Green Bowl

The food is tasty and they have some choices of veggies, proteins and noodles. But I didn’t enjoy the service. The older Asian lady immediately let me know it was $10 per bowl with only 1 meat and seemed pre-occupied with her own stuff and was rushing through explaining how things work. She was serving herself lunch in some corner while serving guests and also had her friends over. So she was sitting and chatting with them. I was the only customer in there around 1pm and some of the sauce bowls were empty. My recommendation will be to have better service, offer more variety in food choices and decorate the place a bit more to make it lively.

This is my new favorite restaurant in state college! If you are going for your first time, look at the “custom bowls” menu and follow one of their sauce recipes rather than trying to guess and mix your own blindly. Fresh ingredients, great variety, great taste, and all of it is cooked which appeased any of my concerns about buffet style eating (you assemble the ingredients and THEN the bowl is cooked). A small is really filling and only 8.99. I’m vegetarian and there were plenty of options for me!

As soon as I entered, I wanted to leave but I decided to give it a try. A small bowl is enough to fill you because you can put as much as you’d like on it. You can customize and build your own stir fry which they will then cook for you. At my own fault, I didn’t know what sauces to use for my plate but it still tasted fine. I had a problem with a few things when coming in. It first looked unsanitary when trying to build my plate. My main concern was that there was cross contamination when our food was brought out to us. If I had a peanut allergy or some other sorts, it could have been a big problem. We were also assigned seats and could not sit where we wanted to. It would have been fine if my table was clean before sitting down but it was cleaned while seated. Meanwhile there were plenty of open seats that were clean. I would not come here again.

The place has changed since the pandemic which isn't surprising. I'm not surprised that it's no longer all you can eat, But I was surprised at the lack of options. There was no minced garlic, snow or snap peas, or water chestnuts, And the only protein we could choose from was tofu, shrimp, or pork. They don't give you rice anymore either. The Choice of sauces was limited as well and did not have sauces that they used to, especially hoison. It was disappointing because I used to really like this place, but i don't think I will keep it on my list of lunch places downtown anymore.

This place is straight up disgusting. The food was super bland and I got a bite of sour baby corn. I barely ate any of the food, and now I'm hoping I don't end up with food poisoning. The manager was pretty rude too. It was our first (and obviously last) time here so we weren't sure how to order and she barely explained the process. We also noticed we were the only people in the restaurant who she did not give chopsticks to (we were the only non-asians as well). I would rather eat ANYWHERE ELSE. Don't go here!!