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| - Want good appetizers and desserts? Looking for a themed ambiance? This place will suit you. Want great entrees? Um....
We've been coming here for years, but less and less more recently. Our most recent visit was 2011-05-07.
From an ambiance perspective, it delivers a sense of the Spice Road.... an asian flavor through different asian cultures - prepared for western taste. Elephants (go figure), animal prints, funky overhead fans... you get the picture. Throw in a bar and tv's for the sports gurus, colored lighting, and now its east meets west.
We ordered from the specials they were running on our most recent visit. Lettuce wrap and calamari delivers. Vietnamese rolls were less successful. Salads were good - it's kind of hard to screw up a salad. Entrees we ordered the ribeye steaks. Not impressed. Here's a hint: the ribeye steaks are cut so thin that they'll dry out quickly when cooked; even medium will result in shoe leather (yeah, I ordered medium). If I'd known it was cut so thin, I'd have ordered medium-rare to give it a fighting chance. Desserts are advertised (for the special) as a mini-brownie or ice cream in a wonton cup. Uh... "mini" and "wonton" give the wrong impressions; these weren't one-bite wonders - the "mini" was a decent size portion (wonder how big a "regular" size would be!). Wonton skins are about 3" across; these were more like spring roll wrappers (8-9" across), deep-fried into a cup shape, dusted with cinnamon sugar, and a large scoop of ice cream in the center - topped off with garnishes, of course.
Overall, it's decent appetizers, salads, and desserts; hit-and-miss on the entrees. We've lost some favorites over the years, didn't care for some other elements, and generally "accepted" it for what it is. Can't say I'm a fan (hence no 4-star, although I'd have given it a 4-star years ago), so now it's an "yeah,it's okay" - or 3 stars.
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