Wok Villiage

(The less-than-appealing exterior of Wok)

Tryin' a hybrid this time you guys. A little T+S action simultaneously. We're sitting on the couch here at Tommy's with some Real Housewives of New Jersey on in the background and we just got done watching a few clips of NYC Prep (starting tonight! At 10! 9 Central!) so we're pretty much prepped to start our write up on Wok Village.

First off Wok Village does not have the best location. It took us a few minutes to figure out how to actually get there. It's tucked behind the Triphammer mall in the Bishop's small mall and surpsingly sandwiched between two other restaurants (both of which I, Sam, didn't know existed).

The nicest thing we can say about having to go to Wok Village is that we were less than "Chili's Excited" to have to eat there, but that's sort of the point of this whole thing. Inside Wok is pretty much what you'd expect. A few tables adorned with those Zodiac placemats that you see in most Chinese restaurants and some other interesting decorations on the walls (including two giant crayfish).

(I'm an interesting mix of gregariousness paired with introversion according to my zodiac sign and locals.)

Wok Village has been around for a long time, and there were a sizable number of people eating their dirt-cheap lunch buffet. Sam and I (Tom) also got the buffet, thus bypassing the need to even look at menus. They had a pretty varied assortment of standard Chinese fare, like General Tso's Chicken, Fried Rice, Egg Foo Young, and Egg Drop Soup (all of which we got in the buffet). The soup was good, and we pretty much ate all of everything else.

(The dregs of our meal)

The main draw of Wok Village is the service and price. For about 15 dollars for the both of us, we got a large meal and were in and out of the restaurant in about a 20 minute span. There are a lot of places where you could order takeout and do much worse than this. The waitress also attentively kept our water and Sprite full, so much so that when she realized that Sam hadn't touched his water, she gave me his. If you have a budget, Wok Village will certainly get you a lot of bang for your buck (or bang for your "bok" as Sam says, though I'm not sure we ate any Bok Choy). Having had takeout from here a few times before, I can also say that that option is pretty good.

We also got two excellent fortune cookies:
Tommy's: "You are about to become $8.95 poorer. ($6.95 if you had the buffet)" - which was true
Sam's: "Don't be over self-confident with your first impression of others."- which will never be true

Overall, we'd give it 2.5 "Sams" out of 4, largely because of the great service and price.



P.S. Thanks to our visit we're both a lot closer to perfecting Chinese and possible winning the lotto.