China Star Buffet — Restaurant in Bakersfield

Update: We confronted the table busser at 847 and he said "we close at 9". Yes, I'm well aware what time you close and I still have 13 more minutes to sit here. He didn't understand any English. So he told the "manager" and she asked what was wrong so we explained and she said "oh it's cause you different"... I'm sorry, what does that mean?! I'm white, my husband is Mexican and we had our 2.5 year old son with us.... highly disappointed....

If I could give this place 0 stars I would. We went on a Friday night. Got there around 745 and they closed at 9. There was literally almost nothing for food, and what was there was dry and burnt. They had attitudes that we asked for food. Around 820 they started cleaning up the food that was even still left, so even if we wanted more food...it was gone. Then around 838 pm, with 22 minutes still left before they closed the "table busser" was literally standing right in front of us, staring... waiting for us to get up and leave. We finally had to ask him if he needed something for him to say "oh no, it's okay, enjoy" and then walked away. He took our plates away and brought back a plate that had 3 oysters left on it because they were absolutely disgusting and asked us if we wanted them. When we said no, he took them up to whom I'm assuming is the manager and then we got stared down. Please choose somewhere else to eat, and save yourself the utter disappointment in this "establishment". Hell, I think their fish pond fish ate better than...

I am gonna say this once in this review. I am going to warn y'all once about this place. This is my first google review so yay! This will be a short review because i had only served me two plates which i could not finish. Before you call to even ask for hours, prices, or payment methods. Hopefully this review will help you guys save your money. So I went there with my friend hoping for a good plate of food. Bare in mind, I am writing the review right after my experience at this restaurant. So my first Styrofoam plate was not good, I got their chow mein, but what looked to be chow mein, ummmm chow mein where? I got their fried rice and my friend and I thought it was dry, but it turned out to be undercooked. They said they had crawfish and crab legs..... welllll...... the crawfish tasted frozen, the mussels tasted frozen. My second plate was awful. The crab ragoons when i split in half looked unusual in coloration. The deep fried fish was doughy inside. The crab leg did not taste all the way there. I barely ate anything and left. We saw people eating away in the restaurant, like how could they? I was very disappointed to be wasting 16.23 on nothing practically. This business should go out of business before this becomes a health hazard. for real. If yall didnt read as far as this. Dont say I didn't...

Visited today with my wife and 2 kids. We ordered 1 To go and 1 dine in. My wife made her to go box and went back to the table. I was making my plate and right when I went to my wife, one of their Employee came and started telling me wife in such a rude way that you can not refill your box if you eat here. We were in a state of shock cuz she was being so loud that everybody started looking at us. We did not even eat a single bite and left the table. We went to the cash counter and asked for a refund and one other staff came in claiming that she is a manager and there is no refund and we can do whatever but she will not do a refund and then she started telling us go call the police I don’t care. I wish I would give you a 0 star but google does not allow us. We got our refund back through our bank, thanks to Wells Fargo for their quick action but this is crazy. I have never in my life witnessed a customer service behavior like that. I hope no one ever goes...