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| - Before coming here I had read several yelp reviews about this buffet so I had some information on what to expect. The hostesses at the front seemed preoccupied with conversation between each other, but for the most part they were pleasant and professional. Our waitress made sure to clean our plates from our table and refill our waters often. My girlfriend and I tried the sushi to start. The sushi was at a good cool temperature but all the varieties tasted pretty similar. We tried one of each to taste and hadn't returned to sushi the rest of the dinner. We are both sushi fanatics and didn't find a whole lot of appeal with what was available. Next, we wanted to try Mongolian bbq. We walked to the station and examined the meats and vegetables to choose from but for the amount of time we stood there we were never helped. There was no chef or employee standing by so we left, after some short time, and looked at the actual buffet tables. There is so much variety!! We ended up trying a little bit of everything and after fourteen plates of food we figured out what we really enjoyed.
My girlfriend loved the salt and pepper shrimp and fried chicken. I really enjoyed the cream cheese wontons (which were all room temp), and the chicken kebab. Most of the other food was good, especially with the variety, but foods like orange chicken, broccoli and beef, and other popular dishes were fatty in texture. My girlfriend tried one of the soups and stopped eating it after one spoonful. She told me it had an awful 'something' to it. She also tried the crayfish and one of them was very dark grey/green on the inside. Near the end we tried the (randomly placed) desserts. Everything from the marshmallow peach (pineapple?) salad, to the icecream, and the cakes. The bundt cakes looked good but we didnt try them. The cakes made in house were pretty dry. My girlfriend ended up eating the cream cake topping on top. They had two doughnut selections. One was definitely hostess doughnuts, that you could buy at Walmart (lol) and were really dry, and the other was this really delicious sugared doughnut. We ended up opening the doughnut and pouring vanilla ice cream inside, and it was soo good!! It was a cheat day so I (accidently) had five of these morsels. All-in-all it was a good experience. The buffet was good but there was definitely a taste or wow factor missing from the food. Besides our waitress, there also appeared to be a "I don't want to be here" attitude with the front and back of house staff. Lastly, we arrived around 4:30 for an early dinner. It wasn't busy until about 6:30 when a line started at the front.
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