New China Buffet

Expensive and not that good. It all looks and taste the same.

9 gals went there for a Birthday Party. I wished someone would have searched this site for comments. As others have said, it was GROSS from the minute we walked in. Sticky and dirty floors. We asked to be seated in the area behind the cashier. Almost every chair was ripped and torn. We had to find some that weren’t ripped to place the ones that was there. As I pulled out the chair, my hands stuck to the back of the chair. The table was also sticky. I had to put a napkin down before my plate so it wouldn’t stick.
I passed Sanitizing lotion around to the others. Food was ok. The cold dishes was about 2″ off the ice. Hot foods were warm. My friend and I will never go back. I wonder why the Health Dept hasn’t made a visit. The whole place needs to be redone and deep cleaned from top to bottom!

Well, shame on me for not consulting Unilocal before going here. This place is run down and full of the unwashed. You could hunt for something not disgusting on the buffet, but still not sure if the choices will haunt my bowels later. Will never return.

This place was absolutely the worst Chinese Buffet I have ever visited. Very dirty. Lots of empty selection trays on the steam tables that were never filled contrary to their advertisement of «over 100 items to choose from.» They must have stolen the picture on their advertisement from another buffet because this wasn’t even close. SKIP THIS PLACE! Not worth the potential visit to the ER.

Disgusting… Need to be shut down, maybe we should have clued in when they make your pay first.

BEWARE!!! THEY ARE STEALING YOUR MONEY!!! Not only should the board of health shut this vile place down (and I am almost embarrassed to write this which means I actually went there) due to the food they are serving having major issues, but they are still charging 9.05% sales tax!!! The stated dropped the 1% extra on 3÷31÷13, so this place has been charging its customers that extra 1% for almost 1.5 years!!!
so to the place: the booths are all torn, the floor needs a massive cleaning, chinese mustard should not be brown, oily and look like fecal matter from a dog!!!
How are placing like this ALLOWED to be open???

Gross gross and gross. This is a terrible place to get food from. We drove from LA and stopped for lunch here and regretted every second of it. Like others have said trays were empty and everything looked so dirty. This is probably the worst buffet I’ve been too and that 7.33 price is definitely not worth it. So take my advice and don’t stop here ever.

Did not find anything rancid, sad when that is the best you can say. Like others have said, cold steam tables, no lemon for the ice tea, no ice tea, LOTS of food on the floor and staff that all seemed to be auditioning for a zombie movie.

This place needs negative stars! The only good thing I have to say about it is that after argueing with the cashier, we finally got our money back and were able to go somewhere else to eat. Both my husband and I were not happy about the thought of paying $ 18 to leave still hungry. I wanted to like New China, but the food was all cold, either tasteless or tasted spoiled, I couldn’t find someone to get me water to drink and some things tasted spoiled. I spit more food into napkins than I ate and finally, after going back to the buffet to try a few different items (all equally disappointing and spit into napkins) I went to the cashier and asked to speak to the manager. she asked to see my receipt and then proceeded to argue that we’d been there for 20 min. and obviously had eaten something and claimed that in the 13 yrs of their business no one had ever complained! Seriously??? After showing her our plates with rejected food and napkins filled with garbage, reluctantly, she refunded our money. My advice to diners is to go somewhere else. I should have read these Unilocal reviews before trying new restaurants. We had a burger and fries at Five Guys. they never let us down!

DO NOT EAT HERE!!! This place is so disgusting. We should have got the hint when we walked in with the dated décor and the walls looked like they could have been painted. However, as the saying goes «Don’t judge a book by it’s cover», we decided to continue with it. The first thing I do is check the bathrooms. I read the sign that had RESTROOM above this door. As I pushed open, you would think that I was at a plastic manufacturing plant. They had the back door open with some power equipment going on. I became a bit nervous and walked back out. It just appeared dirty. So the gentleman asked what we wanted to drink and brought us silverware. We walked the buffet tables and the food looked okay, but the taste was something else. The chicken that I ate (a tiny piece) was a bit slimy. My friend ate the orange chicken and he said that it tasted as if someone cooked with a cleaner. I could go on and on, but BEWARE of this place. I will be contacting the Maricopa County Health Office. This needs to be cleaned up before they are allowed to serve. GROSS AND GROSS!!!

This place must be kidding…
The hubby & I decided to try it out after coming across their add in the paper that boasted about they’re «Hundreds of Items»…not! We got there and the place didn’t even smell right. It looked like an old run down Hometown Buffet. Against my better judgment, I went to get a plate. There were tons of empty trays and theyre food looked very questionable. The chicken-​on-​a-​stick looked «off», kinda stringy looking if that makes sense. The employees looked as if they were working against their will… weird. Not to mention they collect all the used dishes etc in an old cracked storage tote on a rolling cart. When my hubby came back to the table with his food we looked at eachother for a moment and agreed we couldnt even take a bite. We both decided to take a trip to the restroom before we left, big mistake. It smelled like a porta-​potty before we even walked down the hallway… and don’t get me started on the actual bathroom. We ended up leaving without even touching our food or drink and wouldnt go back if they paid me. Contemplated contacting the health department, yes, it was that bad.

