{"id":6547,"date":"2011-12-09T15:27:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=6547"},"modified":"2011-12-09T15:27:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T23:27:21","slug":"portland-green-wok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=6547","title":{"rendered":"Portland, OR – Green Wok"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Joined our friends for holiday lunch at this neighborhood establishment.\u00a0 It’s close to our house, and I’ve only been once before, for take out soup for Mrs. Burgerdogboy;\u00a0 the Mrs. loves her soup.<\/p>\n

Green Wok<\/a> is a vegetarian restaurant, and at noon offers a set price buffet as well as the regular menu.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a fairly competitive neighborhood for restaurants, we have Baba Fresh<\/a>, Subway, Baristador’s<\/a>, the Hummus St<\/a>op,\u00a0 a pho place, and of course, my standby – 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n

My only other experience with a vegetarian buffet in Portland was at the Vegetarian House<\/a> in Old Town.\u00a0 It was pretty good, as I recall.<\/p>\n

Glancing at Yelp <\/a>or Urban Spoon<\/a>, you’ll find mixed reviews for the Green Wok, but you will for any restaurant.<\/p>\n

We give plus points for any locally owned place, on that merit alone.\u00a0\u00a0 Today, between the four of us, we had a wide variety of foods, including kung pao chicken, noodles, rice, fake sushi, an eggplant dish, mixed vegetables, spring rolls.<\/p>\n

All in all, it was good.\u00a0\u00a0 I have to agree with some other assessments I have seen in reviews – by 1pm (when we arrived) the buffet is starting to look sparse. In farness to management, we did not ask if they would prepare more, but I think they would.<\/p>\n

The faux sushi was good, but the fake fish was not to my taste.\u00a0 I kept thinking it looked like Patrick (from Spongebob’s) tongue. I expected it to wag. The consistency was reminiscent of fish, but it really didn’t have much taste.<\/p>\n

We shared the ABC roll (avocado, bacon, and c-something), and that was interesting, in a good way.<\/p>\n

I of course, liked the fried rice and spring rolls.\u00a0\u00a0 The kung pao “chicken” was pretty tasty as well.<\/p>\n

Will I go back?\u00a0 Sure.<\/p>\n

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Joined our friends for holiday lunch at this neighborhood establishment.\u00a0 It’s close to our house, and I’ve only been once before, for take out soup for Mrs. Burgerdogboy;\u00a0 the Mrs. loves her soup. Green Wok is a vegetarian restaurant, and at noon offers a set price buffet as well as the regular menu.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a… Continue reading Portland, OR – Green Wok<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35],"tags":[2771,2792,2796,2836,2868,2916,3383],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}