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| - Is it just me or did it take forever for this place to finally get off the ground. How many years was it that this place sat in a state of suspended readiness? Finally, it opened it's doors and ran with it.
The good thing about working in Oakland means that you have a multitude of places to order your lunch from. Working with people that seem to live off of Chinese food, you always have the best restaurants' menus available.
I was in the mood for some good vegetable chow down. Looking over the 'Vegetables' section I honed in on a potato based plate. I went with Sauteed Shredded Potatoes. When you select this you have three choices of sauce: hot pepper, spicy sauce, or vinegar (not spicy). Looking at that list, if you are like me, you would think that meant the the spice level was in descending order. That would be why I went with spicy sauce. My god, was I ever wrong, I should have went with vinegar. I don't mind some good spicy food, but that's when I could enjoy it. This had a spice to it that made me cry, and not with joy. That's not to take away from the overall plate, it was a good taste and cooked amazingly. It's just I was paying for this meal well into the morning, if you know what I mean. I think at one point I even opened the fridge and pulled out some pesto to cool this down a bit. Even though the spice level was burning my eyebrows off, I still went at this. Sweat coming out of every pore, nose like a faucet and an uncomfortable feeling of what lay ahead. Would I get this dish again, yes, but the vinegar sauce would be my answer to this.
Why not five stars? The price. Some of the prices were down right outrageous. For the price here you could possibly get two meals elsewhere.
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