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Star King Viet Thai Cuisine
Categories: Restaurants Vietnamese Restaurants Thai Vietnamese, Thai [Edit]
7050 Warden AveMarkham, ON L3R
(905) 415-0008
- Price Range:
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$
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Attire:
- Casual
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Takes Reservations:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- Yes
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- Yes
- Noise Level:
- Average
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
12 reviews for Star King Viet Thai Cuisine
12 reviews in English
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Review from Yosh H.
North York, ON
1/9/2012
Had the large Pho with rare beef. Portion was fine but was more like a medium. Broth was great and noodle were good too.
We shared spring rolls that were the thick kind and I found them to be a little bit greasy and had to much roll or batter for my liking. I prefer them to be skinnier and crispier.
Otherwise very good.
Thought it was interesting that it looked like an old Kelsey's location. -
Review from David D.
Markham, ON
10/24/2011
Located at the corner of Warden & Steeles, this Viet/Thai restaurant is in place of what Kelsey's used to be. Most of the interior design remained the same, though there is a large crystal chandelier in the middle of the restaurant. The bar is no longer in use and mostly filled with Coca Cola bottles.
I have been here on several occasion on a late night dinner. I have tried the curry dishes and a combo platter.
The curry dishes either come with rice or a French baguette. The curry is nowhere near authentic to Thai, as it was most likely made Chinese style. Though the flavour was surprisingly good. I had 2 orders of rice just to finisht he curry.
The combo platter comes in different selections, but mine included rice paper, vermicelli, spring rolls, grilled chicken, and grilled pork meat balls. It was a large platter and it's more of a DIY Viet spring roll type of meal. It was too messy for me to actually enjoy the meal.
The prices are right on, quick service, and decent food. It's definitely an A-OK place for a decent Viet/Thai restaurant in the Scaborough area.Listed in: 30-Day Yelp Challenge: October…
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Review from N Y.
Toronto, ON
3/2/2012
3.5/5!
I've been to this Vietnamese/Thai fusion restaurant three times in the last 1.5 years. The menu is quite extensive, but also somewhat confusing for a first-timer because there are two pages for Vermicelli noodles (one that comes with rice paper and the portions are larger than the regular Vermicelli dishes). I've ordered both in the past, and personally, I find that the regular-sized vermicelli dish is quite enough for me, and it's a few bucks cheaper too.
The food itself is great! I have only ordered the vermicelli dishes all three times. I tend to order the vermicelli with BBQ chicken, spring roll, and minced shrimp on sugar cane. It's delicious and only costs $8! The spring rolls are great ($4 for two). Not chewy and very crunchy. I usually order an extra side of spring rolls at my table because they're so tasty, but the vermicelli dish is filling enough on its own. Also, if anyone cares, the vermicelli noodles are the thicker kind, which I like (thick as spaghetti). I've noticed that most Vietnamese restaurants these days have been using the really thin rice noodles, which isn't my fave.
The service quality is definitely lacking. Most of the servers are not very alert and attentive to customers.
The atmosphere is also a bit different as the place used to be a Kelsey's. So there's a Westernized-feel to the place. I'd definitely come here again. -
Review from jil s.
North York, ON
7/25/2011 5 photos
Star King Viet Thai Cuisine is worth trying out...
if you are in the neighbourhood.
No need to make a special trip if you live far away.
This restaurant is right across T&T Supermarket
on Warden & Steeles in Markham
- opposite Shoppers Drugmart
It is big and spacious with plenty of booths.
If you want some privacy while eating,
this is the restaurant for you!
There is another Vietnamese restaurant in this plaza (Pho Viet)
but that restaurant is medium small, no booths and everybody can see other.
2 waitresses were helping me and they were pretty friendly.
Not overly fake and friendly- just helpful and talkative.
The good news is that they have real Thai ice tea- $2.50!
Just as good as the Thai ice tea at Mai Thai (Yonge / Eglinton).
Take note: they bring your glass in a bowl of ice.
The customer has to scoop the ice and PLACE INTO THE GLASS.
It would be better if the ice was placed directly into the glass by the person making the drink.
The restaurant also has lots of fruitshakes, milkshakes and coffee.
$4 for a taro milkshake.
I ordered the STEAMED rice noodle rolls with ground pork
and sliced Vietnamese pork cold cut with some bean sprouts
and herbs. The dish was pretty good.
This dish is similar to steamed rice noodle rolls at Chinese dim sum
but without soya sauce.
You eat the rolls with Vietnamese rice vinegar sauce.
I felt comfortable eating at this restaurant
so that's why I would come back for another visit. -
Review from Edwin A.
Updated - 4/10/2011
Visited here couple of times over the past couple of days.
Order # 521 combo platter of vermicelli, bbq chicken, spring rolls, and it comes with a packet of rice paper to dip and roll your own rolls which was pretty neat. Good dish to share and very reasonable cost too. $8
Thai tea -- interesting, pretty spicy, didn't like it but something different to try condensed milk at the bottom with spicy tea.
Singapore noodles - done alright - curry a little bit too powdery in texture, good sized shrimps.
Lemon chicken - lightly battered and not overly oily, very good taste with tangy house made lemon sauce.
