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But we're in Arizona and not Asia so I guess that quote doesn't apply. *shrugs* Anyways, this is a small little eatery. It seats 15-16 people so I recommend you take it to-go. All the better though because it seems like every dish is spicy and spicy foods makes me want a beer. They have a cold dish menu written on a board attached to the wall and a hot foods menu you can browse through.
Four adults and a kid decided to order a few cold dishes to share and some hot dishes to eat separately. Since none of us has heard of anything about this chain, it didn't occur to us that "Hot Duck" meant hot spicy dishes --- including the duck. We had ordered the kid a duck and rice plate and it came out spicy. The seven year-old with us is not a fan of spicy. That paired with blood still on the duck had us sending it back. It was too late to make it not spicy but they did cook it up and attempt to wash off a few pieces for the kid but she pushed it away after a few pieces. She got McDonald's ice cream later though so she was okay. But seriously, every dish was fire. For my hot dish, I got the crawfish and rice. The Yelp pictures made the crawfish look amazing but what was set before me was a tiny serving [look at my picture , dafuq] of frozen crawfish tails. It was loaded with so much salt that a part of me thinks it was payback for us sending the uncooked duck back. Bleh. Everything from the noodle soup to the cold dishes of pig ears, pig tongue, and tofu had the mouth-numbing hot oil. It wasn't the kind of numbing that comes from spice, it really wasn't that spicy, but something inside literally makes your mouth numb. It's weird.
All-in-all, I wouldn't mind stopping in to grab some cold dishes to-go but I don't see myself coming here for anything else.
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