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| - What happened here? I used to eat at this location two or three times a week a few years ago. Lunch, dinner, drinks - it was excellent!
I stopped here at lunch on a Wednesday in October 2017 on my way home from Columbus. The thought of Asian cuisine urged me on as I circled Medina square (lol!) twice in order to find a parking space.
I was greeted nicely by a familiar long-term hostess. I was seated promptly and had a bit of a wait before Cristie came to take my order. I was very aware that the restaurant closes between 3 PM and 5 PM. I was there before 1:00. I ordered a drink and requested a dinner menu (I wanted to order take-out for hubby).
As an app I ordered shrimp chips - these are fresh, warm, crispy, salty pork rind-like morsels that melt in your mouth! They were everything I remembered them to be! I also ordered edamame. I was presented with mushy grey-green oversalted cold seed pods (with brown spots). I left most of them on my plate. How can you screw these up? Microwaved fresh soy beans would have been better.
For lunch I ordered the Seafood Nest; this is normally a spectacular presentation of lobster meat, scallops, crab, shrimp and veggies in a thick clear sauce, nestled in a hot, sizzling, deep fried, shredded potato basket. My lunch today included a half-tail lobster in its shell. The meat was grey in color and when I grasped it to remove it from the shell it was slimy. I smelled it and it was fishy... I put it aside on my extra plate. There was NO WAY I was eating this! The potato basket was cold, chewy and stale. The seafood mixture was not fresh. The (fake) crab meat was unnaturally shredded like tassels and laid over the lobster tail.
I ordered a General Tsao's Chicken dinner for my husband as take out. The jury is still out on his dinner.
Cristie didn't ask how my lunch was and was non-plussed by the un-eaten grey lobster tail on my plate. She must have been in a hurry to vamoose - I heard her giving the "bum's rush" to a table of four men as I left the restaurant at 2:30.
Bill: $66.00; tip: 15%. I will not return.
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