Ming Court

Disclaimer: I only went here once, and it was for the lunch buffet. Once was enough for me, though.

So, I'm not claiming to actually have gone into their kitchen and checked, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Ming Court got a really good deal buying a ton of brown gravy mix. At least that would explain why everything seemed to be slathered in some version of it.

Put briefly, this place lived up to every fear I had about Chinese food out here in the boondocks. It WAS a step up from eating paste, because paste doesn't have any vegetables in it - not even gooey limp ones. The predominant flavor palette was:
a) Grease.
b) Salt.
c) Brown gravy.

Maybe you're into that. Maybe your idea of a walk on the culinary wild side is putting snow peas in your boiled dinner. If so, you will love this place, because it is a temple to Insipidum, God of Blandness.

They get an extra star because the place was clean and service was fine. That counts for something, I guess. And the white rice was totally everything white rice is supposed to be, so, nice job there guys.

It'd probably be more fair of me to go back and order something off of the menu; perhaps they put a little more effort into stuff that won't be spending two hours in a steam tray. Honestly though, I'm not about to gamble on it here, as I walked out feeling like I'd just slurped up Asianized gruel. Girlfriend and I looked at each other as soon as we got out the door and just said, "Wow."

And not in that good way.

This place can be great .... Or poor. Service is good but the food varys from day to day in the quality of it.

Not being from anywhere near Walla Walla, we had no clue where to get any chinese food, let alone good chinese. Thankfully I found very good reviews of Ming's Court and so we headed there.  The outside was nothing special, but once through the doors it was very nice with  modern decor and with prompt and pleasant service. It was also very clean-no sticky tables here! LOL!  The food was REALLY, REALLY good. Not greasy. Very flavorful, cooked to order and you get a good amount of it too.  In fact, neither of us could finish our meals. The prices were very reasonable too. The only negative I can say is the we had to pay extra for fried rice instead of steamed. We had the Moo Goo Gai Pan chicken and General Tao's chicken. Both SO YUMMY!