‘Best I’ve ever had.’ Foodie’s review of Gautier gas station’s Chinese food goes viral.

Scott Watkins
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Stafford Shurden’s one-man tailgate food review show returned to South Mississippi for another gas station dish.

As part of the popular Facebook series that has garnered thousands of followers, Shurden stopped at a Gautier gas station and enjoyed an Asian dish featuring crab rangoon and General Tso’s chicken.

Shurden entered the 1st Stop on Gautier Vancleave road expecting food that was “just going to be Chinese food,” but had his expectations surpassed by the rangoons and the egg rolls.

From the tailgate of his traveling campaign, Shurden tried rangoons that he said were more savory than sweet thanks to a seafood crab stuffing and were perhaps “the best I’ve ever had.”

Shurden especially enjoyed the egg rolls. “You can tell, that’s different from what you normally get. Really good, I’m really enjoying this,” Shurden said in the review.

Upon finishing the meal, Shurden gave the gas station meal a 7.9 out of 10, just shy of the 8.3 he awarded Lizana Quik Stop’s roast beef po-boy.

The 1st Stop has only one other review on Yelp and it’s a five star rating left by a customer in 2017 who agreed that the gas station has “the best egg rolls you’ll ever eat.”

Stafford Shurden, who goes around the South and tries gas station food on the bed of his pickup truck, tried an asian plate at 1st Stop in Gautier and ranked it 7.9/10.
Stafford Shurden, who goes around the South and tries gas station food on the bed of his pickup truck, tried an asian plate at 1st Stop in Gautier and ranked it 7.9/10.