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| - Take out or dine in for the bargain price of $6.15. Obviously concessions have been made in the quality department and Mike Kwan's Golden Coin is nothing more than a cheap fill-up.
In fact, this Chinese buffet has been filling a niche of mass quantities of Cantonese style food offered on a warm buffet for decades. Pull the couch apart, look for some loose change in the cushions, ask to borrow a dollar on your way in and you are all set to put the feed bag on - this is a cash only establishment!
It was more out of nostalgia that I stopped in to see if anything has changed in the last 25 years . . . it hasn't and that is not necessarily a bad thing, per se. The same sweet and sour pork is being prepared, the same way (which is to say floating in gallons of sauce, only adding more flour coated pork bits when the vat is low) along with rice, noodles, vegetables, Egg Foo Young, egg rolls cut in half (as if you will take less that way) and fried chicken thighs along with a hard-to-find drumstick thrown in. In fact there is a constant filling of the dozen or so choices on the steam table as if the staff were chumming its patrons for their own amusement - it is like a controlled ration. Really, it is amazing to see the flood of people grab a plate and palpitate while more food is being dumped into the pan having their second or third or eighth helping.
Order water, pay tax and leave a tip all for 8 dollars and leave feeling full and regretting eating so much mediocre food while contemplating a possible Montezuma's revenge for dining here. Maybe takeout is a better option as it keeps you from over-imbibing; or perhaps, it is the thrill of risky dining excursions that keep people coming back . . . will I get sick this time or not? Will the food be bad enough for me to vow to never come back or will the memory of my excessive consumption be overcome by the lure of cheap all you can eat?
. . . yes it will.
Overall Rating: 2.5 Stars
Food: 2 stars
Service: 2.5 Stars
Cleanliness: 2 Stars
Atmosphere: 2
Price/Value: 4 Stars
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