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| - I was so excited to finally try the place I ended up being early. We paid our admission to the food funhouse that is YC's and then got down to business. Armed with bowls the size of our heads, we stepped to the buffet and I got my first look at what I was up against. The first third of the buffet is filled with shaved curls of frozen meat in various varieties. Beef, Chicken, Pork, Alligator and Yak. Frozen curls of Yak! Okay so I lied about the Yak and the Alligator. But you never know. They SAID it was beef and chicken, but seriously, it could have been Yak!
I grabbed the tongs and threw a pile of meat in the bottom of my bowl. I smiled at my accomplishment but she just looked over slightly concerned and then handed me a sheet of wax paper. "You need to smash it down." she said. "What?" I replied? "The meat," she explaind patiently. "You need to smash it into the bottom of your bowl." "But I'm not that hungry!" I protested. "You will be and this is gonna last you for days. See that guy on the end? Your bowl is supposed to look like that." She pointed towards the end of the buffet where I saw a towering mass of vegetables rising out of an already unfathomably large bowl. It would easily feed a family of four. His YC fu was impressive, but I was sure I could top that. "Get Smushing," she said as I refocused on the task at hand.
After I had pressed all the pretty curls of meat into a flat unrecognizable blob that filled the bottom half of my bowl, we moved onto the vegetables. If you've had it in "Chinese" food, it was there. I zeroed in on some celery, cabbage, bean sprouts, carrots, scallions and baby corn. I piled it on with gluttonous abandon, gleefully shaping my mountain of food to resemble the peak from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
The last third of the buffet contains sauces. Many many many sauces. Get them, they are good. They have recipes but seriously, who wants to read directions? I needed more sauce than I took and I thought I took a lot. It would have helped to know they were going to slap it on a grill and immediately start diluting it with water. Seriously, I put like five or six scoops of various stuff in and it was still just barely sauced enough. I supplemented with some spicy mustard.
So um.. then they cooked it, and we ate it. Sure it was good. Yes I still have leftovers. No you can't have them. Is the food here the best I've ever had? Hell no. But it's pretty good for fast/cheap/healthy-ish stuff and seriously who cares? They let you play with it for like half an hour before you even sit down. Score!
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