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| - Dillema: it's 1am on a Monday morning -- let's all agree that while it's technically Monday, that's still part of Sunday night -- and I may or may not be intoxicated, precluding me from driving somewhere to get the food I'm craving. Since it's so late, all the pizza places are closed. My favorite wing place is a cross-town drive. What to do? Go on Yelp and sort by "open now" and "delivery" of course!
Man am I glad I found this place. Not only do they deliver until 4am, they're delicious.
Let me get the most important thing out of the way first: I asked for spicy food and I got spicy food. When I go to Archi's Thai, I get a 20-spicy out of a 1-to-10 scale. This place asked "1 to 5" and I went with a 4, being conservative with a new place. Let me tell you: I'm really glad I didn't get the 5. The 4 is legit spicy. I LOVE when I find a place that takes spicy seriously. This place takes spicy seriously.
They also take flavor seriously. I got the Panang Curry with chicken, and the Spicy Basil Fried Rice. Both were incredibly delicious. Great flavor, cooked well, good-sized portions for $10-$11 per dish. The curry is some of the best I've had.
If I had one complaint about what I ordered, it would be that the spiciness of the fried rice dish overpowered its flavor. There's a kind of spicy that just blinds you and numbs your tongue and keeps you from tasting the food you're eating; all you taste and feel is the spiciness. The curry absolutely did not have this problem, it was spicy and delicious. The fried rice started getting into this territory. I could detect that there was a lot of good flavor under that searing spiciness. Next time I'll probably bump the fried rice down to a 3-spicy instead. Giving up the flavor isn't worth the it-hurts-so-good pain of the spiciness. Having that said, I must admit I ate all of that fried rice and I still loved it.
And seriously, how many other places are going to drive me food at 1:30am on a Sunday night/Monday morning? This place is now my go-to.
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