Tuktuk Bangkok Thai - Russell

I'd read the reviews but the outside menu appealed to us so we went in and ordered mid afternoon on a Saturday.<br/ <br/ The food we got was a 5 stars. Clean, tasty, fresh and GREAT value for money. We were both very impressed. Highly recommended. We'd eat here again. The place looks tired and we expected to get an average meal. That couldn't be further from the experience. <br/ <br/ We'll be back some day for a bigger meal.

Have to agree with most people, Charlie, was grumpy and rude and should either take a long holiday or retire, he tried to tell us the cook was stressed, we just laughed. (Don't think the cook had the problem). The food was just the best, we could not have had it any better, any where else. Many thanks to Nicole, the poor girl was run off her feet, she was so nice to everyone.

Never had a problem with this restaurant as some claim. <br/ Meals are amazing. very good value for money. I eat a lot of Thai here at Tuk Tuk, NZ and in Thailand and this is authentic!<br/ <br/ No MSG, sugar or any other **** that you can get is some restaurants. If you want hot you get HOT which is what I like.<br/ <br/ Service is always prompt and with a smile.<br/ <br/ I highly recommend this Thai experience. It's great!!!!

I have lived in Russell for 26 year and Tuk Tuk Bangkok Thai Restaurant is the most wonderful restaurant in Russell. <br/ <br/ Under the guidance of Charlie and with Dang in the kitchen every meal is not only full of flavour, but picture perfect too.<br/ <br/ Their prices are most reasonable and many items on the menu have not changed in price in 3 years.<br/ <br/ The Shrimp Phad Thai is wonderful and on a cold day in Winter they have a great variety of home made soups.

We went for lunch and I ordered the King Prawn Pad Thai. The food was delicious and arrived very quickly. The meal size was generous too (and a decent amount of prawns! . The owners were very friendly even going out of their way to help me find something gluten free, which is something I havn't got from other restaurants and the prices were quite good for what we got. I really liked Tuk Tuk and would recommend it. 5 stars from me :