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| - Sonny's/Diamond gets at least some props for living up to my senior citizen pal's description of the place as "Half Chinese restaurant, half saloon." He'd been describing it as such for months and I figured it was just a bar that served Chinese food. Nooooooooo...the description was spot on. You walk into Sonny's, a "saloon" or bar in its own right, and at the back, there's a short passageway which leads into, wait for it, a Chinese restaurant. Yes, kinda like the KFC/Taco Bell one-two punch except not at all. Sonny/Diamond also gets a shout out for being on Industrial road, nestled between strip clubs and other shadiness. Las Vegas at its best/worst.
But the accolades stop there. I was amused by the scene of our waitress telling my eating companion exactly what we would be eating that night, which included spicy string beans, pork chops, orange beef, and spicy fried shrimp. The string beans were quite good, and the pork chops passable, but the orange beef was sludgy and sweeter than a pixie stick; the spicy shrimp dish was fine, just kinda forgettable. Not a terrible place to eat when you're intoxicated and jonesin' for some sodium, but there are so many other late-night spots in town that go toe-to-toe, why try one of them?
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