Lings Buffet

My wife and I and our daughter with her friend went there on a Friday night everybody was seated and I my daughter’s first bite of food there was hair in her food not just a friend but for five strands it was disgusting my daughter grossed out her friend grossed out went to the manager and said they would take care of it their idea of taking care of it was switching out the food went to pay the bill not only did they charge us $ 85 for four people but they called the cops because I wanted my daughters and her friends Bill remove I was never so embarrassed have the cops called on me I didn’t say I wasn’t going to pay the bill I just said I was going to pay for my daughter and her friend and they still over charges a $ 20 this place sucks greedy as hell and always raising the prices I’ll never go back there and I suggest nobody else go back there the people next to us found a fingernail in there clam talk about disgusting

My wife have been here two times and both times the food was very good. The dinner has a much better selection with Prime Rib and crab legs. I would say the price is worth it for dinner since you have do many choices.

Awful food. Found a piece of metal in food. Manager said it was from the cleaning brush used on the woks. They did not even offer to buy my dinner. Too expensive. Will not return.

I had been a regular at Lings for years and about a year ago I noticed this place slipping… This place was so popular at one time you had to go off peak times and avoid prime time weekend nights to be seated promptly and the place is huge so it had a huge following… First thing I noticed was that the raw oysters that had been fabulous got small… VERY small… I even asked the manager about them and she didnt even seem to know where they came from but i complained but they never got any better. They are slow to refill these as well as the crab claws… They also seem reluctant to keep the prime rib refilled… I have been there several times when there was a small hacked up shred in the pan during our entire meal and it was never refilled… The knife they give you to slice it with is NEVER sharpenned. I suspect this is a ploy to make it more difficult to cut a nice slice and hence avoid it altogether… The Chinese food items seem to all taste the same… I am sad to see this place slipping… it WAS always a great place to take a large group but somebody there isnt doing his/​her job and Il just dont go there anymore… Its going downhill fast and its losing its formerly large following… I realize food prices have gone up and if they must raise the price to maintain quality so be it… VARY the menu… Get a chef thats excited about the food… Whoever they have cooking now is bored to death with what hes cooking and it shows!!! I must say, the sushi is still great and the best sushi deal around if you want to sample a variety of items… If you want something you dont see, ask the boys and they will make it. TIP them accordingly (there is a jar.) Please Lings… Do a makeover and get excited about your food again… Dont let this place die a slow miserable death…

I reviewed the other more popular southside Ling’s in 2008 and said I didn’t need to go back, but I was part of a party at the northside Ling’s and came in the name of a social gathering. I found it the same as the other Ling’s – great variety, well labeled food items, sushi bar, ice cream bar, fruit bar and two long hot bars or «steam tables». $ 10 all you can eat – or $ 14 if you add crab legs. A great place for a party of 12 to each eat according to their own interests.
I was able to eat well and stay vegetarian-​ish – spring roll, grilled green beans, stuffed mushrooms, fake crab with cheese, crab rangoon, butter mushrooms, swiss chard, rice. There were 4 kinds of soup. Servers were scant but helpful with keeping drinks full. Not so much with helping at the food stations and weak English for answering questions. My meat eating pals were enjoying chicken on a stick, general tso’s chicken, pepper steak, the usuals. Everyone was content.
NOW THE BAD NEWS. Nothing was hot, good thing I like «luke». I avoided the many fried items including shrimp. There was a dried, shriveled piece of carving beef. The American things looked unappetizing – fries, potatoes. The hot ‘n sour soup tasted «burned». There were 6 kinds of sushi but 3 of them tasted identical «California roll, veggie roll, and tamago roll». Jello was liquid. We were eating at 7:30 and they were not refilling their food bins so many choices were gone. There were six large barrels of ice cream but the ice cream was so hard it was virtually unscoopable – and 3 kinds were empty.
Am still not fond of buffets and this one has room for improvement. I don’t know that I ate $ 10 in vegetables but the place was great for a large party. It’s hidden in the strip mall behind the giant ice cream cone «Tastee Treats». It’s worth you developing your own opinion by trying it out!