World Buffet

I think once you figure out what you really like here you are all into it. To be honest, I never thought I would have liked it the way I do. It has some features I find appealing and it makes me come back all the time.
You don’t need to wait at the table for something that who knows you might like or not. I love I can go and choose what I really like by myself. Staff is always friendly. They have a wonderful variety of SUSHI people! Do you know how much you would spend in 3 – 4 sushi rolls in another restaurant? BIG bucks! besides, they keep making the rolls fresh right before your eyes and you can eat as much as you like, WOW, for me, that’s a ginormous reason to come back.
Some of the things I recommend are, besides the sushi of course, the seafood delight (crab meat, shrimp, broccoli, carrots in a white tasty sauce) fried rice, the green beans, crab meat salad (creamy and kind of sweet) and my favorite desserts, the sesame balls with a red bean filling (believe me, I almost cry when I don’t see them in the tray, they are sooo good) and the chocolate ice cream, they both make a sparkling combination and for me it’s the best part! ;)

meh. besides mongolian grills, phở, and sushi bar, nothings really edible. They sometimes have crab legs, sometimes don’t (I was irritated that they didn’t have crab legs so when I asked about it, server said «U like crab leg? We have it tomorrow.» How about maintaining regular food schedule?) They don’t really refill the foods on weekdays. A lot of dishes were stale af.

I went after my coworkers recommended it as the best Chinese food in town. Maybe people in Madison don’t know what good Chinese food is like… Cause this was pretty bad. The variety wasn’t impressive. No real fried rice, really? The food was greasy and didn’t even have good flavor. Very unsatisfactory. I got take-​out and the price wasn’t bad. But it made me miss the good Chinese restaurants on the east coast.

Ginormous buffet! Everything looked so beautiful, fresh and delish… only problem was food was tepid at best.
Sushi bar, noodle bar, Mongolian BBQ, Bao (sp?)
But…took a bite of something mis-​marked and I must confess, I hid it in my napkin then ran to the bathroom to dispose of it because I didn’t want to get caught wasting food.
The chocolate pudding and brownie bite were my favorite as well as the red bean bun; yummmm

Came here with some friends not to long ago. Not impressed.
When you walk in it looks like it will be good, but the food wasn’t that great, and I had two different food items I couldn’t eat because they had PUBES in them. Gross!!!
Just another gross Chinese buffet. And the website stated 8.99 for lunch Buffett, when we got our bill it was $ 30! So not worth $ 15 a piece. I will not eat at this shit hole again!

not the tastiest food — seems like an enormous number of dishes include fake crab (and almost all the sushi). if you enjoy fake crab, this might be the place for you. also — they discriminate against single diners; will not split their coupon $$ in half like other restaurants do. can’t recommend either location, though broadway is not so heavy on fake crab.

8 people in our party Monday night– 12÷28÷15.
Quite a few common food items on the buffet were empty the whole hour we were there.
Sweet sour chicken and others empty.
Quite a disappointment —

Chinese food is always a good idea. Very clean and great food. Amazing variety. Diverse customers, so must be approved by all.

This is my new standard for all Asian restaurants. It is a buffet which we do not do often but the food is so fresh. Not one thing on the menu could be faulted. And oh what a selection, it truly is a world buffet. Plenty of American cuisine along with your typical favorites like General Tsao chicken, peanut chicken, crab salad, chicken teriyaki, pepper chicken, etc. But how about a Mongolian grill and a sushi bar. The sushi rolls are made fresh right in front of you. The dinning room is beautiful with gorgeous chandeliers and the help is friendly. I must find something negative you say? OK, you have to pay an extra $.50 for an ice cream cup, really? Well I went without ice cream and if you know me that was no easy feat. But seriously you must go here and we will return

We ended up here because that is what the group chose. We would have never gone on our own nor would we based on our experience. We ate here on a Sunday night and nothing on the buffet appeared very fresh. I risked my stomach on the sushi and am pleased to say I survived. Sushi was pretty low quality laced with that not-​so-​authentic mayo sauce, but it is a buffet so what should I expect. Rest of the food was limp, but edible I guess.

