I frequent Hong Thai about once week and have been doing so for a while. I always order a takeaway chicken pad thai – hot. That place has really gone down hill lately. I ordered my usual tonight and have found in extremely sweet have eaten about 1/4 and can’t eat anymore. Also asked for it hot and am adding my own chilli flakes to it. It actually tastes disgusting. Was a loyal customer but wont be going back as for 16 bucks a pad thai I expect better, there are a lot better Thai places around Kingsland/Mt Eden that are a lot better as well

If you lose your liquor licence, it is only appropriate to let people know when they are booking so they can make an informed decision about whether they definitely want to eat at your restaurant.

The hens party I was with on Saturday night were extremely disappointed with the lack of communication and not letting us know of the loss of the liquor licence (5 weeks ago, well before we booked).

We ended up getting takeaways so we could take our BYO wine back to the bridesmaid’s house. Food was reasonably priced and tasted ok but will not be recommending this place to anyone.

A very Rude and aggressive ‘British accent’ owner phoned me up the next day and insulted me and said he was going to go to the police because the service and food was so bad the waiter charged me less! He even ‘put down’ Asians when he spoke to me – very insulting considering I myself am part Asian – unbelievable!

We have been to this restaurant twice before (last year). The standards of this restaurant have really dropped terribly in all areas. We went on a Thursday night and the place was depressingly quiet. We had brought a bottle of wine as they are BYO, however, the young waitress did not take our wine and place it in a wine bucket, she did not even offer to open it and pour it (like other BYO restaurants we have been to). Instead we did that ourselves and kept it cool in our cooler bag we had brought it in. We ordered a couple of vegetarian and seafood curries. When they arrived one of the dishes was incorrect – so one of us had to wait for their dish. The seafood in the curry was at a very dreadful standard with minimal amounts; the broccoli in the vege curries was yellow and seeding and we did not eat it.

When I went to pay for the bill I expressed my disappointment with the service and food (I again showed them the seeding broccoli left on our plates). The answer to why both the waitress and waiter did not attend to our wine was because they said they were both underage to serve wine. We happily came to a mutual agreement of a lesser amount to be charged due to our experience. I paid, then left feeling most disappointed from the whole ‘dining’ experience.

The next afternoon I received a phone call from a man saying he was the owner of the restaurant – he had obviously rang the number we had left when we had booked. Initially, I assumed he was phoning to apologise, however, he was very aggressive and rude to me. When I explained about the broccoli he told me broccoli takes on the colour of the curry – the broccoli was yellow and we ordered a green curry (I make this kind of curry at home myself so knew he was talking cr$p). He told me (along the lines of) Asian’s are push overs and I had taken advantage of this fact (in regards with my dealings with the waiter and waitress agreeing we did not deserve to pay the full amount on the bill). He accused us of hiding Whiskey under our table – we kept our wine in our cooler bag under the table as the waitress did not address the wine – we certainly did not have any other drinks to hide. He threatened to go to the police about it and I said that was fine. When I asked him about the waitress and waiter saying they could not deal with our BYO because they were underage – he cut the conservation short and kept repeating he was going to the police.

Very, very disappointing and I still have not heard from the police. I will never ever go there again and have told all my friends not to go too!

I went to Hong Thai last night and the food was Delicious. I have been there a few times and i have to say that their soups and entrees are very good and are packed with ingredients.

The Red Curry, Chicken and Cashew are also amazing.

I also had good service and the food came out in a timely manner. I highly recommend this place!!!!

Bought a red curry tonight that was all curdled. We rang Hong thai straight away and they said they would comp us an entree. It is not worth our while to travel there to get an entree!! Pretty poor really when you pay $18 for a take away curry…

Terrible service!! Have never had such a bad experience at a Thai restaurant. Generally i find Thai restaurants very accommodating and of exceptional service. That is not the case at this place. We went there tonight (Wednesday night) so it wasn’t busy, just our family of 2 adults and 2 kids under 6 and a few other patrons. The food was alittle bland for Thai and the service was appalling. The woman serving us wasn’t very hospitable and when i went to settle the bill, i waited at the counter while she fluffed around behind the counter and completely ignored me. After speaking up that i wished to pay for our meal she offered no form of apology that she had ignored me standing there for 5 minutes. Upon leaving we realized we had been overcharged for our meal and had to return to query it. Her response was that she had tried to chase after us to advise we had settled the wrong bill but we had left. We have 2 children in carseats/booster seats so we hadn’t left in a hurry (having parked right outside the restaurant) so her attempts to ‘chase’ us were pretty poor and again, no apology was offered for the fact that she had overcharged us by $27.50! Will never go back there!

Had a wonderful birthday meal at this place. Fabulous service fabulous food at a very reasonable price!! Can recommend it.

I ordered the vegetarian green curry, asked for thai hot which tasted more like a medium. I was very disappointed with the price $16 ($14 for the curry plus $2 for rice which I was not informed of over the phone). To be fair the curry had a lovely flavour, but after having traveled through Thailand the meal tasted extremely western and was mainly sauce. A nice place to go for dinner if you like a more western take on Asian food.

Just got dinner from this place tonight, amazing. Red curry with rice, $16, takeaway. The curry was to die for. Really flavoursome with just the right amount of heat. The delicious thing about the red curry here is they have chunks of pumpkin in the curry, which I wasn’t too sure about but worked really well in the curry. Also red capsicum and green beans. Lots of chicken, loads of sauce. Most definitely enough for two meals!

I have now been to Hong thai on 3 seperate occasions, each time with 3 different sets of people. Each and everytime i dined there i was throughly impressed. The food is fantastic, the banquet menu is hard to beat charging only 25 pp for a three course meal!! A huge deal less than the rates we usually pay at a similar place in ponsonby. The staff are the greatest asset. Very attentive without being annoying, pleasant while providing a really relaxing atmosphere. This is now our new fav spot. Have used it for both business and pleasure and will most def. return, very , very shortly!

I went to Hongthai on last month

The food taste is very good and service is very kind.

overall i think this restuarant get you feel like home.