Yaya’s Thai Restaurant

Had a great lunch. Folks working there very pleasant, and in and out in a good time. Lunch soup spicy but tasty. Good lunch menu, but settled with duck and red curry. Glad I did! Curry soup-​like in a bowl, rice and duck on the side. Curry fresh, well seasoned, correct portion. Duck cooked well and crispy. Very nice, aromatic, flavorful lunch. I’ll be back!

Very clean and the staff are very friendly. Ordered a spring roll, which was very nice as an appetizer with a delicious Thai tea. As an entrée I ordered beef pad Thai, which came out quickly. I must say it lacked flavor, and was a bit subpar from other pad Thai I’ve had at other restaurants. My wife ordered chicken pad Thai which had better flavor, and seemed to have fresher ingredients.
Overall I give it three solid stars. Not great, and a bit pricey for what you get,.

After a long tired day, I almost ordered my food before the closing time and they had it ready for me in 15 mins and went for a take out, didn’t have to wait too. I had Tom yum soup, basil fried rice and pnang curry. Tom yum and basil friend rice were good and pnang curry was ok. fried rice came in a decent quantity but pnang curry was really more. Finally I would say good and decent.

This is my very first Unilocal review and am sad that is has to be negative, but this restaurant was extremely disappointing. My friend and I went on our lunch break in hopes of some yummy Thai food that was close to where we work. Our waitress only came to our table to get our order and that was it. She never once came back to see how we were doing or if we needed anything else. The restaurant wasn’t even that busy. The food took about 15 minutes to come out and tasted all right. I had the teriyaki chicken that came with rice and some vegetables. It tasted all right, but it didn’t fill me up at all. My friend and I didn’t take long to finish our food and when we asked for our check after finally getting the waitress’ attention, she ended up forgetting about us and we walked up to the counter to finally pay and leave. The food was so-​so and the service was lacking. Will not be coming back.

I don’t usually write reviews right after eating somewhere, but the experience here was so bad I had to vent about it right away. First off, yes, it was lunch time, and somewhat busy, but not terribly busy (I’ve seen worse). So there was NO excuse for our waitress to completely ignore us after taking our order (our food took 20 mins btw). She never came to check on us, not once, which is a huge no-​no to me. Hospitality anyone? Also, it was a complete STRUGGLE to even get our checks. My friend asked for it once and we waited, and waited, and waited… Finally I had to flag down the same girl, and without hiding my annoyance, asked for the check. She apologized, gave us each our check and we waited another 15 mins for someone to take our cards when it was obvious we were ready to go. We even looked around at the other patrons to see if they paid up front or if their servers picked up their checks from the table, just to be sure we knew how this place worked. Well, the servers did pick up the checks from the table so… Finally I just got up and went to the counter and told the lady that I was ready to pay. I’m sure she understood I was annoyed, and rightfully so.
I am really sad to even have to write this review. I love Thai food, and I love finding new Thai places around the city, but this place was just beyond disappointing and frustrating. And to top it off, the green curry was mediocre at best. Will not be coming back.

Came here on a weeknight at 7 with a few friends, place was empty. We ordered a number of dishes to ‘share’. However the tables are very small and we had trouble accommodating all the dishes on the table. We ordered three main dishes and I also ordered a soup for myself. I was surprised when the food came out before my soup. I reminded the waiter nicely that I had also ordered the soup, he said rudely it was still cooking. About 5 minutes later here comes my soup but again had a hard time placing it because the table was full of the other dishes.
The food overall was good. We ordered the peanut chicken, lemongrass veggies/​shrimp and a pad Thai. Flavors were on spot and not to super spicy for my liking.
I was very turned off by the wait staff here which is why I’m giving it a lower rating. From the waiter being rude about my soup and lastly when the check was brought to us we paid for the whole table (took friends out for dinner). We stayed about 20 minutes longer just talking, the waiter then comes up and hands our friend a bill. He says you didn’t pay for your wine. How is it our fault that you didn’t charge us on the bill we already paid!? And now you want my friend to pay for it (who we took out to dinner)?! I found it very rude and unprofessional, the waiter never even apologized. Of course we ended up paying the second bill as well, but I won’t be returning.

Chicken was old, tasted like it had been thawed and refrozen multiple times. The spice was good, only redeeming factor was the staff. Very nice and hard working but seriously the ice tea was bad, the pad Thai sucked, and the restaurant was empty at lunch time.

Great place every single time we go, you can’t make a mistake on the selection from the menu. Get the Pad Thai it’s amazing
Great friendly customer service and fast cook, food is amazing here

Rarely get here during the week, but they have different soups and today’s appears to be hot & sour and is very tasty.

This place is awesome. I eat here at least once a week. Food is prepared fresh and the staff is awesome.

Decent Thai food.
Had the pad Thai.
Reasonable prices.
Duck special was underwhelming.
Very clean and friendly staff.

