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| - After driving around for about 45 minutes trying to find a lunch buffet on Canada Day weekend that didn't have a huge lineup out the door, we finally settled on Imperial. Waiters were quick and pleasant enough. I went for my first plate, which was mostly battered shrimp so I didn't really take note of what else was there. On my second plate, I went searching for my buffet favorite honey garlic and or bbq spare ribs. They actually had neither which is a first ever. Then i went looking for chicken wings and the heating tray was empty, all 3 times I went up. The general Tao chicken was not general Tao chicken, like not even close. There was no roast beef/prime rib/turkey station to at least appease me in some manner. I'm sure everything was jam packed with msg yet still remarkably and seemingly impossibly remained mostly tasteless. This was by far the worst not only Chinese buffet, but any buffet I have ever been to. This after noticing the LUNCH price was $17.99 when down the street at a much better buffet (hence the line up) was $9.99. To end this stomach churning experience, I decided to fill up on something i knew they couldnt screw up... cookies and cream ice cream. Well, I was wrong. There wasnt much left and what was left was a melting almost liquid mess. So in discussing my rating for this charade of a buffet, I came up with a generous half a point out of five. Then I went to pay, took out my debit card only to hear "we dont take debit"...which forced me to change my rating to a perfect 0 out of 5. If you want to see what not to do at a buffet.... by all means go to Imperial. I wont be back unless I completely lose my memory. As a footnote, I am NOT expecting a gourmet meal, I'm expecting mass produced Chinese food but this was something far below that. Some memorable and questionable items to pay double for in the buffet.... french fries, canned corn, pizza slices, onion rings. So my zero out of five is in terms of someone with minimal buffet expectations. If you are in any way picky in the least, you will likely rate this place less than a zero. (Food only, service was good). Do yourself a flavour..and dont go here as you wont find any flavour whatsoever except maybe the seafood sauce i had to drench my battered shrimp in. Apparently i have to give it at least 1 star which is an outrage.
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