The Foodies Try a New Restaurant

The Foodie Boyfriend took the Foodie Daughter

and me out to eat at the new HuHot Mongolian Grill

in town recently.

For one fairly low price,

you can get all you can eat.

You go to the buffet bar and pick from several 

raw ingredients:

a protein,

noodles,

veggies

and then a sauce or sauces.

Then you hand your bowl to the cooks

who place the contents of you bowl on the hot grill

and then they chop and cook it.

Typically, they work their way around the grill,

each one working on all of the dishes

until a person's order is finished.

However, the Foodie Boyfriend had informed 

them about my chicken allergy,

so that system was scrapped for me

and only one cook worked on my dish

in order to avoid cross-contamination.

For my first trip to the grill,

I chose beef, rice noodles, water chestnuts,

broccoli, carrots, zucchini, onion and celery.

I also chose Feed the Hordes Hoisin sauce, 

Samurai Teriyaki sauce and Khan's Favorite sauce. 

For my second and last trip to the grill

I chose pork, broccoli, carrots, onions, celery,

noodles, Samurai Teriyaki sauce,

Khan's Favorite sauce,

Feed the Hordes Hoisin sauce and

Burn-Your-Village Barbecue sauce.

This was my favorite plate.

Now for the critique.

Our server was friendly and attentive

and refilled our drinks before we even noticed

that we needed refills.

The cooks worked with my chicken allergy,

even though that disrupted their routine.

The food was decent.

However, would I go back?

Probably not.

And that is the real test.