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| - I've eaten here about 12 times over the past few months. Fairly inexpensive Asian food with the only bubble tea available on the west side of Madison make it appealing. A few dishes have been great, like the honey walnut chicken and fried dumplings, and a few not so good, like the pad thai. The staff seem friendly, and given the price I just overlooked the odd chaos. By chaos, I mean that your food will come in no particular order, and each dish might come out separately. The dumplings might come after the main dishes - I just rolled with it. The kitchen has not figured out how to make one table's dishes timed correctly, and that hasn't changed over the past few months.
I have always seen a large Asian clientele, and that's great for them. However, it seemed to me that sometimes the Asian patrons were getting hooked up with their food before us whites, but I never saw an actual pattern, and like I said the kitchen is not well timed so I never worried about it.
Until tonight. We ordered dumplings, two main dishes, and two bowls of white rice. The dumplings came out first, and I had to call the woman back because we had no utensils, napkins, plates, etc. She brought back utensils, but no plates. My guy went up to get them. As we were eating our dumplings, a party of 6 Asian Americans came in and ordered. As they sat next to us, the woman working the register brought out our main dishes - but no rice. When I asked where it was, she said they were out. I have never, ever, been to an Asian restaurant that ran out of rice, but this one is pretty chaotic. She said they were making more.
We start picking at our main dishes (because they really needed white rice to eat!) when I saw the woman bring a large bowl of white rice to a table behind us, who had been seated before we got there. Good, I thought, it's cooked. So then the woman brings over another bowl of white rice - and sets it on the table next to us. It's for the table of Asians who arrived at least ten minutes after us, have no other food on their table, and with whom the lady jokes for a minute. She then heads away, ignoring us.
My husband went up to the counter to ask where our rice was. The woman says there isn't any ready, and he asks why the other party got some, when we were clearly next in line, had our main dishes, and they had nothing yet. She acted as if she could not understand the issue. Finally, a few minutes later she wanders over with rice and asks if we want it. We declined.
As a White chick, I haven't been discriminated against often, but this really, really felt like discrimination. I won't ever go back.
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