I saw this place on Guy Ferreri's show "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" so decided to give it a try our last day in Vegas. One great thing about Fat Choy is that it's almost never closed. It was opened until 10PM on New Year's Eve!!! It's a 10-min walk from the last stop of the Monorail (SLS stop). Service was good, our waitress was nice.
+ Good selection of alcoholic drinks (it's in a Casino duh!!)
+ The pork belly bao was pretty good , tender meat (fatty but that's how I like it) with good flavor. First thing I noticed was that there was no ground peanuts (stated on the menu and in the show).
But things went downhill from there because the other dishes were disappointing.
- Out of duck fried rice
- Mushroom noodle with Chinese sausage and a fried egg was drenched in a super sweet sauce. I know I'm eating Americanized Chinese food but still I can see how people can enjoy this sweet sauce with little flavor.
- Grilled cheese with short ribs (highly recommended in the show!). It came with a lot of shredded beef, but I didn't taste the onion jam (which the waitress informed me was mixed in with the short ribs) and the flavorful was just not there.I asked for dressing on the side for the small side salad but it came drenched in dressing (again, too sweet cuz it was balsamic).
I hope my experience was just an exception because it was the last day of the year and people who were working just wanted to go home early. But based on my experience I would not recommend this place to anyone and would not go back myself either.