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| - I wasn't surprized, I was shocked. Forget the Egg Foo Young!
I've ordered from China Wok a couple of times before, and was never impressed. I should have given it up! I just received a delivery order from them and essentially wasted my money. To give them credit, the food arrived more quickly than the 45-60 minute widow they indicated, and was piping hot. The Egg Foo Young however was the WORST I have ever tasted.
Now, I am not a food snob, but I have been eating Egg Foo Young since my childhood, and eaten it at many places as well as prepared at home. I've had it good, I've had it greasy, and I've had it soggy, but I've never had anything even remotely resembling what I got today.
I opened the box and based on what I beheld, thought I'd received the wrong meal. The egg foo young patties themselves, at first glance, looked like uniformly round batter fried eggplant slices. I cut, with difficulty, into one of the patties (it was tough) and the inside looked like a meat patty - nothing egg colored or even remotely yellow about it. The color was like a well done hamburger - gray. I tasted it and it certainly didn't tase like Egg Foo Young, nor did it taste good. It was like a bite of a dense veggie patty. Awful. I checked all three patties and they were the same, and inedible as far as I was concerned.
So on the chance that they had sent me the wrong order, I called the restaurant and told them I thought I had the wrong order. She verified that the right thing had been sent. I said "but this seems like a tough meat pattie of some sort. I've never seen Egg Foo Young like this." Her response was "that is how we prepare Egg Foo Young".
So, word of warning - that is how they prepare Egg Foo Young. Order something else, or just stay away completely. In my experiences with Cina Wok, you can never be quite sure what you are going to get. This was just bad enough that I HAD to write a review. I wish there were zero stars.
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