Reviews Shana Thai Restaurant

This is a solid eat-in place for us with a convenient parking lot (shares with a Michoacán market, and some other establishments). The couple who introduced us say it's their regular to-go place. We do always see a lot of to-go orders neatly packaged. They do fried food well here, no grease puddles or rancid oil odors. Everyone loves the crazy bags, you can actually see the meat, and taste the herbs and spices. Between the deep fried spring rolls (a popular choice) and crazy bags, we would choose the crazy bags for the aromatic herb packed flavor. The green papaya salad here is excellent, no rock hard dry shrimp here, but tiny soft dry shrimp. Also, some places drown it with a bowlful of peanuts, which despite loving peanuts, I am not a fan of. They really let the fresh green papaya shine, and it's fresh, not wilted or drowned in too much liquid. If you want crispy fried with a sweet glaze, the garlic basa (caramelized sticky sweet garlic topping is a bit too much like candy for us) is a crowd pleaser. The crying tiger beef was tender with only a couple pieces with untrimmed sinew, and beef pad Kee mow were okay, but we felt the beef could be of better quality. A popular go-to dish here is fried rice, with many tables enjoying it served in a pineapple shell (we don't order rice because we like to fill up on protein). An order of fried rice seems enough for 2-4 people to share. The portions here are generous, and leftovers like pad Kee mow held up well the next day. No black edges on the lettuce, overall leafy green lettuce and iceberg lettuce has been pretty fresh. The spiralized carrots, cucumber slices, shredded purple cabbage that comes with your plate always appear dry, as if prepped and refrigerated or left out too long, wish they were fresher. Like that the beer is poured at the table in a pilsner glass (could be wrong about the name, but basically a tall, slender glass slightly wider at top). I ordered a Thai beer (Chang) and thought it went down well with the spicy sweet of Thai food. Must mention how clean their glasses are, as well as flatware. They also give you a sturdy, not flimsy napkin. The water is also clean tasting, no metallic or chlorine laden smells or tastes. Sadly, dangerously chipped drinkware, (some plates are chipped but drinkware so far, never), dirty plates and utensils, and soapy tap water happen all too often at some establishments, but never at Shana (so far). Service is excellent, servers are helpful, patient, and polite. They wear 'proper' (not stretched out cloth masks that hang off the face) masks 'properly' (not under the nose or chin). The disposable gloves they keep on at all times do bother us a tad, as it's so easy to touch all manner of things unthinkingly, but given how good they are with everything else, this certainly isn't going to stop us from eating here.

So far one of the best Pad Thai I've had in a while. Perfect amount of sauce, big serving, so skip the appetizer.

I've been eating here for years and it is always good and always consistent the food has a nice feel everytime it is served this place sometimes feels like home the service is great and the people are nice this is the tamarind prawns I always want more !!! Enjoy 🌎!!!!

This place was amaaaaazing, my favorite dish was the yellow curry 🍛 🤤🤤🤤