Thai Thyme Menu (Update 2025)
Introducing Thai Thyme, a Thai restaurant located in Monrovia, CA, offering a wide range of authentic Thai dishes with a cozy and elegant ambiance. The menu features a variety of appetizers such as Chicken Satay, Thai BBQ Chicken, Fried Wontons, and more. Their signature dishes include Tom Yum Soup, Somtum Papaya Salad, Grilled Eggplant Salad, and Larb. Customers praise the great service, friendly staff, and delicious vegan options available. The owner, Ty, adds a personal touch by greeting guests by name and ensuring a memorable dining experience. The attention to detail in the food preparation and commitment to healthier cooking methods set Thai Thyme apart. Don't miss out on the must-try dishes like the Pad Thai, Chicken Satay skewers, and the refreshing Tom Kha coconut soup. Thai Thyme is a go-to spot for authentic Thai cuisine in LA.
Appetizers
Chicken Satay
6 pieces. Skewered chicken marinated in a blend of rich coconut milk, and yellow curry, grilled to perfection. Served with our famous Thai peanut sauce and sweet cucumber salad.
Thai BBQ Chicken
Traditionally prepared chicken, marinated in garlic, white pepper, cilantro, coriander and coconut milk. Grilled over a hot fire. Then served with sweet and sour sauce.
Fried Wontons
8 pieces. Filled with ground pork, folded into a triangle fan, and deep-fried to a crispy texture. Served with sweet and sour sauce.
Spring Rolls
4 pieces. Deep-fried rolls stuffed with mixed vegetable, served with sweet and sour sauce.
Fried Calamari
Our seasoned flour coats and seals in the flavor, then deep-frying allows our calamari to have a crispy texture. Served with sweet and sour sauce.
Crispy Tofu
Our firm tofu is fried to a balance of a crispy outer shell and a velvety soft center. Served with sweet and sour sauce.
Fish Cakes
5 pieces. Our savory blend of curries makes these fish cakes full of flavor and a little heat. Served with a peanut cucumber relish.
Sunshine Beef Jerky
This is not your ordinary "beef jerky". Our marinated slices of slow-low oven-dried beef retain their natural moisture. Then fried to perfection, and served with Thai special sauce (spicy). This is a great beer snack.
Crab Rangoon bundles
Our version of crab and cream cheese filled wontons. Fried to a golden brown. This is Texture meets Flavor. Served with our sweet and sour sauce.
Thai Steamed Dumplings
These pouches of ground chicken and vegetables are a delight and a perfect starter here at Thai Thyme.
Gyo Todd (Thai Potstickers)
Our Thai Dumplings, deep fried to a crispy texture. Golden Brown and tasty. Served with our signature sauce.
Moo Ping (Pork Skewers)
Moo Ping (Pork Skewers)Our specially marinated pork skewered appetizers are grilled to perfection. Served with our signature sauce.
Tom Yum
Hot and sour soup. Our classic hot and sour broth is deceptively simple, but the flavor is very complex. Then we add in lemongrass, tomatoes mushrooms, galangal roots, cabbage, and lime leaves. There is a touch of dairy milk to balance the taste.
Tom Kha
Hot and sour coconut soup. If you like tom yum, then this aromatic coconut version with lemongrass, tomatoes, mushrooms, galangal roots, cabbage, and lime leaves.
Vegetable Soup
We keep this simple and clean. Seasonal vegetables in clear broth. When we were kids, we called it, Thai penicillin.
Wonton Soup
We start with a clear broth and add ground pork and shrimp stuffed wontons, bok choy, and green onions.
Soup
Salad and Yum
Somtum
Green papaya salad. Seasonal. Our famous julienned green papaya salad mixed with garlic, blanched string beans, tomatoes, and Peanuts. Served with chili and lime dressing. Spicy.
Thai Thyme Somtum
Papaya salad with salted duck egg. Seasonal. Our papaya salad with blanched string beans, tomatoes, and peanuts. Served with fresh chili, lime dressing, and salted duck egg. Yum which means spicy!
