Thai House

It’s a pretty sketchy place, but we all just got back from our snowboarding trip, and this little place showed up on our map, and we were craving Thai food, so it was all a coincidence!
Beef Panang w/​steam rice medium spicy. rice is a bit dried. the Panang was a bit salty. the tomatoes are fresh. beef is cooked to perfection. the spice is just right. overall it was an okay entrée
Thai tea (LG) — usual Thai places they provide just a regular 8oz. cup of Thai tea filled with ice and consider that as a large Thai tea. but this restaurant means business– when they mean large it’s a large styrofoam cup filled with Thai tea– and their Thai tea is good!!! A++ on this drink!
Lard– in English: Lao’s Salad. this salad was filled with flavor– a bit spicy but just the perfect kick. everyone on our table loved it– it was a perfect appetizer but still a lot for an appetizer cause I was full before my entrée came out– and I shared with 7 of my friends which each just took a bite– of course my boyfriend ate the rest.
papaya salad– LOVED IT! And not a lot of places does it right, but this place does! Has the extreme kick to it where you’ll be gasping for water, but so good that’ll make you want more of this salad!
pad kee Mao (combination) — a good amount of ck, bf, and sh. the first bite is an explosion of flavor and spicyness in the mouth. it’s probably the best pad kee Mao I have ever eaten the noodles are NOT dried– they’re so slippery that they just slip right through my chopstix– and it’s not because the entrée has too much oil nor is it because I don’t know how to hold my chopsticks. lol

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is the real deal. The food is so good, you’ll cry. Yes, it’s in a sketchy neighborhood and you’re not sure if your car will still be parked out front after you finish eating, but it’s well worth the risk. Imagine a down home no-​friils dive place in the middle of nowhere Thailand. Now imagine that teleported into Amarillo. Add in some random Nascar posters and a collection of somewhat shifty characters and you got this.

The inside isn’t that great but the food is always good! I always order the pad kee mao, which is like a pasyu but with lots of bell peppers in it; gives a little spicy kick =)

A friend took us to dinner here and we were pleasantly surprised! He ordered a ton of stuff and it was all good. I had a stir fried dish with duck, veggies, and rice and it was very good. My wife had crispy noodles (I’ve seen it called Mee Krob at other places) and enjoyed it. Our friend ordered a huge bowl with a fish soup with veggies and a citrus like broth which is served over rice and it was awesome! He also order fried quail, shrimp, and oysters, which were all good.
The restaurant itself is very big and a little divey, but we had a great time! They also have some electronic gambling machines and a full bar, so there are a lot of regulars who just seem to hang out here. Recommended!

Great food and good value. Large place with two pool tables and a bar in the corner. FYI, can become shady later in the evening.

Absolutely the best Thai food in Amarillo especially the jumping shrimp, raw shrimp in hot sour sauce. Only bad is it is in North Amarillo which is not a great neighborhood. …

Pretty good for a bufftet. Lots of choices and not overly greasy.

Great portions, great food, great service, great prices! Diamond in the rough.

This is my favorite Thai restaurant. I have searched Hawaii and Portland, Oregon for a sticky rice & beef jerky plate, but have had no luck in comparison to this location’s treat! Great price, authentic, and I love their spicy dipping sauce.

Ate here with the family and it was a mixed bag. The interior is very plain and plastic-​y. Diverse menu of Laos, Thai and Chinese styles. Our waitresses were both Laos. The Thai beef salad was the best thing we had (and was more of a Laos style, which pleased my wife since she is Lao). The beef jerky was too dry. The noodle soup bland and not very authentic. I’d go back in a heartbeat for the beef salad though.

I love this place so much! And it’s such a contradiction. A huge, spacious, basically clean place with cheerful lighting that still manages to feel like a sticky, smoky, dim little hole-​in-​the-​wall. Best of both worlds? Yes, I think so. I like places that feel divey, or even slightly sketchy, and this place certainly does — while also having friendly waitstaff, multiple payment options, good pool tables and loudy, happy patrons.
Oh, and the food ain’t too shabby, either. Generous portions that seems to veer into Laotian territory rather than being strictly Thai, so maybe not 100% authentic. Not so much of the crisp veggies and bright plum flavors that come into play at more cosmopolitan Thai places in bigger cities. I’m fairly certain you can chalk that up to a more northern influence? Less of the southern Thai, ultra fish-​driven stuff. Kind of a… downhome mix of a lot of Southeast Asian favorites?
And gambling. That’s how you know it’s legit.
It’s also worth noting that this restaurant is part of a magical trifecta of awesome restaurants in Amarillo that are all located in the same strip mall. I am talking about the nearby African restaurant and the Vietnamese joint. It’s like one-​stop shopping for badass food.

This is pretty much the best Thai food in town. I’ve been coming here for years and the food gets better and better. The restaurant is located in a little neighborhood I grew up in so I always see familiar faces when I come and eat here.
One complaint though are the waitresses. Plan on waiting at least 15 minutes if you want a refill. The place could use a little renovating but due to their busy schedule of being open 7 days a week and opening until 2am I doubt any upgrades in the near future.

Finding authentic Thai food in Amarillo is like remembering what you were laughing so hard about when you’re stoned. Damn near impossible.
I decided that I had to give Thai House a shot after hearing that a couple Lao kids I work with play video slots here until one in the morning and that a (naïve) white kid I work with was afraid of getting stabbed here.
I decided that if I was going to find authentic Thai food in Amarillo, this was all or nothing.
It was mostly a success. Though it bills itself as a Thai-​Chinese restaurant like every other Thai place in Amarillo (god I hate this stupid fucking town,) the menu was mostly Thai with a couple of Chinese dishes — the opposite of most places I’ve visited.
Walking in for the first time was a bit odd. I was expecting a dark smoky hole-​in-​the-​wall and brought cash cause I wasn’t sure if they would accept credit cards (they do, it turns out.) It was actually really spacious and bright with lots of over-​sized fans and tapestries on the wall, as well as the infamous video slots, a jukebox with Thai music and a couple pool tables. Kind of half bar, half restaurant.
I decided to try the beef kra pao (I have no idea what the defining characteristic of kra pao and the menu doesn’t say what goes in to each dish, but I remember seeing it on a couple other menus and it sounded good.) It had a rich basil taste but not much other flavor. I added a little splash of Hoisin sauce, which helped a great deal (they’ve got Hoisin, Sriracha and some homemade chili sauce that smelled like vinegar as table condiments.) It also had small, round, green eggplant in it, which I’ve never seen before (extra points for that.) All in all, pretty damn good for $ 5.50 (making it the cheapest Thai food I’ve encountered.)
I also ordered a large Thai ice tea, one of my favorites. I was a pleasantly shocked when they brought me out a 32 oz. cup styrofoam cup. It was only $ 2.50!!! That’s almost worth the drive out to the East Boulevard by itself.
I give the place 4 stars because the food wasn’t as good as I was hoping, but I will most certainly be back to try other dishes. Maybe the next visit will boost it up to 5 stars, cause it does have that potential.
And I’m curious as to what the place is like at one in the morning.