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Review: If eating dinner in China
were as tasty as the food in Hunan Village, I'd move
there
By Ron
Wallace
October 28, 2008 | We all want to go to a great restaurant
but unfortunately these restaurants usually have a waiting
list and since we are so impatient in the 21st century
we are apt to compromise. On a Friday night we want
to also watch a movie or play games so we end up going
to a fast food joint like Wendy's or McDonald's instead
of waiting. However, if you live in Brigham City or
if you are driving by and want authentic Chinese that
will impress anybody's taste buds and make the eyes
stare in wonder, I've got your solution -- Hunan Village.
Almost every time my wife and I go to Ogden or Salt
Lake City we either stop by this restaurant and eat,
or at least discuss the option. You can always get a
seat there because it's in a small town and almost everybody
is getting take-out. It surprises me but probably more
than half their orders are take-out. It seems that most
people that come in to sit down are small families or
people on dates.
The restaurant is owned by Chinese people that know
how to cook dishes with vast expertise and they have
an amazing selection to choose from. While your food
is being prepared you can look at your place mat, which
is a Chinese calendar that tells you what type of animal
you are according to the year you were born. It is a
12-year based calendar and tells you what characteristics
you tend to have, which animals to avoid and which animals
are the best match for you. It is very entertaining
to read and analyze. You can even take it home.
The ideal time for me to go is between 11 a.m. - 3
p.m. because they have the lunch special. Last time
I got the sesame chicken which includes a beginning
plate of chicken salad (or you can get soup if you prefer).
The chicken salad is hard to describe but it is my favorite.
It consists of shredded cabbage, spicy Chinese noodles
and small morsels of chicken. The thing that makes this
salad stand out is the light oily dressing. Once your
done with the salad you get cheese puffs with a red
sweet sauce and a yellow spicy mustard sauce. I stay
away from the yellow sauce because when I've tried it
in the past I felt as if I lost my sense of taste for
a moment and my nostril passages had opened up wider.
There was no milk to cool it down. However, the red
sauce is very sweet. The cheese puffs are crunchy on
the outside and very creamy in the middle.
Once you're done with the appetizers you get the main
dish which is stacked high and about 12 inches long.
It's full of ham fried rice and sesame chicken. You
look at it and question yourself, "How am I going to
finish this?" There is plenty to eat and the rice has
plenty of ham in it. As you eat it you say to yourself
if this was how every meal was I wouldn't mind living
in China permanently. The sauce for the sesame chicken
is sweetened with brown sugar and has sesame seeds in
it. The smell of the food makes you want to eat more
but your stomach tells you to stop because you're full.
This is what a trip to Hunan Village is like. It makes
you want to come back.
The prices for lunch specials which include soup or
salad, cheese puffs, ham fried rice and your main dish
are between $5.29 to $5.99. The dinner specials are
a little more expensive but you also get chow mein and
your choice of two fried prawns or an egg roll. The
dinner special prices range from $7.59 to $8.99. There
are many selections to choose from and you don't have
to get the lunch or dinner specials if you don't want
to.
If you are interested in some fantastic Chinese food,
Hunan Village is located at 686 S. Main St. in Brigham
City.
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