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| - Came for dinner during the holiday season and it was a full house. The dishes were always kept full and generally the service was good. The food is a mix of "totally worth it" and "meh, don't fill up on that", which is standard buffet style. The good: fresh oysters (2 at a time, but you can line up for more), peking duck (both duck and wrappers were available all evening, with rarely any wait time), half a lobster (you need to get a ticket so the limit is one serving per person), sashimi (there's also sushi, but the sashimi is better).
All the stations put out a relatively small portion of food at a time, but they are refilled frequently. I think this is great for reducing food waste and keeping our gluttonous selves in check (sometimes my eyes really are bigger tham my stomach).
Desserts are pretty unimpressive. The cakes are what you would expect from a Chinese buffet: dissapointing. The nanaimo bar will give you a sugar high that you will not recover from until morning. The waffle bowls and icecream are fun, but don't actually taste very good (in my opinion). Strangely, the one dessert I went back for three time (yeah, 3), was a mysterious item only labeled as "sugar free". It was sugar free coconut jello. I felt 7 years old again, eating jello at buffet dessert. And I enjoyed it. Still, can't give more than 3 stars for jello.
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