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Friday, August 16, 2013

GUILIN - TUCSON, AZ

This restaurant is a perfect example of why I don't like Chinese food; bland (to the point of tasteless), unexciting, monochrome in color, sloppy presentation, and not much meat in the noodle and rice dishes.

We have been here once before during Tucson #1 and I swear they saved the  gristly dried out bbq'd pork for our return. Bill had a miniscule amount in his noodle dish and i had a similar sized portion in my fried rice. I also ordered egg rolls. I love egg rolls and always have and in my book, any egg roll is a GOOD egg roll. Not so at Guilin. I had to douse it heavily with ruby red glistening sweet and sweet sauce (the sour was missing; it was like scarlet liquid sugar) just to get some of it down.

and i spent the remainder of the meal trying to pry out from between my teeth the insides of that roll. Bill was equally unhappy; so much so that he suggested and i rapidly agreed to a trip to the nearby yoghurt place where we drowned our 'white man's problem' in tubs of blueberry tart and nutella and chocolate.

2 comments:

  1. Mindful Blue Eyes had me laughing out loud with the
    description of the food - and the fantabulous
    color photo ! I too do NOT like Chinese food period...end of discussion..I will never land in
    this restaurant. Now how about we talk Thai, or
    something ? Wonder where Bill and Maggie are eating tonight....I'll be up early to check !

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  2. well I've always liked the food here, but maybe it's because the meal is usually before or after a film at the loft. I usually get something vegetarian, though, so....Good Chinese is hard to find in Tucson. I've been told that Harvest Moon (or some similar name) up north in the complex across from Catalina State Park has good chinese. Maybe the four of us should try it?? Glad you could over your WMPs with yogurt (the ultimate WMP remedy).

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