Grilled Eggplant Salad
Grilled eggplant mixed with fresh chili sauce, shallots, cilantro, and boiled egg. Makes eating eggplant really fun.
Num Tok Salad
Spicy beef salad. Our version of Thai spicy beef salad. We sear and grill our beef. Tok means, waterfall. As the savory beef juices fall onto our hot flames. It is reminiscent of a waterfall. We slice then add roasted rice powder, red onion, cilantro, lettuce and tossed in spicy lime dressing.
Paa Gong Salad
Spicy shrimp salad. Grilled shrimp, then peeled. We tossed them together with green scallions, cilantro, and lettuce, then into a lime and chili dressing.
Larb
Choice of tofu or ground meat cooked with lime juice, roasted rice powder, onions, cilantro and chili powders. Served with fresh lettuce. Its spicy.
Yum Woon Sen
This Glass Noodle Salad is wonderfully bright in flavor and in color. Refreshing crunchy vegetables, Mung bean glass noodles tossed with a perfectly balance of sweet, savory and sour saucy dressing.
Yum Seafood
A blend of seafood tossed just before serving with a simple mixture of fish sauce, dried chilies, lime juice and herbs. Served on a bed of crisp, fresh lettuce.
Holy Kaprow
Stir fry basil. This is the way we elevate a traditional Thai basil recipe. We craft our own chili paste which adds a little heat to our sauce. This method actually glazes your choice of meat or seafood. It's a spectacular tasty and aromatic dish.
Pad King
Stir fry ginger. If you love the ginger flavor in your meat or seafood, this recipe is rooted (no pun intended) in Chinese cuisine. We add our Fusion of Thai soybean mixture. Stir fry together with fresh ginger, onion, scallions, black mushrooms, and seasonal vegetables, making this dish 1 of our favorites.
Pad Katiem
Stir fry crispy garlic. If you are a fan of garlic with your meat or seafood. We take fresh garlic blended in white pepper and stir fry cilantro, and seasonal vegetables all blended into a light brown sauce. If you do not like cilantro, we can substitute green scallions.
Pad Cashews
Stir fry cashews. This dish represents the Chinese influence on Thai cuisine. With your choice of meat or seafood, we quickly saute cashews, fresh seasonal vegetables, onions, and scallions into a signature, light brown sauce.
Pad Priew Wan
Stir fry sweet and sour. Now this dish, differs from the Chinese version simply by adding fresh cucumbers, and our signature sweet and sour sauce. Stir fry fresh pineapple, tomatoes, onions, scallions, and bell peppers. This is such a colorful dish that pairs very well with jasmine rice. Meat or seafood or tofu compliments this very saucy dish.
Pad Prik Sod
Stir-fried fresh peppers. This Thai dish is spicy with amazing texture. Pad prik sod represents Thai cooking with such savory and spicy flavors known in Thai cuisine. Whichever meat or seafood you choose. We stir fry onions, scallions and fresh green pepper in a savoy and spicy brown sauce.
Basil Eggplant
This Thai dish is aromatic and savory. Our way of cooking, is quickly saute freshly sliced eggplant. Then stir fry fresh bell peppers and fresh chili with our signature garlic soybean sauce. Then add fresh basil leaves. Choose your meat or seafood and taste the spicy delight.
Pad Prik Gang
Spicy green beans. Seafood or choice of meat in red curry. This red curry is sauteed with fresh green beans and chili paste with kaffir lime leaves. Spicy and delicious.
Pad Pak
We kept this dish simple. Sauteed assorted seasonal vegetables and mushrooms with a touch of garlic in a light sauce.
Thai Rama
If you love the traditional Thai peanut sauce. Then you will love your choices of meat or seafood sauteed in yellow curry sauce, mixed with steamed vegetables topped with our special peanut sauce.
Stir Fried Curry (Squid and Shirmp)
This is our Curry Seafood Mix blended together with eggs, green onions, Chinese celery and red pepper. Our Thai Sweet and Savory sauces pack additional texture to this dish.
