Sunday, July 31, 2011

HuHot

Brian and I love to go on food adventures. Last weekend we took decided to try Huhot a local restaurant near our new house. Huhot is a make your own Mongolian stir fry restaurant, that is all you can eat. Their motto: "How to Pillage like the Mongolians." You are given a bowl and then you add meats,veggies and sauce from a buffet and you can back and and do this as many times as you like. Now that sounds simple enough but in fact there is a bar for each food categories.

Brian is show here by the meat bar. The meats are freeze-dried and sliced super thin, which allows them to cook faster and stay out safely :) Then next bar is full of veggies and then the sauce bar. They have 20 different kind of sauces. You mix them all together to create your ideal sauce . You use about 5-6 ladles of sauce.

Brian choosing his sauce thoughtfully and carefully. The grill is circular and operated by two men. One of them takes your bowl and pours it on the grill. They have a special order that place food on the grill so they can remember whose is whose. It takes about two minutes for your meal to cook. The men are constantly moving around the grill, stirring dishes with spatulas, serving up order or cleaning off the grill. They seemed to work in perfect union without talking.
Now if this whole process sounds daunting to you they provide recipe cards with a list of ingredient. Not ready to fly solo my first time around I chose a recipe called Dragon Spit. I took the card up with me and followed its instructions. The card read : beef, pork, yakisoba noddles, green onion, bean sprouts, mushrooms, onions, broccoli. Then it detailed the sauce:
1 ladle Not-So-Sweet &Sour
2 Ladles black Thai Peanut
1/2 ladle garlic oil
1 ladle Samaria Teriyaki


I was very happy with my first dish. For my second dish i went with beef and calamari. I did not put enough sauce and it came out tasting like nothing. Brian on the other hand had an epic fail. He tried to go for a curry and it tasted like garbage. We put the dish to the side. The waiter came by and seeing that we clearly were not going to eat this dish asked,"Can I take this away." Brian answer with an emphatic yes. "Too much Mo's curry sauce?", the waiter asked and again Brian answered yes. What I love about Huhot is that the bowl are relatively small so if you try and fail you haven't wasted a bunch of food and you can quickly go make another bowl.

In order to not end with a bad taste in our mouths, we ordered dessert. Cheesecake Rangoons with raspberry sauce. What a fantastic experience!

1 comment:

  1. How fun! I haven't been to one of those type places since college- I need to hunt one down in Houston.

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