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So soon after my first review, I really feel the need to revisit this. Mongolian BBQ – 4 Happy Hour is M-F, 4-7 pm. The special is half price appetizers. No deals on the drinks, but they are roughly $7.50 per serving, which is a good price. The Zombie came in a cool Fu Manchu mug. The Chi Chi came in frozen coconut mugs, that were still cold nearly an hour later. The Scorpion Bowl aka Parents Liquor Cabinet (costs $15, serves 2+) comes AFLAME, and with crazy long straws. Photos of the first three drinks are below.
Mai Tai was big and delicious. King Kong Bundy (sp?) was dangerous. I don’t believe there is any other bar in town that serves up these tiki-style cocktails with the kitsch style. With my little group, we were able to sample nearly every appetizer on the menu. I’ll go through the whole list. * Chinese Chicken Salad – did not try * Fried Wontons (10 pork, or 8 cream cheese) – ordered both. Simple, fun to share, lots of dipping sauce provided. * Egg Rolls (4) – appeared vegetarian. Standard. Let these cool down before eating. * Paper Wrapped Chicken (4) – actually foiled wrapped. Stuck to foil. Meh. * Fried Shrimp (4) – good. * Bar-B-Q Spareribs (4) – yummy and filling. * Bar-B-Q Pork – did not try * Fried Dumplings {Pot Stickers} (6) – SKIP! But filling. * Sa-Tay Beef Sticks (6) – winner. * Chinese Country Style Chicken Wings (6) – good! * Assorted Appetizer {2 pieces each of: Egg Roll, Paper Wrapped Chicken, BBQ Sparerib, and Beef Stick} (8) – winner! Came in a kitschy platter with a mini hibachi flame to heat things up. * Fried Shrimp Balls (4) – has potential. Some of ours were too salty. * Salt & Pepper Sauteed Mushrooms – yummy! Great to share.
* Bon Bon Ji Chicken – WINNER! Shredded chicken in a citrus peanut sauce with greens. Can take a while to prepare, and worth the wait. * Swa-Ni Pork – WINNER! Thin-sliced pork in spicy garlic sauce. Now, don’t expect the party to fall in your lap. You need to bring your own. Ming Dynasty is not the place of beautiful people, unless it’s Goleta’s own special brand of beautiful people, which is folks in costco clothing and a mullet or two. And that’s part of its charms. We had a blast. LOVED the happy hours. We will be back. Ming Dynasty Milk and Honey was one of those places I walked by often, heard mentioned a number of times, but could not get motivated to visit. People said it was a tapas bar, but my experience with tapas comes straight from Spain, in small fishing villages where the tapa was gratis with a round of drinks and the nibbles literally came on a plate that sat over the glasses. They were simple and actually Spanish. Places that call themselves tapas bars in Santa Barbara are not Spanish. And the tapas come in two forms: small portions priced like regular portions, or larger portions that would topple a beverage if the bowl was placed upon it. It’s that stubborness that keeps me from patronizing places that advertise themselves as tapas bars. Milk and Honey, especially, seemed like the kind of place one had to be trendily dressed to fit in. Like the kind of place that CDB’s would frequent. I don’t have big enough sunglasses to eat here, you know? But we came here, after the Royal Shakespeare Company performance at the Granada, because It Was Time.
The French Gimlet was good! The photo of it was not so good! That is the situation with low light and my point and shoot, unfortunately.
We also shared a beet salad with walnuts, tomatoes, feta and greens. This was good, on par with other beet salads in town. I believe it was $8. Between two people it was a satisfactory meal. When I get a really big pair of sunglasses, I might feel more comfortable here. And note: the sunglasses are merely to fit in, not for actual wearing. It’s so dark inside it’s hard to read the menu. Milk and Honey
Our final stop in the one day San Francisco food tour with James, and it’s the Alembic Bar on Haight, owned by the same fine folks of Magnolia just a few blocks down the road. This time it was all beverage, no food. We were stuffed to the gills and still had a dinner appointment in the south bay. In fact, I only partook of some refreshing water. It was the boys who had a proper beverage.
That’s right, Bourbon Old Fashioned, done right. There isn’t much more to say, other than the photos are by Ted Mills. Alembic (Haight-Ashbury) |
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