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| - Came here on a Sunday afternoon for lunch. I'm generally not a fan of asian fusion, mostly because I am sort of obsessed with standard asian food, and you sometimes just shouldn't mess with a good thing. Asian fusion always tries too hard to be something, and sacrifices a lot in the process in my experience, sadly this wasn't much of an exception...
The interior was very clean and brightly decorated. Typical Westernized images of the Buddha on the walls. I was excited to see a Jones Soda Fountain upon walking in (something much more popular in the Midwest where I am from), but sadly the fountain soda machine was out of CO2 when we were there so it was just pumping out syrup and water.
The person who rang us up was a young woman who was very friendly and helped explain some of the menu items and gave recommendations to us as it was clearly our first time. We ordered the dragon breath fries, pho dip, and pork roll sandwich.
The food itself was really hit or miss. The fries were actually really good and had a nice amount of heat (not recommended if you don't like spicy). The pho dip was also pretty good, though could be made better by perhaps creating some sort of mayo with Sriracha? I typically make my pho pretty spicy so there was definitely some heat lacking in this sandwich for me. The pork roll sandwich was very odd in flavor in my opinion. It was a little bit sweet but left an odd after taste that is really hard to put into words. After every bite, my spouse kept laughing at me because the only words I could muster were "this is weird" and "I don't know what they are going for here." Finally, the coleslaw that came with both of our sandwiches was definitely on the dry side. What little bit of dressing they used did taste good, there just needed to be 3-4 more tablespoons of it to make it all work.
Overall, just a mediocre experience, and for the price, probably won't be going out of my way to return.
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