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| - Came for a Monday night dinner, and in retrospect I'm pretty surprised by the 4.5-star rating. 4 at best, 3.5-star experience for us.
If you come at night, the ambience is glaringly lit with fluorescents. This is a typical hole-in-the-wall asian eatery, lacking decor and using paper menus.
Service is a bit overly attentive and with a smile, and it's not to their discredit but I don't think they understood anything we said. We received the wrong check, but got our water refreshed every 3 minutes, which was necessary with how FRICKIN HOT their food is.
I ordered the Beef Rice Noodle "Pho" bowl ($8), and my boyfriend got the Massaman curry ($10). When asked if we wanted it hot (which we can usually handle in restaurants that practice humanitarianism) we said "medium," thinking we'd get something palatably spicy but not "hot."
I couldn't physically eat my meal, as it was laced with so much chili oil that my throat literally felt like it was bleeding and my lips were swelling up. My boyfriend went through multiple napkins for nose-blowing, excused himself for the restroom, and continued blowing his nose. I drank at least 2 liters of ice water during my meal. We swapped meals halfway through to diversify the flavor-pain experience.
For the good of your clientele, if a Caucasian person asks for "medium," just nod and give them "mild." Or explain the impending doom that's about to occur. Anything, please. Please god.
Why three stars? I could tell that underneath all the chili oil that the food was actually very tasty. In the moments where I wasn't thinking about running into traffic, the meal was actually very enjoyable. I would return, with a strict MILD ONLY PLEASE, and probably have a better time.
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