QQ Asian Buffet

If there slow they won’t switch out there food. It will sit out until they run out and if there not busy they won’t bother trying to refill it…

a friend and i ate there yesterday. we love asian buffets and are always looking for good ones that we can look forward to going to over and over again. this wasn’t it. overall the place was clean. yes, the carpet was worn and stained, but that’s why you don’t use carpet in restaurants. it wasn’t anything that would turn us away though. the tables were clean, clean bathrooms, etc. the selection of food was average to above average. the taste of the food varied but was not bad. there were things that i liked the taste of, were it not for the temperature. i never expect «steaming hot» when i get food from a buffet, but it better be warmer than room temperature, which is what most of the food was. even worse, some of the beef and chicken items were cold, and i mean spit-​it-​back on-​the-​plate cold. i started having serious doubts about the safety of eating there. add to that the service. there was one male and one female employee, both just wearing jeans and t-​shirts, nothing that matched or looked like any kind of restaurant uniform at all. they just grabbed random clothes from home and went to work. this isn’t a big deal, but there was nothing that set them apart from customers, nothing to let you know that they were employees, and it just added to their overall unprofessional manner. actually, the male wasn’t bad, he removed our plates fairly quickly and seemed somewhat pleasant. but the female just looked annoyed at having to work. no smile or greeting when she seated us, no smile the one time she came to our table to refill our drinks, took forever to bring our check, then no smile or even a «thank you.» we couldn’t wait to leave, and both agreed we’d never go back.

I love this buffet!

This place is scary, and here’s why:
1. There is an extremely long line of green mold growth on the ceiling in the dining room that has moisture drops hanging from it– I can’t believe this place hasn’t been shut down for this reason alone.
2. Absolutely no pride has been taken in the maintenance of the dining room: the carpet is worn extremely thin and is rippling throughout the room and the booths have many tares.
3. Perhaps most scary is the food: If the management takes so little care of the dining area, how clean and sanitary can the cooking facility possibly be??? Furthermore, the temperature of the majority of the food on the buffets is way too low (I’d say mostly room temperature) — well below the USDA recommended safe temperature for food.

My friends strangely loved going to QQ Asian Buffet, but I haven’t the slightest clue as to why they’d trek all the way from downtown and west side Madison to this remote place. Maybe I lied. They probably just loved the notion of all-​you-​can-​eat for $ 10, and taking a break from their frequent Fugu and Saigon adventures.
But I myself hated it and dreaded having to go to QQ Asian Buffet all the time. Sure, $ 10 for a buffet dinner is great. But you get what you pay for, so what kind of quality will you expect? So, I’ll admit the selection of foods here isn’t under par. But their sushi is terrible, their Chinese foods are really oily and greasy, and their American food is unappetizing. I’m probably not alone in thinking this way because every time I’ve been to QQ Asian Buffet, there were lots of empty tables.

BLAAAH. The servers were friendly is the only nice thing I can say. They had a Very noisy Mexican wedding in the back room that no one told us about. We went for our Grandmothers 80^th birthday with a large group of 18. The food was semi warm and bland. 4 of our guests ended up not feeling well for 24 hours after. We will be ordering in next time.

The fact that other reviewers say this is the best buffet they’ve ever been to scares me. The offerings were pretty skimpy, and I was very concerned about food poisoning. The décor is over the top cheesy and probably frightens small children. That would explain the lack of other customers in there, minus a table of shady looking dudes who look like they were going to a drug deal after dinner.
Despite all of this, however, the bathrooms were pristine clean compared to World Buffet in Monona, and I did not get food poisoning!

Probably the best asian buffet I’ve ever been to! They had a ton of different stuff, including sushi (which I didn’t try) dumplings, soups and the usual buffet items. Everything was very fresh and there was someone constantly checking on the freshness of the food. I’d definitely go back! PLUS the lunch buffet was only $ 7.99!

They have my favorite fried sesame balls with bean paste! I could eat handfuls of them.
Met a friend here for lunch. We stayed for 3 hours and weren’t shoo-​ed out or given dirty looks. The food is pretty good. Wish they had more dim-​sum available, but there was a good selection of other dishes to choose from. Seafood was readily available and there was never a shortage. Sushi was provided, nothing great, but most were fresh and covered by saran wrap. There are tubs of ice cream where you can scoop your own dish. I liked the chocolate mint and green tea flavors.
Only thing that made me cringe was drinking the hot tea from a cup that smelled heavily of bleach. I pointed it out to my friend and she said, «Well, at least they’re sanitizing the cups.» *shrug* I guess.
I’d return.

Everything tastes like the same Chinese-​made for American taste buds. The restaurant that was here prior had far better flavor. It was overpriced for what you get but I guess there’s quite a bit variety thus my two star rating. Also the remodelled look with neon lightsnis just tacky.

As asian buffets go, this is very worthwhile. It has a new, sharp, clean, bright quality in the décor that extends to how efficiently and pleasantly the staff keep dish trays fresh and brimming with glistening choices. It is remarkably seafood strong (mostly shrimp — — one downer was how tough the salmon felt when poked with the spoon), and otherwise heavily chicken oriented. I don’t like chicken, but many people seem to like chicken. It is a bit of a salt-​orgy, but if you pick and choose carefully (story of current degustatory civilization) it is an exceptionally well-​run and bountifully arrayed buffet with remarkably high standards given the genre.

This place just opened in the Northside strip mall along Sherman that is undergoing HEAVY remodeling and construction. We haven’t been to any Asian buffets in Madison, but we know that Madison has been hurting for a really good one – QQ Asian Buffet should fill that need.
Before we get to the food – the restaurant is clean and the wait staff is very nice. The first thing that we did when we showed up was ask if we could look at the buffet before we decided to eat there, and they had no problem with that. Sure, not EVERY waiter/​waitress smiles at you, but they were WAY nicer than the wait staff at most of the Asian buffet places we’ve been to before.
Now the food – the quality of most of the dishes at the buffet was MUCH better than most of the food we’ve had at sit-​down/​take-​out Chinese places we’ve tried here in Madison, which is a rarity. Usually you’d have to give up quality for quantity at an Asian buffet.
Some of the dishes that particularly impressed us was the crab rangoon, Chinese donuts, General Tsao’s chicken, sesame chicken, and anything with shrimp (fried shrimp, coconut shrimp, and one other shrimp dish with a sauce and peppers). None of the dishes were overly greasy and had a good balance of ingredients (like, when we had a pot sticker there was a good amount of filling compared to the wrapper). Even the non-​Asian fare was pretty good: the pizza (but for some reason I’m a sucker this cheap item) and even ice cream were tasty.
The kitchen staff was constantly refilling and replacing platters, and you could tell that the food was being freshly made in the back. Even the fruits and cakes in the dessert bar looked fairly fresh (the cakes may not have been made at the restaurant, but they looked good).
As for the minuses, you have to pay an extra $ 4.99 for crab legs. We have NEVER seen a buffet tack on an extra fee for a specific dish before, Asian or not. We would have liked to have seen more noodle dishes, and the one they had, a lo mein dish, left much to be desired. The selection was good, but we’ve been to places with many more dishes to choose from.
The lunch buffet is around $ 8 and the dinner buffet is about $ 11 a person. Give this place a try – Madison does not want to lose such a great quality Chinese restaurant since there are so few good ones out here!