You get what you pay for... you really do.. and there is a reason why there is so much, soooooo much, food leftover before closing if your buying something here to eat, or take home! We came here, my dear and I, as we were lazy, brought our self serve containers and prepared to buy two dishes to take home to eat with our greens and rice! I always wondered how these places in the food court are, and now I know exactly how they are, especially going down your stomach!
The last time I have ever done takeout like this, it was at Kent's Kitchen in Chinatown, these places do not appeal to my appetite, but since we were going the cheap route, you make due with what is. When you come here just know that the next two stalls in this food court do the exact same thing, makes you wonder if they share the same kitchen? At a certain point of the day before closing prices get slashed to get rid of the over-cooking they have done and to just clear things, and there's always going to be lazy people who just take care of their needs to feed the family here. A ton of variety, from greens to proteins, all the staple dishes you would expect, from chow mein, some mixed fried rice, overly deep fried squid, sweet & sour pork, some buddha's feast dish just to name a few that I even remembered at this buffet like showing I saw.
We came here with containers prepared to buy two dishes, my dear comes with these as she doesn't feel that there should be excess waste which is a good thing. After walking back and forth, left to right, right to left, we finally decided to buy from this location. It's funny to see a sign manually changed by hand, 3 bigger tin foil containers of food for $12, it will feed you and a family guaranteed. There's another one in the plaza that's a bit more expensive, makes us wonder if we should have went with them, but we decided to order a platter of sweet & sour pork, and also an order of beef brisket with bean curd and turnip. We gave our containers, they filled it, took our money, and zoom, off to home we went.
Now to the dinner, for the pork, over battered, chewy, old.. well that's what it felt like.. something that been under the lamp a little too long, no sour, just sweet from the sauce, unappealing. Now for the brisket, another nice solid chewy thing, working the molars.. most definitely, the beancurd wasn't bad, a little shrivaled but really nothing to write home about.. or more like keep at home for another meal. We don't usually waste food, but I wonder where it went the next day as I didn't stay over to see round two of this meal.
I wonder how this place is early in the morning when they first open, but rule of thumb, you get what you pay for, it would have been better just to have gone to a restaurant and order takeout! read more