Tin Tin Buffet — Restaurant in Winston-Salem

Worst Asian Buffet experience I’ve had. The food was subpar at best and the health practices there were concerning. There wasn’t one meat item that wasn’t tough and dry, the shrimp was obviously old, the rice, shrimp, teriyaki chicken, pork on a stick and mushrooms were absolutely tasteless, and some items were downright awful. I have a very wide range palate and am very open to many foods and I can only recall having to spit out food at a restaurant one time in my life. I spit out two items here today. Their pork stuffed mushroom tasted like cleaning chemicals and their “house special tort” was some kind of meat mash with a cheese topping fried in a wonton and it tasted like wet dog food from a can. The sushi had flies hanging out on them and we pointed it out in front of the Itamae and he pretended not to notice. The plates are stored low in open shelves a mere 2 or 3 inches from the floor. This is concerning as shoes carry bacteria that can cause severe sickness and their plates have no protection from that. The workers are nice and polite but the service leaves much to be desired. Plates stacked up on our table and the server waited for us to get back and move things around on our own before they would take them away and at one point, the server tried to take my very full plate that I had just sat down with as I was eating from it. There aren’t many dessert options but what they do have is a decent apple pie or pudding and jello from a can. I was happy to see an ice cream cooler with sealed cups so I took advantage of that. On the cooler a sign reads “For dine in only; takeout $1”. This is understandable. I get back to the table and quickly realize that it is almost impossible to eat the ice cream in house because it is frozen solid. So solid that the plastic spoons they provide bend to it and you can’t do much more than shave a little bit of it. Within minutes of finishing, myself and the others I was with started feeling some minor gastric distress. I chose to use the bathroom before leaving and was turned around because the toilets and bathroom floors were disgusting. We paid the outrageous lunch buffet price of $15 per person that they have no right charging and left to get home quickly as one in our party went from mild gastric distress to severe. It’s really a shame because it is such a good location and beautiful place. But don’t be fooled....

This first time I visited, I was disgusted. The place looks really nice from the outside (other than the LED lights framing all the windows, which make it look like a flea market), but the entire place smelled like old, rotting seafood. The chicken they use is very low quality, the food had all been sitting out for far too long, and most of it was just bland. It's also extremely overpriced, at nearly $15 per person.

I decided to give it another shot. Not by choice, but because a family member chose to dine here for her birthday. I still can't figure out what it is that brings people here. To their credit, the place didn't smell like fish guts anymore, but the food hasn't improved at all. The spring rolls are like wet paper wrapped in cardboard. Chicken quality is still very low, and many of the chicken items don't taste the way they should. It's hard to really distinguish any of them. General Tso's chicken didn't have any spice to it. It just tasted like they mixed the old batch of orange chicken with the old batch of sweet and sour chicken, instead of throwing them away. Teriyaki chicken had absolutely no flavor to it, just a hunk of blackened chicken fat on a stick. Lo mein noodles had a decent flavor, but they weren't hot. I've heard that the sushi is good, but I don't eat sushi, so I didn't try it. Maybe they should just drop all the other menu items, and have just a sushi bar.

After I'd given up on all of the Chinese food I was brave enough to try, I figured I could at least salvage a decent dinner out of the pizza, roasted potatoes, and mozzarella sticks. Wrong. Mozzarella sticks were cold, and underdone. Potatoes were ok, just bland. The pizza was by far the saddest excuse for food that I have ever paid for. I really don't understand how you can actually make a pepperoni pizza that has literally no taste at all.

At least I didn't leave feeling hungry. That's not to say that I felt full and satisfied, but it would be more accurate to say that my stomach has taken so much abuse, it has given up. I don't feel like I can eat again until I've had a few days to recover.

Save your money, just order take out, for half of what this place will charge you, and then if you really want to feel like you've eaten here, just slip the delivery guy an extra $5 to punch you in...

My wife my daughter and myself went there around 2 this past Saturday on the 19th of May. I've always had relatively good experiences there sometimes they make you feel a little rushed and they're just not very friendly but then again not everybody is. I have my usual combination of Hibachi plate with shrimp crab meat eggs and noodles and a couple plates of crawfish and some boiled shrimp everything tasted okay but some of the Crawfish we're kind of tattered looking which I did not eat but since then I have learned that once food is infected you cannot cook cancer poisoning is what they call it when you get it from crabs and shellfish. My doctor told me I had food poisoning I was in the bed from Sunday through Thursday only getting up on Tuesday to go to the doctor I'm lost a total of 26 pounds from Sunday to Thursday. Horrible fever and chills sweats diarrhea throwing up I've never felt so bad in my entire life and I've been through some other stuff. Finally on Thursday I called the restaurant simply to inform them that I'm pretty sure I got sick from there because that was pretty much the only thing I had to eat there other than I eat peanut butter sandwich at home that evening, I told the girl up front I want to see the manager she said the manager was busy that she could help me and I've then formed her I was not looking for any sort of restitution I understand that sometimes dealing with seafood things can happen that's not my problem. My problem is her condescending and dismissive attitude she bluntly asked me so what do you want? In a rude tone I told her I didn't want anything I just want to let them know so possibly no one else would get sick and suffer the way I have. She said okay thank you and hung up the phone. Understand you're taking some chances when you eat seafood off of a buffet but at least the management could do is have their employees show compassion. That's all I'm saying I don't think I could ever go back there even if I wanted to the thought of the place makes me queasy now. So please go...