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| - Terrible. My wife and I went there early afternoon on Thursday.
First, the counter attendant commits the ultimate faux pas:
"Are you together?"
Well duh, it's 2010. Two wedding bands, my wife has lineage from Germany and Sweden and me, somewhere in N. Africa, but at least greet me before telling me that my wife of 10 years and I don't look like a couple.
Next, the food was miserable.
I had an "Orange Peel Beef" and the dish felt like someone breaded beef jerky, fried it hard and poured a bottle of mystery sauce over it. All of the chili sauce at Pei Wei's couldn't save the dish. Any vegetables in the dish had the consistency of something unpacked out of the freezer and dumped right in the deep fat fryer.
Again, I ask myself, why in the world can't we get at least basically edible Chinese in Arizona?
My wife, or colleague as the front counter attendant assumed, ordered some chicken dish.
Again, over-breaded, had the taste and consistency of an order of McDonalds McNuggets drenched in a tub of sweet 'n sour sauce and poured over white rice.
This was literally the first time we went back to our home and dug out leftovers after spending almost $30 on lunch.
Literally, my best experience about our meal at Pei Wei was the drive home. Three of three strikes, shame on us for giving it another shot.
Pei Wei was awesome about three years ago, but now it's to the level of Paradise Valley Mall food court and that sucks. This place needs an enormous amount of customer service training and at least a weekend "food stand-down" and retraining of the chef's.
I was HEAVILY disappointed. Again.
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