From Roger’s notebook

Thai

Food history

Latest recorded visit2009-08-14
“This place is aight...pricing is reasonable, though food and curry is not so tasty, bit watered down. The honey roast duck was good though.... Beer prices are aight”
Roger, Google Maps review (2009-08-14)

Thai

Royal Thai Cuisine

Gaslamp Quarter, San DiegoClosed

Roger rated this 3 stars, saying the curry was watered down and not very tasty despite reasonable pricing, though he liked the honey roast duck and thought beer prices were fair.

Closed

Royal Thai Cuisine is listed as closed. This page keeps Roger's dated review as a record, not as a place to visit.

Yelp — Royal Thai Cuisine listed as closed (checked 2026-09-20) (2026-09-20) ↗

The call

This page is kept as part of the dated record. The order notes below describe the place as Roger recommended it, not as it operates today.

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    Visit history

    2009-08-14day precision · source explicit
    ★★★☆☆
    “This place is aight...pricing is reasonable, though food and curry is not so tasty, bit watered down. The honey roast duck was good though.... Beer prices are aight”

    Roger found the curry watered down and not very tasty despite reasonable pricing, though he liked the honey roast duck and thought beer prices were fair. (From an unpublished Yelp draft review, never posted publicly.)

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    From the order notes
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