. There was too much pepper and I couldn’t take more than a couple of bites. I also ordered dessert of mango and coconut sticky rice and the rice was super mushy.
This last order was last night and it was a simple beef pad thai, mild. Omgoodness, I don’t think these people know what mild is. I spent about 10 minutes picking out pepper seeds because it was that spicy! My lips and mouth was on fire! and of course I didn’t get all the seeds so I did ingest some. The pad thai had no other real favor besides the heat. I’m not sure if others who have raved about this place have tasted what authentic Thai is about, sure there’s heat but seriously there has to be favor underneath that heat.

Uh. Its fu**ing delicious. What else do you need to know?!
Also, super spicy, so always order 2 levels less than your normal level. If you get a 7 or 8 here, your mouth is likely to catch on fire. If you get a 10, God help you.

Pretty disappointed, took over an hour for delivery and we ordered 2 green curries and did not get any rice. I have ordered curry from lots of Thai restaurants and never once was rice not included. So it took an hour for delivery and then I had to make my own rice after paying $ 55

5 stars for the delicious and authentic Thai food
5 stars for the super friendly service
5 stars for the delicious homemade jerky + they have salmon jerky!!!

I’ve never gone here and ate in before. I usually order online or pick up, so I can’t really review the restaurant itself. The food is good;
–Sticky rice is good, consistency is good.
–White rice is good, not too wet, not too dry.
–Beef larb is delicious, however I always order WITHOUT onions. If you like onions, I would still suggest getting it without onions. The first time I ordered this without specifying «no onions», they literally put half of an entire onion in it.
–Papaya salad is good. Order the «regular» and see how you handle that spiciness. I made the mistake one time of ordering «spicy» and it was nearly uneatable. «Regular» tends to have the right amount of spice and flavoring.

Glad I tried this place. The inside is cute the food is delicious. If you’re going to order soup make sure you can handle spicy cause even if you say no spicy it’ll be pretty spicy. The service was pretty good considering there were only 2 servants. I’d come back. :]

I should have heeded Sandra R.‘s warning about the spice levels here. The mister and I ordered take-​out from Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky. I thought I’d be safe with getting a «medium» spice level — Boy was I wrong. I about burned my face off! So please, should you dine at Sun’s, order a level or two below what you would normally get for spiciness level. Online ordering through Eat24 for Sun’s is Not Spicy, Mild, Medium, Spicy, and Very Spicy.
PAD KEE MAO aka Drunken Noddles (8.95): My medium level spiciness was so spicy, I couldn’t drink a coke with my meal! I was forced to drink a glass of water. My nose was running and my mouth was on fire. Basically, I couldn’t really enjoy my meal and eat as much food as I wanted. I got this entrée with tofu, which wasn’t cooked the way I like it. It was fried. Of course I would have liked the dish MUCH better if I would have ordered it with a «mild» spiciness level. 2.5÷5
*** It is exasperatingly difficult to find a place with tofu I actually like. So far Le Thai, Tuk Tuk, Teriyaki Madness, Benihana’s, and Geisha Steakhouse are the only places I can find where I like the tofu. ***
GARLIC & PEPPERED CHICKEN ($ 8.95): My husband got his entrée at a ‘mild’ spiciness level. He said it was perfect. At first, he complained his meal was small but ended up saying it was the perfect amount after finishing. Entrees come with a side of rice. ⁴⁄₅
SERVICE: Our order took less than 15 minutes to be prepared and the employees were extremely friendly to us while we waited inside. My husband sampled some beef jerky and wants to buy a bag on our next visit.
Worth a Return Visit?
I’d come back but have learned my lesson about the unusual spiciness level dished out at Sun’s Thai Food & Jerky.
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Favorite place to get lunch before work on weekdays plus it’s like 2 minutes away from my house!
My little family and I always come for their lunch special– only $ 5.99! We always order the same thing because it’s delish. My boyfriend gets the garlic peppered chicken and I always get either the red chicken curry or the beef broccoli– all comes with rice and choice of soup or salad. I always get the soup it’s really good and spicy! My daughter always requests for their shrimp rolls… Sooooo yummy!
Not only do I love their lunch special but the workers are always so kind. It’s a little family owned restaurant so they always remember my daughter, my boyfriend, and I! The owner always comes in every now and then and she’s so sweet as well!

