Jon A.
Yelp
I was out and about, having finished work but needing to go to a meeting in the evening, and needed a bite to eat on the South side of town. I hadn't been in the Williston Plaza in a while, so I took a drive down "the strip" to see what had changed. I knew that the wings place was gone, and Hogan's was long gone, but didn't know what had come in to take their places, if anything. I sort of remembered that a restaurant had gone in on the South end of the plaza, and had walked in once a number of years ago, but had never eaten there... This was my chance.
Walking in, I found a pretty conventional Chinese restaurant layout, with a larger than normal foyer for handling people waiting for takeout orders, and then regular seating beyond that. The decor is just what you would expect in a Chinese restaurant situated in a strip mall. I was seated at a nice table (I prefer tables over booths) and got my water order in, then started looking at the menu.
Going through the menu, I found that there were a number of dishes listed that I had not seen before, so that was promising. The menu is laden with soup dishes, since they are a noodle house and not a full-on Chinese restaurant (this is a good thing... too much variety in the menu flattens the quality). I went for an order of spring rolls and a spicy chicken soup.
The spring rolls were excellent, just like I wanted, and the soup had an interesting flavor that was good. There were a lot of spices in the soup, some of which did not integrate solidly with the soup and basically sank to the bottom of the bowl, which is a bit of a problem. The flavor is there, but if those ground spices could have either been ground finer or filtered out the soup would have been much better. Large chunks of coriander seed are just not a fun thing to have at the bottom of your soup bowl.
All in all I was satisfied with the food, and I do plan on going back at some point.