Bamboo Buffet

My son and I disliked the food. Everything tasted old and salty but service was nice.

Disgusting! My friends and I tried to eat there and everything was cold. We didn’t even hardly touch our food and walked out. The manager would not give us a refund. Horrible place and a $ 14.00 rip off!

Sorry, this place is bad. I lived around that area for a while and ate there prob 4 times and got sick twice. Smells bad and sometimes rude workers. I love a nice Chinese buffet but if you don’t want serious mud butt 5 min-​24 after consuming then don’t go here. Sick!

I truly regret coming here. I ate here a month ago and can still feel the pain of food poisoning I had after eating at this filth of a restaurant. When you first walk in, all you can smell is dead, rotten fish. Such a welcoming smell right? Not. The lady at the front was very rude and didn’t greet us or anything. When paid, no one came to direct us to a table so we just stood there awkwardly for what seems like hours.
Now here comes the horror… The food… Omg, the food was either cold as ice, undercooked, overcooked or just plain bad! The selection of Chinese food was very limited considering its a Chinese buffet. The food tasted so bland or overly salty. They offered «American» food but honestly, it’s pretty much store brought frozen food heated up in a microwave. I was also so scared to try their ribs or anything meat related from them because I was afraid that it was either undercooked, expired, or will give me some sort of stomachache… Everything at this restaurant tasted artificial.
When I got home, I felt so sick and turns out I had food poisoning. I’d rather eat at McDonald’s than to ever eat here, heck I’d starve than to ever come back here and eat filth!!! Please, don’t waste your money or time coming here. I am still wondering why these people are still in business. They need to shut down already & stop feeding people artificial filthy food.

The worst wow hilarious food please don’t waste money trust me I spend $ 27 and I did a waste I most disgusted food I have ever had in my life… Sushi is so stale food is cold as ice service is horrendous

Wow I went here yesterday the food was okay but right after eating I felt weird and the next day I have food poisoning… dishes weren’t clean food looked like little effort was put into it. Never going here again.

I tried 13 different dishes and all of them were either bland, greasy or just plain mediocre. If you enjoy good food I would suggest finding a different restaurant.

The service was sub par, I understand it’s a buffet but the cashier didn’t make eye contact or tel us the total, the server served us the wrong beverages and argued with us! The food however, is delicious! I enjoyed the food they kept up with it, all tasted fresh and well done.

I have given this place a few chances. Nothing has taste. Place is pretty filthy (food on the floor and all over the buffet). The only thing I could find that I liked was the phở.

Wow, now I’m not going to feel so bad giving this establishment a very bad review because about 90 percent of reviewers, gave this place horrible reviews.
Well, on with the show…
I went here, roughly five years ago. Then it was great for it being a buffet, which I rarely do in the first place. The food was actually pretty decent back then.
Now? Forget it. Food was highly overcooked or undercooked. No happy medium here in that regard.
About the only thing with eating is the phở that you can dictate what goes in and or doesn’t. I always make sure to inform the cook not to overcook the meat for the phở. Which most of the time, they do. Not here. For whatever reason they won’t cook the phở the way you want. It’s what they want. One thing is certainly for sure, this place has gone down hill significantly over the years. There’s so many buffets out there and this is truly one of the worst I’ve ever been to. Nothing, absolutely nothing is worth spending the money on.

JUST WALK AWAY! The worst buffet ever! First, the host asked us to pay before entering the area. They understand that the food itself is horrible, so they have to do this in order to collect more money. Otherwise the customers will leave this place right away. The atmosphere itself is inhospitable and servers look so oppressed by managers. I couldn’t continue my dining because I was afraid my stomach won’t digest the food, and I was right. Within few hours I felt nauseous. The whole day was wasted. I don’t usually give 1 star to a business. Deep in my heart I believe that a bad restaurant can eventually turn into an excellent place. However this restaurant has no future at all.

Run away. Run far away. The place reeks of stale fish. There is garbage everywhere — visible filth. Sadly, we had to pay when we entered so we were stuck. The coffee tasted like sludge. I honestly wonder how they stay open. Sad.

