Mamatown – Get a Taste of Glory

When you first walk in to Mamatown you think “everybody’s squinting”, but then you realize that they’re sitting and chewing and their eyes are half closed.  Most of Mamatown’s food just slides right on down.  The rest requires a little chewing to explode those rich flavors of grilled meat and gravy from small morsels already afloat in dark, rich, saltiness.    There are  illusive hints of spices  that you know well, but can’t quite identify, until it  dawns upon you they are something perhaps known as “Thinking of Wasabi”, or  “Memories of Ginger” and  other flavors that we have all played with in our own cooking, but here in Mamatown we find them all woven into the same fabric which now lies upon our plate.

The food is not only good, but it is quick and inexpensive.  Where else can you stride through the door, go through the  buffet line, eat a meal and pay only $6.00 for all that goodness.  There are problems though:  1)  I found our waitress to be severely English-challenged (but it’s a buffet and all the entrées are well identified so that’s no big deal),   2)  No beer or wine is served but never mind, I found the food intoxicating enough.  It’s not really Fast Food.  It may start out that way but as your eyelids begin to slide on down, you start thinking of your next trip through the buffet, and then of desert, and begin to realize there is nothing more important anywhere else.

Mamatown of Hickory.  http://www.superpages.com/bp/Hickory-NC/Ye-Wei-GUAN-Chinese-Buffet-L0503093580.htm