Orchid Thai Cuisine

Family owned for over 20 years. Hands down best Thai food in Albuquerque. Authentic, delicious and big portions. Highly recommend the pad see ew noodles, pineapple curry, and garlic shrimp. Classic pad thai and papaya salad are always great options. No wrong options with this menu.

Someone said their medium is spicy and that is absolutely not true if you actually like Thai food and some spice. Easily remedied with a spice rack, and I found the food to be fantastic and the service to be kind.

The restaurant was nice and clean and calm. Not dirty. However, we arrived before their crowd started coming in and were told it would be 25 to 30 minutes. We ordered to go due to needing to drive home. We ended up waiting for more like an hour with no communication from staff. We ended up asking for a refund and went somewhere else. We were pretty disappointed because we were really looking forward to some food that we dont have great access to in our own town. Most likely won't try here again.

Great if you like spicy homemade food. Owner seems to be fairly knowledgeable of what is and isn’t gluten free (the staff not so much). She explained how they can use gluten free soy sauce to make most dishes. **GLUTEN NOTE: She didn’t seem to know that the wide rice noodles that they use in the drunken noodles are never actually gluten free. We ordered that to-go so I didn’t notice until much later. **SPICE TIP: The food is EXTREMELY SPICY, even when you order it mild/no-spice, as we did. If you are sensitive to cumin, chili powder, cayenne, etc you might want to stick to the fried rice and egg rolls. I can vouch the pineapple and peanut butter curry’s we got were both SUPER spicy, and also the drunken noodles which was milder but still had spice. My husband who loves spicy food couldn’

This is a really good Thai restaurant in Albuquerque. They opened at 4 PM and there were already people waiting to be inside. They have a huge selection of Thai food and I feel we tried it all. You place your order at the counter and then they bring it out to you. We ordered the egg rolls and fried tofu which were great. We also ordered the Pas Thai noodles, ground chicken, eggplant, panang curry, duck and so much more. Everything was tasty. The service was great and the staff was friendly and helpful. The layout of the restaurant is pretty simple and they have plenty of tables throughout.