Rice Bowl Chinese Restaurant

Late one Sunday evening Shane and I decided to go out for dinner. After driving around until approximately 9pm and finding no open restaurants, we came across Rice Bowl and decided to venture inside. I had been told by a colleague that Rice Bowl was a great little Chinese place, so my expectations were somewhat high. 

The sign on the door said that the dining room closed at 9:30pm. We arrived around 8:50, so we decided to dine-in. The server made sure to let us know that the dining room closed at 9:30, and promptly asked us what we would like to order. We took a few moments to look over the menu and I decided to order my Chinese staple, Moo Goo Gai Pan, while Shane ordered Imperial Pork. 

Each dish came with either white rice or fried rice and two crab rangoons. The fried rice was bland and resembled white rice, and the crab rangoon were dry, crispy, and had minimal filling. The crab rangoon filling tasted of primarily cream cheese, and neither of us could detect any crab meat. We both would have liked to have some sweet and sour sauce to dip our rangoon into. My Moo Goo Gai Pan was good, but it was definitely not authentic. The sauce was very similar to sauce you would find on a beef with broccoli or chicken with Chinese vegetable dish. 

Shane's dish was a little bit better than mine, but still not authentic. His pork was lightly breaded and crispy, with a sauce that was more similar to sweet and sour sauce with some small chili peppers, containing hardly any spice at all. 

 Overall, this restaurant is a good choice if you want a cheap meal late at night when everything else is closed. Otherwise, I suggest looking for a more quality Chinese restaurant, as the food at a Chinese buffet would have been better than our meals at Rice Bowl.