Probably rounding up a 3.5 to a 4 here on a visit last month.
Stopped in by myself before grocery shopping when it wasn’t busy and consider it a good decision.
Ordered the spring rolls, green curry and hot tea.
Tea was served in the ubiquitous metal pot with a cup to pour myself, which is average, but still better than two of the generic restaurants I’ve tried since I moved from Houston. Not particularly relevant, but the tea cup was about half the normal size, which was odd, but I dig it.
Spring rolls were pleasant but forgettable. I mean that in the sense that this visit was a few weeks ago and I forgot I’d eaten them until I came back and added this blurb. They were very solidly average spring rolls (require sauce with almost every bite) but I was very hungry at the time and they made the meal more pleasant by… is the word «sating?» from «to sate?» Well, you know what I’m getting at.
Green Curry with calimari was alright — the good alright, not the disappointed alright. It had all the ingredients it should, coconut milk present in the flavor, and sufficient heat to get just a hint of a sweat going. The accompanying white rice was good enough to eat on its own — neither dried out nor mushy — so it didn’t detract when I mixed it with the curry.
Waitress was pleasant and not overbearing despite my being one of the few people in the place. I had to ask for chopsticks and she didn’t have any on her, but that’s pretty common so it doesn’t mean anything really and probably shouldn’t be included here but like, if you count against a place because they assume you use a fork in Texas, you should re-​evaluate the things that make you happy in life. Maybe talk to someone about it. I’m sure you’re not alone, it’ll be alright.

Not bad, but not the greatest Pad Thai I’ve ever had. Portions are pretty small compared to other Thai restaurants in the area for the same price. The thing that really put me off here is when you walk through the entrance to where the restrooms are located; it literally reeks of sewerage. That put me seriously off. It’s the worst smell EVER and it’s connected to the kitchen, which made me wonder where the smell was coming from. :(No good! I won’t be rushing back here anytime soon, just my two cents.

Stopped in here for lunch and had the green curry with shrimp. Lunch comes with soup, entrée, and egg roll. The green curry was good. I was surprised the shrimp were nice sized. The egg roll was ok-​I didn’t eat it all. For dessert I had the mango with sticky rice. They had some type of mango sauce on it which is not the classic way I know and like it.

Definitely one of my favorite Thai restaurants. Whenever I go I always have great service. I generally go for dinner but I do know that it’s even better for lunch. Great lunch specials.
It has a nice atmosphere to it. It’s cute for a date when wanting something simple and cute if you know what I mean. Not a fancy date but not a super chill date either.
I think it’s pretty cool that this place has a party room. You don’t generally find that in Thai restaurants.
The spring rolls and curry are da bomb. You’ll end up craving them soon after having them.

Really 3.5. Ordered take-​out. It was ready and piping hot by the time I got there. Ordered fresh rolls with shrimp to share, boyfriend ordered chicken pad se ew and I ordered chicken green curry. Fresh rolls and My green curry were really yummy but curry was a little skimpy on the chicken. BF enjoyed the pad se ew. A little pricey ($ 30) and small Amount of chicken account for the 3.5 rating. I plan of going back to try their other curries.

This place is just really good. I definitely recommend it. The cheese wontons are really good. The green curry and Panang curry is amazing. The prices are decent
Ordering to go is done pretty quick too. Unfortunately they are closed Sunday though but other than that they’re great.

This place is a hidden gem right off of I-​10 and Callaghan. I mostly end up coming here for takeout, which is ready in just 10 minutes if you call ahead. The restaurant is very nice and clean and the staff is always friendly. It is generally a quick, quiet place to dine-​in as they have plenty of tables and never seem to have a wait. I generally get the chicken pad thai and miso soup (both of which are difficult to mess up) and enjoy it every time!

Went during the week for a quick solo lunch. Did not have a problem getting a table. They quickly brought out a soup because the assumed that I was going to order their lunch special — and I did — but i wanted the tom yum soup (off their regular menu). The staff asked if I wanted to go ahead and keep but I really wanted the Tom yum so I sent the lunch soup back. The Tom yum soup with tofu was perfect– just what I was craving. There was a hint of spice, with just enough of a sour note from the fish sauce to make the combination perfectly balanced.
This was followed by the pad ven sen with chicken. I must admit that this was not my fave. The glass noodles were very sticky and the chicken was too «chicken-​y». Oh you know what I mean. Overall the dish was flavorful as long as I avoided the chicken. The dish had few veggies like broccoli, cauliflower, and and carrots. The fried spring roll was tasty and the dish was served with white rice.
I like the flavor profile. I especially liked that soup but my dish was disappointing.
It was good enough for me to try this place again and try a different dish. But the soup– the soup I would come back for and that’s my experience.

Ordered takeout from Yaya’s with high expectations based on the Unilocal reviews. I had the drunken noodles with chicken with and the tofu fresh spring rolls.
Drunken Noodles: ²⁄₅. Edible but not super appetizing. The dish itself was kind of salty. It also tasted unauthentic. The sauce tasted off. It was more of a pad see ew sauce, but I’m not sure I could even call it that. It tasted more chinese with added MSG. It was similar to the sauce you’d use for moo goo gai pan, basically chicken broth based. Usually authentic drunken noodles are deeper brown in color because a black soy sauce is what should be used. This was not the case here. The proportions were also off. Too much veggies and chicken, not enough noodles. It was also not spicy at all even though I asked for hot. The chicken wasn’t the greatest either. A little bit of gristle and a bit rubbery.
Tofu Fresh Spring rolls: 2.5÷5. I’m sure it’s pretty hard to mess this up anyways. The spring rolls were overstuffed and the ingredients just broke through the rice cellophane, so half of the ingredients just fell out the wrapper. The peanut sauce wasn’t that great either, below average. They didn’t put any peanuts in the sauce (maybe because it was takeout??). It didn’t taste very peanuty and it looked like they maybe put ketchup in it. However, the tofu was cooked well and the ingredients seemed fresh.
Prices: On the higher end for thai food. A little over ten dollars for most entrees.
Overall, I was not impressed and will not be ordering from Yaya’s again. I prefer Thai Topaz for Thai food in the med center.