Grab Meal Review: Pa Lai Grilled Pork Napa - "Grilled Chicken Wings", "Grilled Calf With Thigh", "Garlic Chicken With Rice", & "Grilled Pork Neck"

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Pa Lai Grilled Pork Napa

Price breakdown (4 items):
Grilled Chicken Wings 15 Baht per wing
Grilled Calf With Thigh 60 Baht
Garlic Chicken With Rice 60 Baht
Grilled Pork Neck 89 Baht

The neck pork is fatty and seasoned with salt and pepper. The seasoning works excellently, and I quite like it. It would go great on a salad to counter the fat. On its own the fattiness would make it hard to eat all of, despite how good it tastes.

The calf thigh tastes honeyed and a tad salty with a taste that brings me back to having a bbq with greek family friends. It is a tad spicy in the aftertaste, but it's very handle-able. I can also taste lime, I think? It's very nice, and you get a good amount of it. It's coloured with the seasonings in a way that makes the meat look yellow.

The chicken wings are sold individually despite being labelled as the plural chicken wings. Despite that, they're not unreasonably priced. The seasoning would make it remind me of shrimp, were it not for the fattiness. A little disappointing, but still decent and worth having again. I will also note there isn't much meat on the bone per piece, but that's not unusual for chicken wings.

The garlic chicken on rice is very plain tasting and not very exciting. Tad peppery. Tad garlic-y. A little overcooked. I wouldn't buy it again, but only because I can do better. It comes on rice with sliced cucumber on the side.

One of these items came with a baggy of a spicy looking sauce that definitely has chili flakes in it. I didn't bother to try it. Additionally there is a small packet of chili in oil, which I didn't bother with.

Besides the Wings, every item in this order was good value, and besides the Garlic Chicken, every item in this order was worth ordering again. I will note, though, that besides the garlic chicken, none of these items came with, by default, any rice or vegetables. I would recommend ordering or having prepared a side, so that you aren't only eating protein.

Restuarant and item names in the title are written as provided by the Grab app with Thai to English translation on in settings.

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Attribute to review author "Nicolete Lovejoy".