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--Alton Brown
We came here to try out their grilled items. There's a decent variety of lamb, beef, chicken, and vegetables to choose from, with some unique offal options such as lamb kidneys and pork intestine. After browsing through the menu, I got 4 items: enoki mushroom wrapped in beef, Taiwanese sausage, lamb kidneys and chicken hearts. Each order was around $3 or a little over. I also had the Beijing yogurt drink.
The grill works on an automated track system which moves back and forth. The skewers have a cog at the ends to line up with the track so that your skewer rotates evenly. The grill seems to use lava rocks on the bottom along with a gas burner to cook your food. When the server turned on our grill we oohed and ahhed at the cool flames dancing around the rocks. There's an overhead hood too which keeps your table from getting too smoky and your clothes from smelling like you just volunteered as a fireman to put out a burning building.
I got the Beijing yogurt first. You basically get a container the shape of a tallish yogurt cup but you drink it instead of using a spoon. It had a medium consistency and I enjoyed the balance of mild tart, sweet, creamy and rich flavor. I think normally at one of the Asian grocery stores here you can buy it for $2 so I'd probably just get it from the store next time instead of paying $3.50 here.
"You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame."
-- Alton Brown
Oops! When we had the skewers on the grill there was quite a bit of flame that hit our meat as some of the fat dripped onto the bottom causing flare ups. It did make for some thrilling fiery entertainment though! (As a side note, tying any long hair back would be a good idea unless you would like an accidental hair flambé) My one gripe about the grill is that it heats your food unevenly. The ends of the skewers would be raw while the center would be cooked, so with a few of them I had to take out the center portion of meat, shove the ends into the center, and then continue to cook. I found this out the hard way when I removed the skewers on the chicken hearts to find that the center portions were perfectly cooked but then I bit into a raw heart that was at the end of the skewer. Hello salmonella!
The meats I enjoyed the most were the beef wrapped enoki and the lamb kidneys which were marinated in a spicy sauce.
My other gripe is that for the amount of money I paid for the skewers I don't feel like I got a lot of food. After paying around $20 for my meal post-tip I was still hungry.
If I go here again I might try the hotpot but I'll skip the skewers unless I'm combining a few small skewer bites with the hotpot.
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