Restaurant Review: Thailicious in Artesia, CA

Fried Wontons - $4.95

Among the many things that changed in our lives when Baby Buckshot came into our lives was our eating habits.  Gone are those leisurely meals in those places called restaurants.

On our way back from a trip to Solvang, we were thinking about stopping in at a Ramen place with baby in tow.  By the time we were done with the 3 hour drive, we decided on delivery.

Sadly, there are only 3 kinds of foods that get delivered in Cerritos: Pizza, Thai and Mediterranean.  Since I was craving Asian flavors after a Danish weekend, we picked Thai.  I headed to the Yelp app where there's a new feature just in time for our new dine-at-home lifestyle: Eat24 and Yelp allow users to place orders directly from the Yelp app.

Thai Boat Noodles (sm) - $3.95

Thailicious was the closest restaurant that delivered using the Eat24 system and before we even got home, we had perused the whole menu, ordered and paid (including tip) all through the app!  I cannot express how excited I am about this convenience.  But if you've ever tried to order something over the phone with a screaming baby in the background, I think you can relate.

Anyway, we ordered Fried Wontons, a small order of Tom Kha Gai, Pad Thai, Boat Noodles, Red Curry and got 2 cups of Thai Iced Tea for free!

The Fried Wontons were perfectly fried and filled with a little bit of pork.  They were ok on their own but phenomenal with the sweet and spicy dipping sauce.

Thai Iced Tea - Free!

The Tom Kha Gai was the best I had ever had.  A good balance of creamy coconut milk, spice and sour flavors.  The fragrant lemongrass and galangal was just perfect.  There were also lots of chicken and mushroom bits, which I like. Hubs, who doesn't like mushrooms, said it was the best dish we ordered.

The Pad Thai was well packaged separating the bean sprouts and carrot shreds so that they could be mixed immediately before eaten keeping that fresh veggie crunch.  I'm not a huge fan of Pad Thai but the flavors were well balanced and Hubs really loved it.  He ate the whole order even after having some of everything else we ordered.

Pad Thai

Now, I'm a big fan of Boat Noodles but have only had one place do it well.  I'm constantly on the search for a good Boat Noodle restaurant and unfortunately, Thailicious doesn't deliver in this area.  They offer a small size of the dish which is ridiculously cheap at $3.95 but it just didn't hit the spot despite having all the right offal meats.  For the record, they did have the liver, tripe and I believe tendon.  This dish paled in comparison to the Tom Kha Gai.  No lie.

Tom Kha Gai - $7.95

The Red Curry was also phenomenal.  Full of bamboo shoots and chicken with a perfect red curry sauce.  Oddly, their rice had a weird texture.  It was on the soggy side and resulted in a lot of the grains sticking together instead of maintaining their individual grains.  It detracted from an otherwise perfect curry.

The Thai iced tea was also very good good and obviously made fresh.  I've been to Thai restaurants that use the bottles, which is really confusing to me because if there's one thing a Thai restaurant should be able to make, shouldn't it be the tea?

Red Curry - $7.95

The delivery was extremely quick, about 30 minutes, though they say the delivery could take 45-60 minutes to arrive. The delivery guy was also very nice.

Thailicious ranks among the top 2 Thai restaurants in the area, only topped by Sweetee Thai who doesn't offer Eat24 Yelp app ordering.

Thalicious

Address: 18902 Norwalk Blvd, Artesia, CA 90701

Phone:(562) 860-8843

Hours:

 

Monday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Tuesday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Wednesday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Thursday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Friday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Saturday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm
Sunday	11:00 am – 9:00 pm