Thai Express Restaurant Oshawa in Oshawa

419 King St W Oshawa Centre, Oshawa, ON L1J 2K5, Canada

★★★☆☆
(97 reviews)
Categories: Thai restaurant

About

We are your local Thai Express and pride ourselves on cooking Thai food made with love, fresh ingredients, and authentic flavour fast in our fiery woks. Come enjoy your Thai faves like our Pad Thai, Pad See Ew, Tom Yum Soup, Thai Fried Rice, and our signature General Thai® filled with the savoury, sweet, sour and spicy flavours of Thailand. We also have a tasty variety of curries, stir-fries, appetizers, and desserts filled with our Thai heart. Don’t forget to ask about our Discovery Menu with a different dish each day at a special price! Thai Express is the same but different.

Website
locations.thaiexpress.ca
Address
419 King St W Oshawa Centre, Oshawa, ON L1J 2K5, Canada
Plus Code
V4R9+QJ Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Time Zone
America/Toronto

Business Hours

Monday
10 AM–7 PM
Tuesday
10 AM–7 PM
Wednesday
10 AM–7 PM
Thursday
10 AM–7 PM
Friday
10 AM–7 PM
Saturday
11 AM–7 PM
Sunday
11 AM–5 PM

Services

Service options
Delivery Takeaway Dine-in
Accessibility
Wheelchair-accessible car park Wheelchair-accessible entrance Wheelchair-accessible seating
Offerings
Healthy options Vegetarian options
Dining options
Lunch Dinner Dessert
Amenities
Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Toilets
Atmosphere
Casual
Crowd
Family friendly LGBTQ+ friendly
Payments
Credit cards Debit cards NFC mobile payments Credit cards
Children
Good for kids

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Reviews

3.0
★★★☆☆
97 reviews

Most Mentioned

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27
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35
December 7, 2024

I asked that I need noodles with chicken and it should be heavy spicy. The noodles they served was no spicy but sweet. When I went to complain, the lady told me that it is like that. I wasted my $16. Will never trust what they say and never visit them again.

★★★★★
October 25, 2024

Honestly some of the nicest staff for a food place in the Oshawa center. They always go above and beyond for my order and it's always super yummy! Would definitely recommend them to anyone.

October 4, 2024

It says it's open at 10 and I came all the way over here only to see that they are closed still if I knew they were closed till 11 then I could have waited but it says open at 10 which is annoying and wasted my time. The food and people here are good but they should change the time they open online.

★★★★
July 12, 2024

Flavour wise the Tom yum broth was good but the chicken texture and flavour was disappointing. It was very rubbery. Just sear the chicken on the flat top and throw it in the soup, don’t boil the life out of it.

★★
June 23, 2024

Nasty service by the older gentleman on cash and I ordered two vegetable soups with extra cilantro and somehow this extremely rude gentleman screwed up my order. The stock had no flavor and the amount of noodles and vegetables left a lot to be desired. Completely opposite of other Thai Express locations I have visited. Won't order from this location again.

★★★★★
May 3, 2024

I went to Thai Express in the Oshawa Centre today, and I was not disappointed. I was not sure what to have, and Susan suggested the chicken fried rice to share between myself and my kids. Susan even offered a knife to cut the chicken for my small kids before I thought about it. Awesome. The kids and I enjoyed the meal.

★★★
October 10, 2023

This place is part of the Food court inside Oshawa center. Got Tom Yum soup that was only okay taste and quality wise but $17.5 felt little too pricy for that. Server had a fairly unpleasant and impatient attitude that could be termed as borderline rude.

September 16, 2023

So disappointed!!.. my boyfriend and I love Thai express and we both always get general Thai Pineapple. Worst meal I’ve ever had, the chicken was all fat and gummy, with soggy breading. Couldn’t eat any of the meat. Not even comparable to other locations.

Local Guide
December 21, 2024

Extremely disappointed, requested for some extra sauce and it was not added on my food and charged $1.20. Good job

★★
Local Guide
December 8, 2024

Seriously? Breaded Chicken in your Yellow Curry.

★★★★★
June 22, 2024

This place is fantastic. As a deaf person myself it takes a lot to just order something to eat. They made it a lot easier for me by communicating effectively. Plus the food here is good, its what you expect from Thai express

★★★★★
Local Guide
June 22, 2024

Liked the taste!

