Asian Buffet & Grill

Seriously grosses me out. I have given this place three times to wow me and it has gotten worse each time! Not clean, bugs, just not worth it. One positive is their variety there is a lot of different things to try but scared of catching something doe to the uncleanliness.

Readers, please understand I would give this place a 2.5 if I could.
Three stars on my scale is pretty good.
Ok, I’m going to cut to the chase here. My husband and I came here, despite the one star only reviews. The other two establishments we tried to go to for lunch were closed for the holiday.
We were seated, it was packed and we went for our first round.
I found some great things such as the pepper chicken. I was impressed to discover they actually used proper Chinese «huajiao» peppercorns in it. First big plus for me.
I shamelessly love crab rangoon and that funky red sauce and I was completely satisfied here.
Ummm, what else did I have that I liked? The pickled octopus tentacles and… oh my god, how could I possibly forget — -FROG LEGS!!! Awesomeness. They were nicely breaded, peppered and warm.
But then I made the mistake of looking to my left and seeing a few vultures panting around the crab leg pan. In a flash, the kitchen staff exchanged the old pan for a new pan full of steaming crab legs.
A little female vulture grabbed those tongs and just started piling her plate high.
Then a little higher.
And then, yep you guessed it, a little higher.
By this time I’d say there was a quarter left in the pan.
I carefully took one select crab leg. One.
I returned to my table and silently ate my first round. Drank some tea and decided to go one more time after a bit.
Again, I went for the tasty pepper chicken and some green beans (yum!!!)
What do you know, but the same greedy crab leg hoarder lady was back at it again.
Deja vu. Complete repeat of previous hoarding behavior. Plate ¾ths full and wasn’t really stopping this time.
I said, «Hi. Ummm there are other people eating at this restaurant and we are all paying the same price. Not to mention, this is the second time I’ve watched you do this.»
She just shrugged and seemed to think I was funny for calling her out on that.
I walked back to my seat and just SMH.
I really implore this place to set up some kind of special crab station where you either have a scale and someone weighing what you took and that way you can pay extra. OR have an option of non-​crab buffet price. Again, this would require you to have a separate crab station.
Either way, this is really not fair to the other customers.
We should be civilized people by now, but it looks like there are still a few savages out there.
So, let’s not ruin it for every one else and put some kind of rule or exception when it comes to those greedy hoarders.
Also, I will say this. The wait staff was very nice to us. We joked around a little bit and I found them to be far more pleasant than some of the other Asian troughs (sorry, buffet!) I’ve been to.
Thank you for reading.

Last time we went, our waitress we in the bathroom stall next to mine (I could tell because she was trying hard to dislodge a lugie), and left the restroom without washing her hands. We can get go-​him Chinese elsewhere.

On July 3^rd, 2013 me and my partner visited this restaurant. Crawling behind me on the booth was a cockroach!!! I immediately jumped up and warned the waiter who saw the cockroach said ok and walked away. She understood English the entire time we were there so no mistake plus she saw it with her own eyes. They never apologized never got rid of the bug just left it roaming around!

I live in Dayton and have been here 2 times in the past 4 months, which is 2 times too many. This is close to many hotels on the Miller Lane strip and I want to warn everyone to stay away. The only reason my wife like the chineese buffets are the crab legs that are offered. Our first visit a few months back was on a Wednesday evening and the crab legs were rubbery and soft from sitting in the water way too long. We thought perhaps it was just an off night for them. We returned the other night on a Friday evening thinking they would be a little busier and therefore the crab legs would be turning over a little faster and perhaps be better. WRONG, my wife said they were worse than the first time around, and the melted butter to dip them in was even worse. It tasted more like butter flavored oil than butter. The kids tried the pizza and it wasn’t much better, cold and dried out cheese. If you must go here I would suggest to stick with the grill, it’s not too bad, Fresh veggies and chicken and beef are the offerings and they will grill it while you wait. Other than the grill this place leave much to be desired.