XPL Halal Cart

For the price, convenience, taste and quality, this is my go-​to Halal Cart. They are open 24/​7, have great meats and sauces, nice guys working the cart, and best of all is the price!
My default order: lamb+chicken mix with salad (no rice); white and red sauce on the meat, green sauce on the salad. $ 5! For the amount of meat you get, this cheap eats deal is really hard to beat.

obviously I’m scoring on the scale here, the food cart scale. Here’s my biased grading system:
one star: major stomach cramps, vomiting and/​or diarrhea
two stars: unidentifiable meat pieces, overcooked/​dry rice, mild upset stomach
three stars: everything went ok, nothing to write home about
four star: well balanced meats, fresh veggies, flavorful rice, good proprietor attitude
five stars: must be pretty incredible
This cart has two options — chicken and lamb. That is it. Oh, there are colorful photos of falafels, etc. Don’t be fooled — they don’t make them.
But as far as chicken and lamb go — they are excellent. I am not sure how Lisa, the previous reviewer, feels cheated with a huge helping of rice, veggies and chicken for $ 5 but this lower-​middle class Sheepshead Bay resident feels the price is fair for well made, fresh, quality food. I don’t have it for a week — I crave it.
There are two other things going fo this cart —
1. it’s open 24 hours a day (guys working in shifts).
2. great attitude — ‘a little white sauce, lots of red sauce and just a splash of green sauce, and no peppers in the veggies and just a couple of pieces of chicken and the rest is lamb” «No problem»
Respectful, hard-​working people. South Brooklyn rules !

I adore halal food. It’s especially something that’s close to my heart during Ramadan. And nothing satisfies my craving for halal chicken and rice, after 14 hours of not eating, like quality halal cart grub.
Living in Sheepshead Bay at the moment, there aren’t many options to choose from… at all. I *could* drive all the way to Bay Ridge for the halal carts on 86^th St. and 5^th Ave. But that’s a 15 min drive I’d rather not take — especially when I’m home in my jammies. But I do live in Sheepshead Bay, and when my ingenious boyfriend brought up the fact that he saw a halal cart on Sheepshead Bay Rd, I was *driven*, at 11pm, to go try some.
Well, here’s the verdict… What the heck just happened?!
FIRST of all, the servings are pathetic. For $ 5, I got HALF the portions of the halal cart food I get in the city for $ 6! And in a lower-​middle class neighborhood like Sheepshead Bay, that most definitely shouldn’t be the case.
SECOND, the hot sauce isn’t hot at all. Halal carts are known for their awesome hot sauce, and this guy just seems like he poured some Franks Red Hot over my order of chicken and rice.
THIRD, the white sauce — which I normally like a LOT of — is completely flavorless!
This is, by far, the worst halal food from a halal cart that I’ve ever had. Not only would I never venture back here, but I advise anyone looking for late-​night halal, to venture as far away from Sheepshead Bay as you can. There are no decent halal trucks here. Especially not XPL.
So here I sit, in my bedroom in Sheepshead Bay, completely starving, because the 7 spoonfuls of tasteless halal food from this cart, couldn’t have hit the spot LESS.
I only give it 2 stars because it hasn’t *yet* given me food poisoning — if that ends up happening, I’ll lower my rating to 1 star. So disappointed.