Great Moon Buffet

I’ve always meant to try this place and finally decided to when I missed a connection heading south to a barbecue spot: bad luck all around.
I balked at the price, kind of high on Sundays there for some reason, maybe for all the shellfish, and the kid who took my money and $ 1 tip asked me, «Two?» (I am very big, was alone, and had already said, «One, please.»); other than that, they were nice enough, and they didn’t lose any money on me.
I had some hot and sour soup (lots of corn starch, but typical otherwise), appetizers (so-​so) and, just a little bit of many other dishes they had available, trying to find something good. Even though I could probably put away a lot given my size, I take it pretty easy at buffets, and most choices are pretty resistible here.
I liked the asparagus, at least the edible part (they included the woody stocks; good roughage, but not appetizing) and the green beans, but most of the rest, while edible, was disappointing. The steamed rice was dried out and the fried rice was prepared poorly.
I might have felt better about it had I paid half the price, but it was not good. Choose somewhere else. I don’t like to pan places, but with the rudeness and the mediocre food, it is hard to do anything else.

We ate here several months ago, super close to home. All of the food was cold, I brought it up and was ignored. We tried a few plates with different food but ended up leaving and eating elsewhere.
Waste of money.

So I’ve been craving Chinese food from a buffet (for those of you who don’t know buffet is different from take out) and decided to try Great Moon after a long hiatus. Definitely got what I paid for which is cheap food. Most of it is bland under seasoned and lukewarm and I’m typing this right after they opened as I was the first customer of the day. If I’m the first person I expect hot food but that’s not what I got I got soggy cream cheese puffs cold egg rolls and terrible lo mein. Tried something called crispy chicken that wasn’t crispy though I was happy they had mud bugs on lunch though that happiness went away when I discovered they were soggy and overcooked. The service was OK except I asked for extra ice in my drink and didn’t get any so I was pissed, who drinks warm soda anyway might as well drink piss needless to say next time I will be going to my comfort zone at Teppenyaki Grill. This place is okay in a pinch if you can’t get out the area but I’d just spring for a bus or cab to Teppenyaki as it’s not far from here.

Have eaten here 4 times since moving to Minneapolis, my wife and I along with entire extended family are very impressed. Atmosphere is civilized and all food choices are well prepared right down to the ice cream, which has xtra good vanilla flavor. Service is great, and parking access is good. Too many plusses, not enough stars available.

Was really pleased with meal even told my two coworkers that the food was great which they agreed… Then about 2 hours later it happen… stomach began to turn and everything I ate began to hemorrhaging out of my body. Good thing the sink and toilet are in close proximity to each other to handle the load coming out of both ends. Absolutely the worst experience ever, and I will never go back.

We ate here about 4 years ago and the food was quite good for a buffet. Decided to try it again this rainy memorial day weekend. It was terrible. Everything tasted off, even the cut fruit was lacking flavor like it had been sitting in the bin for days. We left hungry, after dropping $ 40 for 3 people. I’m disappointed in picking this restaurant for my family. We will not return.

Look it’s Asian buffet in the suburbs. You can’t have that high of expectations. But even with tempered expectations I was saddened today. I use to eat here about once a month, but it has been a few years as we moved farther away. So when work brought me into the area I thought why not.
The interior has been redone, and it looks pretty darn nice inside. The food however was bad. Most had no flavor, the few things that had flavor were poorly done.
If you really want Chinese buffet and you are in the area, spend the extra 10 minutes to drive up University and hit Supreme Buffet.

Actually their food is great! And you can always get a coupon for them on the back of the cub receipt and it’s super cool ! The shrimp is amazing and they don’t have sushi with hot dogs Hahahha good food highly recommend this place best seafood and cream cheese wontons

This is hands down the worst Asian buffet I have ever been to. I expected mediocre Asian-​American food but this was absolutely atrocious. Everything was lukewarm and to say the taste was lacking would be a gross understatement. The chicken was rubbery and tasteless. In a desperate attempt to find something hot I went for the fresh pan of Sesame chicken. It was still lukewarm and almost made me vomit at the table. At the end of my meal I noticed apple pie pieces and thought it would at least provide my taste buds with some form of relief… Boy was I wrong. My taste buds would be more appreciative if I were to drink a liter of whiskey and chain smoke a pack of cigarettes, which I am now going to do in a feeble attempt to erase this awful experience from memory. I will kill myself before ever setting foot in this establishment again.

I’ve been here a couple times, but always feel terrible about myself after. This is the Old Country Buffet of Westernized Asian food. If you want giant portions of mediocre food, great. If you want quality, go elsewhere. I think they might have had sushi with hot dogs in it.

