Mandarin Super Buffet

PASS. Not good and not clean. Poor quality, Need I say more?

I’m not sure where the bad reviews came from. The food was really good, the selection great, and the service was good. My whole family enjoyed it and we’ll be coming back again.

The food and service is horrible. They say us down and got us our drinks but didn’t check up on us until like 1 hour later. The broccoli beef and chicken were under seasoned and tasted nasty. The sushi rice was hard and obviously not fresh. The only decent thing were the chicken wings. If you’re looking for a cheap place to fill you up like fast food joints, this is your place

Wow this place is amazing yesterday I wanted for lunch and I love it the bbq was delicious so many choices they all friendly. Also my kids were happy because they have real ice cream and so much fruit and desert only for 7.99 and I had 15% discount. I recommend this place is awesome.!!

Mandarin Buffet will recive my whole 5 stars! The waiters at Mandarin are amazing. I felt welcomed the minute i walked in. Such great service, food well done made. My family and i enjoyed our visit there! We will be returning soon! I recommend Mandarin Buffet to all families!

We tried this restaurant twice. The first time was so bad we wanted to give them a chance to earn our business. The service was lousy. The staff very rude and when asked to refill an item it took over 15 mins. The food also was mediocre at best it was often cold or just room temperature. The item we requested refilled came out cold.

Food is typical of a buffet. Popcorn shrimp was good and not over cooked. The vegetables and salads are fresh and with balanced flavor. The Sushi is fresh and has well made rice. The service was great. They always ask if you need a refill. The deserts are mostly plain. The lemon cake had good texture and flavor.
Overall, I would return when seeking variety but not the place for top notch foodies.

Its the Super Buffet — lots of options, but some items were left a bit too long under the burners. Can be very crowed with lots of unruly children crawling all over the place as the one did that decided to share my booth with me, WTF take control of your kids please!
Service was a bit slow, but its open late if you have a craving and everything else is closed.

Went to Mandarin buffet on Sunday I loved it the crab legs with a snow crab excellent cooked perfectly every one I ate they were large snow crab the shrimp there is unbelievable the whole place was excellent the waitresses were excellent even the guy bringing the food that was very helpful plenty of everything I go there again the sunday was the best sunday for eating I’ve had in awhile great desserts great main courses so much food

The food was okk the main thing I really ate was mushrooms and sweet and sour chicken… But I did love the art an the fountain with the Chinese gold fish I’m it…

The people who worked here were so rude! I came with my kids during lunch hours. Nobody was waiting and we stood there as 3 different workers just looked at us and didn’t seat us. The guy at the front just kept looking didn’t greet us, nothing. We waited 10 mins to be seated. The food was gross, and that guy who was staring earlier was rude to my kid when she went to get ice cream. I won’t ever be going back!

Decent food, surprisingly.
EXTREMELY dirty place though. Filthy really. This former Hometown Buffet is a prime example of why you should NEVER carpet restaurants… rice everywhere!
Also, am I the only one amused and confused when Chinese buffets serve Mac and cheese and similar items?

I never felt like I was eating anything here that was obviously old or artificial. Get any chicken dish, they’re all high quality.
Get the sushi as well. Nine out of ten times I’ll have sushi at buffets, but Mandarin really churns out the California rolls fast and with relatively high quality stuff. Yes, I just said «quality» and «California rolls» in the same sentence.
There are like at least a dozen different items I’ll eat from here, and when I’m done I’ll say dessert is also totally worth it. And it’s not even that expensive!

Was a bit worried going there after reviews, but went any way. Sometimes you need an adventure. Well, it was better than expected but not great. As a vegetarian the options were truely limited. Green beans, lo mein, potatoes and salad. It did however offer tons of meat options for people who enjoy such items. We arrived right after openung and everything looked fresh. Service was ok. At $ 10.99 you cant complain about price. I gave it a two star rating more for overall lack of appeal and worn diningroom. My green beans were fresh and tasty. Lo mein was buffet quality. Probably wont go out of my way to go back, but not as bad as some have said here.