★★★★★
May 22, 2024

Excellent staff, warm atmosphere, and wonderful service. They keep track of my order each time I visit. My favourite Thai cuisine to date.

★★★★★
April 22, 2024

This is the place I go every weekends. The staffs attitude is great and the food tastes great! Worth trying the fried rice!

March 22, 2024

By mistake I ordered the wrong dish & noticed, so I asked it be corrected, I also paid $2.10 more however, they just added the noodles, didnt correct the chicken in meal. Thanks for charging me over $20 dollars for a meal that taste like CRAP. I live a hour away.

★★★★★
Local Guide
March 22, 2024

On 16th March, we ordered vegetables pad Thai and General Taos chicken. Lady with glasses happily served us. she s very careful to take our order, ask me veggie sauce or fish sauce, nobody has asked me before about different sauce, and i very happy with that. Overall Great service .

★★★★★
February 22, 2024

The Tom yum soup very very good.

★★★★★
February 22, 2024

The food is fresh and delicious. Delivery is on time. I like their Thai style food.

★★★★
Local Guide
February 22, 2024

I am very satisfied with the food here. Today I ordered the chicken fried rice noodles which was delicious

★★★★★
February 22, 2024

This is my favourite place to eat whenever I go to the mall to do my shopping! The food tastes great every single time. The general tao chicken and the chicken pad Thai are my favourite! Service from the chefs and the cashiers are always great. The one cashier with the glasses is my favourite, she s so sweet. Vegetarian options: I love the veggie pad Thai with tofu

January 22, 2024

Food was okay but the lady at the cashier with glasses super rude . Disgusting behavior.

Local Guide
December 22, 2023

I ordered without checking reviews - the pad see ew was absolutely awful. Dry chewy noodles, weird after taste, bitter. Literally nothing like I ve ever had before. I m still confused why I took this risk lol

Local Guide
December 22, 2023

Just got red curry on rice during my lunch. They blanched uncooked veggies for literally 30 seconds. The bamboo shoots, the onions, green peppers and carrots crunchy and raw. The rice super undercooked with a hard centre. The curry is like water. Tastes like chilli and nothing. So disappointing for $15. They wont even put it on a plate so the curry cools a little. Its so strange eating raw things scalding hot. Burned my mouth, now Im headed back to work hungry.

★★★★★
December 22, 2023

I love the service here and always a good option to grab a bite while shopping. Yummy food option

December 22, 2023

WORST COMPANY EVER BEWARE! They spilled soup on my bag and laptop and ignored my until I spammed them all they offered was a 40 dollar gift card as if i will ever come back. To get everything fixed was 2000 dollars. The lady was at fault because she was not paying attention. Head office Anna Young ignored my complaints.

December 22, 2023

Ordered fish fried rice and got vegetable one, the lady who takes order not able to hear properly and take the right order. The vegetable fried rice was beyond horrible and not worth $16.

★★★★★
December 22, 2023

Chicken Pad Thai is amazing! I come here at least twice a week

Local Guide
December 22, 2023

One of my friends ate at Thai express. She found a roach in her food. Not acceptable. I had given this location 5 stars prior but I won t be eating here anymore either. This is disgusting. Your customers health matters and this isn t the service we expect from Thai Express.

★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2022

Thank you for asking the reason. Sharing honest review in a hope someone would try to do things better. We ordered Veg Thai Green curry and Veg Fried Rice. Both blend, no taste, no salt. Green curry was dilute/watery mixed with boiled veggies. I was looking forward to Thai Express as it was my go-to favourite for office lunch in Toronto, but yesterday it was so bad that I will never come back. Gave three stars for service, fresh ingredients and people working hard in pandemic. Reduced two stars as the food is waste of appetite and money. I am extremely disappointed.

★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2022

It was my first time ordering at Thai express. The service was pretty good but I basically paid $13 for a big bowl of noodles with five shrimps and almost no beef or vegetables. My daughters food only had four shrimp and again very little veggies. The noodles themselves were good but I just wish there was more vegetables and shrimp for the amount of money we paid.

December 22, 2022

Terrible experience this morning...the employee at the counter didnt even have the patience or knowledge to listen to what I was asking and immediately moved on to the next customer... Very bad response...

