Mandalay and such
2007-03-27 12:25I haven't done a restaurants review in a while. Briefly: I thought the new noodle place on Kirkwood had a poor selection and a poor veggie pad thai, but I admit I was in a very bad mood when I went Pita Pit made ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lyceum_arabica excited but what they gave me was a tasty but appetizer-sized pita, for almost $6. Not impressed.
But today lyceum and I went to Mandalay's lunch buffet. The location here is odd: it used to be a Burmese restaurant, then turned into Masala Wok, which was a cool name for Asian fast food but it never actually opened, and now we have Mandalay, another Burmese restaurant. A bit pricier than I'd like, and the buffet is $9. But it's *good*. Fried rice is decent, the white rice is coconut rice, and very tasty by itself; there's a noodle and chicken dish which is bland but still tasty; juicy fried chicken chunks; curried chicken; something beef; nice fried shrimp; and a bunch of fruit -- melon chunks, strawberries, grapes -- for dessert. Lyceum liked the cauliflower and had some soup, though I was less taken by the cauliflower. The overall appeal was rather higher than that of Samira or Bombay House buffets, let alone Siam House's.
I also had Burmese ice coffee, which didn't come like standard Thai ice coffee. The coffee was in a tin thing on top of the standard tall glass, dripping into a small pool of condensed cream, with the final liquid maybe being 1/3 of the glass. Then there was a whole bunch of ice. So it felt less than the usual amount, for $2.25, though Thai ice stuff comes with so much ice it's hard to really compare. it certainly tasted good.
Oh yeah. Near the end, I overhead some women talking, and it seemed like I heard "he's a very religious person... steals a bunch of sodas".
lyceum_arabica excited but what they gave me was a tasty but appetizer-sized pita, for almost $6. Not impressed.But today lyceum and I went to Mandalay's lunch buffet. The location here is odd: it used to be a Burmese restaurant, then turned into Masala Wok, which was a cool name for Asian fast food but it never actually opened, and now we have Mandalay, another Burmese restaurant. A bit pricier than I'd like, and the buffet is $9. But it's *good*. Fried rice is decent, the white rice is coconut rice, and very tasty by itself; there's a noodle and chicken dish which is bland but still tasty; juicy fried chicken chunks; curried chicken; something beef; nice fried shrimp; and a bunch of fruit -- melon chunks, strawberries, grapes -- for dessert. Lyceum liked the cauliflower and had some soup, though I was less taken by the cauliflower. The overall appeal was rather higher than that of Samira or Bombay House buffets, let alone Siam House's.
I also had Burmese ice coffee, which didn't come like standard Thai ice coffee. The coffee was in a tin thing on top of the standard tall glass, dripping into a small pool of condensed cream, with the final liquid maybe being 1/3 of the glass. Then there was a whole bunch of ice. So it felt less than the usual amount, for $2.25, though Thai ice stuff comes with so much ice it's hard to really compare. it certainly tasted good.
Oh yeah. Near the end, I overhead some women talking, and it seemed like I heard "he's a very religious person... steals a bunch of sodas".