Kapow Thai Street Food

I don’t know how else to describe this place other than perfect. Every meal I’ve had here has been phenomenal. They have SO many gluten free and vegetarian options, I’ve never had to eat the same thing twice. Reasonably priced and delicious!!

I went here after moving to Wilmington. I was excited to see all the positive reviews. The location is nice, the staff is kind, the restaurant is simple but clean. I ordered masaman curry with chicken as it is gluten free. My friend ordered pad prik khing with chicken. Having to eat gluten free I am used to slightly disappointing food but as Thai food naturally has a lot of gluten free options it’s usually always good even if it’s not authentic. My curry was an oily, salty mess. It had exactly 2 pieces of potato in it, some huge carrot chunks, about 5-6 pieces of chicken and about an entire onion. I can get over that as I LOVE onion. Until I bit into one that tasted like fish?? There were oil/grease dots on top of the curry, which was the consistency of broth. Masaman curry at any other place is typically a creamy curry. This one has no creaminess. It tasted of pure salt. The rice was overcooked. I thought it was just mine that was bad, but my friend couldn’t eat hers either as she claimed hers was extremely salty as well. We were extremely disappointed. The staff did not really check on us after the food came out. It’s as if they were aware we were super disappointed. The food was overall inedible if you care about taste. I just wish I had taken a picture of the oil spots on the curry to post with this review. I have a place I eat at for Thai food, very authentic and the chef/owner is from Thailand. I will continue to drive 2+ hours to eat at his establishment instead of this one which is 20 minutes from where I live.