Obviousy the "bourbon chicken connoisseur" reveiw on this listing is either from and owner/employee of the location or a person posting yelp reviews from a mental hospital.
I myself am french and have had many wonderful meals in New Orleans at real cajun resturants.
The first thing I noticed at Katos was the lack of actual Kajun food. They had something that looks a bit like and attempt at Jumblia but was cooked in what smelled like asian sweet and sour sauce.
The rest of the items were variances of asian fried chicken in different sauces, asian noodles and asian fried rice.
These people are trying to pass off chinese food as Cajun. Luckily for them they are in rural Madison Wisconsin where most of the pupulation is dumb enough to buy something like that.
So i considdered getting something anyway since I like chinese food as well. I was very hungry and I wanted to give a change to a smaller outlet owner rather than a big chain in the food court.
The manager, a larger fellow in glasses, offered me a sample of the chicken on the end of a tooth pick.
Which was a good thing as it saved me from making the biggest mistake of the week.
At first the chicken had a good fried sweet and sour outer flavor but as I got into the center, to the small ammount of actual chicken inside, the literal taste of death and cat urine flooded my mouth.
I barely got to the food court bathroom before throwing up in a drinking fountain. Yes, i did litterally throw up, there WERE witnesses.
After cleaning up in the bathroom, I of course was still hungry. Even more so now since my stomach now contained absolutely nothing,
Needless to say I went to subway, to wash the taste of dead animal and cat piss out of my mouth. Even now, after the subway, I can still taste hints of it in the back of my mouth.
Ive had this experience before with asian food, typically egg rolls. This happens when the kitchen is using a sub standard meat that they get from a shady "back of the truck" retailer and persist in reusing cooking oil and pans without washing them. the flavors run together with the bad meat and boom, it comes out with a profound aftertaste not unlike a dead animal and urine. West towne mall has some pretty terrible small chain resturants and this is by far the WORST , I have ever encounterred.
I thank the manager for the free sample before making the mistake of actually ordering something. read more