Zapp Thai

This is the only Thai place in Edwardsville and my boyfriend and I have always had a good experience. They have a big selection of Chinese food offerings as well. I’ll admit, I’ve had better pad Thai in my life, but it’s definitely better than the pad Thai they serve at wang gang in town. The General Tso’s chicken is waaaaaay better than any of the Chinese joints in town. We’ve had both carry out and a dine in experience. Never had an issue with either. I think this place deserves a higher rating than what others have given it!

Chinese meets Thai fusion. Food was good service was slow staff is friendly. Will return at some point but nothing calling me back right away

I’ve been to several Thai restaurants, and I have to say, this is as good as some of the pricey ones I have visited. I have been to Zapp three times, and the last two times I have ordered the same item, and it was consistent both times. I have never had issues with the service (other than one time forgetting chopsticks, oh well, I have a fork). My husband and I have visited on busy nights and nights where we were the only people there. The restaurant is very clean. My husband is not a Thai person, so he will normally get the Orange Chicken, while I will try just about anything. My favorite has to be the Pad Green Bean with beef.

Bad food.
Read the reviews: good food + bad service. We wanted take out so bad service, no big deal.
They got our order right & it was ready at the time they told us it would be.
I absolutely love spring rolls — but these… The rice paper was slightly dried out & starting to tear & all that was inside them was lettuce, a tiny bit of shredded carrots, & a mint leaf. Severely lacking. All the food was severely lacking.
The pot stickers tasted like something you find in the frozen food aisle. The tom yum wasn’t flavorful & I didn’t see any fresh herbs except a couple very wilted cilantro leaves & the shrimp in it were not fresh to the point I didn’t eat them for fear of them making me sick (they looked good, but when I bit into one, it was extremely mushing).
My husbands curry was ok (he said) but nothing that was good enough for him to want more of.
Overall, the food is horribly overpriced for what you get & although edible, it was not good. We ate what we could, but ended up throwing it out & making food at home.

This was our first time here but we will be back!!. I love Thai food and this was fresh and delicious! They have a great menu with lots of the staples and some other interesting looking choices. We had Thai fried rice and shrimp drunken noodles. Both were great!
Tonight I had Pineapple fried rice. It was great with shrimp, chicken, cashews and golden raisins! Yummo!

We stopped in for dinner and had a pleasant experience. Our spring roll appetizer came out fast and was great. Our entrees were beef drunken noodles and beef pad ginger. Both were really good and there was enough food that we both needed to go boxes. The woman serving us was very sweet and we didn’t have to ask for anything. Atmosphere was clean.

We always love their shrimp tom kha soup and pineapple fried rice.
The service is very good too!

Not impressed. Dishes were nasty with old crusty food on them, service was TERRIBLE even though there were only 2 other tables besides ours, and the food was mediocre. Do yourself a favor and drive to Columbia, IL if you want good Thai food.

My husband and I ordered take out a few months ago and were extremely disappointed. We ordered take out tonight, and were very impressed. Everything we ordered was delicious! We will definitely be ordering from here again.

The food at Zapp Thai is consistently delicious, specifically the noodle and rice dishes. The Drunken Noodles, Pad Thai, and Pad See Eew are our favorites! All of them have wonderful flavor and my husband and I have a lot to compare to since we frequent Thai restaurants in St. Louis. They provide a lot of food as well. The servers are always nice. The only reason I did not give it 5 stars is that their Chicken Tom Kha soup is very hit or miss, which is unfortunate. I’m not sure why it isn’t very good at times, but I think it has something to do with them running out of limes every now and then (we ask for lime with the Pad Thai and they have told us they are out). I do not understand how a Thai restaurant can run out of limes. And, if they do, they need to send someone to Schnucks down the street to get more. Aside from the soup being hit or miss, we have really enjoyed the food at Zapp Thai.

We used to frequent Zapp Thai because a friend of ours worked there. However, we would only go if her car was parked outside. We knew that, otherwise, the service would be atrocious.
She doesn’t work there anymore, so we don’t go there anymore. And it’s not just the fact that she was the only good waitress that they had. She told us of some unsavory practices going on in the kitchen that turned us off completely.
The food wasn’t bad. We tried a majority of the menu during our time there, and found many things we enjoyed. But there are plenty of other Asian restaurants in town to sate one’s cravings rather than being a patron of this establishment with it’s questionable practices and awful service.

Such an excellent option for vegans in the Metro East area. Even if you don’t consider yourself a vegetarian, try any of the tofu dishes. They know how to prepare tofu and vegetables perfectly, and all the different options are equally good. We’ve had just about everything on the veg menu, and it’s never failed to please. Fresh spring rolls are always on our order too. SO. GOOD.
Great service, whether you’re dining in or having it delivered. They’re friendly, fast, and definitely reasonably priced for the quality.

