Wonderful Buffet

We couldn’t pick a worse timing to have a Seattle road-trip. The first day of Easter long weekend, on top of Suzuki Ichiro was throwing the first pitch at the Mariners open, and not to mention the Sakura festival also happening at the same time. We were stuck in traffic for six hours! We could have flown down to LA and back! We were starving and arrived Wondeful Buffet 27 minutes before 3pm. The waiter reminded us at the door that if we decided to have lunch, we only got 27 minutes. They will charge us dinner price if they found us taking the wrong food after 3pm. Sure. Their price was not bad either way. One thing I love about Chinese buffet is that Chinese buffet is not really a popular thing back in Asia, but something created by Chinese immigrants. The idea was for foreigners to try as many Chinese cuisines as possible. The concept worked. We basically cleaned out their shrimps, clams and mussels. Stuffed and satisfied.

The worst tasting Chinese food I have ever had. The chicken was slimy and tough. The rice was undercooked almost still raw. The Mongolian beef was to tough to chew and also slimy. The veggies were not cooked at all and cut so big they were inedible. They forgot or sweet and sour sauce which would’ve at least let us hide the nasty taste of the food. The crab rangoons would’ve been good if you just wanted a cheese Rangoon cause there was nothing close to crab in it. And on top of all that they forgot the fortune cookies which wouldn’t be a big deal if the food wasn’t so awful. I will never eat there again.

Wonderful Chinese Buffet in Bellingham has really good food. The restaurant manager is really nice. I have talked to the manager to reserve ahead of time for a large group of orchestra students plus 7 chaperones and the Director, he was always really helpful. The restaurant is quite large, lots of food; there are 2 sections of the restaurant, he gave us 1 whole section of the restaurant which was a great idea with teenagers being hungry and tired after a whole day performance.

Good value for a buffet. The food is fine, some odd things but overall good. Sadly the ice cream machine was broken. The washrooms are clean, no complaints there. The staff were very friendly and they cleared our plates are refilled our water really fast. I was impressed at the size of the restaurant. It was massive and had to sections at either end. The parking lot is also massive. Overall, everything was fine.