Emporium Thai - what to order?

[Senor Popusa]

Thinking of checking out Emporium Thai. Any faves? One of the people joining me eats vegetarian + poultry + fish, but no meat (beef/lamb/pork etc) or shellfish.

[Servorg]

Here are a couple of older reviews that may be of help to you.

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/482403

http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/483343

[Senor Popusa]

Someone else in my party wanted to do the ordering. Based on this meal, I don't think I would return. I much prefer Talesai Cafe on Olympic Blvd, which is a few bucks more, not much tho, and is so much tastier.

We had an order of pad kra pow - chicken with chili, basil and mint leaves. The portion of chicken was stingy and the dish was not spicy/flavorful. I usually use the sauce to pour over sticky rice but this sauce was not flavorful enough. I did add some chili sauce to this dish.

The pad thai was fine. The best thing we had.

Spinach dish came with button mushrooms. This dish was bland in the extreme.

Fried chicken. The poor chicken had been hacked to pieces in what appeared to be random bits. And salty in the extreme.

Not worth a second exploration in my book, alas. I was hoping it would be better as the location is convenient for me....