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| - I was in the Tempe, AZ area earlier this week for work. Because my company considers traveling time as part of the work hours, by the time we landed and picked up a car, it was 11 am. Time for lunch. My boss contacted his counterpart to let us know that we would be meeting up at Savor Flavor Asia. Cool! Asian food for lunch. Looking good so far.
Damn GPS in these car rentals had us going around and around trying to find the restaurant. I finally had to use Google map's street view to figure out where the heck the restaurant was. So we finally found it a block from the main street as the shopping plaza is over a 2 block area.
I get the concept of the restaurant. They provide a variety of the common Asian dishes for Japenese, Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine. And because it has some of my favorites listed, it took a few minutes to figure out what I wanted.
During this visit, I ordered the Katsu Don while my boss ordered the Chicken Curry. My boss was warned that the spice level for the curry is 4 out of 5 and there is no substituting that. As my boss loves hot spices, he was very happy to hear that.
Now at the register, the veteran employee was training a newbie.
As my boss and I sat down and waited for our food, we of course struck up a conversation with my co-workers already chowing down. In a reasonable amount of time, the newbie delivered our lunch. My lunch looked more like chicken katsu rather than katsu don. As I asked the newbie, he confirmed it was what I ordered. I took his word for it as I understand that sometimes restaurants will make things differently from what one is accustomed to. So I began to dig in and took a couple of bites. I thought that the katsu was good, along with the katsu sauce and the fried rice. Oops! This is not what I ordered as I distinctly remembered that I ordered white rice. And my boss realized, he didn't order teriyaki chicken but curry chicken. So at least those two dishes were good.
We took our food back to the counter to let them know that the order was incorrect and unfortunately, we ate some of it.
We get back to our seats and within 2-minutes our correct orders were delivered.
Now Katsu Don is a little bit on the saucier side and is either a pork or chicken katsu mixed with eggs and onions. Normally, Katsu Don will come in a bowl so that the sauce can marinate into the rice. Unfortunately, my dish came on a plate and was a little too saucy for me. So instead of the sauce being on and through the rice, it was all over my plate. So my dish was okay. "Can I get the incorrect order back please?"
My boss also commented that his chicken curry was just okay. He felt that the spicy level of the curry was more a 2 rather than a 4.
Now for the atmosphere, nice, clean and modern decor.
And although our order came to us incorrect, I still think the customer service was great. In time, the newbie will be far better familiar with the dishes.
I do look forward to coming back because I do want to try the other dishes available. Additionally, as I'm learning my way around the Phoenix, Tempe, Awatuke area, i find that I like the Awatuke neighborhood the best.
Sorry, no pictures of food while I'm work traveling as I really don't want to hear it from my co-workers or boss. I work with construction people. So I know the ribbing would be off the charts.
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