China Buffet II — Restaurant in Shallotte

Went there for dinner. Wasn't very clean. They were not that busy. Only a small number of people. The waitress took our drinks but didn't wait to get our youngest daughter's. She yelled the drinks to another staff member and then grabbed a phone from another. I took my other 2 kids to get food. My wife stayed behind to try to order my youngest's drink. When I came back to the table my wife informed me that the waitress completely ignored her. My wife feeling offended and rightly so decided she didn't want to eat. The kids were already eating. I had a little bit of food but was not feeling really hungry at the moment. The food I had was cold and not very good quality. When the kids finished eating it was time to leave. I talked to the guy at the register. I told him my wife didn't eat her food and not to charge us for it. He said that it was already rung up and we should of said sooner. I said you can't go back and change it. He said no. I explained to him what happened and he said sorry I just work here. Then he tried to make it up to me by offering me a to go plate. I said no thank you and that we will never come back. So I had to pay for a meal that was never even put on a plate. I do not recommend this place. Its unclean. They have poor customer service and the...

I learned a lesson.......always check out the buffet before you sit down and order drinks. First, I ordered unsweetened tea and apparently our server couldn't understand me because after asking several times if I wanted sweet or unsweet I ended up with sweetened. The buffet really didn't offer that much for the person that just wanted plain old Chinese food. Most of the food offered was things I would never get like oysters or small stuffed mushrooms. They didn't even have a vegetable rice (only had the pork rice) or sesame chicken. They had teriyaki chicken on a skewer that had the texture of jerky. Their lo mien tasted like fish and the chicken dish was rubbery enough to make a good chew toy for a dog. The greeter and server working in there made me very uneasy. They stood around (one to the left of us and one in front of us) and just stared and us and the one other booth with people). It was creepy. With only one other booth with people I have no idea why they put us in the booth right next to them. A child in the booth behind me constantly beat herself against the back of the booth and I finally couldn't take it anymore...

The food I ate from the buffet was very bland. I could taste chicken, I could taste shrimp, I could taste the egg in the egg foo yung-however it seemed like they were scared to use pepper or any seasonings. The chicken on the stick was not teriyaki or seasoned otherwise and saturated with soy sauce and was the only item that actually had flavor even though I'm not a fan of the flavor of soy sauce. I'm not from the area and never ate here however I've eaten my fair share of Asian cuisine and this is not the worst I've eaten but it's the worst I've had recently. The restaurant was clean and the staff was friendly. However when I'm back in the area this will not be one of the...