Lotus Garden

Worst chinese i ever eat hope i dont die because of food poisoning. Of I got chance will give 0 to that place and paid 10 $ for that thing it couldnt be any worst

The food is great… if you don’t see where it comes from, haha! I have ordered delivery take-​out from here on multiple occasions, and it has been delicious. However, once my friends and I were out, and decided to eat at the storefront. It is a little frightening inside, to say the least. I think that might have ruined it for me.

Simply nasty. Rice was turning brown, clumpy and hard. The chicken on the Mongolian bbq was slimy. It smelled bad upon entering. Stay away

Oh Lotus Garden. Your reviews make me sad because yes, it may not be the greatest quality food, but it sure as hell is a great value and solid for what it is. A cheap Chinese buffet. All these Chinese food snobs dissing on this place need to calm down and go somewhere else.
The people who own this restaurant are very adorable and try hard to give the best service. I thought the food was quite decent if you just want a ton of cheap, fried, sweet, salty Chinese food. Some of the better dishes were the beef and broccoli, tempura veggies and meat, as well as the crab rangoons and wontons. Not to mention that for 9.95 you get a drink, a buffet, and they have ice cream and dessert.
Cute little place that I think will start getting plenty of business once the Provo City Center Temple gets up and going. Give it a shot

I went there about a month ago because I wanted to eat at a Chinese Buffet. It was really bad. So again to tonight, I’m downtown and want Chinese so I thought I’d give it one more try. Oh my gosh it’s bad. To go into detail would take forever so just take my word for it… STAY AWAY !!!

Nothing is fresh. The rice was so old it had gotten crunchy. Everything is done in the absolute cheapest way possible. Even the water tastes funny. 0 ambiance, and service is bare minimum. I would rather go hungry than go back to this place. DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!

Looked for a cheap delicious Chinese restaurant and was not disappointed. Food wasn’t super fresh but that’s because we came at 2:45. The Mongolian BBQ was really good! I recommend trying this place out!

My wife and I love coming here. We always get really good service the food is always prepared fast and is inexpensive. A great place to go.

8.95 for the dinner buffet isn’t a bad deal. I came at kind of an odd time so a lot of the food was either old or gone. They eventually made some new food and it was a little better, but the first round was not all that good and it took quite a while to get the fresh food out.
The coconut chicken was probably my favorite and when the noodles were fresh they were pretty good too. The dumplings were good, but a bit greasy. I feel like a lot of the other chicken dishes all tasted the same, fried chicken drenched in sauce.
The restaurant is really dark and quiet, kind of weird. The server was nice and was good about bringing drinks. I probably wouldn’t go back, but it wasn’t the worst Chinese buffet I’ve been too.

I have gone to this place twice. Both times were the same. My wife though really likes it. The restaurant is a tad on the dark side, with regard to the lighting. I have noticed a number of restaurants have that problem. The service wasn’t the best. Even though each time I went the place was very empty so I don’t understand why it would take so long to get our drinks. The food wasn’t bad. I have heard that sometimes its a hit-​or-​miss with this place but I have only gone twice and it wasn’t bad. The key is the time of day you go. Meaning, this is a buffet restaurant and so they just leave the food out on those heat trays (or whatever they are called) so if its been awhile it will get dry and nasty.

This divey buffet is good, most of the time. There are some bad days, but overall I’m happy with the food and cleanliness. Because it’s an all-​day buffet, you’re bound to sometimes run into some dishes that have been sitting out for some time. But if you have the right expectations, you won’t be disappointed with Lotus Garden.

Food is pretty good, Prices are Okay. If you eat the buffet go at lunch time or else the food is sort of old. The best thing about this place is the online ordering.
This is a good way to order fresh hot food to your door. Try it out, you will be glad.

