Carol A.
Yelp
Well I have given this place a rating, twice, in the last 8 years or so but as the only other choices of food in this town are all fast food chains I gave this place another chance to disappoint and it did.
The staff is, and always has been, polite and courteous even though they work for some of the meanest most tight-fisted people in town.
And it is with the owners and the food they put out where in my disappointment lies.
As I have said in prayer reviews the only difference between the large shrimp and the jumbo shrimp is how deeply they butterfly and how flat they squash the shrimp in order to make them appear bigger so they can charge you more money for them.
The salads are horrific, a few little pieces of lettuce, one grape tomato and some goofy bottle dressing. The slaw is disappointing on every level although the fries are usually hot and fresh.
I will say that the catfish is usually tender, fresh and quite tasty. It's in every other thing that leaves the kitchen for the place falls flat on its face.
They offer fried rice and if you choose the vegetable fried rice, even though the only vegetables that come in the rice or white onions, you are given the choice of adding other vegetables such as broccoli. Now mind you, the vegetable fried rice is already $12. Which in my opinion, is a fairly hefty price for vegetable fried rice especially when it's done as poorly as theirs is. But, should you get desperate enough to order it be prepared to Shell out an additional $3 should you want, oh let's say, broccoli in your fried rice. Because each additional vegetable is $3 each. And as they're vegetable fried rice comes with virtually no vegetables that could very quickly add up.
And it would still be a total waste of money as the fried rice is so greasy it coats your mouth every time you try to take a drink to wash it down. It is virtually tasteless, very hard, overly greasy and avoid a vegetables.
I ordered the shrimp fried rice so it was hard, virtually tasteless, totally colorless, greasy and had the addition of about 10 or 12 infinitesimally small shrimp. Yes it was every bit as bad as I just made it sound. However I fed it to my chickens and they quite liked it.
I was also desperate enough to give their gumbo another chance. On their sign out front they boast best Cajun gumbo. The sign is a horrific lie. My mother was a coonass so I know gumbo but these Asians do not. It is, as it was the last two times I tried it, aroo with massive amounts of celery and a pathetic few tiny little shrimp that were totally unable to impart any flavor to the gumbo.
They're gumbo is, in essence, celery gumbo garnished with tiny shrimp.
Their steaks are frozen, then, and poorly cooked as it is very difficult to take something that thin and not cook it to death. The place is an utter disappointment that stays in business because it isn't a Dairy Queen a McDonald's or Whataburger or Taco Bell. And those are your other choices of food in town. It is also located on a major intersection so once again it stays in business. But it does so on location location because there's nothing redeeming about the place. Do yourself a favor and drive to anywhere else if you actually want to enjoy a meal. Several miles up the road in Jacksonville there are barbecue restaurants and a couple of disappointing Mexican food places but at least the owners are not so tight fisted that they give you celery soup and call it gumbo