— Food was terrible; gave my friend and I horrible stomach aches.
— Very over-​priced.
— Saw a half bitten-​into dessert that somebody put back onto the buffet table.
— When asking the guy who was making the sushi about one of the sushi rolls, he just side glanced me and mumbled some incoherent response to my question.
— I almost slipped on a large puddle of water in the middle of the floor. They had no signs up warning people of the large puddle and no one showed any intention of cleaning it up.
— Saw a little girl take a hard fall when she slipped on the same aforementioned puddle of water that still nobody had cleaned up yet.
I will never return and I highly advise everyone to steer clear of this restaurant. It was just a hot mess.

The food is worse than it was a year ago. It is edible but nothing is delicious.
The membership card is a lie. I forgot the and the owner said I could bring it and ask for a stamp the next time. I come here again but a waitress says NO!

Ahh, World Buffet… You are just perfect for those lazy, I-don’t-care kind of nights. I just want to wear my t-​shirt and eat your sushi with cream cheese and sauces thankyouverymuch. The lettuce from the salad bar is always cut way too huge. My boyfriend really enjoys watching me struggle to eat it. He prefers getting phở, which you can construct yourself and they will cook it for you on the spot. Aside from the dim sum section of the hot bar, we tend to stay away from it (mostly) because a lot of it is super greasy, overcooked food. Despite the fact that this buffet is just a little pricier than I would prefer, it’s a pretty good go-​to for those nights you’re just feeling something more chill.

The difference between this buffet and others is the fresh Mongolian style grill that comes with the fair price of the buffet. Lots of typical choices in the buffet, and the sushi is ok, but the variety with the grill makes them stand out for a buffet. I only gave them three stars because, well, it’s higher for a buffet, but it could use some more local or fresh ingredients.

I ate at the Old world Buffet only once before at the Monona Location for brunch and it was Ok for a Mother’s Day brunch as you could eat healthy and not cram all the standard brunches in you that were rather heavy without the other good things like salads, vegetables and fruits. Families celebrating after going to church and enjoying each other’s company are always good no matter what the food or gathering.
Well they were celebrating their one year anniversary this May at their new Westside location with crab and rib eye on Sunday’s and my son had come home from his university up north for the weekend so I thought this would be ideal for my two sons as they just don’t get to indulge in crab and steak on their limited budgets going to College and eat a good variety of healthy vegetables and fruits and it is a buffet so I figured that my sons couldn’t go wrong as they would have a variety to choose from. They already enjoy the General Taus that they like to get at Chang Jangs so I thought more variety with the crab would be that much better after all its a buffet.
I called first to verify their hours and they were still serving the all you could eat crab and they did so we decided to eat dinner there. When we arrived I was pleasantly surprised as it smelled good and they had signs saying they had no MSG which I felt good about. The water with our meal was even pretty good compared to the other water throughout Madison as in the country we are pretty spoiled with the fresh spring fed well that is fresh and pure without all the fluoride, chlorine and other chemicals added. When you live in the city you are used to it but once you have had fresh clean pure water you never can go back as you know what clean pure water is like and its benefits so I usually drive around with my own 5 gallon containers and ask if they don’t mind if I carry a glass with my own water in and everyone has always been accommodating so that’s never been a problem.
Ok their food now. Maybe it was just a slow night and we were eating food that was their end of the day? I’m not so sure though as we arrived a good 3 hours before they stopped serving so we went up and put the foods we wanted grilled on top on the noodles which were done promptly and were good although I asked them to cook mine a bit more as the seafood on it just didn’t look very well cooked which they did and was good and we all enjoyed ours so you can’t go wrong on this.
We asked where the crab legs were and the cook said he would replenish those quickly and he did. I’ve eaten crab that was already cracked open and the kind you have to crack on yourself and these were the ones you had to crack on your own so we took our plates and crab crackers and tried several crackers and they were so thin that we Just couldn’t succeed so we fingered we had 3 hours do might as well concentrate on the other foods as we could save that for last or tip the waitress extra and ask her to assist us.
As we tried the other food it was mushy and bad seafood and was on the rotten side as it was old and smelly. We just grabbed an extra plate to toss the bad stuff on and next thing we know it an agitated waitress was at our table scolding us that we had too many plates on it. We explained that the extra plates were the bad food and showed her the rotten food and asked her to throw it out and maybe she should check on the existing trays we got these from as we wouldn’t want anyone to get ill and there seemed to be s language barrier as she exclaimed that they were a Chinese food restaurant and that’s how Chinese do theirs. We acknowledged that we knew this and that we liked their stir fry but seafood is seafood and we don’t eat sushi but the salmon and other seafood was just not right. I cook my own seafood at home and well theirs is not good and coating a tiny piece of shrimp with so much unhealthy breading to my liking but I sure wasn’t doing to say that to her. I told her we had tried all their different cracking devices and the crab was so thin could she please get these open for us and she said that wasn’t her job. I said I realized this and would give her an extra 50% tip to do this and even handed a $ 10 bill for mine alone. They were winding down for the night by then so it’s not like she was busy but she still refused. We struggled with these only to no avail as they finally kicked us out with the rest of the customers that seemed to be having the same problem as us. Others simply gave up and walked out as we should have just called it a night and left too.
Moral of the story; don’t go to a Chinese food place like this one to eat the crab special or any seafood as its not even clean & devine.

