Sea Thai

Yelp hours are a bit off - they actually close at 11:50 PM (not sure if it's every day though). Was looking for some late night food and everything seemed to be closed and hours everywhere are janky after COVID. I was extremely hesitant judging from the reviews but was really craving some Asian food - or anything that wasn't really fast food so I stopped by. It's take out only so no dine in and seemed like most people placed their orders online.

We got in and there were two ladies waiting for their order while no staff were present so almost thought they only took online or phone orders. Clarified with them and they ordered inside (thanks ya'll). Took about 5-10 minutes to get noticed as it's a mom and pop shop with a wife and husband doing everything so they were occupied cooking. Gave them benefit of the doubt there, I understand.

Placed an order for Pad Thai, Crispy Chicken, and Orange Chicken. Saw the order was $4 and was super confused, thought maybe it was just a tip. After going through with the entire transaction, I realized it was definitely an error so brought it up and the husband confirmed. Basically missed a digit. I might've ended up overpaying a few dollars because of some rounding but whatever. Anyways, he originally estimated it to take 30 minutes but the order came out in probably 15? I'm going to attribute the speed to the fact that I brought up the error, but I'm grateful it was sped up.

Many other people came to pick up orders and they were alerted it'd take a few more minutes so you know they were really busy but despite that, they served me really well so I was happy.

Chicken Pad Thai 2 stars - let me start off by saying their definition of 2 stars is definitely more. It's more of a 3.5 stars elsewhere. Man I don't handle my spice that well but 2 stars is my go-to everywhere and this one was hot! Took me a while to finish so let that be a warning. Moving on with the food - it's a little dry, not as saucy as other places so not as sweet but the noodles were fine and chicken was standard. Can't complain but I wouldn't order again and would try other items.

Crispy Chicken 1 star - so all these entrees don't come with rice, which makes them look underwhelming. But when I look at the meat and realize I'm getting double the portion of an entree elsewhere, I'm pretty satisfied. I might not be getting rice or other sides, but I can make some at home for cheaper (I mean they sell rice too, but making rice is simple enough). However, it says this also comes with onion and bell peppers which I did not get. Taste was solid, not overly saucy with the right amount of crisp and crunch, but the lack of vegetables included was unfortunate. It's more of a soy-garlic taste maybe soy-chili sauce.

Orange Chicken 1 star - again, no rice with the entree but the meat is easily double the portion of meat you get elsewhere with rice. Also again, this should come with carrot and onions, but it was missing. We just got a good amount of orange chicken to bring home. Unlike your typical Chinese food orange chicken, it's not layered in viscous sauce but rather slightly infused with the chicken which is lightly crispy and crunchy.

Overall, I was pleased with the food. I think the Sea Thai Specials they have are probably the best items judging from the two I've tried. However, our meat lacked the additional vegetables so that's unfortunate. I wanted to rate down for that fact, but it's really not a big deal so I can look past it. Nice that they are open relatively late compared to other places in the area and prices are on the lower end. Spiciness levels may vary from previous experiences.

I probably wouldn't have thought to order from this Thai restaurant if not for UE. The reviews here are not stellar but I found the food to be excellent. There was a promo for free spring rolls (very tasty!) so naturally I ordered enough food to last a week. Anyone who offers fresh guava juice has my attention so that was a major win for a blustery cold winter evening.

For mains I ordered the Penang curry - warning this is spicy even if you order the light spicy option, the basil tofu - smells so good from all that thai basil, shrimp goong Siam from their specialty list, and garlic green beans.

My favorite dish was the shrimp goong Siam - savory and generous in size, I kept coming back to this one. It was a unique dish as far as thai dishes go and it was great even reheated days later. They don't skimp on carrots and onions in this dish.

The garlic green bean dish was a little disappointing as they cut them in 1'' sections so they looked like they may have come from a can. They tasted good the first day but by day 2 may as well have been canned green beans. I was hoping for standard garlic green beans so I felt that this was the only dish that didn't live up to the rest of the dishes' standards.

