Thai Thai Grocery

Some hard to find thai utensils here that used to be sold in the stores in the surrounding areas. Alot of her basic thai ingredients are overpriced. I'm only leaving 2 stars because the very first time me and my friend came in here she wanted to act like she was very friendly and welcoming at first and then do a 360 when my friend had asked to use the bathroom because of digestion problem. The owner had said yes but then kept bothering my friend and knocking on the door like every 2 minutes thinking we were gonna steal, and mind you my friend is from thailand just like her. Guess in her mind you can't even trust your own people when it comes to using the bathroom. Anyways our conclusive interaction didn't end well with the owner having an attitude and me being extremely annoyed that someone would continously bother someone while they were in the bathroom( it's extremely rude). We paid for our stuff and having an attitude myself gave her the money and walked out and promised to never return here again.

The owner is super friendly and tells you about the various products and how they do it in Thailand. We've been here many times. They've got hard to find Thai products and several fresh, locally made food like fried banana or banana wrapped in a banana leaf with rice. I come here to find concentrated liquid coffee with sugar that looks like a tall glass bottle. You can make your own Thai iced coffee with it at home with condensed milk or plant based milk.

Support your local Thai community. It's fun to shop here, and she's got a cute kitten, too.

Lovely local Thai grocery with some pre-boxed prepared meals to go. Even lovelier is the sweet owner and her cats. Honest, friendly, and gives great advice on Thai items. Support local here and you won’t be disappointed!

Great store that has a lot of the essentials for thai groceries. The owner helped me as I was shopping to make a red curry. She suggested things and showed me the recipe book she has to help guide me. She says she's open from noon to midnight. There are also nice house plants available for purchase.

Small Thai grocery store with a very friendly and helpful owner, and good selection of hard to find Thai ingredients. They had a couple of items I could not find elsewhere in NYC. As the owner told me, "If you can't find it anywhere else, come here."

Because the store is small it can be bit hard to locate. Also, weekday hours are from 1pm until late. Weekends they open earlier, but I wouldn't try going before noon just to be safe.

The posted address is correct, I'll post a picture of the storefront with this review.

It has almost all the Thai staples that you need, the shopkeeper is very friendly and will help you out with finding extractly what you need even if you do not know what the items names are (some of these stuff can be hard to remember/pronounce in Thai). They also sell cooked food snacks, those are a must to try, they are Thai street food.

First visit, the owner was very friendly and helpful. The second visit, she was very rude. She was busy texting on her phone, hardly offering to look up and giving curt answers. No assistance, no help and condescension to any question I asked even though I was trying to be as nice as possible despite her attitude.

The first visit she said I should come back and she can tell me how to make Tom Yum soup and that she has all the ingredients. So I train all the way out there and she tells me "just use lemongrass, lime leaves, chili peppers and galangal". I ask "how much lemongrass do I use" and she replies "as much as you need". I kept asking for the procedure and she wouldn't offer much of any information just saying those ingredients are all I need. "Dont you also use fish sauce?" and she replies "of course, otherwise no flavor"; so much for helping with the process and ingredients.

After I purchase the ingredients, and her being extremely unhelpful the whole time, she ends with "look up a recipe on the internet".

Her prices are higher than other places. She didn't have fresh galangal, just frozen. For me, I wanted to like this place because of her but the second visit killed it for me. I'd rather go to Bangkok Center Grocery in Chinatown which has everything you need including fresh galangal at a good price or 3 Aunties Thai Market which is on Roosevelt nearer to the Woodside stop (15 min walk from Thai Thai Grocery)

Oh, and the "fried bananas" on the weekend, I asked her "aren't those supposed to be eaten fresh and hot" as they are in Thailand and other parts of SE Asia. She confirmed that is how you should eat them but conceded eating them at room-temperature after they've been sitting around for several hours is normal here.

So altogether you have an owner who is already charging a premium for stuff who is going to potentially be rude and condescending to you if you are interested in Thai food. I don't appreciate being scoffed at for trying to learn (especially after she invited me to come back to do just that). Not interested in playing that game.