Let me start off by saying I love Chinese buffets! And I don’t consider myself to be especially picky… But this was honestly the worst Chinese buffet/​Chinese restaurant I’ve ever been to. The customer service deserved negative 1 star, they were some of the rudest people in a restaurant I have ever dealt with.
Now on to the food, the temperature of every bit of food there was somewhere between cold and lukewarm. To be honest I think some of the food would have been good had it been fresh, but most all of it looked as it as if it had been pulled from the dinner last night and put out for lunch. I grew up in Provo, and I’ve always seen this place in downtown, this was my first time trying it and my last. I don’t know how this place has lasted this long.
If you want a good Chinese buffet place try Chinese gourmet in North Orem (I think it’s the best in the valley) or even Asian buffet in American Fork.

For the price, it really is pretty great. Not everything on the all you can eat is good, but some of it’s better than Panda Express and much cheaper

We decided to try this buffet today for dinner. What a mistake.
My wife, I, and our two chidren arrived at 5:30, and were promptly seated in an empty restaurant. The only other table was an elderly Asian man reading the paper. We chose the buffet as I had taken an early lunch and was quite hungry. Upon approaching the buffet it wasn’t immediately obvious that the food wasn’t fresh, but we should have seen the signs.
All of the food tasted as if it had been sitting there since lunch. Upon moving the serving spoons it was possible to see that the sauces had all congealed and clearly hadn’t been touched in several hours. We tried our first plate, but the food was clearly not good. I asked the waitress if any fresh food would come out soon and she immediately became defensive claiming it was all fresh. Another worker also immediately told me «You ate some, you have to pay». They clearly were not interested in addressing the issues and after a brief exchange we left with less than half a plate eaten each. For this we were charged $ 8.95 each. How they think they can get away with charging $ 9 for their lunch leftovers is beyond me. We will never be returning to this location, and we will be sure to make sure everyone we meet knows to do the same.
Do yourself a favor, if you want Chinese food go anywhere but here. Even the American buffets like Golden Coral will be better.

Not sure whats with all the bad reviews. Its cheap Chinese food. And for that it is GREAT! My wife and i love this place. Nice lady runs it and the lunch specials (4.99) and dinner specials (5.99) are so good and MORE than enough food. The buffet is good but your going t get plenty of good food with the specials. Ill go tonight! :)

The Mongolian grill cook didn’t keep the flavors separate so ours tasted spicy like the previous guys food and they also added flavors we didn’t ask for (minimal options for the grill food). We thought the lunch buffet options were plentiful and fresh (must have gotten there just after they put them out). The salad bar doesn’t have a ton of ingredients but does have cottage cheese :) Nice to have so many scoop ice cream flavors in addition to the various desserts.

Family meal for six was fantastic. Great Chinese rice, sweet and sour pork, and lemon chicken. The buffet, however, looked very disappointing with many of the foods appearing old, left out, and even burnt in some cases.

I used to go to this buffet a lot. Like, every week.
It took me a little while to accept that the food was getting worse every time.
I was willing to overlook some of the undesirable changes because it was pretty cheap and just down the street from where i live.
The last straw was when I went in for dinner (which is more expensive) and ended up with multiple dried out or empty serving trays, and they still charged me full price. They said that they were slow and they weren’t going to put out more food.
The owner has never been friendly to me, even though I have never complained and always tipped her.
I will never step foot inside that restaurant again.

We had the buffet. I should preface by saying I’m a big fan of Asian buffets and I’m not a picky eater by any means.
But the buffet was disgusting. ¾ of the food was either cold/​room temperature or just old and gummy. Many of the sauces and liquids had been sitting there so long, they had glazed over with this film… yummy. :(I have never in my life worried so much about getting food poisoning (for the record, I didn’t, but I feel lucky). The fried sugar biscuit things were cold and hard as a rock. The egg drop soup tasted weird. The chicken products were all just old and tough and I completely avoided most of the seafood.
The only decent thing in the place was the lo mein (which was still very greasy) and the random ice cream in the back.
The ambience didn’t help either. It was very dimly lit (and not in a romantic or classy way) and struck me as being run-​down and dirty.
Go instead to Wild Ginger on University or Panda Express or Chinatown on State St. Avoid this place like the plague.