China Town Buffet — Restaurant in Bismarck

If I could leave a negative 100 star review for this place, I absolutely would. It looks like they chose quantity over quality. As they have an outstanding amount of choices, it is just not delicious choices. I would recommend that you don't come here. It is not the second best Chinese food place in Bismarck, it wouldn't even rank in the top 100 if they had a 100 places. Honestly, the only decent thing I found is their cream cheese wontons. Those are delightful. I got a spring roll and it was doughy. How the hell do you end up with a doughy spring roll? I've never had any place mess up a spring roll. The coffee was so bad I literally spat it out the minute it was in my mouth. I have tasted some swamp swill and I can tell you, I have never, ever spat it out like I did this. The peppered chicken was edible. Although I'm still not 100% convinced I was eating chicken. The beef and broccoli was not bad, but I don't know, I've had better, their mushrooms I put them all over the rice, It was pretty good. The rice definitely needs the help, I can make better at home. Most of the items we tried had an off flavor and was super greasy. We had what we think is pineapple chicken, but I don't, I don't know, it did not taste like pineapple chicken. My lunch partner went back for seconds on the Shanghai Noodles, so they must be okay and he seemed to enjoy their what looked like butterfly shrimp. I should not have so much grease all over my lips, from the food, that people think it's lip gloss. And let's not even discuss the fellow who was in the back, in the area that says sushi, making hawking/coughing up a loogie, noises while loudly on the phone during our entire stay in the restaurant. Pretty dark and dingy in here, but not dingy enough to stop me from noticing the grease all over the side of the wall in our booth. No wonder they get you to pay before you sit down. I can see why. The picture does not do the disturbing grease marks justice, it was pretty gross. The fresh fruit looked good. But I was so disturbed by the Chinese food Itself, that I couldn't even look at the fruit or the chocolate pudding they had which I was kind of...

Unimpressed! Nothing really tasted Asian. All the chicken was fried the same way and tossed in different sauces…General Tso, Honey, Orange, Sesame, and the like. I can get that at Buffalo Wild Wings or Applebees!! Rice noodles were all chopped up like rice with no flavor, LoMein is overcooked, fried rice was overcooked and not in the form of rice! What happened!? Fried shrimp is the frozen kind. Egg Rolls taste like from frozen and not fresh made here.

I did find mushrooms in a good sauce. Seafood bake with that mushroom sauce. Broccoli from the beef and broccoli. Green beans are bland and WAY undercooked! The ones in my garden are softer than those!

Maybe try the hibachi! I did not! Maybe try the sushi! I did not!

This was a no service restaurant! Get your own drink. Your plates will stay on the table throughout your meal. Pay before you eat on the way in!

To each his own on flavors and tastes! This is my opinion. Go try it and see for yourself! You may love it!

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We got here around 7pm, after supper but before 9pm close. Much of what we ate had been sitting for a while. No one likes old hard food. Not all of it was bad and they would occasionally bring something fresh out. I get that it's toward the end. We paid full price for good food not discounted price for older dried up food. We did not say anything but made the best of it. Coming in it looked nice. Looking close it was dirty (windows, bathroom stalls, floors). They began sweeping and mopping before 8pm. Before leaving used the restrooms again. I thought a toilet overflowed, it appeared that wet. I looked at all stalls as I learned the first one first doesn't lock. They just mopped it that wer and missed spots on the glory floor and did nothing about the stalls. The toilet seat was very wet not just wiped wet-gross! I damn near fell 3 times If the cleaning in one area isn't good, what is the rest like? Do they...