Entree (Jasmine Rice not included)
Curry(Jasmine Rice not included)
Red Curry
A blend of coconut milk, bamboo shoots, fresh eggplant, fresh green beans, fresh bell peppers, and fresh sweet basil in our signature red curry sauce.
Green Curry
A blend of coconut milk, bamboo shoots, fresh eggplant, fresh green beans, fresh bell peppers, and fresh sweet basil in our signature green curry sauce.
Yellow Curry
The most popular of all Thai curries. We blend in coconut milk, potatoes, onions, carrots and our signature yellow curry.
Panang Curry
Our panang curry is a colorful red curry, but it differs from the other red curry, its creamier and sweeter. We blend in peas and carrots, kaffir lime leaves, fresh chili and fresh basil.
Pineapple Curry
This is our sweet curry in our curry section. This curry blends well with your choice of meat or seafood. It's a red curry with sweet pineapple chunks, fresh green beans, and fresh bell peppers.
Massaman Curry
Massaman CurryThis curry is a fusion of Thai and Indian-style curries. Utilizing both a red Thai Curry paste and Indian spices like cumin, coriander, cinnamon, roasted peanuts and nutmeg.
Jungle Curry
This is as rustic as curry can get. Made without Coconut milk, the flavor tastes rather pronounced. Jungle, meaning this truly is curry in its mostPrimitive flavor.
Jasmine Rice
We serve jasmine rice, the benchmark of all rice in Thailand. It is florally fragrant and gluten-free. Our steaming process preserves the natural vitamins and micro-minerals. Steamed rice.
Brown Rice and Rice Berry
We serve brown rice combined with a dark purplish rice berry. Rice berry provides many micro-nutrients, plus vitamin e, and is rich in omega-3 and iron. Both brown rice and rice berry are gluten-free. Brown rice.
Brown Rice and Rice Berry Lunch
We serve brown rice combined with a dark purplish rice berry. Rice berry provides many micro-nutrients, plus vitamin e, and is rich in omega-3 and iron. Both brown rice and rice berry are gluten-free. Brown rice.
Sticky Rice
Per pack. We serve Thai sticky rice. A cheese-cloth steaming tradition. Sticky rice will then be tender but chewy. With each grain maintaining its structure and gluten-free. Sticky rice.
Kai Dao
Thai sunny side up egg.
Peanut sauce 3.25oz
Sides
Rice
Thai Traditional Fried Rice
Stir-fried jasmine rice, egg, tomatoes, onions, and scallions with Thai seasoning.
Thai Spicy Basil Fried Rice
Stir-fried jasmine rice, bell peppers, chili, garlic, and Thai basil. Add proteins for an additional charge.
Thai Stir-Fried Crabmeat Fried Rice
Pineapple Fried Rice
Pineapple, Cashews, Raisins and your choice of protein
Fried Rice Combo (Pork, Beef, Chicken, Shrimp)
This Special Fried Rice Combination can be substituted with our Brown Rice/Riceberry fusion.With Pork, Beef, Chicken and Shrimp, Gai Lan, Eggs, Green Onions and Tomatoes, this dish is delicious.
Pad Thai Noodles
Stir-fried rice noodles, egg, bean curd, bean sprouts, scallions, tamarind mixture, and ground peanuts.
Pad Se Eew Noodles
Wide and thick rice noodles, egg and Chinese broccoli. This noodle dish is the meeting of sweet and salty.
Pad Kee Mao Noodles
Drunken noodles. Wide and thick rice noodles, onions, bell peppers, garlic, fresh basil, fresh chili, and crispy basil. No alcohol is in this recipe. This noodle dish is when spicy meets spicier.
Lad Na Noodles
Chinese broccoli, soybean gravy sauce over pan-fried wide and thick rice noodles. Truly a delight to the palate.
Pad Woon Sen Noodles
Glass noodles, egg, mixed seasonal vegetables with house signature sauce.
