text: On the past experience of my friend with this Chinese restaurant, we went and tried Bamboo House. My friend did all the ordering... maybe we'll change that procedure on our next restaurant visit. Bamboo House claims to be a Chinese restaurant, but also lists Thai and Vietnamese creations.\n\nWhat we ordered...\n\nStarters: Seafood Soup - This was a very thick soup filled to the brim with seafood ingredients: Shrimp, Scallops, Abalone, Fish, vegetables, and some ingredients I could not recognize! Mistake #1: The soup itself had a tap water aftertaste! My friend disagreed... but I know I tasted tap water!\n\nDrinks: Mai Tai - Yummy, yummy... sweet and very alcoholic. The bartender really knows how to mix his drinks. And you get a little umbrella \"thing\" with your drink!\n\nMain Dishes: \n\nHouse Special Chicken - This dish was essentially Chinese Fried Chicken in a batter immersed in their \"special\" sauce. The batter was slightly crispy when bitten into, and was especially tasty and had interesting textures when consumed.\n\nKung Pao Chicken II - Off menu Kung Pao Chicken without the Cashews. Skinned Chicken with Shrimp, Mushrooms, Peas, Water Chestnuts, and Celery covered by their \"special\" sauce.\n\nBoth dishes were supposed to be spicy \"hot\".... NOT!\n\nMistake #2: Never duplicate any meat dishes... we discovered both dishes were immersed in their \"special\" sauce which made differentiation of the dishes difficult, at best! Did I just have the House Special or the Kung Pao? Let me take a close look! Not very creative cooking!\n\nDemographics of restaurant: All Caucasian clientele. Less than 30% of capacity.\nLocated in a small strip mall setting.\nService was friendly and attentive.\n\nProbably will not be coming back here for the food... But maybe for the Polynesian style drinks... They're pretty refreshing and Good!\n\nNext visit to any restaurant... I'm ordering for both of us!\n\nMy Friend's rating: 3\nMy rating:               2.25 (Saved by MaiTai)