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I've seen some decent reviews about the place and overheard some generally positive comments about it in passing, so figured I'd be nice and give it a second shot.
Yep, still awful.
The good:
Anything that was fried seemed ok. No complaints from our child about the sweet-n-sour chicken, Mom confirmed it was good too.
Their egg rolls were great. Large size, perfect crunch, great consistency and good taste.
The crab Rangoon was much the same...fine because it's fried.
The bad:
Fried rice. Their fried rice was awful. Perhaps the worst batch I've ever had in my life. Further, it smelled bad. Get a wiff of the box and it smelled stale and nasty. Compared this to the steamed rice that had no scent at all. I remember long ago a teacher explaining to me that today's fried rice is yesterday's steamed rice. Yet, at this place my bet is it's a scene out of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and it's last week's steamed rice.
Sesame chicken. Not even close to what you'd be used to in a normal Chinese restaurant. Their take on it had it more on par with a typical walnut chicken...just didn't taste right at all. I even sung the Muppet's tune with Stadler and Waldorf to my kids, "why do we always come here, I'll guess we'll never know...it's like a kind of torture to [have to eat their food]."
Green beans. We expect green beans with a slight hint of garlic, Tai Wah's are prepared in a sweet sauce. They just get it wrong.
Damage Done: $55 for a family of four. Ridiculous. I could spend a similar amount down the street at Noble House and come away beyond delighted. Quite honestly, Tai Wah robs you without a gun. I'm not kidding when I say I'd have been better off going to a bad Chinese lunch buffet. At least their non-fried food would have been fresh.
Our six year old put it best, "don't eat bad Tai Wah."
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