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| - Lim's Chinese Boofay is a throwback china boofay. If you want seafood and spring rolls and vegetables and no MSG, you'd better head elsewhere. If you remember going to a china boofay in 1979, back when nobody knew or cared that Chinese people never eat this stuff, and you loved the kitschy decor and salty fried food, then Lim's is your place. I'll bet that the recipes and decor are the same as they've been for the last 30 years.
You've got your requisite fried rice, lo mein, beef/broccoli, sesame chicken, sweet&sour pork, egg foo young, eggrolls, fried chicken, and maybe a couple of other items beyond that. Everything was cooked not so bad as far as the consistency on the Crispy-Greasy Spectrum, but had so much msg that my mouth literally had a buzzing feel when I left. Not a taste, a FEELING, left over from the monosodium glutamate infused cuisine. Blech.
The Discard Pile was actually tiny for the sesame chicken, but instead of honey it was flavored with syrup--cheapass imitaion ''maple'' corn syrup. Still, I must admit it was lean chunks of white meat chicken, and was my favorite if I had to pick a poison.
S&S pork looked lean, with large chunks of nonfatty meat, but the insides were a little gristly, and each bite in had about 20% come back out onto the Discard Pile. Seems like they tried to keep it lean, though.
In the entire boofay table, there was hardly any color from veggies. All I found was some icebertg lettuce and coleslaw in the cold section, plus brocolli in the beef&broc, carrots and onions in the S&S, and some white cabbage and a few onion pieces in the lo mein. That's about it. Oh, the egg rolls had cabbage inside, too, and Are the old school thick skinned, bubbly deep fried and mushy, not the spring roll thin skinned crispy kind.
Lim's had some decent flavors and I created a small Discard Pile, so could be a 3Star boofay by getting rid of the msg, using honey instead of syrup on the chicken, and adding a bunch more veggies into the mix.
$6.25 lunch ($1.50 more for a soda) was not worth it, no matter how much volume you shove in.
Still buzzing from the weird msg high. No sir, I don't like it.
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