KIIN IMM THAI RESTAURANT - Rockville

Delicious Thai food that was not greasy and had a wide range of different flavors for reasonable prices! Most of their dry noodle and fried rice dishes (chicken or veggie) are only $12 and well worth the price.

I really enjoyed their curry puffs, pad thai, and godzilla fried rice (which has a lot of tasty spicy seafood), and would also recommend their lemon Thai iced tea for a citrusy twist on a fan favorite drink!

Can’t wait to come back again and try their brussel sprout salad and some of their monthly specials as I’ve heard that those dishes are also really good!

We loved everything about our experience today.

The place is very unassuming located in a strip mall along the pike. When you walk in there are cherry blossoms on the ceiling and TVs that are playing videos of walk-throughs of Thailand Street markets. It’s not a big place. Not ideal for a large group. However, the two of us were sat immediately on a busy Saturday afternoon and we never saw people waiting longer than 10-15 minutes.

The menu is really nice because it’s not huge like you see it most casual Asian spots. it’s one page front and back for all the food. We had papaya salad, tom kha, chop chop basil and finished with taro custard. Everything was outrageously good, especially for the price.

The service is also an important piece of this. Our waiters gave us great recommendations. They kept our drinks topped off. They graciously exchanged our soup when we ordered the wrong one and when we told them we were splitting our entrée they gave us two eggs on our chop chop basil dish instead of one. Super friendly and attentive.

We can’t wait to come back and try some of the hits like pad Thai, fried rice, and panang curry!

The one thing I always seek out in a restaurant is authenticity. Many times you go to a restaurant and find no one from that respective culture in the staff. Genuine is the best word I can use to describe this restaurant.

As soon as I walked in and saw the clientele, the staff, the dishes, and took in the aromatic smells.....I knew I was in the right spot.

I am so incredibly happy that I ate here. Every single dish was on point, spice levels to perfection, and aromas that just tickled your senses. Crispy fish, panang curry, and taro coconut custard dessert were all standouts.

I will definitely be visiting again.

After eating here twice, I can say that Kiin Imm is a standout Thai restaurant with consistently good food, a fun atmosphere, and top notch service. Both times, the restaurant is packed, and people are either filing in to get a table or pick up their takeaway order.

The fun and upbeat vibe makes for a positive dining experience elevated by Bangkok-inspired modern Thai cuisine. On our first visit, acting on the recommendation of a regular customer, we tried the Brussels sprout salad (outstanding with addictive tangy and sweet tamarind sauce); Beef in Bangkok (hearty beef with broccoli); Pad See Ew (filling noodles absorbed in a light sauce); and Thai Taro coconut custard (literally amazing - creamy, sweet and decadent and also dairy and gluten free)!

On our second visit, we re-ordered the Brussels sprout salad and beef in Bangkok dishes because they were so good the first time. These dishes impressed us all over again, the mark of a good restaurant. I also got a pad Thai, which is probably the best pad Thai I’ve ever had and changed my whole perception of the dish. Finally, a flavorful pad Thai that is NOT GREASY.

Maw is a great server and remembered us from our first visit - she even remembered that we wanted cashews in the side and wanted the mango sticky rice (which the restaurant had run out of our first visit). The sticky rice is subtly sweet and paired with mango.

I love this restaurant. There are plenty of gluten-free options, and everyone in there is having a good time. The dishes are reasonably priced, authentic, and taste way better than more expensive Thai places in DC. Highly recommend as a standout restaurant in the DC area!

Really beautiful place to dine at. The restaurant is well designed and the servers are very sweet, will check up on you and ask if everything is all good from time to time. Would recommend to come earlier to not wait for a table since it gets pretty busy during dinner time. Would recommend their moon river crossing and kua gai noodles. The portions are worth the price as it’s plenty for a person.

Really loved this spot! Came here on a whim and was speculative about the wait but it was so worth it. So many folks coming for dine in and carry out. The place is smaller but very cute and well maintained.
The dishes were really great and prob some of the best Thai food I've had in the area. Also the staff is putting in work to make this small but mighty place run! Will be visiting again :-)

We ordered a chili basil eggplant with tofu and a drunken noodles with tofu. Both of the dishes have very good quantities of tofu and vegetables, it's also very tasty and have wok chi. The price is also looks good for the vegetarian dishes.
My son ordered a Ching mai Khao so I noodles with chicken. He love the way cooked with curry source as the base and the quantity is also enough for adult. It's worth to come back for another bites.

Love this restaurant. Been here a handful of times and have never been disappointed. I've only been during lunch time and they get very busy with dine in and carry out orders. The dining area is very cozy and they have flowers draping the ceiling. Service is great and quick - they want to get you in and out so that other guests can be served.

