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| - I don't know how to feel about this place. We went there two weeks ago for the buffet and really enjoyed ourselves because the food was pretty decent on a Saturday at lunchtime. We had a fair sampling of the hot dishes and my husband, who likes Chinese much more than I do, even enjoyed the wonton soup (which he craves when he's sick.) We then came home and wrote to our son, who is moving back to Ohio soon, that we found a good Chinese restaurant near home to share with him.
So last night, the husband decided he wanted takeout from there since he's been battling a cold for a few days now and we placed our order around 5:30 (on a Thursday evening).
Oh my goodness. It was HORRIBLE. My General Tso's, which is always the tester for new Chinese restaurants, was a gooey, soft, mushy mess that was clumped together like wet glue. It was impossible to pull out pieces of meat because the sauce was so stuck to itself that the fork flung food viciously across the room with every pull. My rice tasted like they had been in the back of a warehouse for a week sitting in the heat. The last half of the meal that I couldn't even stomach as leftovers sits in the trash today. The crab rangoon was the soggiest, chewiest rangoon I'd ever had. The filling was good, but the outside was more like thick breading than crispy goodness. The only thing halfway decent was the egg roll, and usually I'm not a lover of the cabbage inside those, but these tasted ok.
My husband got the seafood and pan fried noodles. He hated it. He only ate about 1/4 of it before pushing it away. And the wonton soup had nothing but wontons in it. We've lived all over the east coast and good wonton soup has strips of pork, sometimes small pieces of onions or mushrooms, mostly green onions in it. This had soggy wontons and it was extremely bland for him.
Even the almond cookies they gave us for free were terrible!
So now I'm torn. We may go back for the buffet, but we will definitely not do takeout from there again. I can say we're definitely over that experience.
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