Mongolian Buffet

I saw a cockroach running through the buffet food. Worker picked it out like it was an everyday thing when I told him. Management threatened to call police when I asked for a reduction in my bill.

It’s been three years since I wrote my last review of Mongolian Buffet. I was not impressed, so I haven’t returned to it since 2012. But recently I saw a coupon for Mongolian, so I decided to go back and see if it’s improved.
It has. At least for now. Next week, who knows?
Back in 2012 I compared Mongolian Buffet with Fuji Buffet, still the gold standard for metro area Asian buffets. I said both have the same type of food, but Mongolian’s is not as fresh as Fuji’s, nor is it as flavorful. On the plus side, Mongolian has more dishes, and a wider variety of them, than Fuji does — including some dishes that you wouldn’t expect to find in an Asian restaurant, even an Americanized one. This is still mostly true, but the flavor, freshness and quality of most of the food at Mongolian has improved considerably, bringing it closer to Fuji. Some of the dishes there are now as good as, and some are even better than, the ones at Fuji’s, especially the chicken dishes. Some of Mongolian’s dim sum dishes are also as good as Fuji’s. The fish not so much. I can’t say anything about the sushi because I stuffed myself on the chicken and had no room left for sushi.
Back in 2012 there were some dishes at Mongolian that I don’t think belong in an Asian restaurant. I said that, if you walk into an Asian buffet restaurant and see pizza, turn around and walk out. The pizza is still here, but this time it didn’t look half bad (I can’t tell you how it tasted. Who goes to an Asian buffet for pizza?)
I also found it odd that there was no shrimp. Neither grilled nor baked, neither broiled nor fried. Not in the shell or out, with head on or without. I tried asking my waitress why there was no shrimp, but she didn’t understand my question (see below).
The other reviews here vary drastically in how they rate Mongolian Buffet, from very good to very bad. I suspect management doesn’t pay its personnel (cooks or waitstaff) enough, so as soon as they learn a little English, they move on. I got this impression from talking with my waitress, who knew VERY little English, but was VERY friendly and helpful, as was everyone else.
My waitress told me the restaurant just hired a new head chef. She said he was very good, and I agreed. I suggest you get to Mongolian Buffet fast, before he’s hired away by Fuji.

Great for lunch, Mongolian Buffet is the best buffet for the dollar in the Warren area. Large variety of food from sushi to a grill to some traditional Chinese dishes. Some of their dishes are kind of bland, but they have some really great additions I can’t get enough of. My favorites here are Pepper Chicken, wanton soup, and Pepper Steak.

This not a good day for me at this place. This is ridicules place. I came to this place an year ago. It was wonderful. i came with my group of 8 bad experience for me and my friends. The Mexican person working on live grill don’t have food item nothing. When I asked him bring egg add it. he said he can’t do it. Some can u add mushroom no. Just noodles and meat with sauce. Rest all the live grill buffet is empty. It’s seems to be like he is not interested to work. Same thing on sushi. All the plates or empty they guy at the Back just chit chatting, overall I won’t recommend and back to this place

I eat here twice a week. The food is great for the price. They have raw seafood sushi. I have no complaints.

I’ve eaten here on/​off & through the ownership/​name changes since it opened in the ‘90s and think it’s at somewhat of a high-​point at the moment, agreeing with the Unilocaler who posted Mongolian is one of the three best Chinese buffets in the area. Good selection of popular items, well-​prepared and service is fine. Don’t do crab-​legs, but they have oysters-​in-​a-​half-​shell, peel & eat shrimp, mussels, frog legs, steamed fish and a host of other options to occupy my attention. The Dim Sum table is well-​stocked and offers a few semi-​unique selections, as is the Sushi bar, :) .
Two-​thumbs up!

This place has went from average to worse. Went two days ago for lunch and the price went up to $ 8.99 which isn’t bad but they got rid of coconut shrimp and fried shrimp. All the food tasted the same… just no zap to anything, very boring. Haven’t been there for dinner in 6 months or more, not going to fight or stand in line to get crab legs. What, someone said bathrooms clean… hahaha…the womens stall is so small, you have to brh up against something horrid to close the door and I’m not big. If you want to stuff your belly and not care if someone is blowing there nose next to you or coughing up lugies then this is your place…

Horrible! Wait staff was rude! Told my daughter «no you don’t want water, you want pop’» my daughter replied she only wanted water but they still billed her for pop. Also no one ever brought her a refill of water yet they ADDED TIP ON HER BILL!!! Since when does a buffet ADD tip on your bill?! VERY dusty & dirty like no one cleaned it ever! Crab legs were gone immediately and not restocked. Food was HORRIBLE AND CERTAINLY NOT WORTH $ 15! Don’t waste your money here! Go to Fuji buffet in Madison heights!

