Video: Eat stir-fry to your palate's content at the Genghis Grill
By SCOTT CHERRY - 10/1/2009
GENGHIS GRILL
1617 E. 15th St.
574-2695
If you don't like your meal at the new Genghis Grill, it's your own fault.
The full name for this regional chain is Genghis Grill: the Mongolian Stir Fry, and that means you select all the ingredients you want to include in your bowl. The only thing you don't do is cook your concoction on the big, round, flat grill. A "grill master" does that for you.
The hard part is deciding how you want to put your dish together from the staggering assortment of items on the serving line. Go ahead. It's your palate.
Here's how it goes:
When you enter the restaurant a hostess will take you to your table, take drink orders and give you an empty bowl. Proceed to the serving line where you will put in your bowl, in order:
1. Choose your protein or proteins among marinated steak, turkey, ham, shrimp, scallops, calamari, sausage, marinated whitefin, sliced beef, chicken, artificial crab, pepperoni and pork.
2. Sprinkle on the spices. They include such choices as dragon salt, pepper, red pepper, lemon pepper, cayenne, yellow curry salt, Cajun, lemon pepper, garlic and house steak blend. They are listed as mild or spicy.
3. Add vegetables from among 30 selections. It is recommended to pile on the veggies because they tend to cook down on the grill. This station includes raw eggs that will be cooked on the grill and mixed into your dish.
4.Pick your sauce, most of which are proprietary blends that are listed as mild, medium or hot. Among the choices are barbecue, honey soy, roasted tomato, dragon sauce, sweet 'n' sour, ginger citrus, teriyaki, Szechuan, Asian chili, chile garlic and red curry peanut. Each is tagged with a brief explanation, and small tasting spoons are available to give them a try. Put your sauce in the small bowls at the station because sauces tend to caramelize or burn if added straight to the bowl.
5. Present your bowl and sauce to the grill master and tell him what starch you want — steamed rice, fried rice, brown rice, udon noodles, spiral pasta or tortillas.
"At this point you want to tell the grill master if you are a vegetarian, have special dietary needs or any special requests so he can cook the dish properly and to your specifications," said general manager Dino Nithianandan.
The grill master also will give you a number that corresponds to your bowl. You may sit at the counter and observe your dish being cooked or return to your table and a server will bring the dish when it is ready.
That's it. Take chopsticks or utensils, dig in and figure out how you did.
Genghis Grill has full bar service, including six wines and an assortment of beers. The beers include Asian imports Kirin Light, Sapporo (regular size and the 22-ounce can), Asahi and Tsingtao.
Republic of Tea brand screw-top bottled teas also are available in flavors such as ginger peach, pomegranate, raspberry quince and mango Ceylon for $3.99 each.
During lunch hours a one-bowl meal is $8.99.
If you want to make additional trips, called the "endless bowl," the total is $10.99. At dinner the cost is $9.99 for one bowl, $12.99 for the endless bowl. All to-go orders are $8.99 per bowl.
Nithianandan, a native of Sri Lanka, has had a long restaurant career, including stops at Mexico Joe's in Stillwater and Joe's Crab Shack in Tulsa. Mike Pierce Jr. is owner-operator.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Genghis Grill accepts all major credit cards.
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Jennewoman, (10/1/2009 8:21:16 AM)
Location/Address?
Sunny101877, (10/1/2009 11:15:40 AM)
Been there 4 times already and love it!
ichat, (10/1/2009 8:21:27 AM)
1619 EAST 15th Street Tulsa, OK 74120 is the address, the article never mentioned the address. genghisgrill dot com
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