Rice Garden Chinese Restaurant — Restaurant in Dallas

I haven’t had Rice Garden since 2001. My family and I used to dine in this place many times in the mid to late 90s until we started going to Bamboo Palace in Cedar Hill. This is also a late review because I came here about a month or so ago and didn’t have the time to write it. This was a takeout, didn’t want to dine in. I noticed they switched up a few things over the years, the buffet used to be in round circle bins....the food, however wasn’t so impressive. The lo mein was not good, neither was the chicken and broccoli. It was a little rubbery to me. For all I know, I could have been eating dog/cat/rat meat. These Asian restaurants are KNOWN for cooking abominations (yes, pork is an ABOMINATION as well) The only thing I’d say were somewhat decent were the wings. I felt like I had to go to Panda Express to make up for this! Over the years, I’ve started to dislike Chinese dishes. It’s too salty and LOADED with MSG (even though the LIE to you and say that is doesn’t contain it) I don’t go to all you can eat places like used to in my fat girl days. Now as I get older, the food don’t do so well with your stomach. I try to eat healthy, but when you eat this kind of stuff in moderation, it can throw your stomach off! I felt sick for a couple of days. 🤢😷 Rice Garden will not be seeing me again. Matter of fact, I will be cooking my own food at home, at least I know...

Went for the Lunch buffet. They had ribs for Lunch. They were fall off the bone good, but that "BBQ" sauce...if that is what they were trying to call it...tasted like sweetened, cooked Ketchup. While eating my first plate full, I noticed an ANT crawling on my plate. It was the only one we could locate. We looked all over our table and ceiling, to no avail. The garlic bread was very hard. The Teriyaki Chicken was VERY good. I went back for more. My date loved the steamed filet of fish and the Pork Egg Roll. Nothing else tasted exceptional, to her. The layout of the food on the buffet was very chaotic. Hot entree dishes were next to part of the deserts. The salad items and fruits were in the dead center. Lack of planning was very obvious there. There was dust all over the place and on the ceiling, by all the vents. As we were leaving to pay the bill, the waitress told us Thank you. Thought that was nice. While in line, waiting to pay, she came past us again and said Thank you, once more. This time I noticed a slight sarcastic tone in her voice. Maybe it was from not leaving a tip directly on the table. My date noticed the tone also and asked me about it. I decided not to leave a tip, after that. Better places, for the same price or better...especially right...

I’ve been coming here for over 17yrs but today will be the last time When my daughter and I arrived , we were asked if it was to go or here We advised here and then were told we had to pay before we ate This has NEVER happened before and I just watched the family before and after us be seated without having to pay in advance. That should have been the sign for me to leave but because we come here all the time I just went ahead and paid cause we were hungry. We were shown where to sit and from that point moving fwd , we received NO SERVICE.

NO DRINK REFILLS , NO DISPOSAL OF DIRTY PLATES NOTHING

I watched all the others tables around us get the service we usually received and I became very disappointed

I asked a server why we weren’t getting the usual service and she looked at me like I spoke a third world language

At that point we proceeded to leave , do you think the manager or anyone tried to do anything NOPE

It’s cool we won’t be back and will be...