Is this the most FOBBY name in the world or what... It's obvious, Engrish is not their first language. If this was on Buford Highway, I would be all over this shit and it would prolly have some fucking kickass grub. I can not figure out how or why Mint 2 would open another very similar business a couple of doors down... Aren't they just cannibalising their current business? Everyone knows Mint 2 sucks ass and opening another resto just doesn't make sense or their food any better... Or does it? No one knows how Mint 2 stays in business after all these years, it's a fucking mystery... Baffles the mind. What baffles the mind even more is that I will still go and find out how bad this new joint will be. It took them forever to open this place and now they are in their soft opening stage even though no one would even notice. The space is quite large inside given how small it looks on the outside. The menu is still in the developmental stage... What? It's a mix of all different Asian cuisines. The only menu they currently have was the lunch menu and that continues on to dinner as well with higher prices. It is unreal how they still haven't got their entire menu down at this stage of the game... But I'm not surprised coming from the Mint people.
I looked up their website to see if I can find anymore details and the website is a total shit show... I pulled it up and it's like a website for a totally different resto. Pictures of oysters on the half, shrimp cocktail, ceviche, ingredients for hot pot, Italian pasta dishes, sushi in heart shapes, tuna tataki, seafood buffet platters, cannolis... It was just a mess and they even have a picture of the strip mall which seemed like it was located in Arizona instead of Clairmont Rd. They even have a quote, "In the past years, we have gained very good reputation of our foods.
We use the fresh, best materials to cook the delicious food for you!"... Oh, really, didn't y'all just opened? This was totally fobtastic... And this fat fob is going to take the big bite, hook line and sinker.
Let's go torture the pouch... The shit I do for my one fan.
Papaya Salad. It is not on the menu as an app or side item but it comes with some combo meals... Asked them if they can just do it as an app. It didn't look bad when it came out, the papaya and carrot julienne were sitting on top of a bunch of iceberg lettuce so most of the marinade juices collected to the bottom. The liberal use of lime juice was just too overpowering and asked for some fish sauce which was actually quite good quality. That made all the difference. This also had zero heat to it. It's an average papaya salad... But nothing worth coming back to.
Beef & Meatballs Noodle Soup. This was a huge bowl of noodle soup... There's a lot of volume in there. A fat retard can wear this as a helmet after you finish it because they'll need it weeble wobbling outta the joint. The meatballs were store bought, the beef slices were way too thick, the rice noodles were standard issue. Didn't see any bean sprouts so asked them for some... Come to realize that they layered the entire bottom of the bowl with the sprouts to prop up the rice noodles to make it look like there's more than there actually was... Fucking old school sorcery. All the ingredients were average at best but the surprising thing was the broth, it was actually quite good. It's loaded with garlic flavor, I mean a ton of garlic essence and it's also very sweet, too sweet for my liking but it grew on me. Asked them what the broth was and they said, "soy broth"... What, come again? Did I just get bamboozled with a cheap instant broth? Fuck yeah I did and I got swindled again by the Mint 2 people. Now, I know where the sweetness came from... Our good friends HFCS and MSG. The sodium content of that broth must be heinous, no wonder why I liked it, that shit is like cocaine to me. What looked like a really promising bowl of noodle soup turned out to a wolf in sheep's clothing after dissecting it. Definitely not worth $11.
Pad Thai Basket. Trying to be fancypants aren't we? Let's put wet juicy noodles in a giant prawn cracker... Because that will stay crispy for sure. If you just nibble on the edge of the cracker, it's crispy but if you dig underneath the noodles, it's like a giant soggy loose leaf paper spit ball. The pad thai was actually pretty decent, it had good flavor and texture. A couple squirt of lime juice makes it even better. I would get it again if I was jonesing for a nearby pad thai.
Ba-Mee Crab, egg noodle, spinach, cilantro, bean sprouts and chopped peanuts. Sounds pretty good doesn't it? Well, don't fucking ever order it because this crap in a bowl was bland as shit. I mean so bland that it didn't taste like anything... The stale air I was breathing in had more flavor. I thought maybe there would be like a XO sauce or something on the bottom to give it more flavor, so I mixed it all up and the bottom of the bowl was full of bean sprouts once again and nothing else. The "lump" canned crab meat was a generous portion but we all know canned crab taste like nothing and they even nuked it before they spread it on top. C'mon, we all know that nuked canned crab meat tastes like wads of spitballs.... Spitballs seem to be the recurring theme here. So, I waved the server down and told her this has got to be missing something because it was absolutely tasteless. So, she went back to the kitchen for the 15th time and asked the substitute cook (the real cook was not in) if this noodle bowl came with anything else... She came back out and says they can put "soup" in it. What the fuck world am I on? Is Bizarro cooking back there? Does this noodle bowl come with a broth, sauce or nothing? It shouldn't be this difficult. Who came up with this menu... Fuck me, can you tell I'm pissed off about this dish? I gave in and told them to just put the fucking broth in it and be done with it... It didn't turn out any better. Ate like 5 bites of it and pushed it off to the side. This fucking annoying as fuck dish sucked ass, don't fucking order it, fuckfaces...
Thai Tea. Not exactly the right vessel to serve a thai tea in but I ain't expecting authenticity after the last dish, either. Thai tea are usually pretty sweet but this was ultra sweet... You're required to go to the dentist right after drinking this.
The whole night was kinda like a mesmerizing shit show... The limited staff knows next to nothing about the menu, the training was non-existent. One server says the lunch menu prices are the same for the dinner even though the bill came out adjusted higher for dinner service. This joint seems more like a lunch spot for the local college students than a dining destination. There was only one other table in the entire place on my visit and they ate some of their food and took the rest home... Even the old whities didn't like the Americanized Asian grub. The small amount of food sampled during their "soft opening" had some mids and lows... Nothing excited me enough to come back any time soon. I prolly shoulda just stuck with the stir fried noodles which seemed to be better executed than the noodle soup bowls. I may be persuaded to come back during a lunch service just to see if they have stepped up their game but I would definitely not come back here for dinner service... Not until they have proven themselves. But it is the owners of Mint 2... Shit, nevermind then...
1363 Clairmont Rd
Decatur, GA 30033
http://bestseafooddecatur.com/
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