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| - Why do I keep giving Chinese buffets a second(thousanth) chance? I really don't know, it's like Ikea, where you keep going there every 6 mo. hoping for that old 'novelty effect' you remember from your first time, but all you get is a hot, crowded store with no customer service filled with hot sweaty people and ugly couches. Yes, they have nice meatballs if you can stomach sitting in their disgusting eating area where open dirty plates are everywhere and food covers ALL SURFACES. It's like a bad addiction that you keep trying every now and then, thinking it might end up differently!
Back to King Buffet...Stuffed between massage parlors and thrift stores I might have known better, but I thought I remembered a first time visit that wasn't too bad. Walking in I noticed 9.99 buffet...Pricey for a place that's empty, but what's another $40 for the family to try something new, right?? A BIG MISTAKE, I found out.
The place only had 6 other people in it. The floor reminded me of the upstairs floor of my parents' old barn (the barn was built in the early 1900s and hasn't been used in 30 years). I expected grumpy, suspicious asians to meet me at the front and they did not disappoint...Old signs painted in a crayon crossed out the "12" in the "Children Under" definition and hand-wrote "11" (their idea of increasing revenue, I guess) - mushy chicken and balls of unidentifiable stuff on sticks filled the pans--at least those pans which contained food, which was about 25% of their overall food area. The rest looked abandoned. The food was really pretty bad - I mean terrible. The place was dirty, the bathrooms were full of gaping wall holes and broken tiles, it was a large area but ridiculously old and unkept, reminded me of a haunted house attraction I went through somewhere once.
Funny, I used to think Hometown or Harvest buffets were below me, but...No not really, that would have been twice as good as this place and probably cheaper. It's weird how Chinese buffets don't seem to have a solid grasp of the correlation between price and value, that's why they are empty. I've never been one of those people who think "chain restaurants" are beneath them - on the contrary, most chain restaurants do a far better job of accountability and consistency than the "local" places and I generally prefer them but Chinese buffets need to be in a category all by themselves. You just never know. I should have gone to Rubios and paid 2/3 that much for a far better family meal!
I believe that a reasonable analysis of restaurants (or any product/service) should be about value vs. price. Not just value. So I'm not one to think that low-value places are beneath me - i.e. I McDonalds serves a heck of a product and achieves an amazing level of service FOR THE PRICE. Whereas, I've been to local haunts around Chandler that the locals try to patronize that did a terrible job of price vs. value matching (Arriba and Brunchies come to mind).
But if you're really into the 'experimental' type of eating out, try King Buffet. Who knows, the General Chicken may actually contain poultry when you go!
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