Meal 33

Mon Go Chicken

Rating: 6.5(Mediocre-Succulent)

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As before, Mon Go Chicken is practically identical to the Mon Go Beef. I find it rather difficult to find anything interesting or original about the dish. It has chicken instead beef…that is about it. It had the same vegetables; baby corn, water chestnuts, carrots, onions, green bell peppers, bamboo shoots, and peas. The onions needed to be cooked a little longer and if broccoli would have taken the place of, let us say water chestnuts, then it might have made the meal more appetizing. The best word I can think of for the Mon Go Chicken is dido. I have had to say the same thing twice, therefore only granting this meal a 6.5.

Meal 31

Mon Go Beef

 Rating: 6.5(Mediocre-Succulent)

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The Mon Go Beef was just another ordinary meal at Dragon City. The dish was lacking originality and complexity. It favored many of the other plates, consisting of the identical ingredients and occupying the same basic texture and taste. Fashioned out of the common vegetables found in Chinese dishes, there were carrots, baby corn, onions, green bell peppers, water chestnuts, and bamboo shoots. Strangely enough, there was no broccoli, which would have maxed out the foliage in this fare. The onions were not cooked thoroughly living a slightly bitter taste to them. They usually do a wonderful job cooking the food but finished this meal a little too soon. I recommend this meal to anyone who is too afraid to take chances because I guarantee this meal will not deviate from its 6.5 rating. 

Meal 22

Kung Pao Chicken

 Rating: 6(Mediocre)

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“Why put peanuts on a perfectly good meal?” I want to ask Dragon City. It seems it would have been perfectly acceptable with a vacancy of goobers but instead they beefed up the Kung Pao Chicken with more protein than you can possibly govern. This pallet of feed exhibits a fine display of traditional Chinese vegetables flaunting diced celery, water chestnuts, and carrots along with green bell peppers and baby corn. When you get down to the actual chicken, it’s really not too shabby, advocating an interesting blend of sweet and spicy zest. Two components made this meal undesirable and that was the peanuts and water chestnuts. Kung Pao Chicken is a strange enough of a name. Literally called pinyin gōng bǎo jī dīng, it obtained its name from Ding Baozhen, an official in the late Qing Dynasty. After the Cultural Revolution, it was deemed politically incorrect being then known as “fast-fried chicken cubes” and was not reinstated until the 1980’s. Maybe you will like the salty peanuts in contrast to the peppery chicken but we found it frankly, marginally Mediocre.

Meal 19

Shrimp w. Lobster Sauce

Rating: 6(Mediocre)

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The Shrimp with Lobster Sauce is actually a soup. I know it is hard to believe granted its name does not signify that its soup in any fashion. This is the first soup we have encountered at Dragon City and it is safe to say that it was actually so-so. It was notably watery with peas, carrots, shrimp, and what was either egg or lobster. This mystery matter was elongated and gooey but decent nonetheless.  Overall it was slightly salty but not strong enough to harm a slug, giving it a pretty good taste. It reminded us of Egg Drop Soup which is a Chinese soup composed of beaten eggs boiled in a broth, in most cases chicken broth. The Shrimp with Lobster Sauce would have earned a higher rating if it had contained more pieces of shrimp. There were only three crustaceans floating around in the brew. Once they add more substance, this meal will be more preferable but until then  it shall stay as Mediocre.

Meal 12

Roast Pork w. Mixed Vegetable

Rating: 5.5(Bearable-Mediocre)

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Once again, why was this meal not listed closer to Chicken with Mixed Vegetable? I think Heaven’s Kitchen was just trying to throw us a screwball. It’s possible that the restaurant intended us to believe that it was a totally different meal since it was not listed adjacent to the chicken. I am here to uphold the justice of consumer chow-down. These two meals were duplicates only varying in their meat products. The roast pork was more preferable but the sauce and vegetables overwhelmed any chance of originality. It too was cooked with all the vegetables known to China. Again, why not remove some foliage and allow the meal to flourish with its intentional flavor? This dish would work better as Roast Pork with Broccoli but until that time, it will be given a 5.5.

Meal 9

Beef w. Broccoli

Rating: 6.5(Mediocre-Succulent) 

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Beef with Broccoli; where do I start? I guess I could start by suggesting to Dragon City that they place this as number seven on the lunch menu special allowing it be right below Chicken with Broccoli. These two meals were very similar with the exception of the beef. I hope we don’t stay on this trend of alikeness because it’s variety that we are in search for. Anyways, the meal was honest, tasting the same as meal 6. It too was prepared with broccoli, carrots, and bamboo shoots, leaving only the meat product with any originality. There seemed to be quite a bit more broccoli on this occasion but I don’t mind granted I can’t get enough of the "treelets". It was cooked perfectly as were the other meals this week. It doesn’t matter if it’s chicken or beef, I’ll suggest it to any customer looking for a relatively safe meal, tagging it a 6.5.

Meal 6

Chicken w. Broccoli

Rating: 6.5(Mediocre-Succulent)

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As you may have guessed, Chicken with Broccoli was very similar to Chicken with Mixed Vegetables. The main difference between the two was the vegetables obviously. This dish was cooked the same, stir-fried with chicken, except there was more chicken and only broccoli, a few carrots, and a hardly any bamboo shoots. You might think it would have tasted the same yet paradoxically it did not. The only explanation we could come up with was maybe the absence of vegetables left room for our palates to expand on the flavors. No matter the reason, the dish was a delight and got a check in our book for a 6.5.  

Meal 5

Chicken w. Mixed Vegetable

Rating:  5.5(Bearable-Mediocre)

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Chicken with Mixed Vegetables, the traditional Chinese cuisine, at least the American interpretation that is. This plate had a harvest of vegetables. The carrots, broccoli, and onions would have sufficed in their attempts to overload a vegetable lover’s enthusiasm. Instead, they decided to turn a vegan straight by throwing in baby corn, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, and red and green bell peppers. Some people might enjoy the plethora of foliage in a meal, but when it hinders the flavor of what people love the most (protein), then it becomes a little cumbersome. What little chicken existed tasted quite alright. It was stir fried along with the veggies making it slightly crispier than previous meals. The sauce had a quirky vibe to it; being salty and sweet at the same time. This could work if one component was sweet while another was salty but since it was mixed together, it threw my taste buds into a stupor, not knowing what to think. As it was stated, the only beef with that chicken, besides the abundance of vegetables, was that it was too sweet to be that salty giving it a total rating of Bearable to Mediocre.

Meal 3

Pork Egg Foo Young

Rating: 6(Mediocre) 

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The Pork Egg Foo Young was basically an Asian breakfast egg omelet. It consisted of two fried egg patties with onions, cabbage, and of course pork. The after taste was unfortunately better than the initial but it gave you reason to continue eating. With the Pork Egg Foo Young came a light and tangy sauce which was very delicious. It reminded me of the onion soup that you get as an appetizer at a Japanese restaurant. I wouldn’t say the sauce saved the dish but it did make it undoubtedly more appealing. I would place this as a breakfast meal but it did its job as a lunch special gaining a rating of 6 or Mediocre rating.