Bangkok West Cuisine - Roseburg

I absolutely adore this restaurant and the team here! The food is amazing, and the service is outstanding!

To eat my favorite place in Roesburg. Best service and good food. Appropriate prices.

Love this restaurant to death! The best Thai food I've ever had! The owners are amazing too!

Infamous as Roseburg’s only Thai restaurant, Bangkok West’s unenviable challenge is to satisfy local tastes raised on American Chinese while serving a dependable variety of Thai dishes. Make no mistake. Bangkok West isn’t competing on the same playing field as Andy Ricker's Pok Pok and nor should it be judged as if it was. The Thai dishes are westernized, evidenced by menu listings for Thai Spicy soup tom yam) and Thai Coconut soup tom kah). Still, southern Oregon patrons craving dishes spiced with lemongrass, galangal, coconut and lime leaf will find an oasis at Bangkok West. The pork noodle soup $7.50) is my lunch crutch. The rice noodles are submerged in a savory pork broth with pork, bean sprouts and other vegetables. The dish is also prepared with beef, chicken or shrimp but I never waiver from pork broth. When I need a more medicinal meal, I choose tom yam, a hot-and-sour soup. The lemongrass, lime leaves, fish sauce and crushed chili peppers work wonders when I’m suffering a head cold. My wife’s lunch favorite is pad thai, pan-fried, thin rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, green onion and ground peanuts. We’ve also shared the seafood combination soup shrimp, scallop, crab, mussels, mushrooms and lemongrass) and enjoyed the seasonal pumpkin kabocha) curry. Today, I asked Jit, the proprietress, for a cold dish recommendation on an unusually warm spring day. Jit recommended pla goong, a Thai grilled shrimp salad. Bangkok’s West version comes with red onion, lettuce, cucumber and tomato in a spicy lime dressing. The dish is listed in the menu as Shrimp Super Salad $13.95). Ask for the Thai condiment caddy to raise the heat. BTW: I skip the Bangkok West appetizers unless my guest requests a plate of deep-fried familiarity — crunchy wonton, shumai, Mar Far chicken, pork egg rolls and potstickers. Here’s a tip for authentic Chinese food: if you read “potstickers” on the menu, it isn’t authentic. Frozen potstickers are a poor substitute for guotie, pan-fried jiaozi Chinese dumplings filled with a mix of meat and vegetable fillings that almost always include garlic chives and cabbage).

A bit off the freeway but well worth it. Everything was excellent. Some of the best Tai food I've ever had.