To hell with bad junk food!

The husband and I are increasingly in love with our apartment, so much so we rather stay home all weekend than to go out and fight for service with the crowd. That affection for the apartment is even stronger now that we have cable TV and a brand new desktop that allows him to shoot zombies and minions while I manipulate my characters in The Sims.

The only hiccup in our quest to hole ourselves in all day is the need to fill our stomachs. Most times we are too engrossed in our games to take time to make ourselves a meal. While MacDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut offer home delivery, there's only so much lousy junk food we can eat every weekend.

Sure, Spizza brings quality thin-crust pizzas to one's doorstep too, but at quite a price.

As a result, I often get pretty depressed when it was time to decide which junk food to have for lunch and dinner every weekend.

But a discovery this evening will change our weekends forever.

The husband was searching the web for home delivery options when he came across Thai To Go, a Thai food delivery service that offers a very extensive menu at canteen prices.

The menu is conveniently categorised into 12 sections for one's easy reference, and some of the sections carry fun names - Soup for the soul, Currylicious, and Oodles of noodles.

It is no joke trying to select something we wanted. The choice is so extensive that we went quite bonkers. Imagine this: there are 13 salad and starters, seven soups, seven curries, nine varieties of fried rice, eight seafood dishes, and the magnificent list goes on. Every dish is listed with a clear, drool-inducing photo, just in case you aren't quite sure of the dish.

And prices are just so easy on the pocket! A small serving of green papaya salad costs only S$4.95, a small serving of green chicken curry S$5.50, pineapple rice S$5.50, Pad Thai seafood S$6.50, and so on.

Thai To Go delivers anywhere in Singapore, although the minimum order value varies according to the destination. For instance, a delivery to Bishan or Pasir Panjang requires a minimum order of S$25, while a S$10 order suffices for Sembawang. A trifle S$3 delivery charge is added to the final bill.

The husband and I ordered a bento of spicy basil chicken with rice and Pad Thai seafood. We were so tempted to go crazy and have a royal Thai feast, but decided to be prudent. It was our first try and at the back of our minds we were not quite hopeful of quality food from a home delivery service.

Oh! We were SO wrong!

The spicy basil chicken was really fragrant, and so was the Pad Thai seafood. They were restaurant quality stuff, and were as good as the same versions I've had in Bangkok.

Impressed, I searched online for more information on Thai To Go's history.

Thai To Go is headed by a team of Thai chefs and the success of the delivery service had pushed the company to launch a dine-in restaurant recently. Wow wee. The restaurant is located in Sembawang Cottage. No wonder the minimum order requirement was much lower for deliveries to that area!

Three cheers to the discovery of Thai To Go, the team of wonderful Thai chefs and the end of my unwilling dependence on MacDonalds, KFC and Pizza Hut!

I can foresee many happy weekends of Thai feasting at home. :)