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| - I am truly sad. This has been my go-to place for Chinese since joining my place of employment almost 15 years ago. 1. Because they delivered to work 2. The food was tasty. 3. The price was excellent. 4. They were able to handle group orders with ease.
But, today that may have changed. (Will give them one more chance and see what happens)
The older decor of the actual business never bothered me. I think that kinda comes with the territory for most Chinese take out joints - fake marbled counters, crappy murals of strange things - like the giant cruise ship located God-knows-where?, a token fish tank (though the new fish is huge and intimidating and his tank is scattered with slightly decaying goldfish bodies among the glass marbles at the bottom), an awkward "Asian Lady in creepy poses" calendar freebie from some food or restaurant supply distributor, a cooler of pop cans (and random family food), a few misplaced children's toys, and a poorly light, slightly outdated light up wall of stock photo food with prices. Today the entire place seemed dusty and slightly messy compared to normal.
The owners and workers have always been polite and cheerful until today when they were short and seemed annoyed I had stopped to place my order instead of calling.
Hoping it was just an off day, I ordered the Lunch Special Shrimp Egg Foo Young ($5.25) with pork fried rice and an egg roll (+$0.60) as carryout.
When i got the bag to work there was no plastic silverware or chopsticks and no napkins or duck sauce - things I have never had to ask for before. The gravy is lumpy, oddly yellow colored and bland. (glad I asked for a few mustard packets and had salt and pepper at my desk), the egg pancakes themselves have a nice amount of shrimp but barely any veggies, and are very greasy. The fried rice has an ok flavor but has almost no veggies or pork in it.
The egg roll was basic and tasty - the shining star of an otherwise disappointing take out experience.
Did they switch owners? Was it a bad day? Who knows? I will certainly give it another go, out of loyalty, but if it was anything like today, I'll have to say goodbye to a formerly solid place.
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