Also, I forgot to mention that most of the food you will find in a steakhouse are all of one particular cuisine with maybe the occasional “Southern” or “Cajun” dish thrown in to liven it up. These too generally suck. If you want Southern or Cajun food, go to a restaraunt specializing in those cuisines and not a Midwestern steakhouse.
While Mongolian BBQs are reminiscent of Chinese buffets, they’re not the same and to expect the “Chinese” food on their buffet to be good is hazardous.
I don’t know
"…your constant griping…I’m not going to jump you
if you’d just stop trying to “find the best deal” all the time and constantly worrying about how to save a penny on your meal, your dining experiences would probably get better.
There’s a hell of a lot of difference between shopping smart and being a miser and, to be honest, you’re at the extreme edge of the latter."
Sounded pretty condescending and insulting to me.
And I don’t agree about buffet quality. I have been to many buffets in my life and the vast majority have many many good entrees. price and food quality are not interrelated and $6 is actually about average as far as buffet prices go where I live. I would bet that 90% of AYCE buffets are under $8 a person here, so spending more than $8 makes no sense unless 90% of them serve crap, which isn’t close to true.
I used to visit a Mongolian BBQ that let you take home your leftovers- and MBBQ tastes even better cold (IMO), so I’d get 2-3 meals for my $.
Now we only have one Mongolian BBQ. It is AYCE, but they don’t let you take home leftovers, so I’ve mostly stopped going. I never eat a lot at one sitting, so it ends up being a waste unless I’m going for social reasons.
I can see where you might think I was being condescending when I said that you were constantly griping and for that, I apologize. Everything else though, I was just being bluntly honset about as you *do *constantly post about saving sums of money that a lot of us wouldn’t go through the hassle to do and are proud of it.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it, of course.
My point still remains about going to a Mongolian restaraunt and expecting them to have good Chinese food though. If you happen to find one that does, it would be the exception rather than the rule.
Fine and good, and I was being blunt by saying its simplistic to assume that a restaurant should not be expected to serve good food unless the title and the food you are eating are related. If I went to an Indian restaurant and ate some fish that sucked, then the fish still sucked at that restaurant. If I went to IHOP and the milkshakes sucked, then even though its IHOP the milkshake still sucked. I’ve eaten pancakes at 10pm at dennys, and i’ve eaten hamburgers at seafood restaurants. It doesn’t mean I don’t have any claim that the quality should be good nonetheless.
In my experience, most of what is served in a restaurant is good. As far as General Tsaos chicken, I have eaten it in about 5 or 6 places and the chicken at this BBQ was the worst by miles (one of those 5-6 places was Mandarin Buffet which bodypoet keeps referring to, they also have a buffet/BBQ deal and thier chicken is really good). It doesn’t matter that it was chinese food, the point is that they had the worst chicken, the worst coke and some of the worst selections of any place i’ve ever been to.
Question, W.C…
Was it a BD’s Mongolian BBQ? The way this one was described, and the potential lack of sauces…AND the fact that they had pre-made General Tso’s Chicken…makes me wonder if this might not be the Mongolian BBQ that many of us are thinking…
http://www.bdsmongolianbarbeque.com/locations.html
There may be other one’s out there that aren’t run by…er…BD.
Nope it was american chopstick
Aha! Well…that solves the mystery. Looks like a hole in the wall. I’ll have to scroll back through the posts, because maybe this discrepiency was mentioned somewhere above, but in my speedreading of these three pages, I didn’t see any mention of it.
Yeah…try a BD’s Mongolian BBQ. Quite tasty.
Guy Incognito referred to the restaurant by name in post #101. It was a hole in the wall though.
The nearest BDs is in Indianapolis. If I go out for Mongolain BBQ next time it’ll be Mandarin Buffet.
I find it more strange because General’s chicken is SUPPOSED TO have vinegar in it.
But that’s just me.
-lv
According to the bible were supposed to have slaves, doesn’t make it a good idea.
It is a hole in the wall. Unfortunately, not one of those “Oh man, it looks like a hole in the wall but the food is incredible!” type hole in the wall places, either.
Now Zagreb–oh, my. The place is a Hole in the Wall. It looks like my dad did the interior decorating with scraps of old vinyl flooring that he bought at auction, with a Bob Knight theme, tiny tables, old booths, I’m not even sure it’s carpeted. On the menu, you can choose meat (mostly steak), a baked potato, a nondescript salad, and a drink. We got the cheese and crackers once and it was, literally, a hunk of cheddar and a handful of Saltines (for $6.00). They had decent broccoli cheddar soup.
Not much in the way of atmosphere, not much at all in the way of selection, but oh my God, the BEST steak you’ve ever seen. These things are 3 inches thick and as big as then entire plate. It’s amazing.
THAT is my kind of hole in the wall. 
