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| - I have been to Sizzling Hut twice now, both times for take-out lunch.
I wish I could offer them a 4th star, because the food is actually very good. Couple the good food with the crazy-reasonable De Forest prices, and this place adds up to a real value.
But the decor. Yeah, about that. It's pretty horrible. There's the empty, dimly-lit dining room. There's the baffling, catacomb-like trip past the bathrooms on your way to the order counter. Flat screen at the counter is playing colorized, 50's-era Doris Day movies, closed-captioned. Empty beer bottles decorate the shelves, not so much as an attempt to show you what beers they serve, but because they really, really just needed something to put there.
This is like a trip to Pyongyang, but with a much greater quantity of (I presume) better-quality food.
On a positive note, the food is really good. The Sesame Chicken is battered and deep fried, and topped with a tangy, dark brown sauce. Hot and Sour Soup is very flavorful, but lacks the thickness of many other Chinese places' soups. The fried rice served with the meals is bland, and is made with large-grain brown rice. Everything I've sampled here is very similar to what you've experienced elsewhere, but still just a little bit different. Sort of like a trip to Canada.
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