Take Two on Mongolian Grill Food

Recently I blogged about a new Mongolian Grill

restaurant that had opened in B-town.

While we didn't dislike the food,

we weren't intrigued enough by the chain

restaurant to go back.

A few weeks later a very similar restaurant opened

up a mile down the road.

We vowed to try out this competitor.

So on STUDENT MOVE-IN DAY!

the Foodie Daughter and I braved the 

crowds of out-of-town students

and their families to meet up at Mr. Hibachi.

We pulled into the parking lot and immediately

noticed that the place was packed.

It might be noted that Urbanspoon currently ranks this 

restaurant at 86% versus HuHot's 55%.

The prices are a bit better here as well.

I always ask for ice water with lemon on the side.

Dang it!  

I wanted it on the left side, 

not the right side of the glass!

For my first trip to the buffet, 

I decided to got to the grill.

I chose

pork, broccoli, pineapple,

bean sprouts, shredded carrots and celery,

mushrooms, green peppers, noodles and red onions.

I opted to go with 1/2 ladle of chili sauce,

1/2 ladle of garlic, 2 ladles of teriyaki and 

1 ladle of brown sauce.

I found it interesting that raw eggs were 

available on the hibachi bar.

Other items were cabagge, white onion,

chicken, shrimp,

and krab.

Mr. Hibachi also offers a sushi bar,

a salad bar and extensive dessert bars

besides the hibachi bar and the hot buffet bars.

The grill master works on the entrees.

This grill only handles three entrees at a time.

None of the other entrees were chicken

so I had no worries of cross-contamination.

I decided to add a half scoop of white rice to my plate

before I went to my seat.

This was good, but hot.

The Foodie Daughter chose

beef, shredded carrots and celery,

red onion, noodles and 5 or 6 ladles of teriyaki sauce

for her grilled plate.

She then stopped by the buffet and picked up 

a chicken on a stick,

some General Tso's Chicken,

crispy chicken and rice noodles.

She very much enjoyed her meal.

I decided to go back and try out some of the buffet 

items.

This time around I got fried rice,

pepper beef, mushroom pork,

Mongolian pork and two crab rangoon.

Those crab rangoon were the best I have ever had.

I could actually taste the crab.

Imagine that - crab in crab rangoon!

It wasn't just cream cheese with a tiny bit of flavoring.

The servers were attentive and very friendly.

All in all, this was a very nice meal.

You can bet that we will be returning to Mr. Hibachi.

Although, I might be holding back on that chili sauce

the next time.

Hot!