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| - It was a quiet holiday for us this year, minus the big family get together -I had a hankering for some Chinese. Silver City is close to where I live and never really noticed it till trying to find something open on Christmas Day.
We decided on picking up since it would be quicker and ordered some ginger chicken, chicken fried rice, beef and broccoli, spicy chicken and veg and beef chow fun noodles. They offer a free option if you spend a certain amount but it was a disappointing selection, we opted for stir fried veg.
The place itself was cleaner than most Chinese places but the food was mediocre, the only redeeming dishes were the beef and broccoli and the beef chow fun, the rest were no fun at all! The rice was not fresh and the chicken chunks were dry and bland. The chicken and veg dish was also bland and the chicken tasted off to me; the leftovers of this dish the next day were inedible. The free stir fried veg dish had these disgusting gelatinous chunks throughout which I pray was undiluted cornstarch--ewe!
The kids loved the ginger chicken because they were essentially huge chunks of nuggets breaded beyond recognition and suffocated in the sweet sauce, I was happy to see that most of the chicken meat was white meat, though, and the kids did gobble it up so I give them a plus for that.
Their prices are about the same as most Chinese places but I did find a few of their containers smaller than others so you don't get the same amount of food for the price.
I probably would give this place another go, since it is close by...but my quest to find authentic, clean, and unambiguous chinese food (not downtown!), continues.
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