Create your plate at Mukilteo’s Mongolian Grill

It’s a picky eater’s paradise.

It’s nirvana for control freaks.

At Mukilteo’s Mongolian Grill, you select every ingredient on your plate.

You choose exactly what you want, down to the last sliver of celery, and someone else does the cooking.

It doesn’t get much better than that.

That’s why this eatery hits the spot for both finicky and laissez-faire eaters.

Grab a bowl and go through the bar of items: noodles, cabbage, kale, pineapple, broccoli, bell pepper, Chinese pickles.

Choose the portion, the proportion. The spices, the herbs.

Diners pay by the bowl, not the ounce. So pile the bowl as high as you can. It almost becomes a game of Topple with veggies.

The price is $10.50 at lunch or $11.50 for dinner. A child’s bowl is $6.95.

Select the meat (lamb is $3 extra). Or go meatless. Vegetarian options include tofu and egg.

The chef cooks it up on the huge round flat-top griddle. It’s takes 3 or 10 minutes, depending on how many people are in line.

Don’t lose your place in line, the website advises, or you might end up with someone else’s meal. That could actually be interesting.

Part of the fun is watching the stir-fry artist at work on the giant sizzling drum.

“I wish I had a round grill like that,” my husband, Max, says every time we go there. I wish we did, too, though we’d have to get a bigger kitchen first.

Diners are handed an oval plate with a hot, crunchy mound of goodness.

But it’s not over yet.

Rice options, added at the end, are white, brown and fried. A sauce bar offers curry, peanut, spicy, mushroom and sweet-and-sour choices for diners to spoon on.

I’m a sauce-addict. Some places charge extra for sauces or give you the stink eye if you take more than one or two. Not at Mongolian Grill. I shamelessly filled six of the 2-ounce plastic takeout cups.

The dining room is an open room with tables rectangle or round to fit couples or large groups.

We usually get it to go because the food is easy to eat at home in front of the TV. There. I admit it. We’re a family of pathetic couch potatoes.

Mongolian Grill keeps everybody in the family happy.

My daughter, Megan, is the picky eater poster child. She’s also a vegetarian.

“I can get exactly what I want,” she said, “so I don’t have to pick out the things I don’t like.”

She especially likes the salty Chinese pickles, which she said aren’t available at most places.

“I get three scoops,” she said.

Max goes on binges where he tries to improve his eating habits so he can justify eating badly other times. He was on his good behavior the other day.

He chose an egg instead of beef. “A griddle-cooked egg. It went well with the vegetables,” he said. “It was cooked just right.”

The servings are so large it’s easy to make another meal with the leftovers out of one order.

Unless you’re like Max, who leaves not even a celery sliver behind the first run.

“I can’t stop until it’s all gone,” he said.