Don't get me wrong…I love a great takeout order of spicy goodness, but I'm really having an internal struggle trying to justify it anymore. Maybe I'm getting cheap with my age??? Or is it getting out of hand?
$25 for noodles + veggies + chicken Or $30 for rice + veggies + chicken seems just crazy for a single order.
Tonight I tried to make my own (was ok, but I'm getting better lol).
1x Chicken breast – $3.00
6x thai chillies – $0.75
Garlic + ginger- $0.75
1x Bulkak 2x hot (was feeling lazy) – $2.50
Broccoli – $1.50
Sauce (soy/broth/ect) – $0.50
Total = $9.00 (maybe less?)
I get that prices include keeping the lights on, but man it's hard to justify…
However, with that said I seem to keep going back lol.
What's your thoughts on local spicy takeout options?
by 2shoez10
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Tipping on a pickup order? Nope
Charging for a paper bag to put your order in? Fuck them.
I very rarely go out to eat at all anymore. I have a few spots I like that aren’t crazy with the prices, but if I’m craving something I usually just look up a few recipes online and figure it out.
100%. That’s why I startes cooking way more a few years ago. I enjoy it and it’s almost always really good. And healthier.
Not only are restaurants so expensive now, the food qu6has largely gone down and the service is just bizarre. We are disappointed almost every time we go out, minus a couple of local favorites.
Is that Canadian dollars?
I tip my server when they seat me, take my order, refill my drink, come back to check and see how the food is, and bring me the bill so I can pay while still sitting at the table.
I don’t tip someone who hands me a bag and receipt while I’m standing at a counter.
I don’t ever have food delivered, so I don’t really have an opinion about tipping a driver.
100% agree it’s almost always cheaper and better making stuff at home
You paid it. That’s why they charge it. Tip on pickup during covid had merits, but no longer. $25 for a meal with a takeout fee? That restaurant will never see me
Ordering takeout is so convenient. I stray away from it often though. Instead, I’ve learned to cook my own ramen. It’s super easy, tasty, spicy, and delish! I mix it up with a variety of ingredients. Depending on my mood or time or energy.
Nope, it’s rarely worth it. I’ve learned to make a few things at home and it’s cheaper, fresher and more satisfying. You can even use high quality ingredients and still be better off. My refried beans are phenomenal compared to ready made or even some restaurants nearby. I get to use real leaf lard and as much onion, garlic, and serrano as I like. I season them with chipotle, cayene salt and epazote . Garnish with queso fresca. So good!
HOMIE, bone broth costs about 10 dollars to make max, with an average sized slowcooker you can make 40 servings,
take that bone broth, a bag of soup bones is about 5$ take the bone broth and fill up some small ball glass jars, each one of these is two servings. you can freeze these easily.
take as many jars as you want, fill up a saucepan with water, if theyre frozen turn them upside down and let the steam do the job for you, if not, skip that and once you pour the soup into the pan, fill up the ball jar twice for every balljar you used with water
add about 30 cents worth of soysauce and worstercheshire sauce each,
season with salt pepper and whatever else you want to taste.
go grab yourself a bone in roundeye, costs about 5$ per pound, cut the eye out boil it into the broth when you go to make your ramen, pour as much of the beef juice as you want into your ramen for a beefy flavor
5 dollars worth of your choice of veg.
flat iron pepper company sells a really great spicy asian spicy combo $10 but it will get you for over 100 bowls if used properly.
if you wana get fancy hard boiled egg, but be careful about your bowl to egg ratio.
the most expensive part of this is the steak and thats just personal choice.
enjoy
the fact that somewhere down the line we forgot how to make soup is just insane, boomers really fucked us on knowing how to live outside of fast food.
I like cooking so I hardly order food or go out to eat. The only way I justify going out would be for food that would be a bit more expensive and time consuming to make at home like barbacoa. I’ll gladly pay $14/lb on barbacoa because I know that it takes a nice 7-8hrs to cook an entire head and if I want to make it at some I’m easily buying $30+ worth of beef cheeks and tongue and still not get the same results. I’m tackling americanized Chinese takeout because it’s easily $100+ to feed my entire house if I order from panda express.
Add chicken, GF, double broccoli, double sauce, add peanut, etc. you pay for that shit I’m sure. Pad ki mow typically under $15 depending on protein choice, it’s gonna be regional though. You want cheap? Dont add a bunch of shit!
Also, am I trippin or those noodles look like they’re in a broth and not a sauce…
I only take out what I can not cook myself, which is damn little. I mean, I don’t want to buy all the ingredients for pad thai because half of it will go to waste. So I get a 20 dollar bowl. Yum.
If it cost you 9 dollars, it would sell for 27$ Average food cost is 30%, and it has been for decades. So everything is going up but no one has to get take out.
Pad kee mao is hard to make imo, it’s something I’d do takeout instead of cooking myself. That price is really expensive though, I’d shop around.
Ordering online these days includes more than keeping the lights on. Too many middle men want their cut. Better to order at the counter.
The best food I’ve had for over a decade has been at home.
Restaurants are just pay-for-mid, at least in my experience in the USA.
I rarely eat out. If I am feeling lazy I might do something frozen. When I do eat out I get things I don’t know how to cook well at home, like Thai or Indian food:
You could’ve made that at home for like 5.00!
I thought this was a joke and you made your own ramen noodle dish.
That is insane
This looks really good, but holy cow… $2.50 for the Broccoli is hella expensive!
I paid $20 for a grilled cheese about a month ago. And on top of that, they came to the table to run our cards and it automatically chooses 22% tip. It felt hostile lol ended up being $40 for a mediocre sandwich and dirty chai. Not worth it at all.
That’s so funny you say this, just debated between going to my Thai place vs making drunken noodles at home. Ended up doing it at my place, drank all I wanted, smoked some doobies, and cranked the spice level to 12 with Boon sauce extra hot chili oil, Birds Eye’s chilis, and reaper flakes. Super easy and fun. [https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/drunken-noodles/](https://tastesbetterfromscratch.com/drunken-noodles/)
https://preview.redd.it/88zjjlu5s56e1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8a9a3ab9490af1c84341f2eae6f14dbabcd4be06
edit: this was before is added the sauce
Lmao $.25 for a paper bag? Fuck that place