Jasmine Peking — Restaurant in Stafford

Fast Version The place has recently changed its style

Old Styl (£20): All-you-can-eat fantastic food freshly served as you order anything on the menu for around £20 per person.

New Style (£25 per person) (The same food): Set Menu Limited up to 8 dishes per table (regardless of number of people?) which gives you one small bite of each dish followed by a duck pancake followed by 2 small mains. Finally an Aldi style of homebrand cheesecake or chocolate cake.

My Opinion Being someone who has experienced both styles I really enjoyed the all-you-can-eat style and always felt we got value for money. Last night we visited here unaware they had completely changed their style. I wasn't happy from the start but the waiter assured me we would be full. He was very wrong and I was very disappointed. 5 grown men were sharing 8 dishes between us. Each dish had a bite-sized rib or triangle of prawn toast. It was the same as the original food but just hardly any of it. We then waited 45 minutes after our starters for our next course to come. I can only assume this is to encourage you to buy more drinks because the place wasn't even half full. I'm kicking myself for not just walking out in the first place if I'm honest. It was the WORST experience I've had mainly because I just feel completely ripped off. £25 on standard Chinese food that wasn't enough to fill you up. Don't get me wrong it was nice but nothing special and not worth the price tag.

I'm extremely disappointed and will never...

Worst restaurant I have ever been to the portions was tiny a chicken ball main comes with only 2 chicken balls we ordered 6 chips and only 1 tray came out staff was extremely rude over priced no longer a buffet with no warning even charged us for a 1year old who was sleeping the entire evening I think the tastiest thing that was there was the filling in my mouth that broke eating this garbage food never complain about food or write reviews but this is appalling and shouldn’t be aloud to be served to humans as I wouldn’t feed this to the local rats that I think they are cooking for the chicken skewers to be so bad as previous reviewers has been said taking plates away well your talking and rushing you to order please stay away and hopefully it shuts down and it’s nothing but food poisoning 4 of the 6 people was throwing up in the same hour disrespect when entering is horrible even so we had to say we came to have food not be talked down to stay away...

The food was good, however, the service was awful.

From the second we got in it felt as though the servers were trying to hurry us up to leave. They moaned when we made an order and were not happy when we ordered move food (less of an all you can and more of a eat as much as we say).

The attitude of the servers was extremely hostile and combative, my group and I remained calm and avoided an argument; but tbh it could have gone either way, because they were extremely, extremely rude.

Ironically, if they cannot afford the all you can eat model, because the food was good, we would have happily just done an ordinary restaurant approach of paying by the dish rather than all you can eat.

I would avoid going to the restaurant, and just order from the takeaway menu and sit in the pub next door.

Again service was...