Yum Yum Restaurant

Located in Salt Lake Shopping Center, Yum Yum touts itself as a Chinese and Thai restaurant. We were craving Chinese food, but we found that their menu was almost exclusively Thai.

Ambiance:
Not bad. The configuration was a little confusing because we had to head to the middle of the restaurant to be seated. The interior of the restaurant looked like it was a Chinese restaurant converted into a Thai restaurant.

Service:
Good. The servers were friendly and timely.

Food:

• Tom yum soup with tofu: It tasted like that moment right before the sun rises in the morning. Dawn. Dawn, as in the dishwashing soap. When the soup came out of the kitchen piping hot, the flavor of soap wasn't that noticeable. However, as it cooled, the soapy flavor became more apparent. Not the perfect way to start dinner, but thankfully the rest of the meal tasted less...like Dawn.
  
• Stir fried eggplant with tofu: Good. Very tasty. The taste was similar to szechuan-style eggplant, but with thai basil.
  
• Stir fried long rice with egg: Interesting. Not something we'd usually order, but pretty good. Simple. Seems like a breakfast food with the bits of scrambled egg.

As with most Thai restaurants, rice had to be ordered separately.

Value:
The dishes were surprisingly affordable, more so than at other Thai restaurants. For the three dishes, we spent a little over $20. They didn't skimp on the portion size either.

Overall:
With the exception of the soup, the food at Yum Yum lived up to the restaurant's name. A great place to go for cheap Thai food.