King Mongolian Grill Restaurant

I go here once a week. Love the pricing & the fact that they charge by the bowl, not the weight. Sometimes I wish they would be more on top of cleaning around the buffet food area, but I’ve been there enough to recognize it just depends on who’s working. (That’s why I gave 4 stars).
Other than that — taste, price & location are all why I go here a lot. Would def recommend it.
By the way, beers are Huge & cheap & you get free, tasty spring rolls with your dinner bowls :)

Food here is delicious!!! I love the choices of meat, vegetables and sauce. The sauce is important! They have a dozen different sauce ingredients and have recipes above them. As you try a few different ones you might develop your own favorite recipe as well! It’s great because you can control exactly how the site fly is going to taste!

Very poor service. Bad food there’s no taste to it. Will not go back again. I will not recommend to anyone not unless you just want a full meal at a low price.

Inexpensive and healthy food. Nice staff. Eat here regularly, leave happy every time.

All you can eat. Great Value. Staff are nice. Could improve on the ventilation. Fill it UP!

Great food, decent service, fair prices. It’s even «fun» to make the food with the novel sauce system where you make a sauce out of 15 individual components (think sesame oil, peanut sauce, teriyaki, etc).
The place can get a bit messy when it’s a busy lunch or dinner rush, but that’s to be expected with this type of cuisine.

First, disregard any review prior to 2014. There’s new ownership and they deserve a fresh start. The last owners left you Gavin to check Fraser Health’s list of code violations rather than Unilocal!before eating here as it was shut down half the time.
This place is good. Not great, not bad. It’s good. It’s a place you go for lunch nearby for under $ 10 and not really a destination worth leaving home for.
It’s tough to rate the food on account of it being a DIY place, but the selection is decent. The meat isn’t top grade and their smaller venue means it’s cooked from frozen versus recently-​thawed or fresh so it can be a bit tough.
It’s good enough for lunch, not a destination, and that’s about it. Nothing too special or too crazy with a nice staff.

Food is quite decent here. Nothing too fancy but wholesome and fresh every time I have gone here to eat. The portions are a good size. I usually get the lunch special medium bowl. There’s no point going for the large bowl unless you plan on fasting for the next 30 days!!! Huge portions. My only complaint is the décor of the restaurant. While I don’t mind the Genghis Khan era wall mural, I just find the over all dinning experience to feel run-​down and a little un-​sanitary. They gotta get rid of that intense yellow-​orange paint. Its has to be the most unpleasant color to look at while eating! Don’t mean to be too picky here, but these are simple and fundamental things I feel are important when running an eating establishment.

First, I love the Mongolian style. The Monglie BBQ on Denman was a favorite for years when I was dating. It quickly removed the high maintenance from the pool of potential relationship candidates.
POCO’s King Mongolian is much the same. No flash no sparkle but good food with low additives (sauces are your only question mark) and lots of it.
We’ve been several time and all you can eat dinner for two for under $ 25 with all fresh vegetables and as much meat as you can pile in the bowl is a great deal.
Last visit made me a little nervous as the staff seemed the have neglected to observe any of their food safety standards. In particular hand washing! After a quick comment this was fixed while we were there but it’s something to watch for certain!
As I said the is no glamour here but fresh do it yourself flavors and lots of food. Hear the pitchers of draft are cheap too if you’re looking for beer.

Great food and friendly staff. Grab a bowl, pick the meat you want, pick the veggies you want, pick the noodles to go with it, then choose the spices you want, as much or as little as you want. I have the perfect combo of these that I have found by experimenting. I have probably eaten here at least 300 times. Other friends have tried it once and have not liked it. It will only be as good as you make it. The first time I ate here the staff assisted me and asked me if I wanted it sweet, spicy, sour, salty and it turned out incredibly awesome. My whole point is that your food will only be as good as you make it. Come try it out. You will be hooked.
Tim Killen

Very nice! All the ingredients were high-​quality and fresh, and the server was helpful and patient with us. Reasonable prices and a lot of food. I liked their recipe chart, but I felt like I was in the way because it took a bit of time to scoop the right amounts of sauces and there were people in line behind me. Not sure what they could have done about that, though. Overall, very impressive.

