| rev:text
| - I've never been to Deer Garden. But I thought this place was pretty good.
They've kept pretty much everything from the old Japanese restaurant that used to be here - that being said it's quite spacious and the decor is nothing crazy, but modern and minimal. Would be good for groups. Before 9, you have to go into the restaurant through the main plaza entrances - I assume that after 9 those are locked and you go in through the front restaurant entrance from the parking lot.
We sat down and took one of the conveniently placed ordering forms that were on each table and from there you customize your meal. Noodle options include - and forgive my Cantonese to English transliteration - thick rice noodles (ho fun), thin rice noodles (lai fun), egg noodles, Korean glass noodles (japchae), vermincelli, instant noodles, and shin ramyun (the Korean instant noodles). There might be more. There are a lot of options.
You can choose from a variety of soups - fish based, or tomato, or a curry soup, or Japanese pork broth. There are definitely more that I can't remember. I'm not going to bother listing the range of vegetables and meats because this is going to be a boring review. You are allowed two toppings that come with your meal, any more are an extra $1.50 I believe.
I ordered the glass noodles in Japanese pork broth, with corn and Japanese cha siu. The noodles already come with napa, some mushrooms, and dried bean curd (fu jook). The noodles were hot and the portion was really big - I ended up taking half home. The Japanese pork was surprisingly the best and most tender I've ever had - it was so soft with pieces of fat hanging off it. It was really good. The soup was rich, smooth, and creamy. My mom felt like there was a lot of MSG in it... might try it again to see because it didn't feel that way.
You also get to choose from either a few drinks or a dessert (ice cream). Wasn't feeling a drink and the ice cream is pretty standard, but the portion they gave me was huge. Probably equal to two regular scoops. They have a variety of flavors. We also got a cold milk tea (cold +$1) which is sealed like bubble tea and it tasted fine as well.
Service was decent. Better than what I would expect from Asian places (close to nothing). Someone even came back and double checked to make sure they read our order form right. Left quite satisfied - good food, price, service, and location. Will likely be back!
|
![[RDF Data]](/fct/images/sw-rdf-blue.png)
![[cxml]](/fct/images/cxml_doc.png)
![[csv]](/fct/images/csv_doc.png)
![[text]](/fct/images/ntriples_doc.png)
![[turtle]](/fct/images/n3turtle_doc.png)
![[ld+json]](/fct/images/jsonld_doc.png)
![[rdf+json]](/fct/images/json_doc.png)
![[rdf+xml]](/fct/images/xml_doc.png)
![[atom+xml]](/fct/images/atom_doc.png)
![[html]](/fct/images/html_doc.png)