text: The first time we went here we ate in and had a great meal and I gave it stars We were so happy after that first visit that we returned and took along another couple who may be moving to our fair city to introduce them to life as locals Our experience was less than stellar But I did not update my review then On the second visit I ordered the same salmon dish I had the first time and it was so bad I had to send it back The waitress tried to explain that they use frozen salmon and yada yada Its replacement was just ordinary The other couple were split in their opinions of their dishesnnDuring our first visit we wanted to get more information about takeout figuring that we would be doing that on a regular basis We particularly wanted to know about the soup Our Tom Kha was fabulous and it was such a big bowl that we could not imagine we would get that much if we had it as takeout but the waitress assured us it was a very big containernnSo on this uncharacteristically rainy night we opted for takeout from Noodle House My first disappointment was taking an ordinary Chinese restauranttype plastic container out of the bag that was only threequarters full It turned out not to matter the soup was so unbearably spicy that we could not finish it It also had half the amount of chicken that our dinein portion had nnFour vegetable spring rolls were decent but very greasy nnWe ordered our main dish Pad Thai as a chickenbeefshrimp combination It had a generous helping of two rather small shrimp chewy and flavorless beef and some tender chicken This dish is usually very bland at other Thai restaurants but this one was very spicy I did not mind that since it did not because smoke to come out of my ears like the soup did But the noodles were rubbery and if it had chopped peanuts there were not enough to taste them A disappointmentnnI guess it was too good to be true but we will go back to the other Thai restaurants we used to go to before our hopes were raised by the opening of ThaiStyle Noodle House which is so much closer to our home Those hopes sadly have been dashed