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| - If you are looking a chinese restaurant to host a big party look some other than the Golden Buddah. I recently attended a banquet at the Golden Buddah and I was shocked at the level of quality of food and service. Of the 10 dishes served 4 were nearly inedible.
There was a crab claw appetizer, most chinese restaurants prepare this dish by taking a crab claw surrounding it with ground shrimp, batter and then deep fry. At Golden Buddah, the crab claw served was mostly batter.
The shark fin soup served was mostly broth. Shark fin is an expensive ingredient and most places usually use imitation shark fin, but come on at least put something in there so that I know I'm eating soup and not dirty sink water.
Ginger scallion lobster is battered, fried, and then stir fried in a sauce with ginger and scallions. The ginger scallion lobster served was over-cooked and dried out.
Lastly, there was a steamed fish. The fish was raw in the middle.
It wasn't all bad, there was a crispy chicken with garlic dish that was pretty good, but out of 10 dishes 4 were bad, 5 were okay, and 1 was good.
Does 4 bad dishes out of 10 warrant a one star rating? Well it does when you factor in the service. The soup, appetizer, and first entree arrived timely, but after that there was a 1 hour gap before we received the next dish. The dishes were not served with accompanying white rice which I thought was odd. We had to ask for it, and even the rice took a while to arrive.
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