Well, I should actually say that it is unfair for me to rate such things as Value and Food as I did not stay long enough to sample the "wares". I walked in at 8:40 PM. The sign on the door said that on Fri and Sat nights they were open until 10:30. Ambitious, I thought for a buffet. I figured I had not eaten since noon and after reading on this site that most FL Chinese buffets have a fair amount of seafood on them I would give it a shot.
So, I entered and was greeted with no information on how much or what the buffet was… no signage. I opted for a table and ordered a diet soda and proceeded to the restroom without sitting. For a place so overly concerned with paper towels on the floor they put a sign in the bathroom the place was foul. Upon exiting I took stock of the offerings on the line. Empty containers of hot dishes, a few peel and eat shrimp on the HOT line, an empty crab leg bin, wilty salad stuff and a bus cart with a cookie sheet of “sushi” on the bottom shelf. I went up to the young man wiping down the ice cream freezer (hard and dip-your-own) and asked if I could get some fresh sushi and oysters. He went over and pulled the tray from it’s cock-angled home on the bottom of the bus cart and placed it back on the ice. Telling me it had just been taken off a minute ago. While I knew it had been at the very least 5+ minutes because of my trip to the privy upon my arrival and I had noticed it the empty cold case where seafood would have resided. Not to mention he pulled tongs out of a dirty bus tub for me to use to score my rancid booty.
I promptly left the establishment with a “thanks, but no thanks.”
I am not a snob… I know where I was.
But even cheap Chinese buffets have to abide by rules… or at least keep the appearances that they are.