Decor had now changed a bit, photos of famous asian entertainer with perhaps the store manager (same guy in the photos)? the Avril Lavinge poster replaced. damn :)
Menu very extensive, good quality food and selection, the service does tend to go downhill when it's busy. We had some requests for sauces that required asking couple times, same with the requesting the bill we needed to ask a couple of times for it too.
Anyways decent place to grab viet food if you're in the area.1 Previous Review: Show all »
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9/9/2010
Weird décor, and the laser light in the waiting area. As others mentioned this was formerly a failed… Read more »
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Review from Arvid Y.
6/27/2010 2 photos
The pho was pretty underwhelming at Star King. While the portions were generous and meat quality was above average, the broth was very oily. It is probably the oiliest pho soup base I have ever had. It was also salty and surprisingly bland. Compared to other places in Toronto, I would definitely rank their pho in the bottom-tier. I do realize that pho is a pretty personal thing, so who knows, maybe you'll like it.
However, the calamari that we ordered was pretty crispy and tasty. I would not come back for the pho, but perhaps I would come back to try other items on the menu.
As others have mentioned, the location of the restaurant makes it hard to find parking at times. Unlike most Vietnamese restaurants, the physical space is large and the seating is very comfortable. -
Review from Karen S.
6/1/2010
The quality at this place keeps falling. The first few times I went, it was about a 3 star place, then 2.5, and yesterday, a solid 2 and creeping lower.
The main culprit? A pad thai that is becoming more and more an oily, bland, noddle stir-fry. At least they're using pad thai noodles rather than Chinese ho fun like some other places I've been to. Ick.
The pork and chicken chop with rice dish we had was a grade higher, though nothing super special.
Otherwise, the price is right, the service super fast and the decor amusing. Lots of movie personality posters leftover from the old Kelsey's. Really like that it's open late and always has plenty of room. -
Review from Charles C.
Markham, ON
2/1/2010
Tried this one out a few times and was never disappointed. It's not world class crusine but they serve comfy food. I like their pho and my wife loves their laksa. Also, their Thai milk tea is very tasty.
You probably will never find another vietnamese restaurant with such comfortable seatings and such a child friendly restroom. This is all thanks to Kesley, which was the previous occupant of the location.
Good for family with or without kids. The owner walks around the restaurant quite a bit, so you can grab him for a chat if you want.
The only issue I have is that they share their parking spots with T&T and it's hard to find an empty spot. -
Review from Rudy W.
2/3/2011 1 Check-in Here
if you want to try bad attitude waiters added with bad food. you can go to this place.
we ordered a mixed food from chinese/vietnamese and thai, they all taste terrible.
I asked for pad ka prau (basil chicken). they said, pad ka prau don't have.
basil chicken have. (with attitude .. go figure)
a couple of our food were not event coming (we order appetizers) 1 out of 3. the meal came before the appetizer and it was COLD.
then I heard the next table, were arguing about their food to the waiter. (lol) they said in quote "if we give you wrong order, we will fix it", but if you give us a wrong order, you have to take it. -
Review from Jennifer K.
Markham, ON
1/28/2010 6 photos
Star King Viet Thai Cuisine is located at the corner of Warden and Steeles across from T&T Supermarket.
I saw an ad in the Chinese magazine saying that they are under the same parent company as of Xe Lua. I don't know if it is good or bad news... However, I decide to give it a try!
Star King location used to be a Kelsey. They kept most of the decoration, the bar, the booth and stained glass panels. The only thing they did to the restaurant was taking down all the hollywood posters, change the lighting (brighter and with a crystal chandelier in the middle).
The prices are comparable to Xe Lua, I order a Large Pho with raw beef and tripes ($6.00). The soup was steaming hot. The broth tasted a little too salty for my taste and the noodle is the dried type. Usually I don't like the dried type but they did do a good job and take out that funny taste in the dry noodles.
However, I did enjoy my pho, especially on a cold windy winter day! The Large pho came in a big bowel with a lot of soup but not too many noodles or meat.. I was still a little hungry after eating that.
The seatings are really comfy and you never close to your neighbours. I do like the private booths!
They really have to cut out the elevator music!! It is not even on a good sound system, sounded like something from an AM radio.. why they bother I don't know!
The menu does have a lot of different choices.
NO lunch Specials!!!
They accepts VISA. -
Review from Stephen C.
Scarborough, ON
4/24/2010 1 photo
This is so fun.. eating Pho in an abandoned Kelseys.
This place was busy when we went in for dinner. This place was hot.. and i mean hot! They need some ventilation.. i had to take strip down to my t-shirt it was so warm.
The food was mediocore.. ordered a Chicken Pad Thai.. so saucy, and there was like some microscopic chicken pieces in there somewhere.
Thai Curry Laska, again with the microscopic chicken pieces... we're talking like 5 grams of meat!
Finally the Pho arrived.. why does it take 20 mins to bring me a bowl of Pho? Wouldn't return for the food, but would because of the comfy booths. -
Review from Tom L.
Toronto, ON
12/28/2010
My go to place in the area for a tasty bowl of pho in a very comfortable setting. Pho is on par with nearby Pho 88 in Bamburgh Circle which can be very uncomfortable when busy. Not so at Star King. Nice, clean washrooms a definite plus.
