mandarin buffet & grill

we hadn't been in a couple years, but one of my daughters and i stopped here tonight. there was nothing that tasted good. i am serious. the mongolian in the middle? no sauces on it. even dousing with soy didn't give it flavor. my daughters plate had some flavor to it, so she ate hers. some of the dim sum bites? i took a second, maybe even a third bite, then left the rest. soup. yuck. all the way home and since my stomach has just roiled. it was plain icky.

the one thing that tasted fairlygoodwas the potstickers. but they had no dipping sauces for them.

the worst was as i was paying the $40 bill (yes, $20/each for a buffet), i told her that i had eaten hardly anything because the food was so bad. "oh! i am so sorry!" ka ching. any other restaurant where you leave having turned away more food than you ate would have discounted at least one of meals. nope.

poor service, rude and corrupt. the food is your usual chinese buffet style with some questionable sushi on the side. probably what one would expect from a mediocre buffet place.

but that is not the main reason i want to leave this review. the problem is the service that is sub-par and rude on top of simply corrupt. when we tried to pay the check came back to us short of $20 with them claiming never have received this money and we'd better pay up the rest, not letting us go to the point we had to call in the cops.

they'll loose our business forgoodand hopefully anybody else's business who cares to be treated with respect and not be stolen from. i hope that was worth the $20 they pocketed from us never again!

decent buffet. relatively inexpensive, clean, well lit buffet restaurant which offers a mix of chinese, japanese (average but broad selection of sushi), and a few american dishes (such as cheese pizza).

they also incorporate a mongolian grill.

wait staff is attentive and prompt.

dishes range from a boring, over-sauced kung pao chicken and vegetables to excellent baked mussels, tender frog legs, smokey grilled whole fish and a spicy pork and vegetable stir fry.

if you're not particularly interested in anything else, at least we again have a small but mostly sufficient, all-you can-eat mongolian grill in bellevue/redmond area.

overall: acceptable food.goodvalue for the price. mongolian grill is a plus.