I have one feeling after my experience here and it's regret. Clearly, this place has deteriorated A LOT. It's nothing like the juicy photos available on the page anymore. No teriyaki chicken, no burger, no Styrofoam containers and no smiles. It's costly for what you get and nothing like the reviews from a few months back (even back in Dec 2024).
This page has been recommended to me for so many months, I finally decided to take some time and try it out. Pictures, reviews from last year and the concept seemed really great, so I thought I'd go. There were a few warning signs from the handful of 1 star reviews that this place had deteriorated, but I was just hoping they were based off individuals who had unlucky experiences. Poor decision on my end for trying this place out anyways.
Pros, this place has a huge parking lot. It's shared with a strip mall, but you can park there and walk right up to the store. Cons, everything else. It's pretty messy and dirty inside, and I almost wanted to walk out the moment I walked in. Then there's a menu that's outdated. The cook at the time just said, make yourself a plate by making two bowls because there's no point in looking at the options in the menu... That should have been my red flag.
They have handwritten instructions on what to do. One bowl for meat and veggies and another for noodles. By the way, I was confused when I went because there were no meats. Like that meat section was bare clean. I also saw some previous photos of some fried rice, but that also wasn't an option for me. When I brought up my two bowls, he said, don't you want meat? I said, there was none... can I get chicken? Man brings out the blandest, driest chicken slices I've seen in a while. It's not like the chicken teriyaki you see in the photos anymore. That sad plate I got after he finished cooking turned out to be $17. Just not worth it.
The plate was a plastic container that lets heat escape. It's actually hard to hold onto the container because it's like you're touching something that's freshly off a grill with your bare hands. Imagine having boiling coffee in a plastic water cup. Similar concept. They moved away from Styrofoam which makes very little sense to me. And the mess this things makes. Yikes! I asked for a to-go bag because I was not about to finish this as is or at the restaurant and the guy's almost resistant about giving me a bag. By the time I get home, I tossed as soon as possible because it had a puddle of liquid at the bottom enough to fill up a bottle of honey.
The food tasted bad. I realized just how much I had to elevate the flavors to make it palatable and just how small the portions were (I didn't risk overfilling the bowls because there was a whole thing about an unquantified surcharge on there). I still felt disgusting after eating it. This place just isn't worth it. Maybe it had its glory days, but those days are clearly over. read more