Daily Dining News: Details Emerge About Mongo Mongo
November 01, 2011
As reported by Cowtown Eats last week, Mongo Mongo, a Mongolian BBQ restaurant, is replacing Garlic Shack at 19th & J. Brandon Darnell has additional details in Sac Press.
Moving into the space with its newly installed roll-up garage doors fronting J Street presented Ng and his business partners with a problem: Mongolian barbecue restaurants typically have kitchens out where customers can see them, but health code requires kitchens be enclosed, so either the garage doors had to go, or another solution devised.
“We decided to take out the (existing) wall separating the kitchen from the restaurant and make it out of glass with sliding glass doors,” Ng said.
With that plan, customers can still walk in and out of the garage doors onto a patio, and the kitchen is easily seen as the chef cooks the food, moving it over the grill surface with two large chopstick-like tongs.
Read the entire story in Sac Press.
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mongo mongo needs great rice not overcooked instant, will make it a great place
Posted by: m mcdonald | February 11, 2012 at 09:04 AM