When evaluating a restaurant, reviewers hope to sample a large portion of the menu. Wide-ranging description helps readers decide if they want to visit the place, and what to order if they do. Sorry to say, that process doesn’t work when it comes to Emperador Asian Mex restaurant. A diligent critic could eat two different meals a day for a month and still feel the job is only half-done.
How do you begin to choose from a multi-page, multi-volume menu that lists hundreds of dishes in dozens of categories? Unless you arrive knowing what you want, figuring out what to eat feels like walking into the supermarket without a shopping list. Even something as basic as the array of condiments on every table requires meaningful decision-making. Will the dish you are about to eat benefit from a sprinkle of habanero salsa picante or sriracha, or maybe a dash of Shinho soy sauce from China or TapatÃo sauce from Guadalajara?
