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| - You know how everyone has that friend who says they LOVE Mexican food and when you ask what their favorite kind of Mexican food is, they say it's a toss-up between the Crunchwrap Supreme and Cinna-twists? These are the same people who like Pei Wei. Pei Wei is Asian food for people who hate Asian food but don't know they hate Asian food because they've literally never had Asian food except for Pei Wei. Even Panda Express is more authentic than Pei Wei. Man, Pei Wei is just so bad.
I've been to Pei Wei before. I am never expecting authentic Asian food (I'm not a fool), but I am disappointed EVERY TIME I GO. Their menu just looks so enticing, and then you get the food and it's SO bland and boring EVERY SINGLE TIME. That's why they get 3 stars. Maybe I was exaggerating a bit before when I said they were "so bad", because they're not BAD-bad in the sense that their food sucks. They're just regular-bad in the sense that their food is NOT GOOD... EVER.
I went there on 8/20/14 and ordered the Korean steak lettuce wraps and their new Mango California Rolls. I'm not usually a California roll type of girl, but they looked pretty good in the picture on the wall and I thought the mango-spin sounded like it had potential.
I am like 95% positive the "Korean Steak" was ground beef with teriyaki sauce. Like, I'm pretty sure they just use the same teriyaki sauce on everything. I don't know how they're differentiating their "Korean" style foods from their Thai/Japanese/Chinese foods, but then I realized.. wait, they just call it "Korean" because they're like, "Well, we already listed four other things as Thai and six other things as Japanese, so this one can just be 'Korean'. Yeah, that sounds good!"
I had four pieces of the Mango California Roll, only one of which had a sliver of mango in it. Meh, whatever. I was cool with it because turns out you can't taste the mango in it anyway. I absolutely do not recommend using the dipping sauce they give you with it though. Like, not even because I'm prejudice against Pei Wei. It was legitimately bad, like they need to stop serving it immediately. It was some weird Minute Maid orange juice, vinegar, soy sauce mixture and it was horrible. Did I get the recipe right though? Can someone who works at Pei Wei comment on this? I am pretty sure I'm at least close. Don't even try it!
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