This place is great when you want to over eat Chinese food lol. It’s not the best food I’ve ever had but it’s good and the price is right. $ 15 for dinner. I don’t really eat seafood but they have crap legs, frog legs and sushi. I love the honey chicken it’s my favorite thing there. Good fried rice and crab Rangoon. Lots of selection to choose from overall. Lots of desserts and they have soft serve ice cream. They have these cinnamon sugar donut ball things that are really yummy with the vanilla ice cream. The staff is always friendly and pretty fast about refills and taking the used plates away.

Major COCKROACH problem! Was getting our daughter her hibachi and a fat COCKROACH scurried by the hibachi… chef just smacked it with his towel and continued on as it was nothing. GROSS!!! I suspect there are several other food violations going on here. Chicken doesn’t taste like chicken… Cat/​Dog maybe? The filthy fish tank is always a nice view.

Food is not that great, good amount of options but nothing great to be eaten.

Had a very good lunch today. Food was delicious. Sushi was fresh and large selection to choose. The food is good and prices are decent. Waiting staff are friendly too. Have returned several times. Large variety of foods and deserts to choose.

Very, very average. But a good average.
Tons of parking. Tons of seating. You can come here with a party of ten and not worry about having to call ahead for a table. Or if you have an even bigger party, you can call ahead and reserve a room. Waitresses are quick to fill your drink and clear your empty plates. Televisions everywhere. Bathrooms are always clean.
Prices are average. Sunday prices are high, but food choices are upped a little bit to make up for that.
Soooooo many food choices. Sushi bar, where theres someone making the sushi fresh infront of you. A little mongolian grill where if you want your own mix made up, you can also have that made fresh right infront of you. Lots of choices still even if you’re not eating meat.
My favorite part has to be the soft serve icecream machine though.
I can’t say anything about menu ordered food, I’ve always got buffet.
I know they also offer where you can go up to the buffet and fill a take out box.
Also, theres usually a 15% off coupon in the local paper for this place.

The place is mediocre at best. The chicken isn’t great; it’s average. The décor is alright, but nothing special. It’s like most Chinese buffets: good amount of options but nothing great to be eaten. It’s not authentic, and the food is rather cold and tasteless for the most part. And I would avoid the sushi so you don’t get some random food-​borne illness.

I’d say that Mongolian Buffet is a basically good place to go for buffet-​based Asian cuisine. I went by myself on Christmas Day, as an alternative to the «traditional» Thanksgiving/​Christmas holiday meal that my extended family exclusively prefers.
This was my first visit to the restaurant, as I had passed by it many times going down 12 mile. It’s situated in a small shopping plaza, next door to a CVS pharmacy. There is plenty of free parking in the plaza.
A greeter/​cashier seated me at a booth. The time was around 7 p.m. The restaurant was nearly half-​full; not packed, but not empty, either. The booth was clean and I had fresh dining utensils. The décor is about par for most Chinese-​cuisine restaurants: paintings and some hanging art of Chinese culture are situated throughout the facility, and there are also several flat-​screen televisions tuned to different channels. The server who took my used plates and brought my drink refills was very attentive.
I immediately made my way to the serving islands. From what I could tell, all of the food was freshly made; it didn’t seem to have been sitting there for hours on end. At the same time, my myriad food allergies prevent me from experimenting with various food items, especially at a place that likely does not prepare any food with respect to allergic sensitivities.
So I stuck with a handful of items that I was familiar with, and made sure not to gorge. I settled for white rice, since most fried rice usually contains some level of eggs (an allergy dealbreaker for me). From there, I tried the chicken & broccoli, which was very tasty. I also tried some sautéed skewered chicken (on what could be considered large toothpicks), also very good. I made my way to an «American» food island, where I picked up some barbecued (single) beef ribs, and a fried chicken leg. I was pleasantly surprised with the ribs and the chicken leg had a good taste to it. I saw pizza on a tray, but, well, I came to a Chinese food place to eat Chinese, so I passed.
I’ll be honest, a lot of the stuff on display I knew I wasn’t going to be trying at all. I have a seafood allergy, so all the items involving lobster tail (or mini-​lobsters), salmon, fried squid, crab legs and other seafood dishes were totally off-​limits for me. There’s a large sushi bar, but again, by allergic default I couldn’t risk it. There is also a considerable dim sum row of food items. I did not participate for the same reasons (and some stuff based on the description was a turn-​off: chicken feet? No thanks.)
I’m a soup fan, but it seems the soup options here I just wasn’t willing to risk there being some kind of egg component (especially for dumplings).
The dessert/​cold food items area was nice. From what I remember there were various fruit-​slice choices (pineapple, grapes, melon, peach, pear) and I gladly participated in that. There was an ice cream machine, but only the tiniest paper cups to put it in, next to the machine (later I noticed a worker placing newly cleaned serving bowls onto the dessert-​foods island.) The vanilla ice cream was good.
One thing I did not get to try out that I wanted to was the actual Mongolian stir-​fry service. I noticed it halfway into my meal, but I was already partially full from what I had, so I felt no need to push the envelope with a full plate of stir-​fry.
The pricing was elevated for the holiday– $ 16 (approximate) for the standard dinner buffet meal, and like most buffet places, the beverage charge is extra (approx. $ 1.50). On the printed literature for the restaurant, it appears that normal weekend dinner prices would be $ 15, and weekday lunch would be about $ 8 (be aware: the restaurant’s website is slightly outdated with respect to pricing.)
I can’t complain about the food I ate, it was good. But ideally, I think I would only visit this place during the cheaper lunchtime option. I’m allergic to too many things to justify paying evening dinner prices when I can only try out about 10% of what’s available.

