Little Bangkok Thai Cuisine located at 227 Main St Markham N in Markham

Updated post July 15, 2024:

I was feeling up for some Thai food again despite just having it the day before at Isaan Der in Richmond Hill.  Since the husband and I were in this area of Markham already, I looked up “Thai” food on Google Maps and this restaurant was the one closest to us.  Although I would have preferred trying a brand new restaurant, it was convenient and fit my preference of a Thai restaurant with lots of options to choose from on the menu.

Storefront

Interior

Stepping inside Little Bangkok Thai Cuisine for the first time since my last visit ten years ago, I felt like they changed up the decor.  I really liked the string lights they put on the ceiling and the large mural painting of a landscape in Thailand.  We arrived for an early dinner at 5:30 p.m. on a Sunday so we were the only ones dining in until about 6:30 p.m.  There were a few takeout orders during our visit but other than that, there were only two other tables who dined in.  It was such a quiet restaurant with not many customers.

They revamped the menu since I last visited (at least it looks much newer) and we chose the Shrimp Chips and Chicken Satay as appetizers.

Menu cover

Menu

Menu 2

Drinks and desserts menu

Alcohol menu

The Khao Kriap Goong (Shrimp Chips) for $8 included shrimp chips and commercial shrimp chips out of a bag.  They were crunchy and good enough that I barely needed the accompanying peanut sauce with it.

Khao Kriap Goong (Shrimp Chips) $8

Gai Satay (Chicken Satay) $13

The Gai Satay (Chicken Satay) for $13 came with four skewers on a bed of cabbage also with the same peanut sauce as the chips.  The chicken was really tender — the best part because I would have hated it if the meat was dry or coarse.  It was seasoned to be a little more sweet than I preferred and thus another reason why I barely needed to dip it into the peanut sauce to eat either.

I ordered the Khao Soi noodles while the husband ordered the Pad Med Mamuang (cashew nuts with shrimp) with a side order of steamed jasmine rice (they don’t include rice with their curries or main dishes).

Pad Med Mamuang (Cashew Nut Stir Fry) with shrimp $20

The Pad Med Mamuang (Cashew Nut Stir Fry) with shrimp for $20 was a bit disappointing.  The portion wasn’t very big.  The shrimps were peeled already and very large and juicy though — this part I liked.  The sauce was a bit sweeter than I preferred.  This dish definitely needs a side order of rice to eat it because there’s so much sauce.  There weren’t as many cashews as we expected despite the name of it being a stir-fried cashew dish.  My husband was disappointed with that.  There were two large pieces of orange chunks in it too which I felt like was an easy way to bulk up the dish.

Thai jasmine rice $2.50

Khao Soi $20

I liked the Khao Soi noodles.  I chose the option with chicken drumsticks because it would have been the same price for choosing tofu or braised beef.  The egg noodles were submerged in the thick curry soup.  There was a container of crunchy noodles on the side and chili oil too.  On top of the bowl, there were lots of red onions, pickled mustered greens, and beansprouts too.  The only issue about the way they served it is that I wished they used a larger bowl.  I wanted to dig into the egg noodles first only but the other accompaniments were in my way, so to speak.  A larger bowl would have given more space to mix up everything too (should someone prefer that).

Closer look at the egg noodles in the Khao Soi

The lone server was nice and attentive and came by often to our table to refill our water glasses.

Reading my blog post from ten years ago, I do think that this place, while it serves decent Thai food, is a bit average and ordinary.  It was really nice to revisit it after ten years but I wouldn’t hurry back to try more items from their menu any time soon.

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Located at 227 Main St Markham N in Markham

This following post was originally published on November 2, 2014:

For our birthday lunch, Angel and I dined at Little Bangkok Thai Cuisine.  It’s a little known restaurant that resides in a small homey plaza on Main Street Markham.  I discovered it since it was one of the restaurants listed in the Markham neighbourhood on urbanspoon and showed a rating of 80%+.  The food blogger in me wanted to try it out for sure.  

When we got there at noon, we were the only ones out of two other tables there.  It was a bit too quiet in there to chat.  We placed our order with the only server there (who seemed to also be the owner) from the lunch menu.  Each item on the list came with a soup and spring roll.

Coconut Chicken Soup

This was my first time having coconut chicken soup that I can recall.  It was a milky white colour which was semi-warm and tasted good.  I have nothing to compare it to but the chicken slices were a bit bland.

Pad Thai (chicken). $7.99

I chose the pad thai option.  After tasting a bite of the one that Christian had at Pho 88 recently, I’ve been reminded of good pad thai.  When the dish arrived, it was a bit smaller portion than I expected.

The vegetarian spring roll was mediocre.  The pad thai was so-so as well.  It wasn’t terrible but I liked the one at Pho 88 much better.

Angel also commented that her green curry chicken was good but not amazing.

Green Curry Chicken. $7.99

Fairly empty during weekday lunch

I’m not sure I’m going to dine here again.  I noticed that they had something interesting called curry bites advertised on their wall but other than that, I think dining once at Little Bangkok Thai Cuisine is good for now.