Mike W.
Yelp
In contrast to the other two reviews of this fast food Asian place, I was very displeased with my one experience here for lunch. Given its location in a new shopping plaza off Archer Road, I was hoping it might be pretty good but instead reminded me of the very worst mall food-court Chinese places I've dined at--and yet it wasn't even in a mall. Same concept as those mall places, too: a counter with a variety of cooked dishes, lo mein, and fried rice on offer. Bourbon chicken, kung bo chicken, that sort of thing. My kung bo chicken was without flavor and bland, and I was not impressed. Note also that I was there for lunch around one o'clock so it's not like I caught them at closing time and was dealing with old food.
It's possible I caught them on an off day, but I highly doubt it. The whole concept of their food is very typical, bland, Americanized kinda-Chinese and neglects the vast and great tradition of REAL Chinese food. I cook Cantonese, Lao, and Viet food at home all the time and used to live in San Francisco's Chinatown, so I feel I know whereof I speak.
Someone really needs to put a decent, authentic, Chinese restuarant into Gainesville instead of weak pan-asian efforts like this: Bento already has done pan-asian and done it right, and for now I highly recommend them (even though they are more expensive) over any place like Asian Wok N Grill.