Andrew R.
Yelp
i had passed this buffet up many times for meteor buffet and buffet 88, i was in the area this day and decided to give it a try, it was around noon so by no means was it off the rush hour.
being a bit adventurous, i decided to try a little bit of everything on the bars provided.
some items were wonderful, the cajun chicken was well cooked, and the chicken still retained a nice texture and moisture, along with being very flavorful as well, their hot and sour was also a nice taste as well, the roast pork was pretty good as well thinking back.
other items were old and barely within the warm temperature range, such as the fried dumplings and the cheese wontons, though, one could argue that these still tasted pretty good, and would have been much better fresh.
then, there was long list of meh items, items that had a rather dry and tough texture, like some of the chicken dishes, which were again plagued by the below normal bar temperatures while on top of that having a weak taste, the eggrolls were a good example of this, lacking anything in their filling besides heaps of cabbage really, no ground pork or rice noodles, or really anything aside from cabbage.
then, we get to the bad. and heres where i tend to be a bit picky, i have always been able to taste fishy and spoiled meat flavors better than most people, and the latter is relevant here. their pork dim sum had been out for a long time, and normally i love dim sum, these dim sum, however, were cold, and the pork tasted like it was somewhat spoiled, a taste that they were most definitely trying to cover up with extra soy sauce in the meat mix, now, the spoiled taste wasnt bad enough to put me off the meal, so i simply left what was left of the dim sum, and continued on.
it wasn't until the end of my meal that i encountered something absolutely foul. i had some of their hibachi chicken, and took a bite, the rotten chicken taste was strong and made me gag several times after i had spit it out into a napkin.
i told the staff immediately that the dish had spoiled meat in it, he proceeded to grab a piece and eat it, and tell me it was perfectly fine. maybe it was, and maybe he was lying, either way, i will not be partaking of this restaurant again after the god awful taste of that hibachi chicken.