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| - It's my first time in Mesa, Arizona and I arrived early in the morning, spent a day visiting a company that lasted til late afternoon, and I realized I have eaten anything yet.
Of course a buffet would be a great option to fill my Jawaiian stomach!
I found this place not to far from my hotel and decided to go check it out.
I walked in and the receptionist simply said, "Hello, how many people?"
"Just myself please." Then she called over to one of the waitstaff members in her language and I was immediately seated.
The place was a bit quiet for dinner service. It later in as I continued to dine, it did start to pick up.
I went to check out the buffet and this is what I found...
The dessert island is hosts an array of cookies, pastries like shortbread cookies, coco puffs, cream puffs, assorted jello cubes with no labeling to let you in on what the flavored are.
The next island was a bit confusing, on one half it looked like a salad bar, but there were no lettuce or romaine (they were actually on another island) just topping like croutons, raisins, sunflower seeds, etc and all kinds of dressings.
The other half was assorted seafood fare, shrimp, crabs, oysters etc...
Then next island featured you're usually standard Chinese food offerings and then the lettuce and romaine
I noticed as I continued on there was pizza , a taco bar, and several soups.
Interesting...n'est-ce pas?
Ok, so on with what I had:
Chicken wings - super juicy, crispy on the outside, this was the shining star of everything I had!
Pot stickers - #Rubbery
Beef ribs - they were so juicy and soft, it slid easily off the bone, however, they were bland. Solution: I created a little dipping sauce from the sweet soy sauce for dumplings and added some wasabi from the sushi island, and Bam!
Yeah, you have to do what you can to doctor something up!
The green beans were ok. Al Dente but they were slathered in a teriyaki sauce. It didn't wow me.
Chicken meatballs are good - no complaints there!
Kim chee - I wish they never drained the juice from the plating. What happened was, the Kim chee was dry and had no flavor.
Tofu - you can't screw up raw tofu, I just created my own sauce of soyu & scallion I found at their grill section.
Hehehe
Egg drop soup- it was a little too thick and bland. I added soyu to it.
Orange chicken was a bit of surprise. Often times it's all breaking and very little hint of chicken meat. In this instance, it was actually pretty good.
During my dining experience, I noticed that it was hot and muggy in the area I as sitting at. I asked and found out that the air conditioning wasn't turned on!
I noticed most of the staff didn't speak much English very well, so your patience will be needed here at this restaurant.
Overall, the food was okay, but I probably would not recommend this place to anyone.
I skipped dessert and closed out the tab and walked away into the sunset!
:)
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