For the love of pepto bismol please do not go here. The inside temperature of the restaurant was easily in the 80’s. Everything and I mean everything tasted like fried fish. Fried chicken wings? Tasted like fried fish. French fries? Tasted like Fried fish. Chinese Chicken dumplings? Tasted like fried fish. You may be wondering why I ate Pizza and Fries at a Chinese American buffet? Because it was the only things that looked edible. Oh, the Pizza and coke did not taste like fried fish! Yeah, I paid and got seated, but then after taking one bite and giving the classic dry heave, my co workers and I decided to stick with pizza and fries. The inside was absolutely filthy. We, as a group, have made a pact to never talk of this place again as it represents the worst nightmares of buffet abominations. Caveat emptor. You have been fairly warned.

I have been bamboozled!
I’ve never been to a Chinese buffet as disgusting as this place. The servers were rude, the food was cold, and there was very little to choose from.
I wanted to stuff myself silly with crab rangoons, fried shrimp, sweet & sour anything, spring & egg rolls, sesame chicken, general Tso chicken, etc. but they didn’t have any of that!
What a sad excuse for a buffet. I paid $ 14 to eat bland lo mein and meat on a stick. This place sucks.

By far the worst buffet I’ve ever been to, American or Chinese. From the moment you walk in they make you pay before you even eat, which was a little offsetting as its a guarantee they get their money prior to even seeing what’s on the menu.
I attempted quite a few items but surely can tell you that my «baked» potato was hard as crust on a days old pizza left out on the counter, and cold as ice. The chicken was tough as Buffaloes hide, and not to mention also cold; then again for the purposes of this review, consider it all cold.
The chicken nuggets look and taste like they are from last weeks stock, and even the mashed potatoes aren’t right since they run right off the plate.
This place is awful, and I don’t almost ever say that about a place. Avoid at all costs. Anyone rating this higher than 1 star clearly has a big void space in their skull, or just may work for the restaurant.

10 years ago when I first moved to the US, this place was already bad.
Then it became worse.
Now it’s the worst. I say this having eaten recently on a treat so I didn’t even pay.
Unlabelled food, mystery meat, store interior as old as the Great Wall of China, and sushi that does not even taste like sushi even with all the soy sauce and wasabi.
I end with a comment from my son who said, «Bamboo Buffet makes (nearby) Great American Buffet look and taste so good.»

I will not be eating here again the food stinks and cold and they don’t even have that
Much food I do not recommend this place

I really enjoy eating here. The food is always good and the price is even better. They offer so many different dishes and they have a Phở bar and the soup is made to order. I go here at least a couple times a month because it’s so affordable.

This review will serve two purposes:
1. To honestly review this dining establishment
2. To discover which reviewers not to follow on Unilocal.
This place is horrible in every sense of the word. The food is bland, unimaginative and very poor quality. What makes things worse is that this restaurant is also filthy. Dishes are brought back from washing with stains still on them and the utensils are not very clean as well. If your goal is to purge your colon, this is the restaurant for you.
Don’t get me wrong, I love Chinese food, both authentic and the Maine to California American style. This place doesn’t really serve either. They just put out what works for them. And where people are defending it and saying it is a Chinese buffet, then what about the spaghetti, the pizza, French fries, chicken nuggets, the bad sushi? That stuff is Chinese is your book?
Avoid at all costs. This is the first zero star restaurant I have been to in a very long time. Imagine an Asian version of Golden Corral, but really bad.
So we’ve covered the establishment and now we turn to the Unilocal reviewers. If anyone gives this place more than a star, don’t read their reviews. Its not that they will be bad, its that they don’t understand the quality that you are looking for.

So the boyfriend and I walked over one night… and…walked right on out. The smell was so rank of old fish, old grease, just an overall disgusting revolting smell, we knew nothing good would come of eating here.
Then I discovered the Virginia Department of Health website and saw their violations as of October 18, 2012. Oh… my…gawd. I am so glad I didn’t eat here.