The order was ready in a short time and the packing of the items wasn't great - they could use a piece of cardboard in the bottom and tying off the tops of the bags will help prevent spillage and toppling over during transit and delivery.

I'm not sure why there are bad reviews of this place. First off the deep fried cheese wontons are amazing!!! I asked for spicy and they delivered spicy! I ordered cheese wontons, chicken pad Thai, red curry with chicken and egg rolls. And a side of peanut sauce and jasmine rice. All i can say is yummm!! I'm so happy i overlooked the awful reviews on here and ordered from these guys!! It was even a late night Uber eats and it was delicious. I'm so used to being disappointed for late night food but these guys are good!!!

Amazing ambiance and service love everything we had great place can't wait to come again

Well, I wasn't exactly looking around the room when I walked in to get my take-out, but if I had seen some of these reviews, I'm not sure that I would have gone here over another Thai place (it's a 4.5 on Grubhub out of almost 600 ratings, so highly rated). Frankly, I think people would be pretty disgusted if they saw the kitchen in a lot of other restaurants. Unless there's an actual health outbreak (remember, clean appearances didn't save Chipotle...), I don't know why it should be an issue if you're only getting takeout. Realistically, this is cheap Thai food for where it is...I don't know why you would eat-in expecting ambiance anyway...

Now I gave this place 3 stars because they got my order wrong. I ordered chicken Pad See Iew and chicken Thai Fried Rice. They definitely got the order written down correctly unless "FIR" = Pad Thai not Fried Rice, but I definitely got Pad Thai not Fried Rice. Now the real problem with this is I got two very different dishes because it's all for me; I like to eat family style, so I often get two or three dishes and then have leftovers of all of them for the next few days. So getting two noodle dishes was less than ideal; a different mess-up (like a curry instead of one dish) would have been whatever honestly. I just ate the entire Pad See Iew and put the Pad Thai in the fridge.

The Pad See Iew is a little on the wetter side, so if you like it because it has that little bit of char on the noodles, you may be disappointed; usually this is a sign that the wok wasn't hot enough and the sauce didn't caramelize onto the noodles or that there was just too much sauce. It wasn't swimming, but the noodles at the bottom were definitely just straight up wet. That being said, it was solid Pad See Iew; chicken not too dry and broccoli not too overcooked (maybe a little light on the broccoli though). I would get it again, I would just check my order before driving home.

"yeah I am pretty high so I'll eat it anyways"

We asked Sea Thai to send noods and post mates seriously delivered. Here's a random tangent-- the best season of parks is season 3 and I'm in an ocean blue sandwich. All in all, I regret nothing but I just rubbed glitter into my eyeball.

The order: pad see iew and pad Thai

OKAY was good but what is up with the pad Thai noods? I was very surprised by what looked like spaghetti noodles and that's very strange.


****BONUS REVIEW****
"Jack in the box is pretty good but I'm so full." Says my friend eating jack in the box.

Our cat would probably rate them all 10/10 because she was sniffing everything from sandwiches to Thai food to American fast food.

I placed an order for pickup online through their website, but when I came at the pick up time the restaurant was closed. The money for the order was still taken from my account despite never receiving the food I ordered. Not sure why their website even let me place an order if they were closed...

This place is unsafe.. I'm going to forward this picture to the Seattle health department.
Buyer beware..filthy, filthy filthy..childrens toys, household items, garbage, looks like a garage.
It appears that the owners have lost control.
I would not trust the food quality.

I ordered a hot Pad Kee Mao and I am a little teary eyed. They have two more levels of hot and I am SO EXCITED to eat the even hotter levels. this place does spice and I will forever praise it.

There online delivery is trash every time you try to order they cancel your order and say there not excepting orders anymore for the rest of the day they have good food but the fact that they don't take orders online is bogus