China Great Buffet — Restaurant in El Monte

This is my first time coming to this place and it will be my last!! When I walked into the door I should have known it was going to be a bad eating experience by all the many finger print smudges all over the glass entrance door in the front lobby. I wish that I could give this place a O-star rating but you have to leave at least 1- star. But trust me, this is a 0 -Star Restaurant! As soon as you walk in the door, you have to pay for your dinner. For me and my wife, it came to $44.00. Which for a great buffet meal, that isn't bad. But when you go into the dining area, everything around you looks very dusty and dirty! Not to mention that they have at least three trash bins full of trash in plain view in the same area where you are eating your dinner. Mind you, They are using paper plates and plastic forks so maybe that was the reason for the trash cans in the dining area. But they could have used a partition so that their guest would not have to eat while enjoying a view of trash bins. The service was so bad that my wife and I waited for them to come take our dirty paper plates off our table and throw them away. But that day never happened! As a customer, I had to take the dirty plates myself to the trash bin and dump them myself. And it was not the fact that they were busy; but more or less lazy? I have to give this place some credit though...I didn't get sick after eating there. If you enjoy Russian Roulette, then this is the perfect place for you and your family...good luck because you...

I think the only think that had this place going for me was the price. It's on the lower end but this was a good lesson in the saying, "You get what you pay for." Came around 5:30pm and everything looked fine after a quick walk through. They offer a variety of seafood options but no crab legs. They also had a Mongolian stir fry and sushi section among your typically Chinese-American fare. However, upon closer inspection, everything looked like it had been sitting there for awhile and super greasy. Gloves were offered as you self-serve but hardly anyone used them. Staff wasn't monitoring the food frequently so several tongs were just sitting right in the food where you would normally grab the utensil. I think it's disgusting when everyone has touched it and then it's swimming in the food. The food itself wasn't very good. Nothing remarkable at all and I probably would've been better to have gone to Panda Express. The dining area was also well use, sticky from grease, and staff packed patrons into one area instead of spreading them throughout the restaurant. I wouldn't recommend this place at all. Spend a little more and go somewhere that's worth your money,...

This place just to be awesome great service great everything is said that now on day is one of the worse the servers give no attention u ask for drink refill the don’t answer you like a normal server would they look at you like if said something wrong or if they don’t speak any English but they do is just for some reason whatever you ask them they just look at you and turn around and leave you don’t know if understood you or they walking away bad service also they just increased the buffet prices and they lowering the quality on something’s that they serve for example the siracha sauce it just to be good now they have a brand that tastes horribly cheap very and highly nasty 🤮 for the last the guy who cooks the food that guy is the same way if I don’t tip him he make u faces and give u bad looks this has to stop tips are ok for the servers if they give u good attention good service is how the tips works but this place is doing everything backwards they went from been a nice place to a nasty 🤢 place I’m a customer that has been coming since they open but today 6-30-23 is my last day and like I hear a lot people complaining, and saying that they will not come back ever...