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Their festive signage caught me on the way to another venue for lunch, and I thought "why not Chinese?" I'll tell you why; or at least, why not to select this buffet.
Being greeted on the way in with a "You are on camera" sign sure is welcoming. I was quickly greeted, though, and directed to my seat. My drink order was taken before I even sat down, which was nice. Too many buffets have you walk in, sit down, select a beverage, stand up, and proceed to self-service, and it was nice to save a couple of steps.
But then I got to the food. Nearly everything had the congealed look of having been out too long; the skin on the surface of the sweet-and-sour sauce was rubbery and at least a half-centimeter thick. Not exactly appetizing. I did, however, find some acceptable-looking specimens and returned to my table.
The warmest of the foods could only generously be called lukewarm; most of the chicken was marbled with glibbery wads of fat, and all the sauces tasted sugary and generic. I could literally not tell the "orange chicken" from the "sesame chicken" from the "pepper chicken" by any sense other than sight.
The rice was room-temperature, but I barely know this because as I was forking a mouthful of rice together on the plate, the alternately obsequious and intrusive waitstaff tried to take my plate out from under me (though, in retrospect, they may have been trying to save me).
The fruit selection, which I also sampled, looked fine, but was in fact soggy and also room-temperature to lukewarm.
They have a somewhat vast dessert selection -- particularly for a buffet -- but I'd more than had my fill.
Walking toward the register, there was a prominent sign re-advising me that walk-outs are recorded and will be reported to the police and prosecuted. There were three more similar signs at the register/gift shop (!). Again, very welcoming.
I won't be back, unless I'm told they're under new management.
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