World Buffet

Went here with my wife and three young children on a car trip home. I’m glad I didn’t see the reviews, because we had a delicious meal. Everything I tried was good; standouts included the walnut shrimp, the potato-​cheese cakes, and the sushi, which was good for a Chinese buffet. The food was hot, the service was reasonably attentive and polite, and the eating area of the restaurant was clean.
My only disappointment was the restroom; the men’s room was filthy, lacking in urinal privacy, and covered with racist graffiti. Use the bathroom before you arrive, or hold it ’til you get home.

Don’t go there. I’m warning you. The food was cold and was not good. The décor is hideous. I think it was everyone in there’s first time cause I can’t imagine anyone going there a second time. I wouldn’t eat there again if it was free. Wish zero stars were an option.

The staff was rude and the food was barely warm although there was a decent selection. I had to stop eating after the first plate I had because I started feeling sick to my stomach and I had a severe stomach ache on and off for several hours.

A little different selection on the Asian food side. It’s a nice selection though! Didn’t eat the American food. Why do that at an Asian buffet? 8 bucks and some change for a pretty good lunch.

Would not recommend, Most of our food was Luke warm at best. Calling this Chinese food is a far stretch. The employees were making better food for themselves than anything that was on the buffet.

The walnut shrimp was my favorite item on the Buffet. Also nice size tempura chicken pieces. White rice also good.

I shouldn’t come here.
It was really bad experience with this restaurant.
When I went back home, I almost threw up for several times.
If I could give this zero, I will definitely gave this restaurant zero.

Great price, but the food is certainly not as good as other buffet such as Journey, not much choices especially for the sushi.

All the negative reviews about terrible food and restrooms need to have a push back. If people expect 5 star restaurant by going into china buffet well there’s something wrong on the first place with your selection.
For the price you pay and selection you get that’s what it is. We always have a good experience and despite not most pleasant restrooms (you don’t have to use them if you don’t like them) food is always warm, taste great and freshly made. Restroom are definitely need a change though.

They get one star only because I can’t go any lower horrible horrible food I definitely can’t understand how they are still open

I don’t know why when i find a great chinese buffet they sooner or later start to disappoint me. I do LOVE the walnut shrimp and one of my very favorite things to eat is crab ragoon but i have to say this item has gone way down hill. They are now so dry and the texture is gritty, i had to spit it out. I was just waiting for them to try to charge me extra for wasting food but it was not edible in my opinion. One of my favorite places was China One and they are now closed, lets hope this place does not follow but they need to do better.

I can rate this 4 stars because I don’t go into the bathrooms. I have gone into them. about a year and a half ago.
There is a new sushi bar.
there is a «Mongolian style» section that you can create your own dish.
My fav is the Peanut Butter Chicken

If we have food poisoning in the morning, I’m changing this to one star.
We didn’t go in the bathrooms. The restaurant was really clean, overall. I should have taken the cue from the 3 men storming out without paying that were leaving when we came in that it wasn’t going to be good– they were saying it was horrible. I thought I’d try it.
My boyfriend and I found nothing to be flavorful, everything, and I do mean almost EVERYTHING to be at room temperature, the texture was lacking, and there were a few times we spit items out of our mouths as fast as we went in. I should have left… I kept telling myself I should have just left but I didn’t see any obviously glaring remarks for here about food poisining.
Boyfriend said sushi bar reeked of intense odor and he was too scared to touch it. We had several plates of salad bar when the food was found to be profoundly sub-​par. We won’t go back… and I pray like heavens we do not get sick…

Good selection of Chinese but when the sign says world buffet I was hoping for more than Chinese food and French fries.

For chinese buffets in the area, this is the best. The only one that is better or just as good is the one in Waunakee.
It’s standard american chinese fare. Their beef and mushrooms is really good and their sushi isn’t bad either. Its all very sugary, of course, but the items are fresh. The place is clean and the workers are friendly. I come here a lot.

