Truly Asia — Restaurant in Broomfield

If only the Chinese food was as good as the decor!

My wife and I came here in search of good Chinese in the Broomfield area, which we haven't found since Li's changed hands. We came for a late lunch on a Friday, and were the only patrons at that time.

The layout and decorations are really quite nice, as is the service and the menus themselves. They obviously totally gutted the less-than-mediocre Chinese-ish buffet that previously occupied that space.

My wife ordered her Chinese go-to dish: Kung Pao Chicken, with egg drop soup. They don't have my go-to, Twice-Cooked Pork, so I wandered about the menu and ended up with Thai - Drunken Noodles with Shrimp, marked as a "chef's pick", and hot/sour soup. Two hot oolong teas, and we were set.

Tea came first, and I really kind of like the clear glass pot it came in (see photo). It was also quite good. One whole star in the ratings is for this alone.

The hot and sour soup was quite decent. I would have been happier were it a bit more spicy, but being spicy at all is apparently an achievement in this neck of the woods; at least it's far from the hot soy sauce I've been served elsewhere. The egg drop soup wasn't bad, but just OK.

I really enjoyed the drunken noodles & shrimp (photo). The shrimp were large and plentiful, the noodles properly cooked (very firm al dente), and the sauce on the noodles had the very slightly spicy odd tang that denotes decent Thai food to me. Could have been spicier (of course), but it was quite acceptable. I'd have it again.

The kung pao chicken was another story. It also had that Thai tang, which it definitely should NOT have had, and my wife does not like at all. In addition: It had so much sauce, and the sauce was so thin, that after eating a little it was more like soup than a main dish. Very very unsatisfactory.

I generally shy away from so-called pan-asian places other than the highest end where unique cross-cultural combinations in each dish are created. The more usual "We do Chinese and Thai and Singaporean and Japanese and Korean and the kitchen sink" - heck, no restaurant can do that well without a separate chef for each, and they'd fight with each other.

Truly Asia suffers from this. We've only had two dishes (four if you count soup), so it's hard to say, but our sample so far says they have a Thai guy who's decent but doesn't get "American Chinese". So if you like Thai, go there. Otherwise, well, let us know how you fare.

Oh, and note to owners - fire whoever provides your fortune cookies. They're tough and tasteless and have...

We've been here twice now, once dine in, once take out. The dine in experience was slightly better, with the food being typical/average to what you might expect from a Chinese American restaurant. Their menu has a good amount of variety, giving it a pan Asian vibe. Food wasn't very memorable. This was about a year ago. Just ordered takeout today, and I think maybe there is a new cook, or maybe we just got lucky during our dine in. The food that is shown in the picture came to just under $50. Not a deal breaker by today's standards, but the food did not prove to be worth it. All of our food was exceptionally salty, even the soups. I ordered the sizzling beef strip loin, and it was legitimately too salty to eat. It is also advertised as being served with white and green onion... mine came with onion, green, and red pepper. Also, when they say small soup, they really mean small. I've never seen soup served in a container this small. Where I grew up, a small egg drop of hot and sour soup are a quart, and a large is a pint, not whatever this is (see attached photo).

TL/DR: There are not many good Chinese places in this area. If you are looking for an easy dinner bite, I'd avoid this one and...

So, what a cool find. I had time to kill before a doctor's appointment so I just happened to see this place and was absolutely charmed by the entire experience. My server was so sweet and funny and when she didn't know the answer to something, she went and found someone who did. Then, another gentleman came out and told me I was the first customer to purchase alcohol from their restaurant because they had just started selling it, so the glass of wine was on the house. THAT is the way to run a restaurant!!! The food was also amazing, and they had a dish I've hard a very hard time finding at other places. That said, most people return to restaurants that they had a good (great) experience at, not necessarily for the food (relatively speaking). Not only will I tell people about this experience, I will never forget it and it's just nice to see people who know what...