“I love you like I love leftover Thai food.”

After my relentless badgering, Yuven finally surrendered and I got to indulge in some much anticipated Thai cuisine. So after scrutinizing menus and other reviews for the ideal place we took a leisurely meander towards Durban North.

It’s quite easy for your eyes to drift over the entrance to The Wok Box as it is nestled between Neo Cafe and the Green Parrot. Poking your head through the entrance transports you to an environment of wooden benches and sufficiently-clad tables holding seasonings and chopsticks, and shelves balancing artefacts narrating a lifestyle unknown to us.

Their menu is scantily clad, but nonetheless thrilling to our mutton-bunny-tainted eyes. We singled out our favourites with mine being the Wok Fries With Roasted Cashew Nut and Sun-Dried Chilli and Noodles, and Yuven settling on the Red Thai Curry with Jasmine Rice.

Our waiter was amiable, and had us “air-locked” when our food arrived in less than 5 minutes after our order was placed! Our respective foods gave new meaning to the phrase “enough to feed an army”. The portions were ridiculously generous, and bore no comparison to its price of R 88 per meal. The addition of chopsticks on each table was delightful to someone like me who relished the opportunity to learn how to use one for the first time.

My order was bursting with intoxicating flavours and crunchy vegetables, and spilled over with chicken pieces and cashew nuts with the odd hot spark of a chilli finding its way in. Yuven’s food radiated the smell of ginger and spicy warmth ensconced in perfectly cooked rice. By the end of the night we were begging for takeaway bags to house the food still stacked on our plates.

In essence, we would suggest The Wok Box to people with adventurous palettes, and an insatiable hunger, but as usual that’s just in my opinion 🙂