December 22, 2022

Ordered lemongrass for flavor. Paid $13 and no lemongrass. Terrible.

December 22, 2022

Not even sure what I was eating. Straight in the garbage. Shame, they use to be good to

Local Guide
December 22, 2022

The worst arrogant staff! And uncooked tastless food! Thai express is good but the store in oshawa is the worst. Please refrain from going here

December 22, 2022

The food here is terrible. There is so much lacking I don t even know where to start.

December 22, 2022

I ordered padsew and asked for less beef and more sauce. But it was nothing like it. It was super dry and the noodles were pale. It barely has sauce. Worst store.

★★★★★
December 22, 2022

Absolutely delicious vegan options !

Local Guide
December 22, 2022

Do not order from this location. They are crook. Big sign there Sunday special. They charge full price when you pay. When ask what happen to the special price. They said it does not apply to this location. I tell you . You just lost a long time customer. And I work close to this location and will tell everyone not to go there.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2022

Had never tried this place before, but let me tell you i was not disappointed, we took some time picking what we wanted as we had no idea what to get and our server was very patient and sweet with us, we had the Mango General Thai and it was incredibly delicious, not to mention our order was ready within the blink of an eye, would 100% recommend and revisit!!

December 22, 2022

I love Thai express but the workers here.. I just hate having to go to this location. The workers always make me feel awful and I can never figure out why. I m always respectful and say thank you and I ve never complained about anything. Every single time I go I feel like I ve done something to personally offend the workers. They are so rude and stuck up for whatever reason.

Local Guide
December 22, 2022

We gave this place a couple of tries before writing this review. We ordered Chicken Pad Thai, Thairacha Pad Thai and Chicken Basil Fried Rice. The noodles were under cooked. The chicken was very chewy. Fried rice was very dry. The Thairacha Pad Thai was a totally different dish from what we have had in other Thai Express restaurants. Overall I would skip the place completely in future. I do not recommend this Thai Express.

★★
December 22, 2022

I gave two stars because I have had good vegetable pad thai here in the past. However, today my husband brought me home a vegetable pad thai which was aweful. It was a big ball of mush, with zero flavour. I couldnt even eat it the texture turned me right off, very expensive for a meal that went in the trash. So disappointed.

★★★★★
December 22, 2022

Always the best food and always great service!! Susan the cashier is SO kind and helpful! HIGHLY RECOMMEND

December 22, 2022

Worst green curry I have ever had. zero flavour, very bland. Pad thai was okay years ago but most likely wont be back

★★★★★
December 22, 2022

The food was expectational

December 22, 2021

Used to really enjoy this place. Service used to be awesome, and food was always prepared correctly.The last few times Ive gone my order has been completely messed up. I dont want to keep having to go in to get the right order.

★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2021

The price was not cheap but the food quality was ok. The portion was reasonable too.

December 22, 2021

Oh my Lord. The sauce was 90% of the food. 5 shrimp and soooo many sauced noodles. Never again.

December 22, 2021

Thai soup from here is terrible. No flavour too many noodles. Just a complete mess for 12.95. Mr. noodles tastes better than this garbage.

Local Guide
December 22, 2021

The food is usually pretty decent however the service is continuously bad. Today I asked if I could have my order in a bowl as it hard to mix the ingredients in the little takeout container. I didnt need more of the food just a different container. The worker charged me 30 cents for it which was kinda odd but whatever I didnt say anything and gladly paid for it. When I was given my order, it was in the takeout container and when I asked for a bowl they refused to give me once despite paying for it. Sadly I wasnt offered a receipt so I had no proof of this additional purchase but I was really upset by the whole ordeal. I just wanted a plastic bowl, didnt realize it was that big of a request.

December 22, 2021

I bought chicken Thai soup and it was waste of money. Giving a lot of noodles with water. Food was terrible.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2020

They do great pad Thai. Always.

Local Guide
December 22, 2020

I ordered through the Thai Express website and paid on the site. Got a confirmation email and receipt, went to pick up my food and was told by the staff at the counter I had no order and they would not make my order. I showed them the confirmation information and they still refused to make my order. I left without food and without a refund. Tried to call the phone number through their ordering system (not door dash or anything, the ordering system on their site) and cant get ahold of anyone and their feedback form says they are having technical difficulties and forms arent going through to them for feedback. Food is usually tasty for fast mall food, but you dont get more than one star if I pay for food, show proof of payment in a very timely fashion and you refuse to make the food for me.

