This place is very close to our house, in the vast culinary wasteland of Tamarac/Lauderhill. Every time we drove by at meal time, the place was pretty packed, and even more so in the later hours when most fast eating places are closed for the day. We had asked one of our neighbors if he had ever been and he said he is there practically daily, Then we knew that we had to check it out.

The interior is island cute. It's a tiny little place with only about 4 tables, so people are there pretty much for takeout. We were there fairly early (5:00ish) and the line was already almost out the door. When we realized that we were probably the only ones in the place that weren't first generation Jamaican, we figured we were in for some good food. The air was redolent with curry, barbecue and exotic scents.

The menu is what you would expect for a Jamaican restaurant. While I am a pretty adventurous eater, I opted to skip the goat's head soup and the cow's foot plate. I didn't know that cows actually had what you would really call feet, in the edible sense of the word. I went with what is one of my island favorites, the curried chicken. Each "plate" comes in 3 sizes, mini, small and large. I went with the small. Everything is served in divided styrofoam take-out boxes.

Orders are placed at the counter and you just shuffle through the line as they scoop stuff into the box and give you some options as you go. My first option was plain white rice, or rice and peas. I went for the latter. Vegetables? Yes, please. My husband was given a choice of several gravies on his jerk pork, but my chicken was already swimming in curry gravy.

I've seen a couple of complaints in the reviews that the serving sizes are too small. I really don't get that. She must have put 3 cups of rice in box to start. Then there was a big scoop of "vegetables," which is actually a sort of cole slaw type salad and then started ladling on the chicken. After several big scoops of chicken, she added a couple of slices of plantain and then literally had to press down on the top of the box to close it. For $8.25, this was the most food I'd seen in a long time.

The curry was delicious. It had the perfect balance of spicy heat, without sending you for the fire extinguisher. I'll admit I'm not a fan of the island method of chopping up chicken into odd chunks, because you do have to be so careful of tiny bone shards as you eat. That being said, it was totally worth it. There was plenty for two meals. The only thing the I thought needed improvement were the plantains and rice. The plaintains were a bit on the dry side and there were only two small slices. The rice and peas was almost exclusively white rice.

My one regret is that I couldn't try whatever kind of yummy looking cake that was, sitting in the domed box on the counter. Next time, when I'm not counting carbs, I'm going for the cake.