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So, after church a group of friends suggested going out for Chinese food, including dim sum, and one friend recommended Jumbo Super Buffet. I love CHinese food, ESPECIALLY dim sum, so I thought it was a great idea. Hardly.
When we arrived (a full hour before closing), the restaurant was half full of patrons. There were three buffet islands of hot food and one cold island. The buffet price is $9.89 on Sundays.
Prior to being seated, I wanted to walk around the buffet and view the food offerings. I wish I had my camera. Again, with a HALF FULL restaurant, nearly every buffet hot tray was empty or contained food that appeared to have been the remains of what was set out hours ago. My greatest fear with any buffet is that the food is old and is stirred over time after time to make it appear "fresh" again. I understand that some food will sit longer than other selections, but I would say nearly 70% of all the food trays were empty (out of about perhaps 80 selections. If not empty, then only old scraps remained. I actually saw two trays with large fish heads in them, left there after customers had consumer the bodies of those fish. It was disgusting.
Even simple dishes like rice and noodles were old, depleted and crusted on the sides of their respective trays. And soups were down to about 25% full, with heavy crusts formed around the inside of the soup containers, with "skin" on top of the soup, created by being left there too long and not properly maintained.
Here is what drove me out of the restaurant: the place was a health hazard! The floors were replete with food scraps such as rice, noodles, soup drippings and other items that should be cleaned up immediately. Only three feet from a food island was a five-gallon bucket, filled with dark water and floating food items; it was a veritable bucket of liquid swill that gave off an acrid odor. What kind of business are these people running, anyway?
Any buffet restaurant that cannot 1) at least keep their food stocked to reasonable levels, 2) ATTEMPT to make their food items appear appetizing throughout their serving hours, and 3) maintain proper cleanliness, is destined to fail health inspections and quickly lose patrons.
When I told my friends I refused to eat there, one commented "hey, it's just food...let's eat." Well, even dogs are fussy about their food. I wasn't looking for a "feeding," I was looking for a meal.
As for the quality of the food that remained, I cannot comment on it. That's why this is a partial review. But my friends reported back that they felt ripped off and sick to their stomachs. We should have gone to Denny's following church after all.
Bottom line: patronize Jumbo Super Buffet at your own risk!
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