Jade Buffet — Restaurant in Hondo

Update: the quality of the food has really gone down. They took away the ice cream and salad area (they have chopped up lettuce and dressing nothing else for salad). The food is just not good anymore and less variety. The last 4 or so times we've been very disappointed so it'll be a long time if we do ever try them again. It's just very disappointing they were very good for a small town buffet. Worth now to drive elsewhere. 12.99 for buffet that is terrible! And the service is bad. We went for lunch and when we got there we had to sit at a large table even though only 3 of because all the tables were dirty filled with plates. The whole time we were there the host never bussed a single table. It all just sat there.

It's not a bad little buffet for a small town. Variety of foods available, they seem to be refilling things fairly quickly when there on a weekend night. They have the usual stuff you'd expect at a Asian buffet and the entrees themselves aren't bad. They have some stuff for kids too like chicken nuggets, fries, and such. The ice cream set up needs some work. The scoop holder is just a cardboard container with water in it to put the scoop in it, kind of sketchy looking and a couple of the containers were just frost bitten chunks to scrape off the sides only 2 ice creams looked good to eat. It has a little salad bar as well, none of the dressings labeled, just take a guess. A tiny bit pricey as well for the size but it's the only thing like it in the area. No...

Food was absolutely horrendous. Everything tasted like it was out for hours apon hours due to the very spongy texture for their chicken and noodles that tasted like styrofoam. They have a salad bar with no labeled sauces or dressings so it kinda just playing with fate on what you get. They have shrimp right next to breadings and dessert (major cross contamination hazard for people allergic to shell fish). When we entered the establishment there was only one person at a table, and all other tables weren't even cleaned off we had awful customer service since we had to sit with a pile of dirty plates that could have fallen off the table and broken. I went to the bathroom and after flushing the toilet the lever that makes the plunger go up broke and I wasn't able to flush the toilet anymore the stench in the bathroom was like stepping on dog crap on a hot summer day. When we let the people know how we felt on the food they spoke their language in front of us very rudely. I wouldn't recommend this place to anybody since they also rip you off with $17 prices PER PERSON. Please spend the $10 in gas to go somewhere else that way you could save your money and enjoy quality food elsewhere. (I wouldn't even feed...

The owners and employees are kind, conscientious, and attentive. They keep the place clean, and they keep the buffet trays filled. The food itself is sort of a mixed bag. It's a small place, in a fairly small town, so you can't expect to have a HUGE variety of food. Hondo, is also pretty far from the coast so the fact that there was no sashimi (fish) on the sushi was dissapointing, but somewhat understandable. Desserts were limited to jello, bananas with a strawberry syrup drizzled on them, tapioca pudding, and pre-packaged creame cakes. The soups (Wonton and Hot & Sour) were acceptable but not spectacular. Most of the offerings were battered and then deep-fried.

In short, it's a small Chinese buffet, in a small Texas town. It has a little bit of what you expect to find but nothing worth...