I have eaten here a couple times, I came in today and saw this giant roach. It looks like it’s been living there. Not returning…

Having grown up in SoCal, I knew where all the premium Chinese restaurants were. Since moving her a few months ago, I’ve been on a quest to find two things. 1) the best chili dog. 2) the best Chinese/​Asian cuisine. I was shocked to find, one full buffet table with quasi Mexican food. That’s something I wouldn’t expect to find at an Asian themed restaurant. No Chili Dogs? What gives? I don’t get that, but…
They boast having over 150 items to chose from. That may very well be correct, although I only sampled/​stuffed myself with a mere fraction of that. The service was great. I was greeted and seated right away. I was then greeted by my server immediately and asked what I’d like to drink. My experience in the business prompts me to live by one very important standard, Tip your server.
To Insure Proper Service = TIPS
That in mind, I gave Miss Amy a five dollar tip upon receiving my Diet Pepsi. From that point on, my table was kept clean and free of mounding dishes. My cup never went below half empty. The selection of food was enormous and for the Holliday price of $ 10.99, wow, what a deal. Based on the quality of the food, the selection and the attentiveness of my server, I would gladly pay $ 14 – 15 for the experience. I will be back and would recommend this fine establishment without hesitation. The jalapeño octopus was superb.

Lots of items, REAL ICE CREAM — it’s as hard as half-​dry cement so bring your muscles.
Mounds of crawdads if you want.
Some items are OK, many are mediocre — I’ve had versions of what they have somewhere else, done much better.
Mongolian BBQ table is available.
You’ll find something you’ll like.
Crispy chicken wings, decent noodles.
Plenty of fresh fruit.
Overall a good bargain because of the large variety, but no wow factor.
Come hungry so you can make your dive-​in better!
I always skip breakfast for a buffet lunch.
After a while it becomes all you CARE to eat.
INSIDE SKINNY: crawdads, crabs, shrimp, soups, ice cream, better than normal red goopy sauce for the cheese won-​tons.

Waited 5 minutes to be seated. Not so busy for lunch that it should have taken that long.
I don’t expect great food at a Chinese buffet, but this stuff was below my meager tipping point. The sushi was not rolled tight enough — fell apart too easily. The honey chicken was little cubes swimming in a horrible sauce with lots of canned pineapple chunks. Sauce was thin and I couldn’t detect any honey in it.
When I first approached the buffet, they just dumped some fresh fried fish in the pan. I jumped on that. Too bad, since the fish inside had no flavor, the crust was a big shell surrounding a small piece of fish, and the whole thing was greasy.
Spare rib chunks had no flavor, and had bits of cartilage that are not familiar to me in pork ribs — maybe it was water buffalo.
And finally, the thing they called peanut butter chicken was just gross. One strip I couldn’t even get my fork to cut through it. And greasy!
Waited forever for my check. Was ignored for twenty minutes, even though my plates had be taken and I told her I didn’t need any more water. She finally brought the check when I was paying. Should have just walked out.
As a former trucker, I’ve eaten at hundreds of places like this. This is one of only a few in the whole country that I won’t return to. Ack!

I don’t expect much from buffets but there is a kind of minimum standard that you need to be above. That being said, Mandarin didn’t cut it.
The place does have freshness issues. I made a decent enough taco but the salsa was obviously old. When that’s one of the first things you taste, it makes you a bit skeptical about everything else.
No rice cooker? The white rice is put into a smallish bin that’s usually low in supply. The fried rice has an artificial look about it (bright colors?) and doesn’t have much in the way of taste. You don’t have to have the best fried rice in the world but in the buffet game you have to make sure you don’t have the worst.
Lots of chicken dishes, but I made the mistake of biting into a big piece that had lost most of it’s coating, and it was a bland experience. The kind of bland where it makes you think about how processed this food is. Not a good reminder while eating.
The pizza just looks bad, the kind where the red sauce is just drying away. I have such a low threshold on pizza quality that Totino’s gets me excited, but what I saw at Mandarin didn’t make me want to allocate calories to it. I did try the famous tamale and it reminded me of the Hormel canned tamales. Just reminder after reminder of the processed food…
Clean place, nice staff, fast seating, parking kind of sucks if the spots right out front are all taken. At the end of the day there weren’t those 1 or 2 go-​to dishes that would make me want to return.

Because of the recent reviews I have kind of stayed away from this place but I braved it the other day and realized I was wrong. Now don’t get me wrong, this place can sometimes be hit or miss, but Monday night it was a definite hit. They had 6 different soups, a din sum and taco bar all set up on the back table… also tamales… wasn’t expecting those but hey… The Mongolian grill had 4 different types of meat to choose from and there were several different sushi options to choose from. Various chickens were all pretty good, and they had ribs, roast beef, and pork loins as well… they had a decent salad bar and different ice creams for desert as well as a desert bar but I just had room for ice cream after… peanut butter and fudge, cookies and cream, butter pecan, and coffee… a small spoon of each. $ 10 and change for the dinner buffet. I most likely will be back fairly soon.