We’ve been pretty devoid of good Asian spots in the north side of town. I knew of this for a little while, but haven’t been in since it closes at 9 before we got off work. Now that I have a different schedule, it’s been on my to eat list.
The fiancé and I both got thai ice tea to drink. It was ideal sweetness for me and very creamy. I definitely liked their balance here.
Massuman curry with tofu was good. There were a lot of small tofu pieces, potato, carrot, onions and peanuts in it and a good amount of curry sauce. It’s more watery of a curry which I prefer because I don’t like when places use thickeners and seem to have a pasty curry that is indicative of using premade store bought bases. The flavor was really nice though, balanced and had a nice creaminess. The only downside was the potato was a bit undercooked. It came with 1 scoop of rice which is not enough so you may need to order more like I did to sop up the curry.
Pad kee mao with pork was awesome. I love drunken noodles and this was a really good version of this. Good flavor, the noodles were soft and cooked well, pork was pretty tender.
Of course the spices here are on the «Thai spicy» level which kinda makes me happy. I love spicy, but to me places that do not water down their cooking values tend to cook the way they would for themselves, the way it should be. We ordered a «3» which normally is not spicy at all at most places, just a bit of pepper flakes for flavor. Here it was spicy enough for the fiancé to be at his spicy threshold which is a 5 at most places. I still added flakes and vinegared chili because I like my Thai pretty hot.
Service was pretty friendly from Ms. Sun and her husband. It’s definitely family owned and run which is the type of places I like finding and supporting.
I’m definitely gonna be back for more, but this was a pretty positive first visit.,

Wow! Wow! Wow! to this beef jerky!
I’ve been spoiling myself with it for the last couple of years and felt a review was in order. You can get it at both the swap meet and at their restaurant.
The flavor is ridiculously addicting… the sweet and spicy combo of the «Hot» flavors and the «Thai» flavors (my two favorites) hand you the biggest challenge in trying not to tear through the entire bag in 10 minutes.
I think the beef is made from high quality cuts as it’s dry but still extremely tender and there’s no fat or cheap marbeling or strains like you’d find in a store bought Oberto bag… Sun’s Jerky is an entirely different experience.
I recently tried the spicy pork strips and their new Hawaiian and came across 2 new favorites.
If you haven’t checked them out yet, you’re definitely missing out on something special. It’s a snack better than anything else and also probably better for you too, straight up protein, no fat and some wickedly tasteful flavors.
Mouth is starting to water… Must. Grab. Some. Thai. Flavor. Now.

Hello, Thai that delivers and you can order online… favorite already. Yes, I am an introvert at times.
We ordered here last night and I was satisfied. The only warning I ask you heed — the spicy is like a 10. Out of a scale of 1 to 10. If you order online, it says «Mild, Medium, Spicy or Extra Spicy». I was thinking spicy would be around a 7 – 8. Holy shit, it was crazy spicy. But delicious!
We had —
Panang Chicken Curry — Good, just wish it had a little more something to it.
BBQ Pork — Delicious.
Pad Thai — Very good.
Tum Yum Krung Soup — Delicious with awesome flavor. This is supposed to come with shrimp, but it was chicken.
They delivered within an hour and the delivery man was very friendly. Overall, we’ll definitely be using this place again in the near future. Thumbs up.

Beware– spices are spicer than normal spices. Whoa, try saying that 5 times real fast. Their spicy level 5 is spicy level 10 in most places!
The usual eats:
Spicy Beef salad– made a mistake and ordered it as a spicy level 5 one time and it was extremely difficult to eat due to the spice level. From than on I order it as a level 2 which is perfection. A lot of beef and not enough veggies but still very good.
Mint chicken– some Thai places use ground chicken for this dish which is what I’m used to but this place uses real chicken chunks. The amount of chicken they put in this dish is greatly appreciated. Great in favors and the mint doesn’t over power the chicken at all.
seafood tum yum soup– Great burst of flavors but not enough seafood. I would like to find more fish, clams, and shrimp than garlic and tomato chunks. I do like the actual soup/​broth, it’s pretty dang good, but for paying $ 16 they need to make it worth our buck.
The people that work here are really really nice. It is family owned so you often see kids in there watching TV or helping the adults. There is also a mini stage area where there are instruments and I think karaōke. I’ve never been here while that was active but it looks like good time.
They are also well known for their beef jerky. Ask them for a sample, they’ll be more than happy to give you taste.