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    Yuan's Buffet

    3.3 (56 reviews)
    InexpensiveJapanese, Chinese, Mongolian
    Open 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    Casual
    Quiet
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    For as small as they are, they do a great job.
    Garrett Z.

    Just finished lunch with six other people and all of us agreed it was a well done buffet. Good selection of sushi, good assortment of healthy and classic options, as well as a hibachi grill makes this place a great lunch or dinner stop. It was also busy, so you know it's good! The Mongolian beef was my favorite. Tender meat with a delightful sauce and tons of crispy pan seared veggies.

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    I guess they don't devein - I ate 1/3 of the coconut shrimp dish before I noticed. If they don't devein their shrimp, I would wonder how all the food is handled in general... if I ate there again... which I won't.

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    6 months ago

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    3 months ago

    The place is filthy...I walked out. The buffet does not even compare with other local buffets! ICK!

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    1 year ago

    The coconut shrimp is amazing, service is great restaurant is clean one of my favorite places to go for takeout

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    3 years ago

    Great selection of food. Good go to place since the Chinese buffet in Red Wing doesn't seem to be opening its buffet anytime soon.

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    Food was gross and cold. Only was given one refill, everyone was too busy sitting on their phones. Won't go back.

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    5 years ago

    Absolutely the worst Chinese food I have ever had. If you enjoy a little Chinese food with your onions this is the place for you.

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    5 years ago

    The food was cold. No good! You would expect "hot" food. The health department should be called in!

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    9 years ago

    Overall this is a good place to eat. Not the best Chinese food in the world but they do have a good selection and a Mongolian grill.

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    Great selection, very affordable depending upon how much you want to eat, quiet atmosphere, and the employees are very professional and efficient.

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    Came here in a date night with my boyfriend and this place is living up to the reviews!!…read more There is a small parking lot on the side of the building. It appears that during the summer they do have patio seating! This place has a fair amount of seating inside, major plus!! The decor was cute with the hanging umbrellas!! Everyone that we encountered was very sweet! They are also fast paced here, so it may be good to look at the menu before you go! Our food was DELICIOUS!! The spring rolls were so fresh and the peanut sauce that came with was sweet! A perfect pairing! I got the number 48 (the name of the actual dish is escaping me) and my boyfriend got the pad Thai with chicken! Both had incredible flavor! To end the meal, we got the mango sticky rice and holy YUM!! Don't miss out on that! A great way to end the meal! This place was delicious!! Definitely go support them!!

    Well, we have gone there several times before and it has always been good ! Very tasty food and…read moregood service but on Feb 14 was not the day ! Perhaps our own fault, we got there later in the evening, got seated right away and ask to place our drink order. The beer on the menu made in Duluth was not available and it took 45 Min and several times asking for the tea to arrive ! After that, it took 45 more Min to place the food order ! The food was good and tasty as it was before but perhaps that was not the best day and time to go there ! All in all a fair place to go !

    Five Stars Chinese Restaurant - General tso's chicken. Try to get a photo of the other food, but it all got eaten too fast!. Next time...

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    This is a great small town Chinese restaurant. Solid food, fair prices. The closest alternatives…read moreare all 10-20 minutes away and not worth the drive time. Ultimately, if we want Chinese, this is our location and we aren't mad about it. This is a place where you'll really want to order for pick-up, though there are a few tables available. It really isn't a dine-in setting, and that's fine by us. In the summer, you could pick up an order and go eat down by the river. We appreciate being able to order online (payment is in person). Today an item was forgotten in our order...it happens...and we called in and the missing item was provided without any trouble. I guess that is "expected," but it still feels like good customer service. As an added benefit, the entree containers end up becoming "left over" containers at our house until they wear out. Our orders usually include some form of orange chicken, General Tao's chicken, sesame chicken, lo mein, or fried rice, though most items on the menu are good and meet expectations for Chinese food. We're grateful that this store is in Prescott and hope that it remains here for years and years to come.

    The first thing you notice when you walk into this place is a strong smell similar to cat urine…read more Despite this we have given this restaurant several chances since moving into town a couple of years ago, and the service so outweighs the food it's not worth the visit. Every time I have been here they tell you 30 minute wait when you call or order online. I learned after two visits to always wait at least 45 minutes yet no matter how much time we give I always arrive to find out they haven't even started my order. They then proceed to say its "almost ready" and will be done in 10 minutes which always results in another 25 minutes sitting in the restaurant. Moving forward I will be making the drive to Hastings or Cottage Grove.

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    We went there at noon on a Friday, ample parking available, but as soon as we walk-in, we realized…read morethat there were literally no customers present. The only person eating inside the restaurant was the cashier, which we later came to find out would be our chef & our server also! It was just 2 of us and we wanted to dine-in. Found out that there is a 6% charge to eat in. Plus there is a 4% charge if you use a card vs using cash. Alright, back onto the order, we ordered a couple of entrees and a couple of boba drinks. You pay at counter before you sit down and although the gentleman was very nice, he was really slow. I could not imagine, how they would do, if there were multiple people who were wanting to order. From putting in order to paying, am guessing it took the gent about 10 minutes, not great! The dine-in experience was not great. Floor was sticky, actually very sticky at certain spots. Bathrooms were icky, i just went in to wash hands. Was really hoping and rooting that food would make-up for the experience that we had so far but of course it did not. Both the entrées were really bland. I don't think that it was possible, but somehow they made Chinese food not have a taste. It was as bland as it can get. We doused salt & soya sauce on the food to give it some taste just so we can eat it. Remember the boba drinks that we ordered, we did not get them until almost we got done eating and were ready to ask for to-go boxes. I asked our cashier/server/chef what's taking this long for the drinks and the again very polite & friendly gent told us that he has not made one before so it took him some time to figure things out which explained the yelling & screaming that we were hearing coming from the kitchen :D I do not recall ever having this kind of end to end experience at a restaurant. I wish the restaurant the best, but honestly, i am not sure how long they will be able to survive, if things do not change.

    I didn't heed the warnings in other reviews as I really wanted to try for myself and help support…read morethis business venture for the new owners. The food lacked flavor and there was hardly any meat in the beef lo mein I ordered (see pic with almost no meat). It doesn't need to be littered with meat but it's comical to say it's beef lo mein and I joked that I can't even call it vegetable lo mein cause there weren't many onions or much else in it either. Service left something to be desired. From the moment you enter the building, you get a sense that customer service is not their forte. Not that they were rude, they were not. But there's nothing there to draw you back in or feel like you've been welcomed into something special. I wasn't greeted when I entered or at any point but told that they would be right back, and went to the kitchen. The packaging of the food needs more forethought and I implore the owners to do better. I ordered Orange chicken and a sweet and sour chicken dinner plate. I can only assume that the battered chicken labeled "orange chicken" was supposed to be for both meals as they did not do anything to indicate or clearly state if the meat was for both meals or if I was supposed to get a separate container for the dinner meal as one would anticipate - it was just a large container of chicken. This could have been resolved if the owners or whoever was working had the customer service skills to communicate this. A simple sentence and conversation to explain their packaging would have been a nice minimum but it seems they don't want to talk to customers. Not only that but they decided to pack the bright red and bright orange sauces in those white take out boxes that are clearly not for liquids. Imagine a quart full of orange, liquid goo going all over because they didn't tell you that they decided to pack a huge container of said liquid in a non-liquid container. The fact that they don't see that as a problem says a lot about how much they know or care about running a restaurant. I don't think I'd ever want to return even if I was desperate. I hope that they can work on their customer service skills and rethink their food packaging.

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