Red Dragon Buffet — Restaurant in Avondale

Ok firstly my mother and I got there around 3:45 had never been there before. They change their prices at 4 and proceeded to tell us we could not eat anything from the new items they put at 4. Never seen that. But fine whatever. However at that time they took AWAY options we would have had. If you're going to limit the options at 4 fine but do not even more limit by REMOVING items we paid to have the option of. I did end up getting something from after the 4pm time so I did pay the higher option. They brought me the wrong drink. There was a string in my food which they said it's used to cook... ok but then she touched my food with her bare hands... even if we weren't in a pandemic, that is NOT ok. When they brought us the bill they didn't do separate checks as we asked more than twice. Then my mother let them know she was a Sr citizen. They asked her age as they seemed to think she was lying by their tone of voice, she is 65, then asked to see her ID which she showed them. When we went to pay, take this as you will but after all that I would not be tipping in regular establishment, but def. not a buffet. I don't tip when I'm serving myself and we are the ones who have to ask for a refill. I paid and then they asked me to tip that it wasn't included. I said I do not tip at a buffet and the lady at the counter was like, people do tip see, and proceeded to show me other people's receipts. The entire experience here was not good. From taking away food, to the lack of service and then demanding of tips not even earned I will never eat here again and do not...

Edited: Both my mom and myself ended up having diarrhea after eating here. I don't know why I even tried this place after re-reading my review. Never going here again, definitely.

This review is based off of food only. Side note, my son ended up having an allergic reaction after eating the fried rice and orange chicken. He is allergic to nuts, and nothing we ordered as a family to take home would have had nuts. Maybe they used peanut oil to cook something, but he has never had a problem at any other restaurants because of nut related oils..maybe their oil wasn't hot enough when cooking the food? Or they cross contaminated things that had nuts with other foods..who knows. This was terrible Chinese food. We just tried this restaurant with doing takeout first. Everything across the board was bad. The wonton soup literally had nothing but wontons, and the broth had a weird taste. Fried rice was the cheapest version of fried rice I've ever seen, like they added a bag of frozen peas and carrots in right before they served it. The Mongolian beef was extremely spicy, they should have noted that on their website ordering page. The orange chicken was mushy and tasted weird like frozen orange chicken from the grocery store. I was happy to see that the vegetable lo mein had a good amount of vegetables in it, but once again, had a gross flavor. The California roll also tasted bad! How is this possible! I'm just shocked at how bad everything was. I do not recommend...

I wasn't aware you can get a dish with a little spice added, so I ordered a house chow mein with spice. I also wasn't aware that requesting spice meant a complete different meal, different color and it would taste just like the chili sauce they used to spice up the dish. This dish was so spicy I couldn't eat it. The first bite burned my ears, nose and throat because I wasn't expecting it to be so spicy and heat hot. It was very uncomfortable as I tried to raise my awareness above the fire in my head. So disappointing considering a dish that I normally enjoy was ruined because I said okay to spice. The dish was so red. I couldn't believe it. Spice should not take a dish from 0 to 200 in terms of spice. A complete waste of time, food, preparation and an unfulfilled desire to enjoy a meal I didn't have to cook myself. It felt personal although I don't feel there would have been a reason to ruin my food or give displeasing service to me personally. This was my first time purchasing food here although the person also in company had been a returning customer who suggested we eat here. Maybe next time if there...