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| - First off- Like one of the other posters on Yelp, I feel a little guilty giving only 2 stars as I too REALLY like the concept. However, the devil is in the details and the execution and I just thought this is where they fall short.
First of all, liked the ingredients, but for some reason they just didn't work well together.
I also thought that the 4 separate bowls we ordered were VERY light on sauce. So much so that it was often difficult to discern the flavor as it was outweighed by the blandness of the noodles and protein. Blandness that is EXCEPT for the crispy tofu.
NOW- if you look at the menu online it CLEARLY says crispy tofu. What it DOES NOT say is that it is VERY spicy. So, when ordering a children's bowl with crispy tofu, and asking for a non-spicy sauce to accompany it that a kid would like- one would think that the person on the other end would bring up the fact that the tofu is VERY spicy. So much so that it was hot for my palate and I like spice. Too much so for a seven year old who happily took her bite of two pieces of tofu chewed and swallowed before she realized just how hot it was. Between cries, coughs from the spice, and a glass of milk, lets just say I had to fix something else for my daughter.
The chicken was fine and so was my wife's shrimp. BUT Seriously, if you have a 'children's bowl' on the menu, AND Tofu is a choice, you probably ought to: (a) Call it SPICY CRISPY TOFU (b) Recommend that if the children's bowl is for a child, you recommend something OTHER than the TOFU!!
I would have let it slide if this was the lunch rush, but the place was empty and it seemed to be that the owner/manager was actually running the show. I mean seriously, not sure what they were thinking. Or maybe they just weren't??
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