Thai 55 Restaurant - Chicago, Illinois

Leila K.

I honestly can’t rate as I ordered from them through Ubereats for the first time today.
But I can tell you I was very happy with the deal. They have a promo on ubereats buy one get one free for both the fried rice and potstickers .
The fried rice was delicious the shrimp ratio to rice was overly generous. The only thing was for some reason although the fried rice came at a ready to eat temperature; I had to reheat the potstickers they were cold but once heated up they were also very tasty. I do plan on ordering from that again and trying different dishes. Hopefully my potstickers will come warm next time because they were yummy!

Luwie A.

I ordered the pad thai via Uber eats. The description clearly states what all comes in the dish- choice of meat, noodles, bean sprouts, crushed peanuts, egg, green onion, and pad Thai sauce. From previous experience at other restaurants, this is typically how the dish is made.

What I received was a bowl of noodles, meat, and sauce with a sprinkle of cabbage on the side. Bland and quite boring dish. No peanuts, no bean sprouts, no green onion - I requested no egg. They are misleading with the descriptions and wouldn’t recommend this place.

Kimberly G.

DONT BOTHER!!!!! Worst Thai food in the US. I called in a order yesterday evening for pickup...but eating pile of garden weeds would've been a better culinary experience. Lets go worst to best:
Pad Thai w/pork- Whewww...what is my character limit? This was the worst excuse for Pad Thai I have every experienced. Please, for anyone reading this post take a look at the photo and tell me something right about the dish! It was extremely dry...so dry that the Thai noodles clumped together in one form. Zero sauce and remarkably bland. Zero heat, how is this Thai food? No Bean Spouts. No peanuts. Nothing but a bad time! Also I question if what was provided was actually pork in the dish. 0/10.
Basil Fried Rice w/chicken- The rice...the rice...the rice It was obvious that the basil fried rice was simply recycled chicken fried rice that was re-cooked with some basil. The rice was burnt, MUSHYYY, and THE BASIL WAS BURNT. A poor experience in every bite.
Dunken Noodle- Immediately confused once I opened the container as nothing about the noodles were drunk or as I expected smothered in sauce, and there were hardly ANY noodles in the dish at all, and what was available were over cooked and thus mushy. The dish was mostly cabbage and other vegetables. The flavor was also VERY different from other Drunken Noodle dishes I've had in the past; it was extremely savory vs the sweet profile I've experienced in the past.
The Baby Vegetarian Egg Rolls- more than likely previously delivered frozen but the flavor was nice. However, the egg rolls were sooo throughly soaked in oil that each bite was accompanied by a squirt of canola oil.

Avoid this place.

Joel V.

Delivery is purely quantity over quality. Although the serving size of meals are good and have leftovers, they put little protein in comparison with the dish. Not a big fan of their pad Thai and ordered fried rice that came with a small amount of beef for both dishes.

Ivory B.

The reviews have always said this place is not the best. My guy decided to order anyway. I ordered the Pineapple Fried Rice and Crab Rangoon. 1st it would be nice if they put a description of what's in the rice. Once I saw the rice, it had peas, green beans, and cashews... all ingredients I would have removed. You never know if someone has a nut allergy or can't have high fiber vegetables. However, there was no description or options to select of deselect ingredients in the rice. Nonetheless, I took my first bite....BLAND!! No flavor! I knew in that moment that I should have listened to the reviews. This place needs some help in the kitchen. Rice always needs flavor because it has none. I'm disappointed because this was a late night order, nothing else, that is healthy, is opened. Never again Thai 55! You all need to correct your food asap. The Crab Rangoon was just okay. I can see why it's buy 1 get 1.

xandra R.

I think 5 or more times is enough for a fair, thorough, analysis of this place. Every time I receive food from here I am ALWAYS disappointed. Nothing I have tried here is good. The pad thai is terrible, the shrimp still has the tail on & sauce was wayyyy too sweet, never has what is advertised, and appears old. The sweet and sour shrimp is overly sweet. The curry is lacking flavor. The fried-rice usually tastes old. I literally feel sick this time. My smoothie wasn’t even good and had a hole in it. They mess up basic things. Won’t be back. Probably should have stopped spending my money here after the 2nd time.

Preetha S.

Ordered for take out!
Placing the order was kind of awkward, conversations happening at a weird angle and at a larger distance than normal that you can't hear properly.

Tom Yum soup was okay in taste. However, the green curry was disappointing - lacked spices, even salt and tasted a bit sweeter. The portion size is good.

Dede A.

I am really disappointed with my order from this restaurant. I ordered through Door Dash and will be leaving a review there as well. I ordered Pad Thai with beef which is supposed to have bean sprout, egg, green onion and chopped peanuts. Well......... at Thai 55 my Pad Thai came with no bean sprout, no chopped peanuts and no green onion, rather the Pad Thai came with unadvertised shredded cabbage that had the resemblence and crunchiness factor but not the flavor of bean sprout once stirred in and it wilted a bit that lead me to believe that this restaurant advertises one thing but serves up another with sustituted and or possibly inferior ingredients ( plainly put CHEATING!!!! ) Additionally I ordered fried Chicken wontons and recieved fried pot stickers instead
My Pad Thai sauce had spilled all out and on everything and everwhere at the bottom of my plastic bag covering the napkins and plastic cutlery too. That in itself was a new one for me ......super over sauced Pad Thai ? I have never experienced Pad Thai like this ( this is not meant in a good or in a complimentary manner) The Pad Thai was the most disappointing because there was no green onion at all not even on top, no bean sprout and no chopped peanuts instead they placed shredded cabbage and carrots on the dish. This was not what was described or what I thought I was paying for.
You have to be careful ordering delivery because it seems that the restaurants take less care or don't care about the preparation of your food. This was disappointing to say the least.
Upon calling back and inquiring about the missing ingredients I was told that they don't put in green onion and the chopped peanuts is already mixed in ? When I said that green onion is on your online and Door Dash menu he then says "someone made a mistake " and he was right ✅️ it was me for wasting my time and money on this lackluster experience. I was so perturbed I didn't even ask about why I was sent potstickers instead of the fried wonton. The potstickers were tolerable the Pad Thai was TASTELESS greasy and the noodles were chewy and coated in a super sweet red pasty type sauce that was overpowering . I don't know what else to say but NO !!!!!! I couldn't eat it

UPDATE 8-8-2023

Still NO Good !! My brother unbeknownst to me purchased me the Chicken Pad Thai. It was horrible and I immediately stopped after the first bite. I asked him where did you get this from not Thai 55 and he answered YES. The noodles are overcooked and the sauce is a red super sweet ketchup tasting flavorless concoction served with shredded cabbage a piece of lime and shredded carrot. I told him Thank you as I threw it in the trash where it belonged. Sad that this updated review remains unchanged.........well at least they are consistent with their lack of quality and dissappointment status