Khunthai Restaurant @ Butterworth image

Khunthai Restaurant @ Butterworth

Restaurant Thai restaurant

One of the Most Revieweds in Butterworth


Address

104, Jalan Permatang Tengah, Taman Seri Ceraya, 13000 Butterworth, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

Contact

+60 4-332 7523

Price rating

$$ $$

Rating on Google Maps

4.10 (2.8K reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Friday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Saturday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Sunday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Monday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Tuesday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Wednesday: 11 am to 12 am
  • Thursday: 11 am to 12 am

Featured Reviews


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  • 4/5 Sherita G. 2 years ago on Google
    The taste of the foods can't deny it really good. The chicken Tomyam I had there really tastes good. Coming to the price part quite expensive. The Thai Cuisine restaurant is the most popular in mainland due to taste of the foods and many people love to dine in there. The place has like hut shaped place to dine in where really looks cool especially during night with the lights they attached along the hut. However I personally feels the customer service should do better as the workers is not friendly and the orders came late even there is not many customers. I hope the waitress will be more friendly and helpful to customer as they charging for service.
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Mei Yi Y. 2 years ago on Google
    Wonderful Thai seafood place. Prices are reasonable. Staff very friendly and overall really efficient. Their crabs, prawns etc are always so fresh and sweet. Their fried rice is a must try.
    7 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Yvonne N. 1 year ago on Google
    Everytime just take away, finally have chance to dine in Staff friendliness: 4/5 Price: 4/5 Taste: 4/5 (Satisfied) Otak not my preference, as santan taste quite thick. Parking: A lot of outdoor free parking space. Need to use umbrella if it's raining, no roofed walk way till restaurant entrance
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Selina G. 1 year ago on Google
    Checked out this place after some recommendations for the food here. Good food indeed👍 Ample of sitting space and parking too 👍 Prices are slightly on the higher side depends on the menu that you choose🤌 Great place to catch up over a delicious Thai food. Definitely not a quiet place if you're looking for one. Can be extremely noisy depends on the crowd size during your visit.
    4 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 YM B. 1 year ago on Google
    Overall not bad. Super like the hairy fried ginger. Prawn cake without authentic Thai chilli sauce was incomplete. Prawn cake is not as nice as 8 years back. 🙂
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Benny P. 1 year ago on Google
    Good environment. Some reviews concerning about the freshness of the seafood. So far i ordered green curry seafood and thai style steam fish and seafood is fresh. The price consider reasonable. Honestly, the taste of the food a lot better compared to another branch in teluk kumbar. I will visit again in future.
    3 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 1/5 Mr N. 6 months ago on Google
    The food here is bad. The tomyam soup comes with charcoal inside the pot so the soup was boiling all the time. Eventually, the the soup got char in the middle of the pot and the burnt flakes went into the soup and the entire soup was just bitter by the time you scoop for second serving. Fish not fresh at all. Fried squid barely had any flavor. The only thing on the table that was actually edible would be the white rice. Bad experience and won't return again. No point having good view when food quality is nowhere to be found.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 cyrus s. 3 years ago on Google
    Delicious thai foods, big parking lot, and great outdoor eating ambiance
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Neevashini N. 2 years ago on Google
    Food was good, just have to make sure you receive what you ordered because too many people. We went for dinner and the service was good. We were so hungry that only took the picture after we were done 😆
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Keren Selvaraj R. 1 year ago on Google
    Beautiful View and a very Graceful Environment, Tasty Tom Yam, Drinks are very pure and Fantastic, Affordable price and de portion of items are more than we expect.... De waiters are friendly.....
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Thomas T. 10 months ago on Google
    First off, this restaurant is very big… probably the biggest I’ve been to so far in Butterworth. We went at a reasonably quiet time, but I imagine it can get very busy and we did see at least one tourist bus in the car park. The restaurant is well decorated and even has small huts that you can eat in. To be honest, whilst I did like he decor, it did feel a little gimmicky; like the kind of place that only attracts unsuspecting tourists and doesn’t actually serve good food. Fortunately, that wasn’t the case (more on that later). Whilst there’s no air conditioning, there are lots of fans, high ceilings and really good air circulation. I think it’s the most comfortable non-air conditioned restaurant I’ve been too. Service was pretty fast and efficient at the time we went. Now onto the food… overall, it was great. I enjoyed everything we ordered. The glass noodles and omelet were the highlight for me - delicious. The kerabu was also very tasty, though a little too spicy for me! Not so spicy as to ruin the dish, just a bit too much “my mouth is on fire” than I generally prefer during a meal. The deep fried chicken tendons and tofu were nice and crispy, if a little more ordinary compared to the other dishes. The only part of the meal that wasn’t so great was the Thai milk tea. The first few sips were nice, but the ice melted very quickly and by half way through the meal, the flavour had been watered down way too much. All in all, very nice Thai food in a spacious and breezy restaurant that was also really good value for money. I’ll definitely be back.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Lishan E. 2 years ago on Google
    Value for money, good food. Fast service. Muslim friendly. Very spacious seating, great for family gathering, and large group gathering. Food are fresh and tasty, authentic Thai flavor . No pets allowed. They have their turtles and fish ponds though...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jong Cherng M. 1 year ago on Google
    Love the food and ambience. It didn't feel warm even during noon time. We had miang kham, fried calamari, green curry chicken, pandan chicken, sambal asparagus and tomyam chicken. All the dishes were delicious. Prices were reasonable.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 2/5 Aaron N. 1 year ago on Google
    As a fellow Penangite, it is sad to say that the quality from KhunThai has dropped over the years. I would not recommend friends/tourists/business associates to visit if there’s another option elsewhere in Penang that offers authentic Thai food. Please do visit Chok Dee Thai Restaurant and compare the quality firsthand. I’m not sure if the taste has evolved from being authentic to semi-lazy Thai restaurant. Yes there are people still rate the food 4.5-5/5, but I guess they have never really eaten the real KhunThai 15 years ago. I guess the business owner should really visit Thailand more often to recover back the Siam taste and improve the recipe if they want to keep the business up and running instead of bringing the Penang(food heaven) name down. Firstly, the tomyum soup is thick with the paste but I do not taste nor smell herbs which are commonly part of the ingredients in tomyumgoong soup, there’s lemongrass but i am sure the tomyum paste outshines the herbs. The dessert as well is not up to par. Truthfully, we’re really disappointed. You may still visit here if you wish, but i’m pretty sure I would not anytime soon in the coming years to come
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Thesigka S. 1 year ago on Google
    If you crave to eat seafood at a reasonable price in a clean environment with a good service offered then this is the right place to go. No issues in terms of parking despite of the huge crowd. The shop is always crowded but the owners nor workers never fail to entertain nor take our orders. In terms of food, from the tomyam soup to the fish and the fried squid each one tasted really good. I personally loved their ginger fish. The price was also reasonable it only cost us about RM100 plus considering we ordered seafood tomyam, fish, squid & vegetables. Highly recommended to those who love aunthetic Thai food.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 4/5 Halimi A. 11 months ago on Google
    Khunthai has several restaurants - this one in Butterworth, another on Penang Island (in Telok Kumbar, by the beach), in Cheras, etc. and you will not be disappointed at any of their restaurants. Service is fast and friendly, the food price is reasonable (typically around RM50 per person) and all dishes are delicious. This restaurant in Butterworth has plenty of parking area, lots of seatings to accommodate small and large groups, a surau for Muslims to pray and even a coffee shop. Our favourite dishes are the lemon steamed fish, tom yum, butter prawns, pandan chicken, etc.