Truly horrible. Especially later in the night, as they seemingly allow food to sit without replacing it with fresh items. Both I and a friend got some sort of food poisoning from eating at this dump – on separate occasions. Skip it. Your stomach will thank you.

This is probably one of the worst buffet’s I have ever had, it looked and tasted terrible, like mass production of bland food. I will never be returning there

Don’t plan on going back… Great salad bar and dessert bar, but the food wasn’t kept hot enough… Young children were allowed to run back and forth without parent supervision and get there own food. Staff should have enforced their ruling of children being supervised. They were very loud and disturbing to other customers. The wait staff was not very attentive… had to call them over to get refill.

My family and I had a hankering for some Asian food. We had never been to Great Moon Buffet so we thought we’d give it a try, as we are in the area. Now, don’t get me wrong, I do not expect Asian food to be authentic, especially buffet food, but I at least expect it to have a taste.
Calling the food at Great Moon bland would be a huge compliment. But without sounding over-​zealous, bland is the only word I can use. The «vegetable Lo Mein» was not that at all. In fact, the only vegetable in it was onion. That’s it. No scarce amounts of anything else at all. The Fried donuts were completely hard all the way through, as if they were 3 days stale and sitting in the open air under a heat lamp all day.
The ribs my dad had tired looked completely dry and tough. The cream cheese wontons had so little filling in them they were not worth eating, and on top of that, the little filling they did use tasted like it had spoiled or gone rancid before they used it.
My boyfriend’s chicken was tough and under-​cooked.
We tried to bring this to the attention of the lady who sat us and we asked for a refund. We had only been there for 10 complete minutes and had eating maybe half a plate each after finally giving up.
Now, The lady when we came in spoke PERFECT English, with barely even a hit of an accent. But suddenly when we requested to speak with someone about a refund she almost seemed to be pretending to not be able to effectively communicate. She just kept saying «you keep plate, you try more food.» Even if she couldn’t communicate effectively she didn’t bother going to find a co-​worker who could.
We walked out without a refund. We spent $ 38 for the three of us to dine on a half a plate each.
The upside, if there is one, we all felt so sick we weren’t hungry to eat anything else. hooray.
If you like decent food with taste, that is not spoiled, and a fair price, avoid Great Moon at all costs. Just because they have been there for 50 years like the woman claims, doesn’t mean they have good food. It means they’ve spent all 50 years slowly trucking downhill.

I’ve been a fan of the Great Moon Buffet on Robert Street in St. Paul for awhile so I thought I’d give this one a shot since I live/​work in the West Metro.
I stopped in with a coworker on a Wednesday for lunch and was impressed by the size and selection. All of the expected American-​Chinese dishes were present, with a few new ones. As another review mentioned, there were also quite a few «American» selections, including «Harsh Browns.»
The food wasn’t as hot as I’d have liked it to be, but I’m guessing that temperature fluctuates depending on how busy they are. Overall, it was solid meal and pretty cheap. One adult lunch was $ 8.88 after tax, including a drink!
I also would like to mention that the service was fantastic. Our drinks never went below ¼ full and the attendants make sure to pull plates off your table ASAP. Everyone was very friendly and accomodating.
The Robert Street location is still the champion of stuff-​your-​face strip-​mall Chinese buffets, but this one is still decent and I’d go back.

Chinese Buffet? Not really! Many items are not Chinese, mini corn dogs, fried potatoes, mini tacos. 20 entrees to choose from, 2 – 3 are good. Good salad bar. Lot’s of fresh fruit. Seems to be catering to their many Mexican American customers. Maybe a good business decision, but not what you expect from a place called the Great Moon!

I enjoy this little place, tucked into a strip mall, just off of central ave, in columbia heights. They open up, at 11am… a good time to get there, before the place gets busy… i like the angel hair pasta with shrimp, mock duck, chicken with broccoli, cream cheese puffs, sausages, roast duck, chicken fried rice, breaded crab buttons, etc. Lunch is $ 8.00 plus or minus, but it’s all you can eat… and they have ice cream, and mini cream puffs, for dessert. Wait staff, are attentive, without being over-bearing.I have never had, a bad meal here… funny, but it seems like any chinese restaraunt i go to, no matter how dingy, or low-rent,(no slam intended), ever serves a truly bad meal!.Guess i have a soft spot, for chinese buffet food!.I recommend great moon buffet, for food, service, and price.

This was my second Chinese Buffet experience when I moved here. I was amazed that they had… get this… MINI CORNDOGS! I was enamored and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and the price was right. You can expect a wide variety of great dishes and some really eccentric choices for a buffet. You will enjoy this place for what it is… good food and good times.