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| - It was another Sunday where I barely felt like moving off of my bed let alone going somewhere to pick up some food (making it about the 30th Sunday so far this year). Didn't really feel like pizza and around these parts if you don't want pizza the options are limited. Decided to try Gaati for the first time even though it required me to pick up the phone and dial a number which was a struggle in itself. Took me about 10 minutes it felt like to explain my street address because it contains roughly 12 words in it which is another issue altogether, but the food was on it's way and showed up 45 minutes later as promised.
I really wished I liked it more, but ultimately I found it fairly run of the mill thai food. I tried the Basil Fried Rice with Tofu because fried rice always sounds delicious, the pictures on this site looked good, and I chose Tofu because I wanted to limit my weight gain over the weekend to a respectable 9.75 lbs instead of 10. I ordered it a spice level 3 out of 4, which is a pet peeve of mine to not offer more variety of spice levels. I found this dish to be pretty bland and underseasoned, and it didn't seem spicy to me in the least. Another minus for me which would probably be a plus to any reasonable human being was that it wasn't greasy at all. It almost seemed healthy in a sense but on this night I would have preferred a little bit more oil to it for some more flavor. I ordered the tofu to make me feel less guilty about the grease that would be dribbling down my chin while eating it and didn't get that. 2/5 because it wasn't inedible
I also tried the Pork Mee Kao which I saw someone mention was drunken noodles in one of the reviews here. I've had drunken noodles at Lotus which I consider to be one of the top 78 things I've ever eaten so I figured I'd give them a go here, also a 3/4 spice level. As not spicy as the Fried Rice was, this was the complete opposite and was burning my entire mouth with every bite and I literally still felt the pure heat in my mouth hours later as I reveled in the new Breaking Bad episode. Even though it was spicier than I would have wanted when ordering a 3/4, it was still a very tasty dish and the pork and veggies seemed fresh and of good quality. It was nowhere near as good as the Lotus of Siam version (if they are indeed the same thing), but I would eat it again for sure (next time a 2/4, which will probably not have any spice whatsoever. see why I hate this scale?) 4/5 on this one
Both of these dishes were $11 and I ordered an iced tea which was probably $3 or so, and my total when delivered was $30.50 which was a little more than I expected. To be fair their menu says it's a delivery surcharge based on distance up to $7 and it looks like I probably paid $4-$5 which isn't too bad, but you might want to check with them when you call in to double check as I was left with only $3.50 to tip the delivery driver in cash instead of my standard $5. Not surprisingly I thought the noodles was worth the price and the fried rice not.
So yeah, after all that, 3/5 and you're probably no better off than when you clicked this. You're welcome.
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