Mandarin Garden Buffet Restaurant

Folks, have you ever thought you might be going to hell? I mean you haven’t exactly been innocent in your time here, and you figure like me, that the drinks might be better down there… so no big deal.
Well forget your hopeful notions of scantily clad she devils, evil tiki bar drinks, and warm licking flames… hell is here on earth, and its deceptively called «Mandarin Garden Chinese Buffet». Oh Satan, you little prankster.
The place looks like a dining room with oak and 90s dark wood panels, but don’t be fooled. It’s all plastic… all of it… everything. Forks look metal… no their not, table looks wood, no it’s plastic, ceramic plates, no they are plastic. Everything is plastic. It’s like a pilfered creepy movie set. You are confused. but Satan is only getting started.
The floors have those dark banquet carpets with confetti colour bits you remember from every wedding you ever went to in the 90s. They all ended up smeared into MGB, horribly stained covered, echoing the bitterness of celebrations past. The elevator music plays, as you scan the surroundings… and you realize that you are amongst barely functioning elderly, what can only be retired circus clowns, and possible hungover bronies and furries post clopping.
Everyone is slowly shuffling around an extended large metal table, like an chugging conveyor belt, sniffling and chuffing at the «food». This Buffet thing must be some kind of exquisite torture, and it looks like multicoloured slop in bright reds, yellows and greens with a shiny sheen of cornstarch. Satan’s finest blend of soggy French fries, egg rolls, tasteless sloppy dim sum, garbage oil noodles, pepper beef water, soggy yet hard broccoli, Carrie red sweet and sour pork things, and deep fried chicken knuckle looking masses. Everything taste less and with a deep flavour of depression.
For dessert, should Satan tempt you further, there are delectable dry already broken peanuts in shell bits, dollar store cookies that taste like nothing-​less sweet transchemicals, gas bar brownies, and wet wine gum candies. If your karma is strong, you may feel strong enough to attempt a scoop of ice cream from the dirty grease stained open freezer with ice cream scoops resting in a bucket of dirty water.
I knew our waitress must be in cahoots with the big red man, when she was so chipper refilling our plastic cups with water remarking on the nice day outside. You won’t get me, vile temptress!
I got out of there feeling dizzy and like I had a dirty little secret to keep. Coming home now an hour later I feel like Bishop with an alien about to burst from my gut.
Don’t be fooled. This storefront is really a portal to hell.

This place was great! Took my son and daughter last night and we all enjoyed it. My daughter was craving Chinese buffet so we searched the hotel directory and found this place advertised.
There was lots of variety food wise and something for every taste. I’m not much of a soup person but I tried the hot and sour based on another persons review. It was excellent! All dishes were nice and tasty. I enjoyed the sesame balls, the sticky rice wraps, dim sum, the Buddha vegetables and many other dishes.
Is this authentic Chinese? No. But it is good American style Chinese in a fast food style. It is an excellent value. The price at dinner was around $ 15 for adults which includes all you can eat plus sushi, salad and desserts as well. The kids prices were very reasonable too.
As for the service, it was also excellent. Everyone was really friendly and I enjoyed hearing the servers joke and interact with some of the older regular customers.
My daughter ordered a Roy Rogers drink and she loved it.
I would return to this buffet if I was in the area again.

First of all, this review is for the lunch buffet. Four of us ate and had tea for $ 40. How can you go wrong at that price for AYCE?! The salad bar items were pretty darn fresh, there were two types of mediocre «sushi», two rows of hot food, a dessert bar and self — serve ice cream. I had soup to start and let me say, I would drive a long time just to eat their hot and sour soup — it was incredible (maybe the best I’ve had)! There were a lot of decent vegetable dishes but the disappointment for me was the chicken and pork dishes. There were so many bones in these that it was a waste. Other good items were the dim sum, pork egg rolls, and the gyoza-​style dumplings. The place was clean and staff was friendly — I would go again!

Not terrible but it used to be a lot better. Food to order is much better than their buffet in my opinion.
The chow mein is extremely wet and oily. The sweet and sour chicken balls are kinda moist and taste like grease. The sweet and sour pork, while tasting fine, was made of rather horrible pieces of «meat.»
I will say that the vegetable egg rolls are still as good as they ever were.
It’s been less than good the last two or three times I’ve eaten there so I don’t think I’ll be going again.

Visiting family in White Rock (I’m from Texas) and spent some time online looking for a good Chinese AYCE buffet. Based on recommendations (not the one below, thank God!) from other sites, we drove about an hour to get to Mandarin Garden for lunch. It was well worth the drive.
The interior is very tastefully done, very clean and very well presented … unusual for a Chinese buffet joint. There is a small salad bar, but two longish rows and LOTS of various Chinese dishes. I loved the wonton soup … had 3 bowls of that. The curry chicken on rice was yummylicious. There’s a small selection of dimsum, all you can eat too! All the food was very very good and delicious and authentic. There was such a good selection we didn’t eat all of what was displayed. There are bottles of sauces and other spices on top of the separation between the two rows of food. I added hot pepper sauce for that zing which I like.
We found out that the owner is Chinese from Malaysia. I highly recommend this place if you have time for a leisurely drive out to Abbotsford. It is well worth it. Will visit again next time I’m in town, in a couple of months.

Food is microwaved than sent out used to be good not my last order the pork was so old it was black when i bit into it i know they mirovaved it if eating in than its fine