Golden Panda Buffet — Restaurant in Baldwin Park

First of all, I'm very picky about food and don't eat at buffets very often. But my friends love it and need a big meal to refuel after every ski. So I came here once in 2022 and I thought the food was very tasty, the ingredients were fresh, and as far as the buffet goes, including the sushi buffet, it was very good (much better than a lot of Japanese restaurants out there, but of course the wasabi wasn't authentic enough ......) . However, since I live far away and eat less, I usually don't come here often, but I hope this restaurant will do a good business. So every year during the snow season, I come here to eat with my friends. This year, I found out that this restaurant has a 4.1 rating, which is incredible! I don't know how picky people in the community are or how much they expect from a buffet restaurant, but that's a really low rating. I don't really like to write a lot of reviews, but this restaurant should be at least a 4.5 in my mind. I don't want this restaurant to go out of business and I don't want new customers to miss out on this restaurant after seeing this rating. It's been almost three years now and their menu has been constantly changing, from my favorite pig's trotters at the beginning (which is no longer available because I know this costs really high) to the ever-changing seafood now. Some say this place is expensive, but with the ever-changing prices in LA, that's not the only reason.

At this very moment, I'm eating here at 4pm on a Saturday, and at an average of $22 a person (including consumption, and a drink I ordered), the price is reasonable. As for sanitation, any restaurant has the potential to be unhygienic, but this one is A. For today's traffic, the floors are clean, the table tops are neat, and even though a lot of kids were running around messing with the chocolate sauce, the servers still managed to clean it up quickly! That's all enough for me at least.

One more update! It's the season when strawberries are at their most expensive. This store has them too! Their fruits are also fresh! I really don't understand why there is so much vitriol in the comments section! The owner of this establishment is really taking his/her business very seriously and would like to see more support from this community in times of recession when most restaurants are closing down! They are contributing to this...

Generally, the price per person is not that bad and the food is somewhat good. I liked the food a bit. Nothing too fancy, but good as far as buffet food goes.

The 1 star review is for my most recent visit. My mom and I made a reservation for a large number of people. They promised us we would have the left side of the restaurant (80+ people for the left and the right side was for

I liked most of the food, although I wouldn't recommend their mashed potatoes. They generally have a 2 hour time limit on earing there, although the sign it's supposedly posted on is hard to read with small lettering. The cashier said not to worry about it that time because they didn't need the tables.

Their closing time was supposed to be 9 p.m., but later I was tod they had people coming in to celebrate the Chinese New Year, so last call would be 8:30. It was a ways before 8:30 when they actually started removing the food.

They were nice otherwise, and the service was pretty good, but they need to stick closer to what they advertise, and if there's a reason to deviste from that, they need to let the customers know up front when they enter the restaurant, not when they're already eating or even later in the meal. And once they say ast call is at a certain time, they should not be taking away any food until at least a few minutes after that time, to give customers time to get their last helping of food.

In fact, to me there should have at the very least been a sign outside on the frint doir starung that they would close at 8:30 that evening instead of 9 p.m., and giving the reason. And they really should have simply made the Chinese New Year celebrants wait until at least about 9:30 p.m. to give the customers time after the normal clising time to finish their food and leave, rather than rushing the customers out early! The way it was done was very...