Chopsticks Chinese Buffet — Restaurant in San Antonio

*This is an all you can eat buffet. You pay at the counter when you enter. Your tip is also paid upfront when you enter. The buffet has traditional Chinese offering such as beef pepper steak, Gerneral TSO, beef / broccoli, egg rolls, Lomein noodles, rice noodles, egg drop soup, hot & sour soup

Additionally, they have lemon chicken nuggets, fried shrimp, sushi, steamed rice, fried rice, & dinner rolls

At the salad bar, they have tossed salad, pasta salad, potato salad, apple salad, coleslaw, semi Ceasar sa k ad with a creamy dressin.

The desert bar has things such as jello, strawberry cheesecake, chocolate / vanilla pudding, spiced pineapple, ice cream (with about 6 flavors), and Key Lime cheese cake,

They have an American food bar with things like mac & cheese, chicken nuggets, baked potatoes, bourbon chicken, corn on cob, flautas, baked tllapia, & ribs.

Drinks are served by the wait staff. The Waitstaff also clears your dishes.

The cost is around $13.99 per person at lunch and around $16.99 per person at dinner. drinks are additional. The diinner tab with drinks (we had tea) was around $43.48(tax included), plus whatever you choose to tip.

The food is good for a buffet. is kept fresh. The foods are kept at the appropriate temperatures.

Overall, it's like most good chineese buffets.

The one complaint is that I would rather tip after I dine. I base my tip on over-all experience; food, price, and wait staff service. Tipping before I dine gives me no way to determine what my experience will be on a given visit.

UPDATE: 8-16-25 FOOD; The hot food was average at best. Seems the food sits a bit and is luke warm. The only real hot (temperature) are the soups (Eggdrop and Hot & sour).. The white rice was not fluffy, but it was not Sticky Rice that many Oriental restaurants have. The food at the hot stations does not seem to be as up to temperature as it was on my first visit.

The c salad station is still very good. My only suggestion is that the oil based dressing on the pasta salad is bland. The dressing needs to be a vinaigrette type. The pasta salad could use a few more black olives,and maybe some celery or bacon bits to jazz it up a bit.

Service: Waitresses and waiters need to be aware that special needs individuals need to be seated in thevare nearest the ramp to the buffet area. Our hostess was seating us fairly far from the ramp and a gentleman, whom I assume was the head flloor associate (or possibly some type of manager), came and told us ge could seat us closer to the ramp and buffet area. Kudos to this gentleman because my wife haas a bad knee, and her back has spasms from time to time. She was using a walker on this day.

The table wautress was phenomenal. She cleared ourvdishesvinba timely manner and kept our drinks full. The only thing we had to ask gir was the traditional offering of a fortune cookie. The cookie is not a must, but a nice littlebtreat to end the meal.

ATMOSPHERE: The Philly k ace us not a cozy or quite place. The sheer size of the place and volume of people at lunch or dinner ((especially Fri - Sun) makes thus one of the louder retarunts in town. The birthday wishes given by the wait staff are somewhat annoying due to what sounds likke banging on a tin pan after singing Happy Birthday. The birthday geature is nice, but a toned down version would be nice.

KITCHE / UTILITY: The staff dropped the ball as far as utensils go. All one is given upon seating is a fork. No knives ever seem available. On this night I got a biwl of Hot & Sour soup. All spoon dispensers were empty. I waited a bit a checked again; no luck. How do they expect you to.eat soup.witg no available k e spoon,

My new ratings are:

FOOD: 3☆☆☆ Food Temp - lukewarm,

TABLE SERVICE: 5☆☆☆☆☆ Great

ATMOPHERE: 3☆☆☆ Bangig birthday wishes a little annoying

KITCHEN UTILITY: 0...

I must start by saying if I could give an extra half star, I would. The experience was not bad, but not great. For a start, we waited nearly an hour for a table, and the waiting area was more packed than a New York Subway car at rush hour, so it was inevitable you would be bumping into somebody on accident, or vice versa. Not to mention there were people constantly moving back and forth either to see if their ticket was ready, or to use the restroom.

The matter was not helped, and that they were going by the ticket numbers in an asymmetrical order. For example, my group's ticket was number 85. So at one point we heard 81, then 82, and finally we out of nowhere heard 91, and then 78, which really added to our confusion. At one point they called 85, and I did not hear it. But thankfully one of the members of my group did, and when we checked at first the girl said no. It's not ready yet. But then her co-worker came in. Took another look and said oh, we're sorry, you are ready. Go ahead and follow this guy to your table.

Finally we got to sit down. Now. Don't get me wrong, the food was good and all, there was even a guy at a little kitchenette, cooking fresh tortillas which was good also. The variety of food was fairly average, which is not necessarily a bad thing for a buffet. However, because there were so many people, you were once again at risk of either being bumped into, or bumping it to others. And me being a tall person, I accidentally bumped into quite a few people, which I'm not proud to admit. It is like trying to navigate through tight quarters.

As for my favorite food options, the fried rice was exceptionally good, especially with the addition of shrimp, as well as the teriyaki chicken. They also had traditional fried chicken. But the number one contender that I am grateful to have tried, and one I wish I could add a half star to, to make the review better, was wait for it,

Fried Oreos! I thought they would be a little crunchy and soft, but it was also soft and buttery. It was so good I had to go back and get some more. Also, another great thing they had was lemon sauce, which went perfect on the fried chicken.

All in all, the food was great, the wait staff were nice, but that restaurant really needs to take the initiative, and expand the waiting area, big time. Waiting an hour in those cramped conditions was not exactly a...

Normally I would keep the negative reviews and comments to myself but this type of situation pissed me off so much that I had to write a bad review. Anyways, so I was with 5 other friends on 02/20/2025 to have dinner here and I wish I would of gotten this waiter’s lady’s name she was an Hispanic Woman I believe but anyways everything was so good until we were about to leave and she started bitching about us not tipping her and telling us not to come back if we’re not gonna tip. First and foremost, YOU ARE NOT REQUIRED TO TIP IT IS NOT THE LAW. IN THE UNITED STATES WAITERS DON’T GET FREE TIPS, THEY EARN IT. Second, the waiter said that we wasted her time because we didn’t tip her. The waiter started being rude and I just walked away because I did not wanna argue with her infront of everyone. And Third, This is NOT a restaurant it’s a buffet. And one thing I wanna point out is if you DO NOT like your job or your always complaining or bitching over customers not tipping or any other situation then you need to find something else because no customer or other employees working there should be treated this way. So I went to my car and I wasn’t even going to complain but I was so pissed off that I went straight back in there and asked to speak to a manager. The Manager was very nice and not once interrupted me to explain what happened. I hope they fire her because this is not right at all. And I honestly would not be surprised at all if other customers have previously complained about her sorry ass attitude. I probably will not be eating here again for a long time. And for future customers, DO NOT TIP IF YOU DO NOT WANT TOO BECAUSE IT’S YOUR MONEY THAT YOU WORKED FOR NOT THERES. IF THEY REALLY WANNA TIP THEN THEY NEED TO LEARN HOW TO TREAT ALL CUSTOMERS WITH RESPECT. End of...