The thing about Zapp Thai is that you never know what kind of service you’re going to get. It can range from perfectly fine to ONE server for all the tables, zipping around, totally overwhelmed, and sweating. If you are willing to overlook this annoyance, Zapp Thai has some tasty dishes!
I enjoyed the Thai iced tea, shrimp friend rice, crab rangood, and fresh spring roles. The ingredients seems very stress. On a night where there was only one server (this has happened more than once), I was given chicken fried rice instead of shrimp fried rice. I did not enjoy the chicken. It was too salty.
Zapp Thai could gain a star if they had better service. It’s just too stressful to eat here sometimes.

I want to give them a great rating, however, as this is the only Thai food I have eaten, I have nothing to compare it to. I can say that the Thai food was good to me, very unique spicy sweet flavors. I probably gave an extra star, as the food did not WOW me. Well some of it did and some didn’t.
The heavenly beef was great on my tongue. It was salty, sweet and beefy like I like it. Never had beef like that before. Heavenly Beef, was heavenly it tasted like a cross between beefy beef and sweet milky honey to me.
The post stickers were good also with the sauce they give you, which by the way are two kinds. 1 was a sweet and sour spicey type the other was a soy sauce with some sweetness to it, both dipping sauces were very good. I am not sure how the pot stickers were supposed to taste but they were good.
I had shrimp dumplings, those were just okay. As I love seafood and could not get a shrimpy taste on it as I like. The shrimp tasted like they may not have been fresh, perhaps frozen?
The crab rangoon was okay, I have had Chinese food better than the crab rangoon.
For my main entrée it was a seafood curry. Not the best but the curry sauce was enjoyable. It was a coconut, spicey sweet sauce that was delicious to me. However, they left some tail on the shrimp and some had it off. I am thinking they were supposed to take the tails off? I would. have liked oysters instead of the mussels and the calimori was not as tender as I like it. Overall not bad, it was pretty good. I wish I had tasted other to make a better comparison.

Took my bf there for his first Thai experience. Ordered the appetizer combo to try lots of things. We loved the chicken satay. The food was really good. I got something with Udon noodles and it was amazing. Got a 3 spice, but could have gone to a 4. The owner waited on us and she is a very nice lady. Great service and inexpensive. Very nice décor.

Serviceable food, but very uneven execution. Seems to totally depend upon who is cooking. In my view, this place does not compare favorably to Aroy Thai in Shiloh. But — it is inexpensive and if you need carry-​out, it will serve.

If you enjoy wasting money and you enjoy eatting rotted shrimp than you’ll love this place. I just want to start off with saying, I REALLY wanted to like this place, I love thai. I ordered «shrimp» «spring» rolls and fried garlic tofu. The spring rolls were very poorly rolled, they had no cilantro and were filled only with lettuce and a few slices if carrots. They did not appear to have any shimp. Once biting into the rolls, there was on half shimp that had a rotten flesh taste. They were the worst excuse for a spring roll I have ever had the misfortune of tasting and paying for. The tofu was flavorless, absolutely flavorless. No wonder the place was empty. I would never go back nor recommend this food to my worst enemy.

We ate there on June 13 during the Route 66 Festival. The food was very good. We ordered a green curry and a red curry and then split both, and both were delicious and filling.
The service was good but not great, because there were just two servers with a near full house. It was not a real problem, and we understood that the two were doing the best they could.
We would have eaten outside since it was a really nice night, but they only had two tables outside, and both were in use. One outside family brought their dog along, and the dog seemed to like the food as well.

I went here not knowing what to expect. I left wanting to come back everyday that week. The general tso chicken was the best you can find in edwardsville. I will be going back ASAP. It cost me 7 dollars for the entrée soup and pot stickers. Give zapp Thai a shot.

Man this was tasty. My wife and I went late on a Monday and had the place pretty much to ourselves. We ended up having a very nice time and great meal. I’ve been to just a few Thai restaurants so I’m not that experienced and ended up asking several questions that the server answered helpfully. I went with the Red Curry with chicken and she got Pad Roum Mit with chicken. The sauce was great on both, chicken and vegetables good too. Spiciness can be specified on 0 – 5 scale and you can use spices to add more at your table if you want. Spice rack includes crushed red pepper, somewhat sweet chili paste, and crushed peanuts. Red Curry was already about a 2 they said so I left it there and tried adding things here and there and it was just as hot as I’d want. Wife’s Pad Roum Mit she got at a 3 and added more also. The food was why I gave it 4 stars.
Iced tea was notably good coming from a couple tea addicts. And we got a Sweet Rice Ice Cream dessert to cure our Thai-​tongue and it did the trick :)
Service was good. They have a decent start on the atmosphere but that’s one place I really want to see them improve. I do like the light fixtures, the art panel behind the bar, and the bench seating, but it could really use a real bar and maybe a interior wall to add intimacy. Looking at some of the other (negative) reviews, I guess I’d recommend to guests to get one of the actual Thai dishes since ours were great. We’ll be back, especially since it’s within walking distance.