Instead of eating in the restaurant, the food was ordered to go, which isn’t a problem since they store the sauce for the noodles separately so as to make sure the noodles stay crunchy until you eat it.  The noodle part was great, it stayed crunchy, and it was in general just fine.  The beef sauce that I poured over it…  not so impressed.  I mean, this isn’t the absolute worst I’ve ever had…  but it felt like a waste of space.  A waste of treasured stomach space that could have been used to store something that was delicious.  Let me elaborate, the beef sauce was bland.  Its not that it wasn’t salty, but it was just tasteless.  I don’t think it would have mattered how much soy sauce or salt they put in it, it just didn’t have any “beef” flavor.  Everything just tasted so empty, and uninteresting.  It was so not worth eating.

Now, the reason why I filed this entry under “nasties” is because of my sister’s vegetarian fried rice.  I don’t know how her fried rice was made, but it smelled disgusting.  If I had to describe the odor permeating off of her fried rice, I would say it smelled of wet dog.  Yes.  Wet dog (maybe like 20 wet dogs in a small room together).  Can you even believe that?  How can VEGETARIAN fried rice be made to smell like wet dog?  When she first complained of the smell, I didn’t really think anything of it.  Until I got up and walked by her fried rice.  I wasn’t even going to it to smell it, I was just walking by so I could grab some extra napkins, and I gagged.  It was SO bad that I could smell it from about 3 feet away.  Without hesitation I told her to throw the whole thing away because it was too disgusting.  I’m not big on wasting food, and I don’t do it often, but that plate of fried rice was inedible.  We won’t be ordering take out from that restaurant again.

So anyway, on to the food.  While everything looked great when it arrived, as soon as the food entered my mouth I felt extremely disappointed.  Not only was the food bland, but there were things wrong with the food.   I ordered Chicken Fried Steak & Eggs, and my scrambled eggs were uncooked on the inside…  They were actually slimy and soggy.  Very gross.  The chicken fried steak wasn’t too bad, but the country gravy that they put on top was very thick, it was almost like eating pudding instead of a gravy.

My sister’s order, a Mushroom & Spinach Omelette, had a pungent odor, and tasted slightly odd.  It may have been cooked on an unclean surface, one that had cooked a variety of other things and thus accumulated other tastes and smells.   Whatever it was, it really made her food unappetizing, and she did not finish her food.

From the pictures below, the food looks fine, but I say taste is much more important than appearance.  Needless to say, we won’t be visiting that restaurant chain ever again, even if it is late at night and we don’t have any other options available.  I think I’d rather spend the time to cook my own food than subject my taste buds to that atrocity again.