Is SriPraPhai Overrated?

Published on Monday, January 10, 2011, by Alex Van Buren / Edit Post

It’s a thread title that several years ago would have started quite the hound hubbub, but these days seems to crop up more and more: "Sripraphai overrated." Both driggs and missmasala insist that they only still go to the once-beloved Queens Thai restaurant because their children like it, with the latter complaining that she can never abandon it because “it's one of the only decent Thai places with a vegetarian menu for my vegetarian daughter (tho the fact that they added a veg menu was in itself a bad sign, and a little fish sauce never hurt her, anyway).”

The virtues of fish sauce aside, it’s sounding like several Thai-food-loving hounds are slowly migrating to the well-reviewed Ayada, in Elmhurst, and avoiding Sri’s two locations. Queens residents and Thai aficionados, what do you think? Has SriPraPhai gone downhill?

SriPraPhai [Woodside]
64-13 39th Avenue, Queens
718-899-9599

Ayada [Elmhurst]
77-08 Woodside Avenue, Queens
718-424-4844

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  • my family has been going to sripraphai since it was a quarter of the size and before it was at its current location (the owner is my mom's friend). shortly after it got popular with people outside of queens, my mom noted that the quality of the food went down (yes, we are thai). however, we still go there because as far as a thai restaurant goes they still manage to have the best variety and...+READ

    my family has been going to sripraphai since it was a quarter of the size and before it was at its current location (the owner is my mom's friend). shortly after it got popular with people outside of queens, my mom noted that the quality of the food went down (yes, we are thai). however, we still go there because as far as a thai restaurant goes they still manage to have the best variety and number of dishes i've ever seen. you just have to know what's good to order, my family has several standbys that are still as great as i remember.-COLLAPSE