New King Buffet — Restaurant in Ceres

New management, better changes! Updated review.

Been going here for years, restaurant is located deep in shopping center, and in an area known for homeless. Parking gets quiet full on the weekends, usually park in nearby lots. update Management and servers have changed with new oriental uniforms(very cute). One server is very nice, did not catch her name but she speaks a little bit of Spanish :) When entering its a wait to be seated arrangement. Signs up that read: Restaurant has a no waste food policy or will be added 5 dollars and children are to be accompanied by a guardian or parent when getting food.

There are booths some feel worn in the seat (some children will flail like birds against the back seat had to ask for them to stop) 4 seat tables, and long tables for large groups. Bathrooms can be disgusting with over filled trash bins, 2 stalls in women, one mirror, with 2 sinks.

Popular with families (although some families let their children play in walkway), couples and young adult crowd. Also good for single party. Per person with drink, at dinner time about $15.

Food freshness can be a hit or miss depends on when you go in, usually on weekends food is always being refilled and hot. Out of all the years I've been going here Have found 2 piece of plastic, one from a bag (guessed from packaged food) and the other no idea, didn't bother me.

Drinks: Soft drinks, hot and cold tea (sweet and non-sweet), Water, Beer, wine and Sake!

Crab leg cracking tools by crab station, chopsticks by sushi, and new bowls by ice cream.

Cold Food: Sushi (good) with ginger and wasabi near by, mussels and whole shrimp on ice, Salad with topping options, pudding, jello, Fruit (variety change time to time) and is mostly fresh. Recommend: Japanese fruit Lango looks like tops of jellyfish or eyeballs, taste like grapes only better, and is hard to come by in most Chinese buffets.

updated Hot food: new additions and recipe change: small whole crabs, fried fish, and 4-5 big soup ceramic pots with a variety of soups. Purple Taro bun with sweet potato filling and crystal dumplings with seafood fillings both recommended! Fried rice has been changed back to original recipe. Honey chicken has been removed.* Have a hibachi bar (ingredients looked fresh for a Thursday afternoon), Seafood varieties Crab legs (go fast, people love piling them up). Mussels are iffy mom got sick twice but were good the next time. Salmon(eh), fried shrimp (ok) Sausage with mini crab leg or arm sticking out (confused with concept) and spicy shrimp in vegetables. Recommended seafood: Crab cheese won tons, coconut shrimp, crab salad in shell, and spicy craw fish (only have on weekends) and crab cheese inside soft flaky bread (lunch only). Meat and chicken based dishes teriyaki chicken on skewer (good), chicken dumplings (can be crispy or soft, hit or miss), fried chicken, beef and broccoli, orange chicken (ok) and egg rolls(ok). Some American dishes pizza (skip, usually kids get), chicken nuggets (ok) and fries (Best fries I've ever had surprisingly) and sausage (great).

They have White rice in steamer(good), pork vegetable rice (back to original recipe good) chow mein (ok). Garlic bread (meh). They also offer vegetable sides like cheese topped broccoli, green beans sometimes will change to asparagus (good) and mushrooms.

Desserts: *cheese cake change, very delicious! Cookies, coffee cake (good), and other pastries. Lastly ice cream, used to serve green tea ice cream (best) but they carry it no longer :(

Overall taste of food is the best I've had compared to other places, good price, can be a hit or miss. I and boyfriend met up here for our first date and we keep coming back. This place is cozy with good food. There are no indication of nut ingredients in dishes aside from sugar peanuts by desserts and very small...

I was really excited to order food from this restaurant, but I was disappointed. I ordered by phone. It was not an enjoyable experience. I wish I could order through their website since I could barely hear the employee.

I ordered the eel fish roll, the Las Vegas Roll, and their spicy beef. The Las Vegas Roll is a massive roll of sushi. It took me 4 bites to eat each slice of sushi. I liked the flavor, but I was put off by the green bell pepper. It was raw and hard, and it still had the seeds on it. I picked it out. I wonder if I could order it without bell pepper.

The eel roll was okay. The flavor was salty and sweet, and the eel was soft and chewy at some parts. I kept feeling some pointy in this roll.

The spicy beef was the most disappointing of all. It was mostly onion and green bell pepper! I had to search the container for the beef. It didn't have much flavor, and it took a while for the spiciness to hit me. It was just slimy veggies and occasionally some meat.

I would like to mention that this restaurant is open for dine in! When I walked in to pick up my order, there was a table with hand sanitizer and plastic, clear gloves. Customers can paid in advance at the counter and eat inside the restaurant! So, for the people waiting for it open, now is your chance I suppose.

Edit: add a soy sauce packet to the spicy beef. It will taste so...

The food is pretty good during peak times, but when it's not busy, don't expect much of anything to be fresh or hot. I really like the nigiri and small sushi selection. The chow mein is swimming in grease, though. Seafood delight, coconut shrimp, cream chees rangoons, steamed custard and taro buns are all really yummy! Teriyaki chicken is good (if it isn't burnt), and there's a handful of other things that are pretty good, too. Wait staff can be unnervingly overbearing. I was VERY grateful that they kept my water filled, but was made quite uncomfortable when one lady stood hovering over our shoulders. She tried to take our plates while we were chatting, and had to poiltely tell her that we were still working on what was on our plates, and we would leave them at the edge of the table when we were done. Not a bad buffet for the price, but certainly not the best. Will return for late-night...