If you place an online order, you risk eating late or maybe not at all, due to inept restaurant management of delivery orders. There is no verification done by employees to be sure your order goes to the right waiting driver, plus the restaurant allows too many online delivery orders to pile up. Because they take orders far beyond their kitchen's capacity, the restaurant causes a back up as early as 5:45 PM where all the drivers who show up on time, are left waiting endlessly. The result is unhappy and hungry customers thinking the delivery people are too slow, and delivery drivers losing income waiting around. Then there's the random customer not even getting a meal at all because the chaos can even allow people to steal drivers' food orders due to the employees not vetting who is taking the meal that's (finally) ready. When a meal gets taken, the driver gets scammed by not getting paid and gets a bad rating, while the customer gets no food delivery at all, has to get a refund from the delivery service and start over.
Ramya devie S
Good food & love the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodle, Green Curry, Basil Fried Rice
Muhamed Kurt
had to wait for extra half an hour for my pick up my order... not recommended...
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Kongphop Attakowitwitaya
Laughing Monk Allston is hands down one of the few places in Boston where you can get truly authentic Thai flavors — no dilution, no shortcuts. I ordered the fried pork belly with fish sauce, larb moo, nam tok kor moo yang, and Isaan sausage — and every bite made me feel like I was back in Thailand.
The pork belly was perfectly crisp with that deep, savory hit from the fish sauce. The larb and nam tok were packed with roasted rice powder aroma, proper heat, and bright acidity — nothing was muted for the American palate. The Isaan sausage was exactly as it should be: slightly funky, garlicky, with a good char.
It’s clear the kitchen knows what they’re doing, both in terms of flavor layering and technique. As someone who spends a lot of time around food, I can tell when a place cooks with intention — and this is one of them. If you’re craving Thai food that actually tastes like home, this is where you go.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
T S
So happy to discover this little gem in Wellesley centre! It's small only maybe 7 or 8 tables, so there can be a wait, but eating at the small (4 chair) sushi bar also an option ( and cool visuals there, huge colorful video loop of underwater sea life) Service was *exceptional*, food fresh and delicious. And loved trying the Japanese IPA, it was terrific. Highly recommend👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Rich
Deliveries are never ready on time. Slow slow slow. Avoid
Service: 1
Rashmi R
Lovely little hole in the wall place in Wellesley.. The vegetarian gyoza was the best I’ve ever tasted. The nigiri was amazingly delicious, the drunken noodles and curries were very flavourful too. Strongly recommend this gem
Eat in if possible. Waiting for take out is not comfortable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joe Hardie
Average experience. Food looks appetizing, but lacks attention to detail (missing avocado in some of the sushi). Noodle portions were inadequate for the price. Most of the container was empty. $8 soup was slightly spilled due to inadequate packaging. Also, my daughter found a hair in her rice. Room for improvement.
They took my money for an omakase reservation for 2. They called the day prior and denied the reservation due to lack of staff, which is understandable. I asked them to instead give me a reservation for their a la carte serving, but they refused. They said I had to wait in line like everyone else?!
In addition, they did not refund my $50 per person reservation fee, despite their promises to do so. Unbelievable. I had to make a credit card claim to get a refund. Craziness. Never going to go here, ever. Totally mismanaged.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Полопарт Polopart
You constantly have to wait for my order, can't they increase the staff a little, the food is so-so!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
J.M. Hardie
Average experience. Food looks appetizing, but lacks attention to detail (missing avocado in some of the sushi). Noodle portions were inadequate for the price. Most of the container was empty. $8 soup was slightly spilled due to inadequate packaging. Also, my daughter found a hair in her rice. Room for improvement.
If you place an online order, you risk eating late or maybe not at all, due to inept restaurant management of delivery orders. There is no verification done by employees to be sure your order goes to the right waiting driver, plus the restaurant allows too many online delivery orders to pile up. Because they take orders far beyond their kitchen's capacity, the restaurant causes a back up as early as 5:45 PM where all the drivers who show up on time, are left waiting endlessly. The result is unhappy and hungry customers thinking the delivery people are too slow, and delivery drivers losing income waiting around. Then there's the random customer not even getting a meal at all because the chaos can even allow people to steal drivers' food orders due to the employees not vetting who is taking the meal that's (finally) ready. When a meal gets taken, the driver gets scammed by not getting paid and gets a bad rating, while the customer gets no food delivery at all, has to get a refund from the delivery service and start over.
Good food & love the atmosphere.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Drunken Noodle, Green Curry, Basil Fried Rice
had to wait for extra half an hour for my pick up my order... not recommended...
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Laughing Monk Allston is hands down one of the few places in Boston where you can get truly authentic Thai flavors — no dilution, no shortcuts. I ordered the fried pork belly with fish sauce, larb moo, nam tok kor moo yang, and Isaan sausage — and every bite made me feel like I was back in Thailand.
The pork belly was perfectly crisp with that deep, savory hit from the fish sauce. The larb and nam tok were packed with roasted rice powder aroma, proper heat, and bright acidity — nothing was muted for the American palate. The Isaan sausage was exactly as it should be: slightly funky, garlicky, with a good char.
It’s clear the kitchen knows what they’re doing, both in terms of flavor layering and technique. As someone who spends a lot of time around food, I can tell when a place cooks with intention — and this is one of them. If you’re craving Thai food that actually tastes like home, this is where you go.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
So happy to discover this little gem in Wellesley centre! It's small only maybe 7 or 8 tables, so there can be a wait, but eating at the small (4 chair) sushi bar also an option ( and cool visuals there, huge colorful video loop of underwater sea life)
Service was *exceptional*, food fresh and delicious. And loved trying the Japanese IPA, it was terrific. Highly recommend👍
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Deliveries are never ready on time. Slow slow slow. Avoid
Service: 1
Lovely little hole in the wall place in Wellesley..
The vegetarian gyoza was the best I’ve ever tasted. The nigiri was amazingly delicious, the drunken noodles and curries were very flavourful too.
Strongly recommend this gem
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Sushi Entree, Drunken Noodle, Green Curry, Pineapple Fried Rice
Food is lovely. But the portions are small.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Eat in if possible. Waiting for take out is not comfortable.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Average experience. Food looks appetizing, but lacks attention to detail (missing avocado in some of the sushi). Noodle portions were inadequate for the price. Most of the container was empty. $8 soup was slightly spilled due to inadequate packaging. Also, my daughter found a hair in her rice. Room for improvement.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
Restaurantji Recommends
They took my money for an omakase reservation for 2. They called the day prior and denied the reservation due to lack of staff, which is understandable. I asked them to instead give me a reservation for their a la carte serving, but they refused. They said I had to wait in line like everyone else?!
In addition, they did not refund my $50 per person reservation fee, despite their promises to do so. Unbelievable. I had to make a credit card claim to get a refund. Craziness. Never going to go here, ever. Totally mismanaged.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
You constantly have to wait for my order, can't they increase the staff a little, the food is so-so!
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 1
Average experience. Food looks appetizing, but lacks attention to detail (missing avocado in some of the sushi). Noodle portions were inadequate for the price. Most of the container was empty. $8 soup was slightly spilled due to inadequate packaging. Also, my daughter found a hair in her rice. Room for improvement.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 3
Service: 2
They just say wait wait.
Service: 1
Food came out quick, delicious, and beautiful.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
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