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| - So I went today, Wednesday at 1:30 or so. I was expecting a small run down place with like 6 people in it.
The sign for Lin's is large, and the building is as well. It's not your average ghetto Chinese buffett. It's big. There were about 100 people there. (I didn't look at the pictures before I went.)
I was very curious...
So..
Three long buffet counters that have hot food, one that has cold, a sushi bar, and a mongolian barbeque.
Impressive...
So why one star?
The food was barely edible. This is definately an example of America's love affair with quantity over quality.
The good-
Large Selection
Egg Roll- edible- barely
Bread roll- normal american- good
Chinese Spare Ribs- decent
Cool entry way and building
Service was attentive
The Bad:
Sweet and Sour Chicken
Seasame Chicken
Spring Rolls (how can they mess this up??? - I couldn't eat them! I've had frozen ones that were bettter.)
Shrimp and Chicken dish
Rice Noodles
Fish
Lo Mein
I don't trust sushi at $8 buffets, and I don't like Mongolian, so these may be the two items everyone raves about, but what I had was flat out gross.
So I'm pretty hungry.. and I start trying a little of eveything. All of it was gross. But I'm like- this got a lot of 5 star ratings on Yelp, maybe the next thing will be good. No, that was nasty too, maybe the next?
So I way over ate trying to find the food y'all were saying is worth 4 or 5 stars.
If I was six years old, I would be so happy that I could get chicken nuggets, and pizza, and onion rings, and french fries, and egg rolls, and pudding, and ice cream. But I'm not 6- and this food was gross.
For buffet I'd much rather go to China Garden on 19th and Bell. That has 1 row of hot food, but it's delicious. I'd even rather go to Mike Kwans Golden Coin - and that has a 1 star yelp rating.
Did I mention that the food was gross?
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