Wesley, Yat’s is on 4th street, in the ethnic district, behind the Mediterranean place (towards 3rd). It’s a little white house…well, like all the other restaurants there, I suppose. $5 for you meal, $1 for your drink. Good stuff.
Just pointing out that vinegar is probably the most widely used acidity regulator in all of cooking. Vinegar is the base of pretty much every hot-pepper sauce (including tobasco and, by extension, everything that uses tobasco as a base). It’s in the sauce of every order of General’s chicken you’ve ever eaten. It’s in every sweet and sour sauce you’ve ever eaten. It’s in all the Taco Bell hot sauces. It’s in Pad Thai sauce, many BBQ sauces, plum sauce, Peking sauce, hosin sauce, and pretty much every chinese sauce except for the fish-based ones.
Sure, it could have had too much vinegar for your tastes, but just because it’s not seasoned to your specific tastes doesn’t make it “bad”. Complaining that the sauce “had vinegar in it” is a bit like complaining that you went to a Mongolian BBQ and had to assemble your own dish of food.
The fact that you did both in the OP led to my original post, it seemed like you expected the universe to behave the way you wanted it to, as opposed to how it should really be.
Listening to the others who know the area, yes indeed that does seem like a bad restaurant. Just not for the reasons listed in the OP.
-lv
You know what? If I go to a restaurant I want to have a menu that I can pick food from and then sit there and converse with my dinner partner. I am definitely not going to pay 14 fucking dollars and have to worry that my concoction, that I had to figure out the ingredients for, is going to suck. Then if I say: “this sucks!” they can say: “Too bad. You made it.” Fuck you. I am not Mongolian and I haven’t had this before. You make it.
Fuck that. I want a menu or a buffet that is labeled.
Speaking of that: If you are a restaurant that serves odd food, label the fucking sneeze guard or something. I went to this place that serves Indian food and nothing was labeled. It had a buffet that my friends said was great, so I took their word for it. Indian food all looks like something it’s not. Black stuff. Green stuff with “meat” in it that is really some sort of grainy vegetable thing. I still have no idea what I was eating. :mad: All I know is that the white stuff is this weird yogurt stuff and not ranch dressing. :smack:
You might want to skip the Dragon Buffet as it was recently raided by the Feds:Dragon Buffet raid :smack:
I’m reminded of some of my mom’s friends, who told her “That’s what you get for ordering salad” after she complained that the salad she’d been served was brown and wilted.
If she had put it together herself at a salad bar, the burden would have been on her to pick out good lettuce. As it was, she simply ordered the thing. I think anyone in such a situation would have reason to point out such major flaws.
I have eaten General Tsaos chicken at many places and none put the level of vinegar in it that this place did. I could barely stand to smell the stuff let alone eat it. The fact that it has vinegar in it isn’t important, some christmas beverages have nutmeg in it but once you put so much nutmeg in it that people get high from it and vomit everywhere you have crosses an invisible line. Then again maybe some people like that much nutmeg.
And the fact that I don’t like it does make it ‘bad’, that is the definition of bad. It may not be bad to you, it may not be bad to someone else, but I dislike it alot so its bad to me and I won’t eat it. Should I have said IMHO every 2nd sentence? Why don’t I just get my IMHO’s out of the way right now so this won’t happen again.
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That should cover me until march.
On another note, no I had no idea that a Mongolian BBQ required you to make your own food, but I don’t know everything. I am a chemistry student LordVar, do you know what a point group is? Do you know what an acid catalyzed reaction is? Do you mind if I call you a fucking moron for 20 minutes straight if you do not? Its only fair.
The difference, of course, being that I didn’t start a pit thread saying “What kind of dumb-assed acid catalyzed reaction requires the presence of an acid to occur?” If I did so, I’d be expecting the chemistry students of the world to tell me I’m a fucking moron, because all acid catalyzed reactions require the presence of an acid to occur. And I’d crawl off meekly.
(I’m just kinda assuming that since a “catalyzer” is a substance that starts a reaction between two things that won’t have the reaction without one, that an “acid catalyzed” reaction requires an acid to be the catalyzer. I fully realize that if you tried to take this approach to figuring out the phrase “Mongolian BBQ”, you’d end up with a result that approaches canabalism. And no, I don’t have any idea what a point group is, although I’d assume something to do with electron orbits.)
Anyway, my last post was supposed to be instructional, not inflamatory. I realize that could be misinterpreted, since I have been pretty inflamatory previously in the thread. I just honestly didn’t want you to sound stupid in the future by saying things like “fuck that up too by putting vinegar in it” when it should have been “fuck that up too by putting too much vinegar in it”, and nobody else had thought to clear that up for you.
-lv
Yes it does, it’s bad to him. Of course, we don’t know if that’s the way they always make it or if it was just a bad batch.
I’ve had Alfredo with way too much nutmeg. Seems the restaurant goofed with that one batch but I’ve been wary of their Alfredo ever since.