  • 5/5 razor r. 1 year ago on Google
    Most of the foods are really delicious and very fast service from staffs. You can do early bookings as well if coming in big group. Reasonable price for the foods. Much recommended place.

  • 4/5 Layar J. 10 months ago on Google
    The first thing that struck me is how huge their seating capacity is. The word 'touristy' immediately comes to mind. They have rows and rows of table. And quite a number of pondok. The pondok is fun to seat at during daytime when you can appreciate its quaintness but when it's dark at night, I would probably seat inside. It was fairly empty when we arrived at off peak hours so the food came ridiculously fast. All of it arrived within ten minutes. I enjoyed all the dishes that I ordered. The petai was spicy but aromatic, effective to get the palate going. The prawn fritters goes well with the sauce but they put too much batter on it drowning the prawn within. The fried kangkung in flour was impressively crunchy and tasty without the overwhelming smell of oil. The pandan and omelet was done well but average. But I have nothing to complain about. I ordered the baked rice in claypot. It's more of a novelty rather than anything special. The steamed fish was special in the sense that they use charcoal to keep it hot. The soup was delicious and fish fresh but the contents was sparse. It looks empty and in need of more toppings. In general not a bad place for Thai food but too big to be niche and has too much of a touristy vibe for my liking.

  • 4/5 Yk T. 1 year ago on Google
    Truly Thai atmosphere with little cabins and Thai songs! Food is good in overall and waitresses explained well on the food favour/portion.

  • 5/5 steffy d. 7 months ago on Google
    The food is delicious & fresh. The place is nice & spacious. There's a little hut where you can choose to sit & enjoy the food too.

  • 5/5 Weishian W. 10 months ago on Google
    Nice food, good service and environment Recommend tomyam seafood soup👍🏻 fresh seafood and many sotong RM22 per claypot jasmine Thai rice with pandan leaves👍🏻👍🏻 taste good and smell great Market price seafood and fish: RM70 crabs and RM100 fish

  • 4/5 Shamala D. 11 months ago on Google
    Food was good but late. Will try again next time for more better reviews after I tried more variety of food.

  • 5/5 Venn S. 4 months ago on Google
    Great food, good price, friendly staff, serving fast, nice environment even hot afternoon also won’t feel hot or sweating.

  • 5/5 karen k. 4 months ago on Google
    Every time I have dinner here, will hear them playing/ singing Birthday song, lots of ppl celebrate their Birthday here, enjoy their food and the environment here. Recommended!

