Wok-a-licious Lafayette

I replied in the other thread, but it must be anchored for some reason...

I tried wok-a-licious for the first time recently and it was later in the evening, so I didn't have the longer wait times that people have mentioned here. In fact, they had to wait on me to figure out what I wanted since there were so many different choices.

The concept is like Izzo's, Pizza Artista, Subway, etc. where you start with the protein and then instruct them to build your own dish. As seen on Darla's menu pic, there are 13 choices of protein, 25 vegetables, 7 bases and 13 sauces, totaling a whopping 29,575 different combinations. They also have 10 set menu items as well. I literally had to step out of line to figure out what I wanted.

I asked what Mandoo was, and the cashier said he didn't know either but that they were out of it. He mentioned that they didn't have everything that's listed on the menu, like the crawfish egg rolls.

I went with two build your own dishes. The first was pork belly with bok choy, mushrooms, onions and garlic on rice noodles, with the ginger citrus sauce. The pig was delicious but I'd go with a different sauce next time as it was too sweet for my liking. The pork belly is in there, it's just under the noodles in the pic.



Next I ordered tofu with spinach, garlic, cashew on udon noodles with a black bean sauce. Money, except they didn't have cashews so I settled for peanuts.



With both dishes I added a bit of low sodium soy sauce and some sriracha to make them sing.

I also went with a couple of sides of kimchi for the ridiculously low price of 50 cents. It's only about 3 ounces each, but that's really all the kimchi you need. They only had the regular and didn't have the daikon kimchi. At fifty cents a pop, I may buy a bunch of them some time since it's cheaper than the grocery.

Each of the entrees were just under ten bucks.

I enjoyed it and will be back, trying the Korean BBQ next time.