We have gone to Hunan VIII for a while now on the regular (every Wednesday), so we decided one week to try the place across the street. I wish I could get that meal back. It was too packed, too dirty, and too greasy. There was food all over the ground. We even had to wipe down the seats, table, and high chair. The tables were too mashed up close to each other, that it even felt like a clown car.
Besides all of the ridiculousness mentioned above, as we walked in and out we were annoyed by a couple guys selling rosaries and candles outside of the restaurant.

Had lunch here today with Robyn N. Jeromy H. and Rand H, Well for starters almost everything at the buffet was room temp. The food was not bad but would have been better hot. The soft serve ice cream was a real watery type. Any way dont waste your time here there is better across the street.

This first paragraph is a 1 to 2 starness…
Well for starters they had empty trays, and the empty trays were the hottest ones that is there was steam coming off of them. In other words most of the food was cold. This place must’ve been severely understaffed because they didn’t get the plates off our table till long after we’d gotten another. They were letting the food trays run empty for 10 and 15 minutes at a time.
This second paragraph is the 3 to 4 starness…
the food may have been cold but some of it was very good, in that the spicing was done correctly. Often Chinese buffets spicy dishes are not quite as spicy as they need to be in my book to be called spicy. The price was good and the drink was included but that’s not enough to make up for all the inequities. It was pretty much unanimous at the time we left our little UYE Rand H. Mike C. Robyn N and myself all agreed and said in the parking lot as we left two stars. Rand H. upon further contemplation came to one star. And only because some of the food was fairly good did I stay at two stars. I hope they get it right, but I won’t be going back there anytime soon.

Nope, sorry. I cannot pass anything but the price here. My bill was $ 9.99…if it had been 2 pennies more, I’d be mad.
We ended up here after we found out that the Hunan VIII across the street was closed for remodeling until AUGUST:(I had suggested Hunan VIII after getting coupons and reading decent reviews here… so I was a bit embarrassed by the place being closed (not a short drive for any of us, either).
I could tell by the outside of the place. Yeah yeah, whatever about judging books by their covers… all that went out the window with this place. Maybe its because I was really excited about Hunan, but I saw wavy stink lines rising from this place when I pulled up. Sillyishly, I followed my cousins in… I looked around as we stood in line and then did the dumbest thing of all… I paid.
Now I’ll start my review in the bathroom, because that’s where I headed first to check on my lil’ cuz who really had to go before we got there I guess. Kitchen, women’s bathroom, men’s bathroom, and the door to outside were all in this little hall, which isn’t a big deal cause you see that all the time. But this time, it just seemed… icky, and dark, and foreboding. And the bathroom had sticky floors. Minus one star for any establishment. Get some friggin Pine-​sol.
So I finish checking on him and head for the food. Was it really 70 something dishes there? I guess, but it didn’t really seem like it. Just looking at everything, it seemed decent, just a little low-​budget. I was ok at that point because I knew I paid only 10 bucks for a buffet. So I made my plate, and became disappointed with the offerings. Too many similar chicken dishes. Too many things with shells that needed peeling. And upon a closer look at what I was heaping on my plate, it all looked… off.
Sat down and realized there was no beverage. Self-​serve; I like self-​serve beverages. Two dispenser machine things, your very basic selections but I guess you don’t need that many at a buffet. But it was so unkempt in this spot… like nothing but kids came up to get drinks with no supervision. You know what I mean.
Finally dug in.
Nope.
Potstickers? So greasy it feels like I STILL need to wipe my mouth.
Chicken on a Stick? That didn’t taste like any chicken I’ve ever had… and if it wasn’t chicken, it wasn’t pork, beef, or anything else.
Pepper Chicken? All pepper, no chicken taste… and black table pepper at that.
Saucy chicken, beef, pork dishes? All sauces were terrible, all meats tasted like a different, unidentifiable meat. Not exaggerating.
Rangoons? Plenty of goon; almost ran. I opened one up and there was this greasy and crumbly ‘stuff’ in there, and very little of it at that.
Wings? They had hot and regular fried. Bad texture ruined a halfway decent taste for the fried… and the hot seemed like it had some of the same horrid sauce from other dishes on them.
Didn’t touch anything with shells. One of the kids got crab legs… the smallest crab legs I’ve EVER seen. She loves crab legs but didn’t even finish the 3 she had.
Another cuz, gagged on the egg foo young. I caught the rest picking at their plates with forks, but eventually scarfed it all down due to hunger. One did say he enjoyed it… but he is easily pleased with food.
This was the least I’ve ever eaten at a buffet. I couldn’t get past how unclean it all seemed, and I’m not usually that kind of out-​eater. I kept tasting the food with the tip of my tongue before I let it all in my mouth, afraid I would taste something extra horrid.
Can’t speak of the service. They came and got plates. Job done.
Food was brought out at a good rate.
The first bad buffet I’ve been to. But hey, there were plenty of other customers… well not plenty, but enough. So oh well.

Mmmhhhh… It was okay. The orange chicken was good; everything else is better at Hunan VIII across the street.