We ordered the Papaya Salad, Ka Prow Chicken, and Night Bazaar Chili Flounder. All were quite tasty! They squeeze a lot of lime in the Papaya Salad so it's a bit on the tart side but overall flavor is great and the spice is perfect. The flounder was so crispy and paired so well with the veggies it came with. The Ka Prow Chicken was very flavorful and even though there are 3 peppers next to it for rating - the heat wasn't overwhelming. Nothing was over salted and the Ka Prow dish came with plenty of chicken to share and take home.

Highly recommend. We went for a late lunch on a Saturday afternoon. We were seated right away and tended to quickly. Our food came out all at once (2 dishes). We ordered the larb chicken to share, pineapple fried rice and drunken noodle. Nothing too exotic, but the flavors were great nonetheless.

Service was friendly and quick. However, I felt super rushed throughout the entire experience. They gave us the check and took our credit card from the table before I could ask for desert. We left without but that didn’t put me off from coming back and trying again next time.

I had always wanted to try this restaurant and I am so glad I did! The staff was so attentive and gave great recommendations of menu items and how they could be modified to our liking. The portions were perfect and the food was so flavorful. I cannot wait to come back and try different dishes.

Once again a hidden gem in the Rockville, Maryland area. If you are open to trying good food at a reasonable price, you’ve got to try this place out. We ordered Thai Iced Tea, appetizers, entree for four adults and the tidal bill was $105. Very reasonable. As we like spicy food the server was able to adjust the spice levels to our liking. We skipped dessert as we had absolutely no room left in our stomach.

In summary, we will absolutely come back here and recommend this place to anyone who is interested to try some unique (read original) Thai recipes.

The strip mall isn't much yo look at but this restaurant inside is a hidden gem. Very pretty, modern, and clean. I got lunch take out and this place was hopping. Took 20 mins. Food was very good. Wok saute mushroom with tofu. Great menu selection as well.

Great find, in a strip mall. Well worth seeking it out. The pad se ewe with beef was delicious and more than enough to take some home too! Highly recommend going here.

Amazing Thai restaurant that has delicious food! Highly recommend the larb chicken and to split the dishes. The staff are incredibly kind and the food came out quickly! A hidden gem in Rockville!

Food is amazing. Staff is great. We drive about 45 minutes one way just to have the food here. Drunken Noodle is amazeballs. Deep fried pork is sooo good. This place gets pretty busy and for a good reason. Take the time to make the trip here and enjoy the awesome Thai food.

Amazinggg. Probably one of the more authentic Thai restaurant in a while. I was searching Yelp for good Asian food near our hotel in Rockville and I'm so glad we found this place. I was sold when I saw the Khao Kha Moo on the menu.

Khao Kha Moo: I eat this every time I go to Thailand. The five spice flavor with anise is fantastic. Our batch was lean pork pieces with a few fatty parts. My husband thought it was the perfect amount while I on the other hand wanted them to go hard on the flavor. Overall fantastic

Chicken larb: what a fresh appetizer to start your meal.

Pineapple fried rice with shrimp: I was walking by to get my seat and I smelled great fried rice so obviously I had to ask the couple that got it what kind it was. They told me pineapple. I ordered it and it was as smoky as I thought it would be.

Drunken noodles with beef: this was more the dish that my husband and mom targeted. They seemed to like it cuz it was almost all gone

Basil chicken: spicy and flavorful. Again this was more my husband's dish but he said it was perfect.

Kiin Imm nuggets: crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Perfect mix of chicken and shrimp with a sweet chili sauce.

I'm pretty sure that the chef here struck some kind deal with powerful forces to become such an amazing cook. I imagine our hero trading his sense of taste for the ability to cook such delicious food. Every night he's all "I guide others to a treasure I cannot possess." It's worth it, though, because he enjoys seeing the Joy on his customers' faces. More importantly, he's also able to pay for his daughter's medical treatments.

Whatever the backstory, the food is absolutely incredible and the service is friendly.

Please don't come here. I want it all to myself.

How did Rockville land such a genuine and popular Thai restaurant?

All your favorites are on the menu, plus a good selection of 'street food.'
This cozy restaurant has a surprising number of tables and can even seat a party of 10, albeit tightly.

During, the busy times, which is any time you would want to go, I have never seen a waitstaff work so hard and stay so friendly.

This place also does an incredible Carry Out business as well.

Lively atmosphere, great service, and excellent food make this gem a top destination.

Love the food the atmosphere is chill and laid back. Well lit. Xmas songs playing right now. Ordered some fried chives (don't know the official name) but it was awesome! Had a salad of some type (see pic). Got some green curry chicken too...spot on and one of their great dishes. Didn't like the pad thai - in my opinion it was too much sauce which made it too sweet but still got 5 stars because everything else made up for the one dish.

There are a lot of great Thai restaurants in DMV, but this one gotta be the best restaurant of all of them! I’ve been to this place many times and yet to have any bad experience from here. Both pad Thai and drunken noodle are really good and i also highly recommend the spicy tom yum noodle and chop chop basil. This place is relatively small, so you might have to wait for your table during the weekend. A lot of people order takeouts from here, but I would prefer dine-in. Friendly staffs are always plus.