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| - We stopped here during Station Square's "winter wonderland" (which was awful, btw!). We got there around 7, and I was expecting the place to be packed, given that the lower floor was basically one huge crowd of kids. Surprisingly, it was near-full, but with no wait.
We got seated quickly, and were kind of hurried to order by the server, which was understandable given the crowd. Our table (two parents + 5-year-old) got
* teriyaki chicken appetizer ($7)
* cashew chicken ($12)
* kid's chicken and baby corn ($6)
* pad thai ($11)
The good: The first two items were great . . . I'd describe them as on the very tasty end of the mall-grade-American-Chinese food scale.
The unknown: My son ate all of the baby corn and fried rice before I could try it, so I can only assume it was good!
The bad: The kid's chicken was very bland and gummy. Imagine if you got a package of supermarket chicken and basically just microwaved it in water. Ick.
The amazingly awful: Okay so yes, I ordered Pad Thai at a Chinese place, maybe not a great decision. But there is NO justification for how gross the meal was. Imagine yourself at the zoo, smelling the elephant cages. That was how it tasted. I probably should have said something ("Seriously, there is something wrong with this."), but they were clearly busy, I couldn't really figure out what to say, and I just wanted to eat and go home. In retrospect, I really wish I had. (What if it was spoiled and somebody got sick?)
The service was almost quick enough to satisfy a hungry and overstimulated 5-year-old, which is saying a lot. The portions were large enough that the three of us were satisfied with what turned out to be 1 appetizer and 1.25 entrees (cashew chicken plus baby corn).
I wish I could give 1.5 stars, as my experience was somewhere in between "eek" and "meh." I feel bad about the one star, since I'm mostly penalizing them for one bad dish, and I didn't give them the opportunity to fix it. But I never got my beloved Pad Thai. And what I got was so gross that I can't imagine going back!
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