We ate here because a) i had a coupon, b) i couldn't remember if we had ever tried this fast food chinese place, and c) it was late (past 7:30) and we wanted a place really close to home. and it was late because we went out to lunch and had a delicious and big meal at El Guero. Bill had a sonoran hot dog and i had a chicken torta.both of us on the morning after this oriental confucian-plotted gastrointestinal assault deeply regretted eating at this restaurant.
I was confused from the start because the explanations on the board of how and what you could order for what price was not clear: i almost needed to throw the I Ching to figure it all out. The ladies behind the counter serving you the food all speak in tiny squeaky rapid fire voices uttering words i could not understand. So i did a lot of nodding and pointing.
I got vegetables, fried rice, black pepper chicken, cream cheese wontons and sweet chili chicken. The only dish that came ever so close to resembling food was the sweet chili chicken; it was spicy and all the meat was white. But everything else was a visual mystery and the vegetables were bland and not really cooked and the rice (though Bill's white rice was worse than mine ten-fold) was a glutinous ball of starch which is - at this moment- causing some interesting sounds and belly shapes.
This is a final word on how bad the food was: i was not even hungry 10 minutes after finishing it.
So sorry to hear you were gastrointestinally assaulted.
ReplyDeleteI have great distrust of Chinese fast food. In fact generally there is much resentment in my heart re: Chinese food in Tucson. I don't understand why the standards are so low. . .there was a Chinese population here originally (I mean who came along with all the white people).
It does look like you have bypassed your "we don't do Chinese" credo, however. Not that I'm judging. . .