I’ve been going here for about 5 years now, and while the bathrooms were a major source of contention, everything else seemed to be pretty good. However, in the last few months this buffet has taken a header right into the crapper, literally. Another reviewer mentioned that they have signs in the bathroom asking that you not flush your toilet paper, rather dispose of it in a little garbage can next to the toilet. You don’t have to be a genius to figure out that is some nasty, literal shit. The bathrooms have air freshners in every stall and on every counter. They also have two automatic ones mounted on the wall. The smell of overpowering air freshner hits you in the hallway before you enter the horror room.
Unfortunately, not just the bathrooms have deteriorated. The quality of the food has taken a turn for the worse as well. We’re talking grade C chicken chunks with bones in it. Gravy for egg fu young that is crusty and clumped, egg rolls burned to a crisp, and flies galore. Mmm, flies, how I love to eat when there are flies landing on everything. Also, I noticed one of the employees picking at her eyes and face, I wanted to march over like a crabby mom wagging a finger and say «stop that! Go wash yer hands!»
Then they charge you a premium averaging 12 dollars per person for this culinary extravaganza. But I can assure you the best part is when 2 our of 3 people in your party are forced to spend the rest of the day in their own bathrooms, at home, with gastrointestinal pyrotechnics.

This is probably the best Chinese buffet you will find in Madison. It’s not amazing or over the top by any means but for the price you pay it’s a good deal for sure. Ample scope of Chinese dishes of general authenticity, nothing is ever kept out for more then an hour as its always the right temp and they are constantly changing out the trays every time I go in here. You can even find some standard American items for those not so globally prepared to go all out Asian yet. The hibachi grill is way cool. Pick from a while bar of food items and pile it on your plate and then serve it to the hibachi chef to grill up and serve in just a couple minutes right in front of you. Small range but good quality sushi rolls also available for a buffet place like this. A very tempting dessert bar also is available for diners and yet I have yet to indulge in that aspect because I never have room left after my main courses are finished. For the $ 10 to $ 12 you pay here it’s well worth it considering it’s more then that for a Rainbow roll at any of the other formal sushi joint in town.

If you’d like to experience World Buffet, here’s what you do:
Enter the men’s restroom. In a stall with a toilet, you will find a handwritten sign surrounded by gang graffiti that reads: «Do not put toilet paper in the toilet.» You will also notice a small plastic trash can next to the toilet. This trash can is full of used toilet paper. Yes, you are reading this correctly, there is a stinking trash can full of human poo at World Buffet. Exit the restroom. Observe the owner pulling out of the parking lot in his black 2010 Mercedes-​Benz GLK350 SUV, laughing at you for paying $ 9.71 for a pathetic lunch buffet.

So, right away if I go into a buffet setting, and there are signs indicating for you to eat everything that you take, right away to me that means they are having issues with food costs, and their business isn’t doing too well.
Some things on a buffet, I don’t expect much quality — sushi on a buffet? I expect to be mediocre… dumplings? I expect to be frozen ones that are steamed/​deep fried. Here, the sushi was atrocious. I don’t think I’ve ever had worse sushi anywhere! The dumplings were ok, but it’s hard to screw up reheating dumplings.
The hibachi/​mongolian bbq service was good — and would be the only reason for me to come back, as that’s something I missed from a place I used to go to often in Wausau.
However, if I cannot finish what’s on my plate, I don’t think a restaurant should be upset with me for it. Cut down how much crap you have out there that no one touches, or is just plain bad (especially the abysmal sushi), and watch your profits pick back up!

In all fairness, there was nothing at all wrong with this restaurant — it was clean, the staff was extremely friendly and helpful, and the food was okay.
But overall the experience was just okay. The variety is kind of lacking for a buffet, though they do have all the (deep fried) traditional American foods that you find at Chinese buffets. And their potato puffs were the best I’ve ever had. The Chinese food variety was really lacking, though, and some of the food was not super warm by the time you got back to your seat to eat it.
So, it was clean and nice looking, the food was okay, and if all you want is your normal Americanized Chinese buffet, you’ll get it here!