Pad Chow Mein
Chow mein. A Chinese-influenced dish. Stir-fried egg noodles, and mixed seasonal vegetables in a light sweet and salty sauce.
Boat Noodle Pork Soup
Thai-style noodle dish with a strong flavor. It contains both pork as well as dark soy sauce and some spice served with meatballs pork, bean sprout, and scallion.
Boat Noodle Beef Soup
Thai-style noodle dish with a strong flavor. It contains both beef as well as dark soy sauce and some spice served with meatballs, meat bean sprouts,s, and scallion.
Tom Yum Noodle Soup
The flavors of traditional Tom Yum served with your choice of either: Rice noodles, Egg noodles, Glass noodles, Flat Rice noodles. This is a saucy, soupy noodle dish that is packed with flavor with lime, ground peanuts, dried shrimp and chili flakes.
Tom Kha Noodle Soup
Our Aromatic Coconut version of Tom Yum served with your choice of either: Rice noodles, Egg noodles, Glass noodles, Flat Rice noodles. This is a very creamy, savory noodle dish.
Khao Soi Noodle Soup
Allow us to bring our Northern Thailand Noodle soup which is based upon a thick, rich, coconut-curry broth. Served with your choice of either: Rice noodles, Egg noodles, Glass noodles, Flat Rice noodles.
Wonton and Egg Noodle Soup
A heart-warming bowl of Wonton soup with Egg Noodles is our version of comfort food. This is classic noodle soup that is a meal in-itself
Noodles
Thai Thyme Desserts
Mango with Sweet Sticky Rice
Bauloy
Meaning Floating Lotus. Colorful rice balls with young coconut shavings in coconut milk.
Fried Banana
Cookemushud in oil.
Thai Iced Tea
Thai Iced Coffee
Thai Lemon Tea
Beverages
Lunch Special
L1. Red Curry Lunch Special
Our red curry in coconut milk is served with jasmine rice.
L2. Green Curry Lunch Special
Our green curry in coconut milk is served with jasmine rice.
L3. Yellow Curry Lunch Special
Our yellow curry in coconut milk is served with jasmine rice.
L4. Thai Fried Rice Lunch Special
Stir-fried jasmine rice, egg, tomatoes, onions, scallions with Thai herb mix seasoning.
L5. Thai Spicy Basil Fried Rice Lunch Special
Stir-fried jasmine rice, bell peppers, chili, garlic, and Thai basil.
L6. Pad Thai Lunch Special
Stir-fried rice noodles, egg, bean curd, bean sprouts, scallions, signature tamarind mixture and ground peanuts. Not served with jasmine rice.
L7. Pad Se Eew Lunch Special
Stir fry wide and thick rice noodles, egg, and Chinese broccoli. Not served with jasmine rice.
L8. Pad Kee Mao Lunch Special
Drunken noodles. Wide and thick rice noodles, onions, bell peppers, garlic, fresh basil, fresh chili, and crispy basil. No alcohol is in this recipe. Not served with jasmine rice.
L9. Holy Kaprow Lunch Special
Our stir fry basil lunch with jasmine rice.
L10. Pad King Lunch Special
Our stir fry ginger lunch with jasmine rice.
L11. Pad Katiem Lunch Special
Our stir fry garlic lunch with jasmine rice.
L12. Pad Met Ma Muang Lunch Special
Our stir fry cashew nut lunch with jasmine rice.
L13. Pad Prik Sod Lunch Special
Our stir fry fresh pepper lunch. Spicy with jasmine rice.
L14. Basil Eggplant Lunch Special
Our stir fry basil eggplant lunch with jasmine rice.
L15. Pad Prick Gang Lunch Special
Our stir-fries spicy green bean lunch with jasmine rice.
L16. Pad Pak Lunch Special
Our stir fry mixed seasonal vegetable lunch with jasmine rice.
L17. Thai Omelet Lunch Special
Eggs and ground pork with house signature sauce layered upon a bed of jasmine rice. This is a special dish, simple but flavorful. Really delicious.