China Buffet
1331 3rd Ave SW, Forest Lake
(651) 464-4339
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Price keeps going up to the point is unaffordable compared to the food quality and quantity.. Brought myself and my two little kids a week ago, just for the three of us it was $67.85..
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Lunch menu was versatile and good!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
My happy place. My place to graze when I come up to Forest Lake. Thank you for this great place to socialize with my family and friends.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Small area tug away! But nice..
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The food was so overcooked and dry, you couldn't even eat it.
This is by far the worst Chinese Buffet I have ever been to.
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Great food and the waiters and waitresses are nice and very helpful, if you haven't been here yet, you should try to eat here at least once! (I recommend The Teriyaki Chicken On a Stick If you like Chicken)
Food clearly hadn’t been changed for a long period of time, all deserts were rock hard, all of the food was look warm and overcooked. Plates and silverware were completely dirty/unwashed, we were told $14.99 per person and it ended up being roughly $19 per person because they did not disclose the fact the drinks were $3 extra! Workers were extremely snotty and disrespectful. Not just to us but other customers as well! DO NOT RECOMMEND!!!
Everything was hot n fresh.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Cheap, run down, low quality
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 2
Service: 3
I got a cockroach for food and they killed it in front of me with their finger, this is disgusting
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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Love the place!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
$12.95 for lunch
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 5
Used to go to the China Buffet many years ago and the food was great. The entire menu has changed and the food is not good. I wouldn't recommend this restaurant until to improve their dishes
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 1
Service: 3
Love this place, the are fast for takeout and it's really good food for the price. Plus it's local and family owned so it makes me happy to support them.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
This place use to be okay and that is why we keep giving it a chance. The last few times we’ve been there the employees are flat out rude. Not just to us and it’s most definitely for no good reason to most everyone. They don’t seem to like to refill drinks and I guess that’s okay because they continuously Touch everything with dirty hands from plates and dirty silverware and napkins from table to table. You have to ask for more soda even when you are still eating and they are collecting your used plates, they will not bring you or offer more than one refill. After a second refill you won’t be asked again and I noticed this the last few times we’ve been there. The last few times we’ve been there it’s been not good to say the least but I want to give benefit of doubt and keep giving time and trying again. Sunday evening is not the night go. Period. We went around 6 for dinner, they close at 8 I believe. Almost all The food was so far from fresh it was hard to find something edible. I asked at one point around 630, if they were going to add fresh foods and the lady asked me what I’d like. I mentioned quietly that tho the cream cheese wontons were full they were really hard and the cream cheese was hard and crumbling out she said okay and told another employee in their language and the only word I could make out was “wontons” and they all started laughing. No new ones were brought out and the old hard ones were left in the buffet. No other food fresh food was brought out either and trays stayed empty and others with the very old food. The fruit tasted odd like metallic (mandarin oranges and bananas in strawberry sauce) the pecan cookies were all stale and so soft when you went to pick one up it would break(they are supposed to be a hard cookie) no cones and It says so on the old crumbled dirty sign on the other old crumbled sign. not to mention the filthy ice cream machine with an off tasting ice cream. everything this time was so off putting that I can safely say that I will never step foot back in there again. It was pretty sad, I went to talk to the younger girl behind the counter and she was on her phone, I asked quietly and nicely what day and time would be better to come for fresh hot foods because Sunday evenings wasn’t it and she was on her phone and completely ignored me, I stood there until she looked up and smiled smugly and said “I don’t really know” then went right back to her phone. No, I was not rude. I genuinely wanted to know when a good time to come would be so I didn’t have to make the final decision to not give them my business and let people know how it is there now. I’ve heard slot of people won’t step foot on that place for the very reasons I’ve listed. Again, I wanted to give them benefit of doubt. It Was a total waste of 42 bucks and our time for myself and my two kids to try to eat stale, old and spoiled food and having to spit stuff out into napkins and then trying to settle for fruit and having that taste weird as well not to mention my newly 2 year old also was charged for dinner. I’ve never been to a buffet where I had to pay for an actual toddler but okay he ate a couple slices of watermelon. Also, the bathrooms are beyond filthy along with the rest of the place and we all got “sick” after eating there last night. We should have expected that though because last time everyone in our party got sick as well and the time before that. Like I said above, this was it for us. No more china buffet in forest lake mn.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
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