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WARNING...do NOT come here after 1pm! The food is just simply awful. The only edible items were the stir-fried vegetables and noodles. Everything else was just rock hard and stale.
I've ordered take out here many times and the food has been pretty decent...being the only Chinese restaurant in the area, I would consider it a blessing. It's average at best, but it's better than nothing. There are a lot of hits and misses, but with such an extensive menu you'll likely find plenty of dishes to enjoy. Having never tried their lunch buffet, I thought I'd I give it a go. And for only $9.40 including GST, it's hard to beat. But man, was I sorely disappointed! This is by far the smallest buffet I've ever seen. The whole food area is smaller than my office desk! There are 9 food trays the size of those you'd find in a gelato ice cream shop, and the food stand is no bigger than a hot dog push cart. Next to the food stand is a table for plates, soup bowls (but I didn't see any soup) and sauce trays, as well as, about 3 different kinds of dipping sauces. I guess in this case, you really do get what you pay for. But despite the limited number of items, they all looked quite appetizing (except for the stir-fried noodles, which is as plain as it gets being simply cooked in soy sauce...not much different from your typical Chinese food court offering). Then again, now a days, Chinese food courts have come a long way and are really just as good as your average Chinese restaurant. Anyway, in addition to the stir-fried noodles, there was sweet and sour pork, egg rolls, deep fried wings and spare ribs, fried rice, salt and pepper calamari, stir-fried vegetables and fried pot stickers. There's another dish but I can't seem to remember it. Everything tasted as it should; even the calamari was surprisingly top notch in flavor. But the real let down was how hard all the protein items had become. I don't know if it was the time I came to dine or the warming lamps, or both, but the calamari and spare ribs had the consistency of cardboard. Even the sweet and sour sauce couldn't save the pork. This was quite sad cause they were all seasoned well. I hate returning to the scene of the crime, but I feel I must prove my theory correct and put the blame on my ill timed lunch visit. True, there's no excuse for leaving out stale food but this IS a buffet, after all, and not fine dining...so buyer beware.
I shall return tomorrow promptly at 11am and then update my review accordingly.
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