Great place to go to get a lot of food and not empty out your wallet. They also serve huge beers for only 1.99. Great place to go for a cheap dinner before going downtown or to a bar. The service is ok, and the venue can feel kind of cramped but the food makes up for it.

…I’m not sure where to begin! We wanted to try something different in the TriCities area. We’ve been to something similar at Whistler, the Mongolian Grill. King Mongolian Grill Restaurant is new kid on the block ‘trying’ to cash in on the Mongolian Grill’s name and success!
King Mongolian Grill Restaurant is right in the middle of downtown PoCo’s Shaughnessy St. The restaurant is small, perhaps with a capacity of no more than 20 people in a cafeteria like ambience. It was very confusing when you walk in. Not sure if we were suppose to seat ourselves or wait to be seated. A hostess did finally appear out of the back and seated us. We were offered water or tea.
Off to the ‘all you can eat counter’… You have a choice of beef, pork, chicken or lamb in the protein corner. Great assortment of veggies! Then off to the sauce area. Hmmmm… the sauces were very diluted with water with the ingredients settled onto the bottom. Regardless of how much sauce to put into your bowl, all the sauces are lost by the way the cook cooks the food. The food it tossed onto the round grill one bowl at a time. The cook uses a pair of long chopsticks to move the food clockwise around the grill. All the sauce drips off the edge with this process. My son loves sauce and I got him a bowl of chicken and put in approximately a half bowl of teriyaki sauce. When the chicken was served to us… NO SAUCE! What happened to all the sauce! :-(
You get all the rice, soup, spring rolls and shrimp chips you can eat with your meal. My daughter ate 2 spring rolls and her comments — ‘…where’s the filling??!’ The soup was disgusting looking… greasy starchy vegetable soup. I didn’t try it but my son was brave enough to. He found it very sour. Guess it’s a sour vegetable soup.
I counted 4 people working at the restaurant — cook, hostess and 2 others in the backroom. The food counter was very messy — ingredients mixed in with others, the tongs were dirty and the sauce spoons were disgusting. It would make a world of a difference if the staff spends a few minutes maintaining this area.
At $ 11.95 per person, there is definitely better value some where else! There are many other choices in PoCo and Coquitlam areas. Our meal cost us $ 55 for a family of 4 — 2 adults and 2 teens. The big draw to King Mongolian Grill Restaurant is the $ 2.95 pitchers of beer! If this is your thing, perhaps this is the place to throw back a few pitchers!
There were only 16 customers occupying 5 tables. The waitress/​hostess was MIA until she brought out the rice, spring rolls and greasy sour vegetable soup. We saw the cook more than the waitress/​hostess. I give HIGH marks to the cook. He brings the food to your table when it’s cooked.
This is undoubtly this is our first and last time to the King Mongolian Grill Restaurant! Next time when I get the desire for this, I’ll drive up to Whistler for ‘real’ Mongolian Grill affair.

My husband and I are always looking to try something new and found this place using an IPhone app searching for nearby dining. What a find!
Upon entering, my first observation was that it was a low-​key kind of place with minimal thought for décor but what’s there absolutely served it’s purpose.
Having never been there before, it was a bit confusing but we got the hang of it quickly. First, you can choose a small bowl ($ 6.50) or large ($ 7.50), and start loading it with your choice of uncooked meat (s) i.e. beef, lamb, pork, chicken and a selection of fresh veggies. The next station is sauce. There’s a chart provided that clearly indicates the ingredients required to make a large selection of yummy sauces. I’ve posted a pic of the chart — Sounds a bit complicated but really, it isn’t. You give the overflowing bowl to the cook (Yes! Overflowing! We were challenged by staff to fill it to the bowls to the max) and he cooks it for you on a large, flat grill and brings it to your table. Will you’re choosing your ingredients, a small bowl of rice and a small bowl of miso-​like soup (per person) magically appears on your table. The food is to die for!
So, I mentioned prices above. There is an alternative where you can choose «all you can eat» for $ 11.50. My husband and I cannot eat another bite so we’ve never opted for the all you can eat. Bonus! No MSG added!
Service is quick so perfect for lunch or for a go to place if facing time constraints.
We’ve dropped in a few times since our initial visit and although quiet, there are always other patrons including people for take out. We’ve added this place to our favourites.