Green Thai Viet Thai Fusion

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thai red curry with beef brisket, roti / vietnamese assorted plate

Yep, that's no typo, for some reason they felt the need to include the word thai twice. Green Thai Viet Thai Fusion is on bayview just north of highway 7 in richmond hill. When I heard about their free curry crab promotion (when you spend $45) I was all over that like an asian family on free samples at costco. So I rounded up some friends and off we went. I like curry crab and I like free, so together it must be amazing right? right? ...well let's just say life doesn't always work like that and if it didn't work for twinkies on pizza, it might not work here.

We had to order enough to get to $45 so we started with an appetizer, vietnamese assorted plate ($12.99 + tax) which came with 2 satay sticks of beef, chicken, and shrimp, 2 tiny ass spring rolls, and some shrimp paste on sugarcane. The meat was kind of greasy and while it didn't taste bad there was absolutely no way that was worth the $13...a trend we quickly discovered.

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deep fried chicken in pandang leaves, thai royal pineapple fried rice / curry pad thai

Thai red curry with beef brisket ($6.99 + tax) with roti (3.25 + tax) lacked meat and was mostly just alot of filler like celery. Deep fried chicken in pandang leaves ($9.99 + tax) were pieces of chicken that were like half fried and half boiled which wasn't too bad but any sort of fried chicken is automatically good by default. The main complaint with that dish was that it was annoying peeling off the leaves to get to the chicken. Thai royal pineapple fried rice ($8.99 + tax), the rice was mushy and I realize they had to make it fit in the pineapple but they still could have given a bit more. The last dish to get the total up to $45 was the curry pad thai ($8.99 + tax) which just wasn't anything special at all and again on the small side.

Finally the curry crab ($free). The one thing that could have saved this dinner...sadly didn't. The crab was old/dead/frozen/whatever but it certainly wasn't fresh and the meat was sticking to the inside of the shell. The curry itself wasn't too bad...but sauce alone couldn't save this dinner and I'd much rather to go Saigon Star for curry crab even if this one was free.

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free curry crab

At first we were worried we wouldn't be able to eat $45 worth of food and a free crab but by the end of it we actually were still a little hungry (well at least me anyway haha). Overall just not worth the price. I don't mind paying more if it tastes good but the dishes here were just mediocre and combined with the small portion sizes, Green Thai Viet Thai Fusion gets a thumbs down. So just goes to show that the old saying holds true...if it sounds too good to be true, make lemonade.

Green Thai Viet Thai Fusion
8750 Bayview Ave
Richmond Hill, ON
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