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| - We have eaten at the Shea location and it was pretty good, so when returning from a day trip to the south, it seemed like a good idea to exit the 101 and cruise up Pima and pick up Chinese for dinner at the new Pinnacle Peak restaurant.
Not so much. If it wasn't for some decent hot and sour soup, this would be a 0-1 star rating. First of all, outrageously priced. We got one serving of the aforementioned hot and sour soup, a pork lo-mein, and a chicken kung pao. It was $36.00. Which we would have bravely swallowed, if the food had been decent.
First---as I said, the hot and sour soup was okay. Not as good as Dao's, which has set the bar on hot and sour soup in my opinion. But it was okay.
Pork Lo-Mein. Omg...really? The noodles were undercooked, the sauce was tasteless, and it had---I counted, four strips of pork. I even checked the receipt to see if I had received vegetarian by accident and those pork bits were incidental, but no---it said pork lo-mein. And it couldn't be vegetarian anyways because there were literally six long green strands of green onions tops and that was it. Then the tasteless sauce and the chewy-nearly-crunchy-noodles. DH laughs because I will eat about anything, even while I am complaining, but I just ended up shoving 90% of this into the garbage in disgust.
DH ordered the Kung Pao chicken and asked for it to be spicy. A slight modification but it seemed to baffle the young lady who took the phone order. (But I have noticed these kids are not really adaptable these days!) It took her a minute to get it entered. So anyhow, DH was no more happy with his meal than I with mine. One---just one---of those skinny red peppers had been tossed in for the spice, and as DH said, TG for that, because otherwise the whole entree would have been deadly bland. He just nibbled on the pepper for a couple of bites. Only a couple of bites, because the two pieces of chicken that were the protein part of the meal were---in his words---"slimy, leftover chicken you forget at the back of the fridge" and so gristle-y that he actually spit back out on the edge of his plate most of what he ate. (Eww. That was pleasant to witness.) What it had in plenty was sliced water chestnuts. It looked like they had poured the entire can in.
We ended up tossing his entree too and made chocolate chip cookies. So much for a nutritious dinner---but they were tasty! Maybe we just hit them on a bad night, but it was nearly $40 of bad, so we won't be running back down there anytime soon.
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