From our family's rice fields to your table. Four generations of tradition,one passion: sharing the soul of Laos and Thailand through food made with love.
Dispatches from the kitchen
Hoang Khao is now soft open in Ankeny, and the first bowls are leaving the kitchen. Tuesday through Friday, join us for lunch from 11 to 2 and dinner from 4 to 8:30. Saturday is dinner all day, noon to 8:30. Closed Sunday and Monday. These are our soft-opening hours while we find our rhythm — thank you for your patience, and your appetite. Every visit helps us sharpen every dish before the grand opening.
Hoang Khao is looking for two warm, dependable servers to join our family in Ankeny. If you love taking care of people, we'll teach you the rest — experience is a plus, not a must. Role — Server (2 openings) Where — Ankeny, IA Shifts — Evenings & weekends Stop in and say hello, or give us a call. Call — (515) 257-1601 Visit — 1325 SW Oralabor Road #200, Ankeny, Iowa 50023 Online — hoangkhao.com · @hoangkhaodsm
Hoang Khao (hwahng-kow) means rice stalk in Lao.
Our family has lived by rice for generations. They were farmers who planted it by hand, harvested it by season, and built their whole lives around it. Rice was not just what they grew. It was how they survived, how they celebrated, how they showed love.
That spirit never left us. It just moved into the kitchen.
Today, the same family that brought you Pad Thai Garden is cooking the food we grew up eating at home. Lao and Thai dishes made from recipes that were never written down, passed from one generation to the next through memory and repetition and love.
We named this place after the rice stalk because it felt honest. We are still a rice family. We always will be.
From the family behind Pad Thai Garden in West Des Moines and Salah Pad Thai in Jacksonville Beach.
Each dish tells a story of tradition, crafted with the freshest ingredients and generations of culinary wisdom.
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Protein Options:Chicken, Tofu, Veggies • Beef (+$2.00), Shrimp (+$2.00)
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Protein Options:Chicken, Pork, Tofu, Veggies • Beef (+$2.00), Shrimp (+$2.00)
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Protein Options:Chicken, Pork, Tofu, Veggies • Beef (+$2.00), Shrimp (+$2.00)
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Protein Options:Chicken, Pork, Tofu, Veggies • Beef (+$2.00), Shrimp (+$2.00)
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Protein Options:Chicken, Pork, Tofu, Veggies • Beef (+$2.00), Shrimp (+$2.00)
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Refreshing Thai tea with lime.
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Fanta Orange, Lemonade, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew
Green tea, Jasmine tea, Chamomile tea, Pomegranate & Raspberry tea
Sweet and creamy rose-flavored Thai milk drink
Sweet and creamy Thai-style iced coffee
Sweet and creamy Thai-style iced tea
Fluffy steamed jasmine rice
Traditional sticky rice served in a woven basket
Sweet and sour chili sauce or peanut sauce.
Add extra chicken to any dish
Add extra chicken to any dish
Add extra beef or shrimp to any dish
Add extra beef or shrimp to any dish
Rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, and crushed peanuts.
Jasmine rice stir-fried with egg, carrots, peas, and a light soy sauce.
Lightly battered chicken tenders with sweet chili sauce.
Sweet and savory fried rice with egg, onions, carrots, peas, and garnished with roasted cashews, cilantro, and crispy onions.
Fragrant fried rice with egg, fresh basil, onions, bok choy, and napa, garnished with cilantro and fried onions.
Classic fried rice with egg, carrots, peas, onions, and garnished with fried onions and cilantro.
Stir-fried rice noodles with egg, bean sprouts, green onion, and scallions in our special sauce and garnished with cilantro, peanuts, and lime
Stir-fried clear noodles with egg, napa, bok choy, onion, carrots, broccoli, mushrooms, and green beans.
Stir-fried wide rice noodles with egg, onion, broccoli, bok choy, carrots, and basil.
Stir-fried egg noodles with onion, asparagus, bok choy, jalapeno pepper, basil, and broccoli.
Stir-fried wide rice noodles, egg, broccoli, carrots, and mushrooms.
Stir-fried with onion, pineapple, green pepper, carrots, broccoli, and cashew.
Stir-fried with onion, mushroom, green pepper, and basil.
Stir-fry chicken, beef, and shrimp with aromatic herbs.
Stir-fried with fresh ginger, green beans, broccoli, onion, and zucchini.
Stir-fried with bamboo shoots, onion, green beans, broccoli, carrots, napa, bok choy, mushrooms, and zucchini.
Steamed broccoli and spinach topped with creamy peanut sauce.
Cooked in red curry paste and coconut milk with bamboo shoot, carrots, green beans, broccoli, and basil
Smooth, mildly sweet curry with a thick, creamy sauce, green pepper, peas, napa, and sweet basil.
Spicy green curry with bamboo shoot, green beans, broccoli, fresh basil, and creamy coconut milk
Cooked in red curry paste and coconut milk with bamboo shoots, carrots, green beans, broccoli, and basil.
(Served Cold) Pineapple, Whte peach, Lychee, Plum
(Served chilled)
(Served chilled)
(Served Chilled) Peach, Yogurt, Apple Mango
(Served Hot or Cold)
(Served chilled) Strawberry, Plum, Green Grape, Grapefruit, Lychee
Monday
Closed
Tuesday - Friday
11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
4:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Saturday
12:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Sunday
Closed
Opening August 2026
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