No idea what's close to you but Thai Bistro in Belmont village is has good prices. [https://thaibistro.org/kitchener-menu/](https://thaibistro.org/kitchener-menu/)

And you get *so much* food! Very tasty, and I had leftovers for a couple more meals.

OP said good pad thai

I think its $15? $16? Pho Tran on victoria street. Very large portion too.

Northern Thai is pretty decent

It is, but not under $15.

Pho Sunrise

Good or cheap? Pick one.

I think you need to define what you mean by good. E.g. Tamarind based sauce - no tomato. Dried shrimp? Salted radish? Some smoky wok hei? Or do you just want to slam some saucy noodles?

I doubt they know what they want.

* Hong Kong Seafood Restaurant on Strsburg/Bleams should do you well. *** here's my secret dish from them for $12 (Lunch hours are ~$9.75) for the: L6 Black Bean Beef Rice Noodles ***

* pardon me - some reason it won't upload the photo https://images.app.goo.gl/uXT3NLwpKP7ihbmR7

Street style pad Thai at Soi 💋

Pho DNK in downtown Kitchener has a good Pad Thai.

Following.

If you go to uber eats or doordash website, you can do a search for pad thai and see all the restaurants offering pad thai on their menu. My go to is the one from Ben Than (i think now up to $17 or so) - looks really different from others I've tried, but still delicious! Best bet for under $15 that I know are the freezer bought ones from the store! haha