This was our third restaurant order in our new home, so we're still checking what's available in…read morethe neighborhood. First place was Indian food, and we loved it. Next was Mexican, and it was okay. With Hong Kong Kitchen, maybe we were too cautious in our ordering, and that's why we wound up with really tame, almost bland food. We'll order from them again, see if our choices were at fault. Perhaps the problem is that we are used to some pretty good vegan Asian food in Brooklyn, and maybe there's just nothing that will measure up to that here (in our budget). I sincerely hope not.
My main gripe was the cashew chicken. First, I know it's an American Chinese recipe, and it can have all sorts of vegetables in it, but this is one of my comfort-food dishes, and we are so busy unpacking, I was really looking forward to this. But HKK's version was pretty much nothing but carrots, chicken, and cashews. Rather, it was CARROTS, chicken, and cashews. I can eat some carrots in my food, of course, but honestly, at heart, I don't like them very much. It was awful. I had to pick most all of them out, which left me with less than half an order, and it all still tasted like carrots. (My preferred version is celery, chicken, and cashews, with not much else.). The bean curd dishes were okay but nothing special. After we added some chili sauce (ours, not theirs), it was okay, but still nothing much.
As I write this, I'm thinking maybe we won't order from them again. When I started this review, I'd forgotten about the carrots. Yech.
