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  • A group of us from work hit this location a couple of weeks ago. This used to be "China Buffet King" and has been re-branded as "Jade River Buffet". It sits off a HoJo (hotel) location. First impression - but for the name change, nothing else is different. Period. We came here a few years ago and experienced about the same quality then as we did now. Something about it - it just doesn't get the traffic like the bigger named buffets such as Mandarin and Imperial as such everything suffers IMO. On the plus side they are running a promotion until Dec 13th for $7.99 lunches and they do have (as did under the previous name) a selection of Dim Sum. Mandarin only has Dim Sum during their festival event and even then there isn't that much. OTOH, IMO the Dim Sum's at buffets tend to be lower in quality and the selection is typically quite poor. That is the case here - Har Gow - sure - but thick flour wrapping and not much shrimp. Pork Sui Mai wasn't too bad and the chicken feet were probably the best and most tasty. A bunch of bean paste buns - I didn't see any BBQ Pork buns. They have Egg Tarts - very poor crust and as with most things outside the Dim Sum - warm to cool. Someone at our table liked the soups. They had some BBQ pork slices - cold and tough - yeah! IMO "Star Walk" (Buffet) in Scarberia has far better Dim Sum if that is what you are after. In my world, Dim Sum for two alone is about $30 - so I know good dim sum from crap. McWhat? Hot side cold and the cold side hot? Yeah. We arrived just before noon and a lot of the dishes were not very hot in fact cold - only the chicken wings were hot. After our first set of plates we went out and everything appeared to be updated with hotter fare. Still the selection was poor. Not a great selection of meat dishes (they had some beef dish which contained tough chewy beef pieces - inedible); fish was a toss - I believe they had salmon which some at our table liked but most did not. They had onion rings - again cold. Couple of noodles. When I saw the Singapore noodles it reminded me 100% of the prior banner name. Again lack of traffic - instead of a heaping hot tray of noodles (as you would see at Mandarin) - there wasn't that much and was pushed to the center. (that is what we saw when we first went out around noon for the food the first time). Then later there were more noodles - not completely full though. Overall the consensus was a poor selection of hot food. the selection of food was poor - Someone commented that there were no "torpedo" style shrimp. Deserts? Actually they were the saving grace - a couple of puff pastries with not too sweet filling. Some nice cakes as well - likewise not too sweet. A number at our table enjoyed the fresh fruit - most liked the pineapple. But IMO these are basics in the buffet world. There isn't much skill or work required to unpackage these things and put them out on display. I am sure they didn't make one cake from scratch. So yeah good quality there. However, as deserts go - this is no Mandarin - go there for better selection. At $7.99 does that match the value? I still question that actually. For that money I could drive to a half decent Thai place and have a soup bowl and be thoroughly satisfied. Sorry but the cold food is a turn off as it was years ago. Nothing has changed. Nothing here screamed out "I want more of that" - and with buffets one learns to pick a wide assortment the first go; pick up a few things the next; then swoop in the next one or two plates more with the stuff they really liked. Not here. After two plates of hot I had enough - which is unusual. I think the price shoots up to $13.99 shortly - making the value even worse. And in case someone wants to know - I cannot say if at $13.99 there will be a better selection; but I will say years ago the price was about $11.99 or $12.99 and literally I see no difference. I think the one reason why this place still exists at all is the AYCE Dim Sum - some I guess aren't that picky. Finally I went to the washroom to wash my hands - no issues there - clean. Also 10% mandatory tip for groups of 6 or more. Unimpressed overall. jeff PS: If you are asking, I am not a shill nor am I the daughter of the owner. Even someone coming out of a hole for the first time to eat their first meal would question the quality of this place - so for "Melody T" to say this is the best [Buffet] she ever had in all of Canada is a complete farce and the 5 stars is - in a word - a lie.
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