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| - Tonight we tried Kingo Bowl at the Mekong Market on Dobson and Main in Mesa. Man was it good!
Okay, so think sort of Chipotle style choose what things go in your Japanese-ish bowl style of ordering. They have an easy to use diagram menu board on the wall just above the counter to make it easy. The staff will also walk you through the process when you tell them you're there for the first time. The staff is amazing, by the way!
First you pick a base: white or brown rice, or a salad, or half and half. Then you choose a meat: beef, chicken, gyudon (sukiyaki marinated beef), chicken curry, or half and half of any two. Then you pick a sauce: garlic butter, black pepper, sweet and spicy, teriyaki, or thousand island, again, you can do half and half, too. You can top it with a hard boiled orpoached chicken egg or 4 quail eggs. Then you choose 2 sides: veggies, crispy onion flakes, sunflower seeds, cranberries, or Japanese pickles.
The kicker is their proteins are cooked in a sous vide! OMG! The steak was so tender, so delicious, and a perfect compliment to the sauces! Hubby and I both got rice with beef, and went half and half on the garlic and black pepper sauces, which were a perfect compliment to one another. I got the crispy onion flakes and veggies. He got the Japanese pickles and veggies. He had a poached egg, I didn't get an egg. It was all delicious!
I had water to drink, hubby had a cold earl grey milk tea that was delicious!
Here's the kicker, we brought 6 other food adventurers with us to try the place out. It's a tiny place with a 4 top and a 2 top tables I side of it. Luckily, it's adjacent to the Mekong food court, so I was able to go grab a couple tables to seat all 8 of us.
When we ordered, we let the gal behind the register know we hadn't been there before, and that we had brought a bunch of people to try it. She was kind, patient, surprised, and happy to see a line out the door. I think she may have been the owner. She is delightful.
With 8 of us, we tried a little bit of everything. Nothing was bad! We all said we would come back and have it again. A couple of the guys said they have a new lunch place to add to their rotation.
As we finished up our meals, one of the guys on staff came out to our tables with a couple of slices of cheesecake for all of is to share as a thank you for coming in and bringing so many people. That was amazingly generous and kind. The cheesecake was quite delicious!
Kingo Bowl is in a great place on a corner as you enter the food court at Mekong. If you want something other than milk tea or water to drink, you go to another vendor, like the boba tea place. There's also a bakery and the boba tea place does shaved ices, and it's all in close proximity.
My wife and I were talking in the car on the way home about how tender the meat was, how good those sauces were, and the different toppings and sauces we want to try next. Although, it's going to be hard to not get the half and half of garlic/black pepper sauces. We may already be addicted to them!
It was a fun evening out with adventurous friends and good food. What more could you ask for. We recommend going and giving it a try!
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