Went for lunch. And it's the Bei Jing Buffet. Someone please tell Yelp.
Lunch (11-2:45) is $16.99, Dinner (3-9) is $25.99. All Day Dinner on Weekends and Holidays. See pics for kids pricing, which goes by height. Seniors 65 and over get 10% off. To Go Options are Lunch, Dinner and All Seafood, and are per Pound.
No crab legs, seemingly only at dinner, but a chef was hand making sushi behind the sushi station before carefully placing his beautiful creations on ice and in the case.
And a Sir Fry Bar had a chef that gave the option of 5 or 6, lost count, different oils and sauces to go with vegetables, including BEAUTIFUL mushrooms and broccoli, seafood, chicken, steak and other stuff, I forget. I recommend a mixture of garlic oil, teriyaki and a little hot chili, but take as little noodles as possible, because it is out of this world good, like can't stop eating good, but super filling!
The Fruit, what they had, was Big and Beautiful like the vegetables. It was good seeing all the fruit looking so ripe, sweet and delicious, and it was.
Too many standouts to mention, the handmade cream cheese wontons, potstickers and spring rolls with the sweet and sour and whatever the brown sauce was next to them were excellent. Note that the potstickers are best when piping hot with the brown sauce.
The usual items were all better than Panda Express, Broccoli Beef, Orange Chicken (not covered in batter, thank goodness) and Chicken Teriyaki. The mushroom chicken was a bit bland, but still good. The noodles were ok, but better to go get them fresh at the Stir Fry Bar.
The fried rice was good, didn't see egg chunks, so not true fried rice, but had some little vegetable chunks, so better than the white rice with soy sauce some restaurants are now calling their fried rice.
The Butter Shrimp and Fried Shrimp were stupendous. Oh, and the French fries, using whole skin on potatoes and seasoning, were super good. And don't be afraid to pile on the green beans, they were beyond!
Cons were no house made hot mustard, that we could find, and no plain ice tea.
We did find a hot tea station hiding behind the ice cream machine. It had hot water, Green Jasmine teabags and sugar packets and stuff. We ended up making a cup of hot tea, big thick heavy coffee cups, by the way, and dropping ice in it until it was cool enough to pour over a cup of ice. It made a good strong tea.
And the cold drink cups are large, a good thing, not needing to get up and keep replenishing so often. Drinks are included, but we ended up with water because we don't drink soda. It's a family place and there were babies and toddlers there. Not sure what they drank. Didn't see little milk cartons on ice or fresh juices, for example.
Desserts were ok, gratefully not super sweet (Hello, Golden Corral), but a couple of the cakes were on the dry side. Puddings tasted not homemade and not good, unfortunately.
Best was what I am calling Mango Gel Squares, super amazing and fresh tasting. Also good were the Tiramisu bites and they have big Red Jello Squares, as every buffet should. The Soft Serve Ice Cream machine was Out of Order. We saw them stocking it, so maybe it was still getting the liquid cold enough to serve.
I could go on obviously, just look at the pictures for all they have. I started with a plateful of only one piece of each item, because there was so much I wanted to try, then went back and got more of my favs until the Stir fry bar wiped me out and I couldn't eat anymore.
Service was excellent. They don't bring you anything, drinks are included and you get them yourself, but the empty plates we put on the edge of the table disappeared almost as quickly as we put them down.
I forgot to tip the Stir Fry Bar chef, he had a tip jar at his station, but you can tip ahead of time when you pay upon entering, like when it was Sizzler. And hub said he did that, so that is another way to tip.
Note - We found if you want to ask a question, the Stir Fry Chef spoke the best English. read more