WEEEE-OOOHHHH, WEEEE-OOOHHHH, WEEEE-OOOHHHH ... SOUND THE ALARM ... THIS IS NOT A DRILL ... we FOUND IT! ... THE BEST tikka masala IN THE CITY!! You did it, Alibaba Kebab!! YOU DID IT!! :-D
Yesterday we had a late-night hankering for some delivery chow. By that time, there were not many options still open. But Alibaba was taking DoorDash orders until 11:30pm. Plus it was free delivery with orders over $15, so we went for it. We placed our DoorDash order at about 11:15pm, and our food was contactless-delivered to our porch a little after midnight.
We ordered chicken tikka masala, paneer tikka masala, a falafel and hummus wrap, and an extra order of naan bread. Everything came packaged well, hot, and HUGE. The naan bread was SO BIG it didn't fit on our plates! They use the same HUGE naan for their wraps, so the falafel wrap was HUGE too! We ordered it with no cheese and the yogurt sauces on the side, so it was vegan for our vegan daughter. She LOVED the wrap, and easily had half to save for the next day.
The tikka masala dishes were both BEYOND. I've become so used to getting tikka masala with the consistency of Campbell's tomato soup that I forgot what an exceptional, hearty tikka masala could be like. Paneer tikka masalas I get elsewhere usually have a few small cheese chunks afloat in a watery sauce--but NOT this one! Alibaba's was a hearty, creamy, cheese-chocked-full tikka masala, with peas! I've never had one made ever heartier and creamier with peas! The flavor was as sensational as the consistency. Maybe a smidge spicy for my liking, but I am a spicy-lightweight, so probably just right for most folks. The hubbs loved his chicken tikka masala too, also very generous with the chicken.
Ordering on DoorDash, it was very easy to customize our dishes to be "No Cilantro." We both like cilantro flavor, but recently had a bad tikka masala experience someplace else with stemmy, rutty cilantro sticks all through the dish. To play it safe, it was nice to easily opt out of cilantro altogether. In this case, I didn't miss it. I like cilantro flavor, but this tikka masala still had a complex flavor profile that left me wanting for nothing, just YUM.
The prices at Alibaba Kebab were very reasonable! The HUGE falafel wrap was just $8.99. The chicken tikka masala was $11.99, and the paneer version a dollar less. An extra side of the HUGE naan was only two bucks! And, back to the naan for a second--it was HUGE and still also delicious. It was soft and doughy, with the hints of spices you expect to taste in a good naan.
So WEEEE-OOOHHHH, WEEEE-OOOHHHH, WEEEE-OOOHHHH ... RUN, don't walk, but RUN to Alibaba Kebab for their tikka masala! And if you live farther away, don't count out DoorDash! Alibaba delivered all the way to us in North Cheektowaga, so take a look to see if they'll deliver to you, too. We look forward to trying other dishes of theirs in the future, although it may be very difficult to peel me away for their DIVINE paneer tikka masala for a while. ENJOY! :-D read more