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| - First off, pricing as of February 16th, 2015:
Weekday lunches: $9.88 + tax
Weekday dinners: $16.88 + tax
Weekends (all day): $17.88 + tax
Okay so I kinda ditched this place for a while cause I didn't think their dinner buffets were all that great for what you're paying but since it's President's Day and I get a Monday off, I decided to check out their weekday lunch buffet.
Honestly, I don't know if everything seemed better cause of our really nice waitress Lisa, or if it was the significantly cheaper ($8 cheaper to be precise) price tag, but I finally see why people rave about this buffet. With the exception of not having any crab legs, you get the same variety and choices at the weekday lunch available to you on the weekends.
There are about 40-50 dishes available, the food was fresh, and you can get your usual fix of orange chicken, teriyaki chicken, broccoli beef (admittedly with way more broccoli than beef), some seafood, some Korean barbecue meats, and even some dim sum. I honestly think the quality of the dim sum has improved cause the little custard buns definitely had more custard that I remembered, and the barbecue pork buns (char siew buns) definitely had a lot more meat than on my last visit a few months back. They also have a sushi bar where the sushi is freshly prepared in front of you, but if it's sushi you want, do yourself a favor and get all-you-can-eat sushi at Mido Sushi cause the sushi at Pacific doesn't quite cut it.
Now on to desserts. Not impressed. I realize all Chinese buffets have similar desserts but the cakes just don't do it for me. They don't look great and taste like a heap of sugar. That said, go for the ice cream right next to the dessert table. They generally have about 8 flavors to choose from, two of which are some sort of sorbet, a chocolate, a strawberry, a vanilla, a mint chocolate chip, a cookies and cream, and a green tea. Green tea was the obvious favorite with there being barely anything left when I hit the ice cream bar at about 1PM today.
In a nutshell: Lunch is great, at $9.88 (it rhymes!). The crab legs aren't worth the extra $8 and that's only available at dinner. Enjoy!
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