Golden China Buffet

My daughter and I went in at 9pm for a late dinner. They close at 10:00 and they had ½ the food available. The food that was available was not fresh at all.
You pay when you first walk in and when I talked to them about the lack of fresh food and requested a partial refund they said NO. They said they could make us what we want, I requested honey chicken and was told that takes to long and they would have to throw it away at closing.
When you have a buffet it is to be fresh food until closing. Yes you might have to toss some food, that’s the con of having a buffet I suppose.
If you don’t want to make fresh food up until close then apply a discount after a certain time. I will never go back and will tell everyone about this place and how horrible it was.
Nothing like complaining and then being talked about by everyone in another language. This place is terrible. DO NOT GO

Perfect example that people will eat anything if it’s all you can eat… Very very very disappointed food looks like it was sitting for hours, everything was either really dry or really greasy. Nothing was hot or fresh. Parking lot full of cars is a lie when judging the quality of food … We made that mistake and got bamboozled STAY AWAY!

On the bright bright side, I did not get food poisoning that I was almost positive I’d suffer later. On the down side, I did expect to get it. What makes it tragic is that the staff was very quick to clear and clean and the food tasted pretty good. If only it wasn’t at BEST lukewarm and congealed, and perhaps the place a little less shabby, it would be a a four star place. Great desserts though.

The place was just plain nasty. 75% of the patrons were 10 years old or younger. The kids had there hands all over the food and breathing and coughing and sneezing on it. All the food was cold. It was a bad experience. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I wouldn’t give it any stars if I could. But in order to post this comment I have to rate this dump with one star. The place was filthy too. Just plain nasty.

Staff are really friendly, even though its a small place I would still go back.

My family eats here quite often and find their food very good. We like them so much that we take visiting family there. The staff is friendly and helpful. I assume it is family run and they all seem to be working hard.

I went to this place because I always see the parking lot so full, I thought that it would be a good place to eat. I took my mother one Sunday afternoon and I could not believe the place looked as icky on the inside as it did on the outside. I decided to browse an pick out some food. First, my fried chicken oozed with orange grease. I was disappointed that none of the food was really hot unless you jumped as soon as some was brought out and eat as soon as possible. I was not impressed with any of the dishes and wouldn’t go back even if it was free.

NOT CLOSED! OPEN AS OF 5÷30÷13
I’m a child of the Cold War, and as such, was in constant fear of getting flash-​fried by an incoming Soviet ICBM.
You must think me daft to try to tie in Nuclear Armageddon with a review of a Chinese Buffet. And You would prolly be right. But go with me here…
If they dropped the big one near you, and you survived the «bada-​boom» you had a reasonable assurance that sometime soon you would become incredibly ill with Radiation Sickness, which, I’m told, makes terminal Cancer seem like a Mosquito bite.
Well I had a touch of this anxiety today. I et at the Golden China Buffet, and I convinced myself that I would be sick from it before long. I didn’t know how long it would take to manifest, or to what extent I would suffer, but I was reasonably assured that gastric distress would be upon me soon.
I shoulda known. I looked at their Business Card: the biggest print on it was «365 Days Do Not Close». What would have been more appropriate was «365 Days do not Clean» The place was filthy, and staggeringly so. But as any visitor to any Chinatown knows, uncleanliness is next to tastiness. The best Chinese Joints I’ve ever been to have been unrepentant Sh! tholes, with foul smells and worse lavatories. I’ve been to some upscale Chinese joints that were gorgeous, hygenically sound and completely boring to the palate.
So Anyway…
I drive past this joint often, and there’s always a bunch of cars in the lot. You can’t see the abundant grime from the street, but you see it as you park, at about the same time you’re questioning your culinary judgement. When I see a functional sewerage pre-​treatment plant masquerading as a restaurant, I am usually disgusted and can’t wait to get in to try the fare. And when there are cars in the lot, I become quite nosy, and wont rest until all is revealed.
The place is a mess outside and inside as well. An overcrowded counter has gum and assorted neo-​oriental flotsam. There was a table with chinese restaurant junk on it, and an infant in a stroller pushed up against the table. Mom was ostensibly the waitress. I learned that you were supposed to pay as you entered, but I must have looked trustworthy enough and was not stopped to pay the toll. That toll, by the way was $ 6.99 (Including Drink).
The fare didn’t look much better. I have never seen such unattractive Chinese Food. It looked like it was slapped togther and thrown in the steam table pans. Nothing appetizing about the presentation at all. If I was dressing a movie set and the script called for a sh! thole Chinese Buffet, I couldn’t do better than the reality of the Golden China Buffet.
Now here’s where it gets curious. The place didn’t smell bad, and the plates and silverware were quite acceptible. Even more curious, with the exception of the EggRolls, the food was tasty, and not bad at all. The Crab Rangoons were much better than I had at the Kobe Buffet which costs twice the price. I tried a little bit of everything, and while this wasn’t 5-​star cuisine, it certainly didn’t suck. OK, the EggRolls sucked, but I’ve never had a good EggRoll at ANY buffet, ever.
There was a steady stream of business. It certainly wasn’t the curb appeal that was drawing people in, so this must have been repeaters. Puzzling, indeed.
I never did get ill from eating here, and what’s really bizarre is that I was a little disappointed about it. I was looking forward to pukeing my guts out and having a story to tell about the worst place I ever et at…