We need to visit this place again! The food is just so good from the rice to the other ingredients. The place is so neat and the service was just straight forward nothing fancy. You know this is a legit place when a lot of thai people visit here. Worth the visit!

This place was decent but I did notice their serving sizes are smaller than other restaurants. I tried the garden rolls and those were really good. Also tried the chicken pad Thai and the panang curry. I think the pad Thai was a little above average but nothing amazing. The chicken was kind of hard and they didn't give much of it. Also the noodles were slightly dry. I thought the panang had great flavor but was so runny and not as creamy as other places make it. Overall, solid food but not somewhere I'd choose to get Thai from first.

Great food! Prices are good and everything is made to order. My favorite is the Drunken Noodles with Shrimp! Service is great!

Update: new menu. The secret menu is gone but they put it all out there. Lots of choices. So far all great. Reasonable prices and staff are very helpful.

Not to be confused with Thai Square in Arlington although they appear to be mathematical equivalent (nerd alert) and another personal favorite of mine, when a place is known for a signature dish, I feel like it is one's culinary duty to order said aforementioned dish on their first visit. At Thai by Thai, that dish is the Kai Rabert. Loosely translated as "exploding egg", it's two fried eggs topped with minced chicken and a spicy red chile sauce served over a bed of rice. I imagine Kai Rabert to be a Thai monk in the Kill Bill multiverse whose finishing move is the Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique, where upon after finishing said meal, one takes 5 steps out of the restaurant, their heart explodes, and instantly die happy. I was skeptical when a friend recommended it since it sounded so simple, but sometimes those deceptively simple dishes are much more impressive than something loaded with luxurious ingredients. Let's break down what makes this dish so great. The star is the fried eggs, perfectly runny but with the egg white portion with lots of thin fried edges running along its circumference due to a generous amount of oil and high heat. Pro tip if ordering this to go, immediately pre explode your eggs with several good stabbing prior to placing the dish in your car such that the heat from the other ingredients do not further harden the yolks, otherwise you will end up with Kai Regret rather than Kai Rabert. The other half of this dish is the ground chicken with the red chili sauce. It's like an Asian sloppy Joe where the sauce and meat bind together very well with just the right amount of heat, sweetness, and umami that keeps one spooning additional bites with the rice and runny egg. The Thai iced tea is well above average as a refreshing accompaniment whereas the other dishes were fairly unremarkable compared to their signature dish, but perhaps there may be some other hidden gems waiting to be discovered on future visits, but I will be hard pressed to omit the Kai Rabert in my order.

I'm sad they closed their Fairfax location and Sterling is the only one left. The food is good for a fast, casual environment. My favorite dish here is the Sukihang noodle dish. I haven't seen it offered anywhere else but here. The dishes are offered at an affordable price.