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| - In my ongoing quest to find fantastic Chinese food in Charlotte, I thought I'd try this out after searching around on Yelp.
I went for the lunch specials list and decided it's pretty difficult to screw up cashew chicken. It came with an egg roll and I opted for the brown rice.
Egg roll: I got this to-go, so the egg roll was kinda soft and not crunchy by the time I got back to the office. I wasn't surprised, so not a problem. The container of duck sauce that came with it was quite tasty -- unfortunately the best flavor of the box it all came in. The egg roll itself had minimal flavor. Of course, it was hidden by the tasty sauce...
Brown Rice: Is this stuff fried? I'm not quite sure why there looked to be tiny pieces of egg in it. It also didn't seem to be very brown. But, rice is rice and worked well with the food.
Cashew Chicken: I wasn't quite sure why it looked so orange. Maybe that chicken had been soaking in the sauce for a while? But if that was the case, it should have had more flavor. There's a good variety of veggies and the portion of cashew chicken was plenty, but the flavor was missing. There was also a good layer of oil on top of the sauce at the bottom of the container my food was swimming in. Standard amount of broccoli. A few large mushroom halves. A few big chunks of green pepper. A handful of cabbage. A great amount of tender, thinly sliced chicken. How can such a combination be so devoid of flavor though? For a moment, I felt like everything was steamed and I was eating healthy... and then I saw the caoting of oil molesting the rest of the sauce.
Fortune cookie: Crunchy. With a disappointing fortune: "Focus in on the color yellow tomorrow for good luck!" I can hardly wait until I have to pee in the morning!
Look, I've had worse, but I've had a lot better, too. I ate it, but am not in a rush to go back. If you don't mind bland, the ingredients all tasted fresh and were cooked right. If I were to go back, I might dump that egg roll sauce on top of it.
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