"How does this work?" I pleaded.Ĭandice just kept staring at her fried egg roll and chicken. Where was the BBQ? Why were people holding bowls all moving behind the steam tables? Was this all an X-Files flashback? I found a guy with a beeper and laid my cards on the table. This stunningly vague information prompted me to quickly order a Tsing Tao ($2.70) to accompany whatever was coming next.įinding ourselves in front of a huge pot of rice, a few trays of noodles and some chicken with potatoes, we were perplexed. We were told simply to go up front and get our food. Nobody else looked lost-they were obviously repeat offenders. Understand that there is no menu, no specials listings on the wall-no writing of any kind, save for a bright blue "Occupancy limit-49" sign-nothing to indicate our role in this surreal but aromatic collective drama. Gazing at the steam tables, we asked for instruction. What passes for decor here is confined to a few framed posters of Yosemite waterfalls and a red Chinese wall calendar as thick as a dictionary.Ĭandice and I were pointed toward no table in particular, so we herded ourselves between one wall of students and another of blue-collar workers and families, a group liberally sprinkled with high-tech types wearing beepers. Draped with sparkly stuff for the holidays, Su's is essentially a gigantic ode to Formica.
A sign on the door informs that lunch runs $5.55, while dinner prices balloon all the way up to $6.99. Just follow the crowd parking up and down El Camino-right across from Santa Clara U.-and streaming through the front door of this stupendously popular "all you can eat" establishment. IT'S NOT HARD to find Su's Mongolian BBQ.
It would be nice to have some ice-cream machine to refresh yourself after noodles.BBQ Guru: Wei Na Tian cooks up fresh veggies and meats at Santa Clara's Su's Mongolian BBQ.įorget the frills-dessert is a fortune cookie-but the affordable sizzle is hard to beat at Su's Mongolian BBQ, a Santa Clara hot spot The only thing that disappointed us a bit besides tricky working hours and quite big price ($33 for two including taxes and tips) is absolute absence of any sweets. The atmosphere doesn't have any Asian outlook, but it has thousands of pictures on the walls and ceiling with happy customers eating there. Besides having ready-to-be-cooked food, this restaurant also offers "all you can eat" options of cooked spring rolls, steamed rice and fried chicken. In addition, even that two bowls that you fill with ingredients might look small, ammount of cooked food on your plate will be very big later. And we doubt that it is possible to select some combination, which will not taste great. The helpful advices of the staff members made us to select the right combination of sauses to make our noodles with vegerables and meat as tasty as possible. After picking all needed ingredients, we gave it to the chefs, who drop all our food in the gigantic pan and started frying it.
It is not an easy task because they have not only big variety of vegetables but also meat such as chicken, lamb, pork and beef. In order to get your food cooked, you need to get two bowls and fill one of them with vegetables and noodles and the other one with meat. In short, it is a buffee place with "all you can eat" rule except for the fact that almost all ingredients are fresh and need to be cooked. At first, very polite staff members explained to us how not to get lost because of the unusual type of the service in this restaurant. Even that we (a couple) needed to spend 2 hours driving around, our disappointment disappeared as soon as we finally entered this place. The fact that this place is closed in the middle of a day made us make circles around restaurant till it's opening hours.
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