There’s three good Japanese /​Chinese buffet style restaurants in Metro Detroit that I can recommend — Fuji, Tokyo and Mongolian.
I’d say the Mongolian has the best value and is the best lunch place; great variety of food — although Fuji seems to have a bit more and is fancier overall — with slightly lesser prices. Everything I ate here was very good. (Now, I never get sushi in a buffet, and I am sure if you came there for sushi you probably wouldn’t like it much; but I am yet to be at a single Chinese buffet that has really good sushi, so that’s expected). Nothing super fancy, but whatever they sell is well prepared and tasty.
Never came here for dinner, but at lunchtime the place is well run, food is replenished on a regular basis, and you get your water and your bill promptly.
I try to avoid buffets, too much food; but if I feel like going to one for lunch, this would me my first choice.

Cold, greasy and tasteless. That’s the only way to describe the food at this buffet. The staff was just as tasteless.
The sushi was an absolute joke. Practically everything had cream cheese in it and nothing tasted fresh.
At the price they are charging — this place is a bad choice for anyone who enjoys a good Asian buffet.
There were absolutely no positives to this place — and my family and I will never return. And the way we were treated by the staff — I will make sure no one I know ever goes there.

DIM SUM BRUNCH!
So this particular buffet is different than many of the others because they have an entire aisle of Dim Sum dumplings that you have to see to believe. Some of the prettiest food that looks like flowers and shark fins. it goes on and on. Very tasty and different if you are used to most Chinese Buffet fare.
This place is probably the best appointed buffet i’ve seen since the old Ping On closed down. Nice water fountain and clean restaurant throughout.
Some of the more traditional Chinese dishes are here more to a back aisle, but they have things like pickled seaweed and chicken feet if you’re into that sort of thing.
I like the Mongolian flat top grill they have here that you can pick and choose from raw ingredients and make a unique dish for yourself. They also have a large sushi display that is good by buffet standards.
This place was my go-​to buffet place for a couple of years, but they have been recently unseated by the Teppenyaki Grill. This place recently raised their prices and I just can’t justify it for dinner — lunch on the other hand is still quite do-​able.
Put on a feed bag and come lunch with General Tso!

There are two things I have found to be true in life: a man is only as good as his word, and a all Chinese buffets are 99 percent the same.
Anyone who has visited a Chinese buffet can agree — these places have more consistency than a Subway. Therefore, you never find a completely good or completely bad Chinese buffet. You always sort of know what to expect.
This Chinese buffet was newer and therefore a little better than most. The lunch menu was typical but avoided those crappy slices of pizza and Chinese-​quesadillas (scallion pancakes).
The sushi was mediocre per always and the ice cream had no accompaniments. This buffet had a few weirder options on the menu like a red bean radish muffin and some other things I was afraid to try.
The staples like the fried rice, noodles, pork skewers, and vegetable and meat dishes were exactly the same. Even the salad bar had the same options as other places: big chunks of lettuce, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers and two to three crappy fatty dressings.
One day I will figure out the reasoning for these cookie cutter places until then, I will hope for a bigger, better, more unique Chinese buffet.

I find I’m eating here far too much when I’m home. The Dim Sum is as good as Golden Harvest and the overall buffet food is better than Fuji in Madison Heights.
We went for dinner (13.99) yesterday. They have snow crab legs on the menu, which I thought were quite good. The only problem with them is that they only put out small quantities at a time so there is a fight to grab as many as you can.
The Mongolian BBQ is decent but limited selections. Its enough for me to be content.
The sushi is also decent but limited. It is fresh which is a plus.
They do have strange menu items like pizza and macaroni and cheese but who am I to complain.
Lunch is 7.50 for pretty decent food. The staff are very friendly and fast to take care of customers.