Without question or hesitation, this is absolutely the worst Chinese buffet I have ever been to. The same goes for my fiancee. We stopped here last week on our way to my old hometown and we were getting hungry (it was lunch time).
So after one wrong turn thanks to inaccurate road signs (which is unfortunately how we found out about this place), we get to the location, which was very hard to actually get to because there was a lot of snow everywhere and that made it hard to find a route to get into the parking lot, which had also not been plowed.
As we are about to enter, we see a family leaving, all with smiles on their faces. I assumed it was because they must have had a great meal, but in retrospect it must have been because they were leaving this horrible restaurant!
So at the entrance door, I look down, and instead of having a mat for people to wipe their feet on, they are using a pizza box. I kid you not.... that was our first clue that we should have run for it... however in our travels we've found that some of the places with the best food look the dumpiest on the outside, so our hopes were still high.
We walk inside and what's this? We have to pay as soon as we get in the door? Smart thinking...no matter how your experience is, they've already got your money. Only one other Chinese buffet that I've been to had me pay before eating... I hope it doesn't become a trend.
So I take one quick look around at the food, and things seem to look good. I see steam coming up from the food tables so I think that the food will be nice and hot....who was I kidding? The first thing I grabbed was bbq chicken on a stick (I think...) and I put my hand over it to feel the temperature and I get nothing...my fiancee walks by me at this point and i stick my finger right on it and tell her "it's not warm at all.... it's room temperature". Stupid me, I ate it anyway, along with everything else I put on my plate... vegetable lo mein, sweet and sour chicken, honey chicken, general tso's chicken (which tasted more like honey chicken than the honey chicken), not one thing that I put on my plate was even remotely warm.
For my second plate (yes, I decided I hadn't had enough punishment!) I decided to get a plate of their food from their mongolian wok area. Ok selection of vegetables, not a lot of meats though. I asked for the server to put on teriyaki sauce, and he did, but then he poured on so much water that it washed the entire flavor away and left everything a soggy mess....I didn't think it was possible to mess up a mongolian grill meal but this place did it.
I forgot to mention, I had downed my entire glass of pepsi before I had even finished my first plate. When I left the empty plate, the empty glass was very obvious too. I came back to find my plate gone and my empty glass still awaiting me. After eating half of my second plate (which was all I could stomach of the food), I finally was able to flag down one of the servers (of which there were five standing around talking, there were enough that each customer in the place could've had their own!) to finally get my refill. I gulped it fast to get the taste of the food out of my mouth and we got out of their as fast as we could after that.
I would give this place negative stars if I could. Not only will my fiancee and I never be back, we advise anyone else thinking of coming here to avoid it like the plague that it is, as well! After eating here, it's a wonder I never got sick (though my fiancee did). There are better buffets around, I am sure. We didn't have a proper GPS with us or we would've waited until we found a better place to eat....
You may have thought of this post as funny, but not one word of it was meant to be. It was meant to be a warning. How this place isn't a rash on the restaurant inspection lists is beyond me. What my fiancee and I witnessed and experienced when we went would've completely shut down any other restaurant. read more