December 22, 2020

Very disappointed with this location. I usually get the basil fried rice with chicken, stir fry that is. Im not sure how covid has affected them in the sense that they feel the need now to NOT mix the rice with chicken and make it an actual stir fry. What is the reason for this? Also since it is now only take out due to covid restrictions you should be automatically giving a bag for take out!!!!! Cannot support restaurants like this and all these vendors should be going out of their way to keep customers happy because it wont be long before you all have to close down.

December 22, 2020

Very low quality location. I have ordered General Thai from many different locations, and normally the meal is consistent. This time I bought two orders and both were terrible. Veggies were almost spoiled, there was little to no flavour in my meal. The pieces of chicken: some were soggy and mushy, and other pieces were hard. Didn t even eat half of my meal, super disappointed that I wasted $27.

December 22, 2019

I never eat here

Local Guide
December 22, 2019

Truly awful. I honestly dont know whats in the meat. It is like some astronaut dry pallets. I thought they got my order wrong because my beef didnt taste like no beef Ive ever had.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2019

Best spicy food at affordable price

★★★★★
December 22, 2019

Good food and pleasant surroundings.

★★★★
December 22, 2019

My favorite Thai place! They make it delicious at this particular spot and are very kind.

★★★★
December 22, 2019

Surprisingly delicious! I had it for the first time yesterday. I ordered the Pad See Ew with tofu and egg and it was wonderful! And this is coming from someone who is a vegetarian s worst enemy. As good as it was though, it was 14 dollars, so it might be out of some mall budgets.

★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2019

I wish I took pics of our disappointing Meal#6 Stir Fry plates. My wife and I ordered both the Stir Fry meal, one with beef and the other with chicken. All I have to say is that the portions were heavily inconsistent between each of them, over priced, and there was so much sauce added to mine I swear I thought I was having soup. These are the thoughts I had before I even sat down to even take a bite for which I gave the benefit of doubt that hopefully it tastes better than it looks....wrong! Hopefully our experience was an isolated case. On a positive note, the chopsticks themselves were a high quality, and they had unlimited napkins available.

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2019

Lovely staff and great selection of authentic Thai, Korean and Chinese food dishes. Good prices.

Local Guide
December 22, 2018

I use to love this place. I just ordered the tofu pad thai from skip the dishes, it was not that great. most disappointment was there was no lime or nuts

December 22, 2018

Currently suffering through pretty intense food poisoning from a veggie pad thai that I bought from here. It was the only thing I ate and within 30 minutes of my meal, I was hit with intense stomach cramping and then vomiting ect. Do not eat here. There was obviously some serious cleanliness/cross contamination issues for this to happen so swiftly. It is 18 hours later and I am still sick & in pain.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2018

One of the better Thai expresses as the cooks usually know what they are doing they add just enough flavor . My personal favorite is the sweet n sour beef stir fry. Have not had any problems with the staff here

★★
December 22, 2018

Noodles were crunchy and Thai was poorly made

★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2017

Not the best Thai express but its Pad Thai is the best of all other Thai restaurants in Oshawa

★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2017

Quality of Food: The food quality here is the best Thai food I have had as far as fast food options go. They allow for any substitutions or additions to food that you want. Staff: N/A. I ordered through Just-Eat delivery app so I cant fairly comment on the staff. Reason for four stars: This restaurant does not have a delivery option unless through third parties such as just eat. Other then that an amazing place for fast food. Take-out only.

Local Guide
December 22, 2017

The food here is really really bad and I have eaten at alot of Thai Express. Food so bad I left it in the parking lot. The location on Front Street tastes the best so far.. You might want to go down there and see what they are doing right and what you are doing wrong.

★★
December 22, 2017

The beef was raw... Needed some more time on the heat. Very disappointed as I had to throw it out...

★★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2017

Great place for Indian food

★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2016

Definitely enjoyed my multiple experiences here, would go again if Im in the OC.

★★★★
Local Guide
December 22, 2016

Good place

★★★★
December 22, 2013

A fairly strong selection of Thai food for the area. Pricing is very reasonable. I always do take out here, so cant comment on eating in. Sometimes they have specials and it would be great if they put them on a mailing list.