Do you like deep fried breaded meat in brown sauce? All the mayonnaise-​doused sushi rolls you can cram into your gullet? Mashed potatoes and pizza for your picky child of a roommate who will still bitch the whole time about wanting a burger?
HAVE I GOT THE PLACE FOR YOU
Honestly if you are expecting fine dining at a 13 dollar Americanized Chinese buffet then you need your head checked. The sushi is OK, but there is quite a variety and it’s out of the ordinary for a place like this. I see some rumblings about there not being enough variety but they easily have 4x more stuff out there than any Indian joint I’ve been to around here. It’s a double edged sword though, lots of food = lots of old food. Go earlier. There are all sorts of condiments available. The noodle bar is nothing special, go to a Vietnamese place if you want some phở, you’re here for General Tso and his lesser known cousin Mongolian Pork.

The Phở bar was my favorite. The soup was HOT and the noodles were great. Plus there are a lot of add-​ins. I’ve never been to a buffet with a Phở Bar. Sushi was okay for a buffet. The food was fresh. I enjoyed my experience. We had a huge group of 22 people.

Came back recently and their noodle soup bar is not the same anymore. I think because they had such demand, they couldn’t make the broth from scratch anymore. It tastes like a broth made with bouillon cubes.

My boyfriend has been begging me to come here. I finally broke down to get it out of the way. I usually check reviews of places before going some where, so I had my expectations very much lowered. Some how, this place was still disappointing. There was very little selection and the food wasn’t very good. The sushi was average.
I really don’t advise going here, but if you do they have coupons on their site. They’re far too overpriced without it. Even with it I still wouldn’t pay the money, but oh well.
Oh, and it definitely doesn’t compare to Journey. I don’t particularly like Journey because the fish made me sick, but Journey has an pretty amazing selection. This place does not.

This place gives Journey a run for their money. It offers up a pretty good selection of your standard chinese-​american fare. They have a mongolian stir-​fry, noodle bar and a sushi dude rollin «fresh» rolls.
The sushi is about what you’d expect from a grocery store. The General Tso chicken is up there with the best of them. The noodle bar is pretty solid. They offer udon and glass noodles, tripe, «beef balls» and other meat products as well as an assortment of veggies. After the Noodleman boils up your selections you choose what to add from the basket of sauces and oils. Not too bad.
They don’t have soft serve ice cream. Instead they have a selection of single serve ice cream cups. They had some roasted duck sitting out on the counter. I wasn’t brave enough to try it though…
All in all this spot has everything you’d need to make it your westside go to chinese buffet.
Check in on Unilocal and get $ 3 off 2 adult buffets!