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| - I have never been a profound fan for "Make-Your-Own-Dinner" type of restaurants as it takes away the essence and adventure of trying the new flavours and styles of food. The whole concept I find is a total money waster; at places like the Mongolian Grill or Xan, you pick out as much food as you want to only discover that your wallet may be a tad lighter than expected since they weight your dish to set a price.
Because my dad has a great appreciation for food as I do, he really wanted to go to Open Sesame after my sister raved about how great the place was. So we made a 25 minute journey from the northwest of Calgary to the south to check it out. My bias towards customizing your own dinner did change when I saw the menu. Set at a very reasonable $10.50, you can add in as much ingredients as you want. I also liked how they had other food choices ranging from combo dishes, appetizers to rice and noodle bowls, etc, etc.
My dad and I decided to be cheap Asians that night and went the go stir crazy route. Our server gave us big metal bowls and asked what our preference was in different types of rice or noodles. From there we were ushered to a place that reminded me of a very busy IKEA cafeteria for some reason. With two stations, one for food, and other for sauce, both were so busy that we had to wait 10 minutes for it to clear up. However in that time I decided to people-watch and was rather amused and semi-disgusted at how gluttonous humans can be as some literally had a tower of food stacked in their bowl, while others had drowned theirs in 10 different types of sauces. But I guess if you're paying $10.50, my as well right?
Being a vegetarian can be limiting when eating out - however at Open Sesame there is a large assortment of vegetables to choose from, I just thought it was kind of weird how raw meat is placed right beside the veggies though. Once I was at the sauce station, I can understand why people wanted to try every sauce where there was every kind imaginable. I decided to play it safe and go with the teriyaki sauce...for first time goers, don't mix every sauce together - it's going to taste like crap.
So the dinner altogether was average - I could have made what I ate at home, but the experience (and people watching) was what made the dinner. I definitely would like to go again and try other things from the menu though. This place is a great choice to go to as it is suitable for everybody of all types of food preferences. I won't be running back here anytime soon, but will definitely check it out if I'm in the area.
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