  • 5/5 William Hong Xian L. 5 months ago on Google
    The most wining is the atmosphere, rectangle table, round table with high-hut ceiling and tiki gazebo kind seating. Free ulam is the one i would appreciate as opening appetizer, top 3 food for me is steam squid and clam, pandan chicken, and fried prawn cake, i got abit picky taste on tomyum seafood that day, but inside portion is fairly enough. Lastly, children playground, let your children unleased their remain energy while waiting your food to be prepared. 5 stars overall, food 4.5 star

  • 5/5 Lini L. 7 months ago on Google
    First time having dinner with a local friend at Butterworth outlet. Plenty of parking space. We ordered Otak2, Seafood Tom Yam, Sambal Petai Udang, Dessert. All were good & tasty. Rice was served in a big bowl so you can eat according to your wish. We ordered the Lemongrass drink but it was too sweet. The toilet was clean too.. Nice place to hang out after a long day at work.

  • 5/5 Poomilan Barathi T. 2 years ago on Google
    Obviously The Greatest Thai Restaurant 👌🏽 They Serve Dessert While Waiting For Ordered Item To Prepared & Serve At Table 💯 All Those Dishes SuperDuper ❤ Had A Good Lunch Today 🙏🏻 Highly Recommended To Those People From Far Or Nearby 💯💯💯💯 SOP WELL FOLLOWED 🤗 Pandan Chicken Was Amazinq 😃

  • 4/5 Lee H. 2 years ago on Google
    My favorite Thai food restaurant, expecially kheng som jenahak, lemon steam squid 🐙 n lala + chapon

  • 5/5 Morgan T. 2 years ago on Google
    Best place to hang out with friends and family. Cosy place very big spacious

  • 5/5 Song Jin C. 3 years ago on Google
    The food is yummy. This restaurant serve the best tomyam. Their steam fish is also very delicious and fresh. Highly recommended.

  • 4/5 P. Gopala Krishnan (QSE Ventures P. 2 years ago on Google
    Authentic thai food you can get here. The Tomyam soup is thick and excellent. We enjoyed the ambience and environment. With the right group your lunch may last longer than usual. We finished ours around 4. We needed to as we were driving back to KL. Or else we would have stayed longer. They also have mythai coffee with assorted offers of drinks. Spoilt for choice actually. Will go here again in our next trip to mailand Penang.

  • 5/5 Amirul A. 2 years ago on Google
    Food and service was great. Highly recommended.

  • 5/5 ZANG Y. 2 years ago on Google
    Great Food, good vibe and affordable price. definitely worth for a try!

  • 5/5 zamir s. 3 years ago on Google
    The best place for those who love thai food.. the seafood was extremely good and the thai steamed fish is a must not to be missed..

  • 5/5 Bitter S. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice food and I like the food it was delicious and the milk tea is thick and nice golden proportion.

  • 4/5 Theven T. 2 years ago on Google
    Food Delicious 😋

  • 4/5 Divyaruban M. 1 year ago on Google
    Best Thai food.. gengsom Fish The best.. Spicy and tasty.. The fried rice damb tasty too.. Service very fast even when crowded. Fried tofu highlights too.. seafood was fresh. Clean tables and good choice Of drinks.. huge parking Area and they provide people to help to house for parking.. only request is please improve The toilet cleaniness, structure.

  • 5/5 Afiq A. 2 years ago on Google
    Tomyam sempoi..Nice food..price also nice to see..haha

  • 4/5 Joel H. 2 years ago on Google
    The food here was easily a 10/10, but the only problem I had was that the food took a long time to come to our table. Other then that, everything else was perfect

  • 5/5 Olist Nai S. 2 years ago on Google
    Best Thai restaurant in town

  • 5/5 padma n. 2 years ago on Google
    Reasonable price

  • 5/5 Zhen F. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice environment, however previously the taste of the food was better.

  • 4/5 Nasrul H. 2 years ago on Google
    Service is good and fast, friendly staff. Place is spacious, we don't have to wait for the table and easier to locate. Food is delicious and authentic thai cuisine but sadly they don't have a chili crab. They should put that on menu.

  • 5/5 Yoga R. 2 years ago on Google
    It was the first time for me and my girlfriend to try on Thai food here and literally this place satisfied our cravings. If you're craving for authentic Thai cuisine, you can enjoy every dishes here and the price are quite reasonable and affordable as well.


Call +60 4-332 7523 Open on Google Maps

Amenities


  • Parking
    • ✓️ Free parking lot
    • ✓️ Plenty of parking
  • Payments
    • ✓️ Credit cards
  • Offerings
    • ✓️ Beer
    • ✓️ Coffee
    • ✓️ Alcohol
    • ✓️ Small plates
    • ✓️ Late-night food
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible toilet
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible seating
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible car park
    • ✓️ Wheelchair-accessible entrance
  • Dining options
    • ✓️ Lunch
    • ✓️ Brunch
    • ✓️ Dinner
    • ✓️ Dessert
    • ✓️ Seating
    • ✓️ Catering
  • Service options
    • ✓️ Dine-in
    • ✓️ Takeaway
    • ✓️ Outdoor seating

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