Mandarin House Chinese Buffet — Restaurant in Louisiana

Bring a can of Professional disinfectant spray with you. The Louisiana Board of Health should be alerted and thouroughly inspect this restaurant ASAP (NOW), Mandarin House, located on 3501 Severn Ave, Metairie, LA 70002.

When you walk in, you first notice as you look down how filthy and disgusting the carpet looks. As if it was embroidered or embedded onto the floor for the last 20 years. You can feel the musty smell encroach on your clothes like roaches.

MANDARIN METAIRIE LLC 3501 SEVERN AVE. SUITE A5 METAIRIE, LA 70002, the registered owner, ignores or doesn't care what anyone thinks of this unclean restaurant. They are more interested in profit making than providing a top quality food and experience, charging or better yet, extorting, $22 for it.

The quality of food served or cooked today was abismal at best. It has been for quite sometime. Half of the entire hot food buffet selection was at room temperature or cold. One of the employees was fixing what it looked like a temperature problem under the buffet line. The sautéed boiled shrimp with vegetables was way salty. The green beans were salty and cold. The mandarin chicken was not its usual brown color, and it was salty and too sweet. The peppered beef did not taste like beef. Its textured and flavor was masqueraded with sugar. The white rice was too wet. If we are obligated and/or be pick pocketed out of $22 dollars before we sit down and eat, then we should be receiving well-cooked and prepared food at this location.

Inside it looks like they put aside their mess and hide it behind curtains. The sushi bar seemed disorganized. I would hate to walk back into the kitchen and find food on the floor not swept, roaches, flies, the bathroom unclean, and employees coughing or sneezing all around inside the kitchen not wearing a mask or covering their mouths, nor washing their hands properly throughout their shift. To make matters worse, an employee coughed next to my plate of food as I was serving myself. Luckily, I turned my plate to the other side and then saw her cover her face with a mask that was not properly worn. It was hot inside and the AC was on for at least 3 minutes. There were patrons/clients whose children had a wet and heavy cough allowing their child to approach the buffet line, as small as they are, and cough on top of the uncovered food.

This restaurant should not allow minors or children serve their own food. There should be a rule that the parents must serve them. At least the food being shielded with top covers from tall people would be protected from infections. Bacteria, and or viruses is being allowed by the owner to linger inside through out the day. Employees should be required to wear gloves and masks and wash their hands. There should be anti-bacterial soap in the bathrooms at all times. No cleaning apparatus should be stored inside the bathrooms. This may sound out of the norm, but this is the lowest this restaurant has ever been observed. Whoever the owner is, he/she doesn't care about the food quality or the quality over altogether.

I will not spend another dollar, nor will I visit unless an official report is published indicating that it is safe to enter and eat and have a healthy experience. I do not recommend it to anyone anymore.

Eat at your own risk. If I could review this restaurant without having to give it at least one star, I would. But this one star was not...

I like spending a couple of hours chomping down at the Mandarin House buffet. That is time well-spent.

You walk in, pay your $20, and then it's chow time.

Right up front, you got your red, yellow, and green jello. Made with the best food coloring from Hong Kong. The same bar has baked goods, which were freshly baked only two weeks ago.

Moving on, you get your oysters and crawfish. You can go there in middle of the summer and they got oysters on the half-shell. The glistening layer of bacteria is free and adds flavor. It could be the middle of the winter, but they got crawfish that come all the way from China. Poor things must be exhausted from that trip, because they don't move even before the boil.

The grease on the floor makes it easy to moonwalk over to the next bar that has orange beef, orange chicken, and orange pork. The chef is a wizard with a can of spam and a bottle of orange sauce. They got chicken wings that are lip smacking good, and the red dye lets you save on lipstick.

Finally, there's a sushi bar. Because it ain't Asian enough till you throw in some "Japanese" sushi at a Chinese buffet. They also serve sushi because it is well known that the Chinese and all the other Asian nationalities simply love the Japanese, who have historically been so good to other Asians.

And then, there's the ambience. Nothing like a fish tank that has a couple fish doing the back stroke while sunning themselves with overhead fluorescent lights. Those fish sure know how to relax!

In short, Mandarin House adds a touch of class to Metairie. It is a must-go-to that should be on...

I will try to be brief - this place is not worth the price. Do not eat here.

This is after my second time going to this place. The first time it was extremely average, and my boyfriend and I decided to come again, as maybe we caught the place at an off time, explaining the stale-ish, lukewarm food. It continued to disappoint.

As for details. All of the food TASTED very 'eh'. Nothing was stand out, but nothing was horrible... except for the fact that NOTHING was hot. Everything looked hot, with the stations giving off steam, but when you sit down to eat, the best you get is spotty lukewarm food.

None of the food tasted outright bad. The selection seemed standard if not a little lacking, but honestly nothing about the place screamed outright BAD.

The reason for the one star, however, is when we got the bill, it came out to $20 per person. For a buffet, I understand they need to cover the potential amount you might eat. For this quality of buffet, however, it was outrageous and SO not worth it.

If you want to spend $20 per person, go somewhere else. There is plenty of selection in this area. The only POTENTIAL saving grace of this place is that it's one of few "Chinese" buffet places on this side of the river... it's a niche that this place fills. But it does a very lackluster job, and I highly suggest you...