Wan Bo Buffet — Restaurant in Town of Thompson

Here on a Wednesday. And I’m stating this because perhaps it’s better on a Friday or Saturday to have such great reviews? This place has 3.9 stars so I’m curious when the food would be almost a 4⭐️ because on Wednesday nights is not that great. If Google would do 1/2 ⭐️ I’d rate the food tonight at 2.5 ⭐️. Now I did find a few items that were better than the rest and I will list those so read on General Tao’s chicken was good but I have had better The chicken wings were great The tempura fried shrimp were tasty Everything else was either over cooked and mushy or was old and dried out. The chicken wings, ok I said I can eat these and be done until this lady in a scooter rolls up to the buffet and begins to build a scaled down version of the Egyptian pyramids. I’m guessing she stacked a good 30 wings on her plate. It was actually quite the site to see this being built and I’m estimating that she had at least 10” of chicken wing vertical height happening. Unfortunately for me they didn’t replace the wings, I guess in fear that one of the sphinx would be constructed next. I pickle around with small portions so not to be wasteful but there wasn’t any thing to be excited about and certainly nothing worthy of a 4 stars. Second plate in the waitress brings the check and says “thank you for coming”in a loud voice like I was old with the large outside the ear hearing aids, my grandpa used to wear and then ignores me the rest of the evening. Don’t you just hate that ugh. I don’t recommend eating here just look at the picture of the soup they had out. Again maybe on a weekend this is the place to be but I’d pass on this place during the week. So food 👎🏼 Service 👎🏼 Price for what was offered tonight...

for new potential customers I offer the following - it's a small family buffet, it's not a Michelin star establishment - lower your expectations. The food comes in trays; and as the tray serves 10-12 people, it might not be as hot as you like by the time you get to it. Soda is flat and comes in old, plastic cups; the servers can be rushed and non-communicative. But the food is flavorful and fresh, veggies are crisp, bacon wrapped shrimp are to die for, dumplings are authentic; desert table includes lychee nuts - you might not be a fan, but these little suckers are expensive. Don't let me start on the homemade mini donuts. And did I mention the trays that serve 10-12 people ? That's nothing - usually buffets bring out trays for 50 people and they sit there for hours. These guys replenish these Lilliput trays every 10 minutes. Raise your expectations, folks. I am trying to imagine people who leave negative reviews for this place. What cloud do you live on, where do you eat, where do you shop - that you can't see the big picture - an incredible, tasty, reasonably priced, non-touristy place that has been feeding the...

The last couple times we’ve been there the Buffett has been virtually empty. They stop restocking the buffet tables 2-3 hours before they close. We came at 7 on a night they closed at 9 and there was NOTHING there. We have 3 small kids and there wasn’t even anything to feed them aside from rice or lo mein. The waitress said they could refill whatever we wanted but they wouldn’t be restocking the whole thing. I told her I’d be asking for too many different dishes because of how little there was on the buffet and it’d take too long. Ended up just paying for the drinks and leaving to get take out instead. This isn’t the first time the buffet has barely been stocked. Not worth...