Francesca "all around the world" L.'s Profile

Yuck yuck yuck. I hate being wasteful, but I actually had to throw my jasmine milk tea away. The tapioca was too chewy and sticky, the teas and drinks are all powders and just did not taste good at all. Huge disappointment :(

This place has a 1980's feel and mediocre food. I had the fish of the day--halibut, which comes with broccoli (supposed to have cole slaw), hush puppies, and potatoes. The fish and vegetables were all cooked well, but there was just no seasoning at all. Very boring, and very "old people" tasting food with an old people atmosphere just added to the reason why I only give it 2 stars!

I had the pho cong ly (special) and it was good. Huge serving, good, clean tasting broth, lots of various cuts of meat and meatballs. The basil, jalapenos, and lime were all fresh. Only problem was like Chi N said, too many noodles. The service was quick and friendly.
Simply put: it's good--go get some pho!
(CASH ONLY)

I agree with Shoshana G on this one. Orange chocolate chip. FTW. Really, you don't have to wait for Christmas for the taste of those orange chocolate balls anymore. This place fits the bill.

New and stylish traditional Asian style Karaoke bar in Gaithersburg. This place can be tough to find if you are depending on your GPS. Look for the Bank of America, and take the small road behind it.
Overall the service is friendly, prices are good, and bubble tea tasty, but the song selection isn't up to par yet. The owner? manager? Not sure who I talked to, but he told me they are working on improving the English selection. However, great variety of Chinese songs, both mandarin and cantonese popular songs and oldies with real music videos for most of the songs.
I recommend it and will definitely up the stars once they improve the song selection.

So it was ok. Met up with some old friends for dinner here yesterday at 6pm, yeah dinner on Saturday at 6pm. Really. Cuz this place gets packed. While we were eating we could see the crowd lining up outside.

We all came in at different times, but they seated us anyway. Not sure, but that could have been the reason they avoided our table for quite some time, but once we ordered the food came out almost immediately. Piping hot and fresh.
To start we had an oyster pancake and radish & egg pancake. Radish one is quite boring, but the oyster one is very good. Lots of oyster and the sweet sauce--really good. (my friend who wanted the radish one had his own tabasco in his pocket, go figure). We also tried the TW hamburger which is a steamed bread with pork, mustard greens, cilantro, and peanut powder. It was a bit too greasy and difficult to eat. Not a fan.
Fried squid strips and squid ball were both hot and not greasy. Good.
I also had a taste of someone's wonton soup, which had a very clean veggie tasting broth and good pork wonton inside.
For main dishes we had TW lamb, which didn't even taste like lamb really. They drenched it in sa cha (TW bbq sauce). It was tender and sliced very thin. It was ok.
We had to try one of the most typical TW dishes, 3 cup chicken, and theirs was just missing something. Not enough basil, garlic, pepper, or ginger. It basically tasted like soy sauce and rice wine chicken. Not impressed.
For dessert we had the shaved ice with ai yu jelly, green bean, and lychee. It was good, surprisingly the only thing that took a few minutes to come out.
Like everyone has already mentioned, all of the prices are very reasonable. Our bill was less than $100 for 8 people, we were all stuffed, had dessert, plus leftovers for a whole other family of four.
Overall it's ok, makes me happy that I am not missing out on anything in Dallas. Ha!
CASH ONLY.

I was starving and this place is right down the street. We walk in, they hand us drinks, soup and salad immediately. Wow. Quick service, oh but this doesn't last.
I order the negimaki (thin slice of beef wrapped around scallion) and my friend got yaki soba. The negimaki came out on one of those sizzling plates, which really didn't add anything to the dish. It had a lot of veggies (carrot, onion, broccoli) which was nice, but the meat just didn't taste too good. Kinda overcooked.
This place is pretty pricey. Sorry to say it, but a lot of the dishes do seem kind of instant or pre-made, so it seems too high for what you get.
The atmosphere is dated, but cute and the waitstaff is hit or miss.

As my work colleagues and I were driving in, we passed this place and the GM said "you gotta eat there". When we got to our hotel and asked for food recommendations the people at the desk said "Mike's is excellent".
I honestly didn't trust them, but said what the heck.
My colleague and I are trying to eat better, so we split the salmon and ordered broccoli instead of mashed potatoes. But as soon as I saw those popovers in the bread basket, I had to eat one! Glistening in the light with butter, so hot, chewy and just plain good. Definitely worth it! haha
Overall The meal was pretty good. Salmon was nice, all food was properly seasoned. The boss just had sweet potato fries (picky eater) and those were good. Other colleague had a baked potato and seemed happy with it.
There was only one hiccup, my colleague had finished half a Guiness when he realized there was some kind of red syrup inside the glass. The waitress promptly brought a new one and it was no big deal. When we got our bill, the beer was not on there, and the manager came by to apologize. All in all a good dining experience, only bad thing was the parking lot is supersmallsqueezed.

Went for a friends bday, so we had a large group of about 17 ppl.
Everyone ordered on there own (yall know I like to share), but the portions are small, so you really have to.
I was able to snag a piece of calamari that and it was good, not too chewy. For my meal I had the ravioli al funghi, which I ordered because I wanted to try their handmade pasta. The mushrooms inside almost tasted like pesto, I wasn't a fan of the texture, but the veggies on top were fresh.
A lot of the people at the dinner didn't know each other, and when my side finally was starting to have some good laughs, the waiter comes round to give us the dessert briefing. We go on talking and he gives us a stern teacher face and says, "I am talking about desserts!" Really?! Are you serious? Are you that impatient? Are you that rude? Even after that he still had to go around the entire table saying 'miss? what would you like?" ugh. The place was whatever. Maybe take your grandma.

I was watching Bobby Flay's throwdown Pad Thai which made me crave some. I was going to eat with my friends so I said, how about Thai food? and they suggested Royal Thai.
My friends were late so I was at the table for 6 by myself, watching other patrons eating their food. (the place was packed on this Tues night) Half of them were dumping soy sauce and other sauces on everything...it didn't look too good.
First off the menu is too big with lots of ambiguous descriptions like "meat, bell peppers, and baby corn in a delicious sauce"...uhhh what sauce? What is the flavor? You'll never know until you order it :(
I was all ready to order pad thai, but fortunately my friend reminded me about how sickeningly sweet it was, so we just had garlic pork. Apparently it's "a favorite". It's basically just like broccoli beef from a Chinese restaurant. It tasted like straight up fish sauce and some cilantro.
My friends had a flat noodle dish, lahd na, and the noodles seemed too clumpy and sticky. The other friends had the classic yellow curry which was the best dish by far. Hint of spice, good sized portion, creamy & tasty.
This place is really just good for one thing, its look. The wait staff wear traditional clothing and are all very nice looking. The decor is clean and modern. The service is ok.