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| - So my parents are in town visiting this week and being Chinese, they prefer to eat Asian food in general. This place is right across the street from where I live, so, being new to the area as well, I suggest we try this place.
When we walk in, I immediately start to doubt my decision. Although most of the table are occupied, which is generally a good sign, they are all occupied by middle aged white American people. When we are greeted by a white college guy who is our server, I start to think of ways that we can get out of here without looking ridiculous.
Unfortunately, my dad convinces us to stay.
Oh I forgot to mention, my family is all vegetarian.
So they have quite a few vegetarian options, which is one of the reasons I wanted to go in the first place.
My dad starts with the hot and sour soup, which he says is decent.
I have a veggie eggroll, which is pretty average.
We went on the have the Vegetarian Kung Pao, Vegetarian Hawphen, and Dark Tofu with Oriental Vegetables.
I don't even know where to begin. It's hard to say that they weren't authentic, because the dishes were very home style cooking. Like something you'd find in some small village where the mom doesn't know how to cook and just throws things together. The main problem with all the food was how ridiculously sweet everything was. It all just tasted like someone accidentally spilled a whole cup of sugar in it. There was definitely lots of MSG, which I'm fine with in small quantities, but some other people aren't.
Yeah it was like eating candy laced with MSG.
On another note, the service was quite good. The college boy was actually quite attentive, professional, and funny. An older Asian lady came out, presumably the owner or chef, and asked how everything was.
Overall, I'd come back here again if I were really desperate and lazy, because I could make the same caliber of food from here in my own kitchen. I had some good expectations because of the good reviews on here, but people's taste buds must be off because I don't understand how superb can be used to describe the food here and it is just sad if this is the best Chinese food some people have had :(
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