Baan Thai - Lawrence

Sad to see another business is leaving downtown Lawrence. I hope they will be back in some form or another in the future. We had the basil fried rice and pad see ew just before they closed and even though they were busy, the food was very good. They have other locations in Wichita and Manhattan.

I usually love this place, the food is amazing. The lack of staff I think has caused almost a burn out of the waitress since she was the only one there. She was fairly rude about me picking up an order that was said to be ready at 5:44 and it’s 6 and I just asked what the eta was told there were 10 people ahead of me and it’ll be ready when it’s ready.

I tend to judge Thai places by thier basil fried rice. Let me begin by saying thiers is excellent. I also tom yum ka, which was wonderful. The fresh spring rolls were texturally perfect. No complaints here. Everything was lovely.

Their food is really good. I would get their food a lot more if their packaging was less awful. Its a ton of styrofoam. I got rice that was wrapped in plastic and then put in styrofoam.

The yellow curry was great except for the chunks of potatoes the size of lifeboats from the Titanic. Portion size was small. The fried pot stickers were really good though.