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| - Cool bar is located on the Northeast corner of Spring Mountain and Arville, located way in the back, next to a massage parlor. We had decided to come here for dinner after watching a movie nearby at Palms as this was a place that offered skewers.
Upon arrival, parking was a nightmare. The local bike club in the same plaza had an event which had took a lot of spots. Adjacent places had reserved spots for their business only which restricted the parking even more. We almost opt'ed to park across the street at Macy's/Pt's before we found a spot by American Shooters, but not after waiting for this Asian lady to do a 50 point turn out of her spot going the other direction, backing up parking lot traffic in both directions.
After finding parking, we had arrived at the restaurant. It had seemed they'd have renovated the place from what it was before with the weird cubicles and definitely not space efficient design. They had converted a good amount of the right side into two private rooms, probably private karaoke rooms, expanded the bar a larger, and changed the seating to normal chairs and tables.
Their menu is a nightmare! Nothing physically printed, all iPad based pictures, but labeled in Chinese. Pictures were not in any sort of order nor did it seem like the waitresses spoke much English. Luckily, two of us spoke fluent mando, mine is listening only, and the other wasn't even paying attention. LOL....
We had ordered a pig ear cold appetizer, chicken gizzard skewers, bbq shrimp skewers, lamb skewers, sausage skewers, corn skewer, duck tongue skewer, chicken heart skewers, and a plate of grilled squid.
The pig ear cold appetizer was nicely done. Nice and light on flavoring with a mild amount of Sichuan peppercorn numbness.
Chicken gizzard and lamb skewers were seasoned in a 'Sichuan style' (that's what im calling it) w/ a chili powder and grounded Sichuan peppercorn powder. The numbing effect was definitely STRONG with these skewers, hence why im calling it a Sichuan style vs like a xinjiang style who uses chili powder and cumin.
Duck tongue was nice. Just beware there is a "bone" you can't eat. lol
Grilled shrimp skewer was seasoned well too but a different seasoning from the other skewers.
The grilled squid was super soft and tender. Little bit underseasoned but was still good.
The sausage skewer was pretty decent. It reminded me of longanisa, the Filipino sausage. Plump, juicy, and sweet. It probably is longanisa on a skewer. Lol This sausage is like something you wanna eat with rice. XD
I mean the food was pretty decent. The punch of numbness from the skewers was unexpected but not something I'd dock rating for. But their menu, omg, PLEASE FIX IT ! ITS DIGITAL ! ORGANIZE IT ! ADD ENGLISH ! Don't know English? use google translate ! D: literally what pissed me off during the meal. ordering should not be this hard D: even if they had a normal menu with items listed all in Chinese only, I wouldn't be this mad. Grr. Lol
On the bright side, they brought us a full container of ice water w/ lemon every time ours was empty pretty promptly.
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