We got a two-meal carry-out from Bandung. We ate there a year ago, and I remembered it being better than what we ended up with for carry out. When we had dinner there a year ago we got the appetizer sampler (which I remember as excellent) and I got the duck dinner, which I also remember as being very good. However, this last time around was very bland.
We ordered the Stir Fried Holy Basil with beef and the Bihun Gorung with beef (oyster flavored rice noodles, sort of pad-ish). Both were noted with two stars as being "spicy." We were both dead tired after a long weekend, so sat sort of comatose waiting for our food (I would like to add that the waitstaff is very, very nice!!) and forgot to ask for extra spicy basically going on the hope that the two stars actually meant it would be spicy.
The Stir Fried Holy Basil was mostly onions. The fresh basil was the only good part of the dish. It had no heat whatsoever. It was so bland that we only ate a small portion of it. The Bihun Gorung was much better, but again, no heat at all. It was a little frustrating because the Holy Basil was so blah that we ended up having to split the Bihun Gorung between two of us, and I would have rather had a whole dinner for myself.
The two carry-out meals came to a little over $18 and were ready in about 15 minutes.
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