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    China Star Buffet

    3.8 (22 reviews)
    ModerateChinese, Buffets, Seafood
    Closed • 11:00 am - 9:30 pm
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    3 years ago

    A good Chinese buffet with a very large selection. The sweet and sour soup was delicious.

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    2 years ago

    Very good food good service crab Rangoon highlight only downside is the way to get to it

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    5 years ago

    This place is always so good! One of the best Chinese buffets I've been too! Highly recommended!

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    8 years ago

    Everything was cold or Luke warm usually the food is pretty good for a buffet but man today it sucked

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    11 years ago

    I love this place, food and service is excellent . All the people who work there has smiles and very comfortable

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    “Second trip Egg rolls Pot stickers Fried dough as desert New to us gal Had to redo ticket for sr discount I guess the fresh shaved made me look 20 years younger?”

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    Jade Palace - The showdown between a crab Ragoon and a magnificent pup cup of fried rice

    Jade Palace

    3.9(35 reviews)
    0.2 mi
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    1 star because zero isn't an option…read more I didn't know Jade Palace was running a social experiment on how little food you can serve for $34 before someone calls the health department, but here we are. First off, I've been to plenty of Chinese spots in my life, and even the hole-in-the-wall places will heap you up like they're trying to feed a football team. Not here. These folks handed me what can only be described as a pup cup of rice. Like literally, I could've ordered a Starbucks dog treat and come out with more carbs. Then came the "egg rolls." Spoiler: they weren't egg rolls. They were limp, barely warmed-up spring rolls stuffed with sadness. Two of them. I ordered egg rolls and ended up with appetizers straight out of a gas station freezer section. Uncooked on the inside too--crunchy outside, still questioning life on the inside. Beautiful. Now let's talk about the chicken and broccoli. Usually this dish comes swimming in sauce--like the kind you actually want to drown your rice in. Instead, I got a dry broccoli funeral with a few strips of chicken sprinkled on top. No juice. No flavor. Just vibes. Honestly, if my Tupperware lid had more moisture from condensation than my meal, something went terribly wrong in the kitchen. $34 for this? Jade Palace, y'all should be arrested for armed robbery with chopsticks. At this point, I'm convinced the chef just saw me walk in and thought, "Let's see how far we can push this guy before he calls the health department." Well congratulations, I'm one step away from dialing. If you're into overpriced rabbit portions, mystery eggroll-spring-roll hybrids, and flavorless broccoli fitness bowls, Jade Palace is the spot for you. If you actually like Chinese food? Do yourself a favor and eat literally anywhere else--even Panda Express would be fine dining compared to this nonsense.

    higher prices super small portions on the rice be ready to…read morepay 17-22 bucks per person or more. i order the larger full evening portions not the lunch portions. my go to is still the moo goo gai pan. the food flavor and taste was good. just smaller portions than from other places. and so i need to fire up the rice cooker for a portion before i pick up the order to go. that way i have enough to feed a hungry person. if you are eating 3 to 4 meals per day the portion here will be enough.

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    Pizza Ranch - For dessert, make sure you try Cactus Bread - warm cinnamon streusel with a swirl of icing.

    Pizza Ranch

    3.5(24 reviews)
    0.7 mi
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    Griffin greeted me as I walked in the door, I heard him help the customers in front of me speaking…read moreclearly and explained everything perfectly, prices, surveys, etc. Then when I was eating he came around with a fresh pizza asking if anyone wanted some. Super friendly young person, you don't find this very often.

    Well hot day So let's try the chicken ranch…read more I had called and asked if the sr 2-4 pm deal was still on And was quoted 10.99 as food prices had gone up. Well the app is down again, fail to launch in iOS 26 grrrr I got there ahead of my party Well price was higher 12.49 plus a sur charge of .18 merchant handling fee? So 12.67 is the new sr price plus tax Second grrrrr Well let the food rationing begin Salad bar was picked over Hot pizza bar looked tired Maybe 6 big chunks of chicken looked weird like 1/2 a chicken? Or maybe stuck together chicken? No wings , no drum sticks I asked for more chicken and must to have missed that they had refilled the bin When I asked for drum sticks They brought out two and acted like I had raided a private refrigerator... The chicken was undercooked again And not up to food safety temperature Yea I think this location will be a hard pass till they get new managers Avoid this one in summer 2025 Deceptions and bad food.... Yup hard pass

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    Asian Buffet - Various buffet items.

    Asian Buffet

    3.0(25 reviews)
    22.2 mi
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    I had to travel for work on a Sunday, which I typically try to avoid. I searched local restaurants…read moreand saw this one, and decided to give it a try. Small town asian restaurants tend to be either really good or really bad, with very little in between. When I go to an Asian buffet type restaurant, I am not expecting the greatest quality, just comfort foods like general Tso's chicken, crab Rangoons, and some white rice at a reasonable price. This place exceeded my expectations. Each of the items in the buffet that I tried tasted fresh, not like it had been sitting under a warming lamp for two hours. The chicken meat (both white and dark) was high quality, no bits of gristle or other unchewable stuff that I often find at lower quality restaurants. The crab Rangoons were really good. Even the rice was very good, not having that dried out texture that it can sometimes get when it sits in a steamer pot for too long. The sushi was also surprisingly good. I never set my expectations high for buffet sushi, but I keep the bar even lower at small town restaurants that serve sushi. I mean, who expects decent sushi at a small town Iowa buffet? It was surprisingly tasty, even if the selection was limited to only one roll type item. My only gripe is that it was kind of dark inside, in spite of the windows being unobstructed and the sun being out. It's kind of a pet peeve of mine, but buffets really should portray a clean and bright environment to emphasize that they are high caliber restaurants. Buffets tend to be viewed as dark, dirty places, and I always encourage proprietors to upgrade their lighting to make their restaurants appear cleaner and more inviting. Aside from the lighting, this place solidly impressed me. For a small town Iowa buffet, it was very good.

    Poor food. Could be featured on "The Mullet Review" on YouTube. Cold in the afternoon. My friend…read morelived across the street from there. They walk food up the street from their home to the restaurant. I'm not assuming that they have a dirty house, but it's not inspected at all. Service is lacking because when I went they didn't have fresh food on the buffet. It was old from lunch. I mentioned it and they said they don't fill it when it's been slow. I was there and they were open. Huge fail.

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