Sunday (3/16/14) at work, I was really craving fish cake and something savory and salad-y. Salad-y is a word right??? In comes Yelp.
Pam Real Thai delivers (which was a must because I couldn't leave work) and they supposedly don't use boullion in their cooking. This obviously works for me and I order via Yelp (Eat 24 or whatever this thing is.)
There is a $15 minimum for delivery so I order:
1 Narm Tok Beef salad $6.95 (Extra spicy)
1 Thai Fried Fish Cake $7.95
1 Cucumber salad $1.00 (Because I was $.10 under the minimum for delivery.)
Total: $15.90
+ $3 mandatory delivery fee.
Total: 18.90 + $1.51 tax
Total: $20.41
40 minutes after I place my order, I got a phone call saying that they were out of fish cake. The guy on the phone asks me what I want in place of it. There's no web site and I wasn't near a computer so I said, "Umm I guess two salads?" It would have been nice to have had an extra cucumber salad or a $1.00 refund as the salad was a buck cheaper than the fish cake that I originally ordered, but alas, I did not receive one.
An hour after I placed my order, it was dropped off. (My work is 1.9 miles away...) Sadly, the "salad" consists of beef atop a single lettuce leaf with a scant amount of shredded romaine. I'd say it's more of a garnish than a salad. :(
Everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE spicy food. If a restaurant has 3 chili peppers on their menu next to an item, that's basically the number one selling point - even though I know I'll still have to douse whatever it is in more hot sauce. If my nasal passages aren't running, it's not hot enough. If it doesn't feel like my intestines are knotting themselves, it's not hot enough.
I dive into one of the beef salads - FINALLY. Yes, this is spicy. If I say it's spicy, best believe you can't handle it. It wasn't so much of a nasal clearing spicy, but more of a singe your tongue off spicy. I loved it but I saved the second salad for the next day's lunch.
I do feel like delivery is not the best option and I really wish I would have been alerted earlier to the fish cake shortage as that was what I was craving but oh well. It looks like dine in gives you much better bang for your buck than delivery.