Wok-N-Roll Buffet

Food was cold and lacked distinctive flavor. A large assortment of options if you like chicken. Minimal vegetarian options. No vegan options on buffet.

In town a few weeks for work nearby. 5* from me here simply due to rating this place for what this place IS… a good quick stop Chinese buffet/​take out joint. It is QUICK food, fresh, hot for the most part, & fairly clean. They use shallow pans for a lot of the dishes in the buffet to keep food on a fresher rotation & fairly hot. Good & plenty of choices for such a seemingly small ‘looking’ buffet area! Items like egg rolls are really good but if you’re getting the last few on the pan they been in there a while so won’t be so fresh/​hot, some items just aren’t consumed/​refreshed as quick as others. All the staples seem to be in place… love the potstickers, pork egg rolls, peppered shrimp, muscles, crunchy green beans, mushrooms, broccoli, bourbon chicken, etc. Like the good self serve ice cream included in the buffet in the summer too! Price to product is good value IMO. You can be eating within minutes of walking in, which is really nice if you’ve been working 10+ hrs that day. Definitely better than the other Chinese place in town which I’ve tried before.

Amazing buffet. The food was fresh and they kept the buffet full. The price was great for this buffet and all the choices they offer.

A pleasant surprise in the middle of nowhere. Had dinner there on a Friday night and enjoyed my meal. This buffet could hold its place against buffets in Minneapolis. The food was fresh, warm, and well seasoned.
Among the notable dishes were the black pepper shrimp and the dumplings. The hot and sour soup was a little watery but had good taste. Disappointed that there no wok seared fried rice. The service was attentive, and dirty plates were promptly cleared. A nice ice cream selection was offered. This family friendly restaurant is worth consideration.

My husband and I work in the Food & Beverage industry, so the most important thing for us is cleanliness. If the dining room and restrooms are clean, that means the kitchen is clean. And this place is squeaky clean.
The food is good, not spectacular, but good and it was fresh and new pans were replacing empties quickly. On another comment site, there was a comment complaining that they don’t fill the pans. Good. There is a reason for that. It ensures that the food is always fresh, because what’s in the pan will be eaten quickly and more will be made, little will be wasted and nothing gets cold. You always want the pans to be replaced quickly, not sitting forever.
The buffet area was always being wiped down and cleaned. These people care about the food they are serving.
My only complaint is this — as a mother of 3 small children, there is no changing table in the bathroom. Our infant son needed his diaper changed and there was no place to change him. We had to go to a gas station down the road.
We stopped here as a midway point between visiting family in North/​Central Minnesota and our home in Iowa. And we will definitely come here again on our travels.

No sushi. No hibachi grill. No cold shrimp. I was so disappointed. I know that this is a Chinese buffet and that they are not really supposed to have sushi, but most of the buffets that I go to have a very small selection, and they most always have cold shrimp available. This place had neither. What a bummer.
The jalapeño chicken was delicious and had a good kick to it. I’d also recommend the black pepper shrimp as it was the best thing on the menu. Hands down. They also offer banana pudding, cheesecake, coffee cake and a nice selection of fruit.
The service was pretty great and I liked how they are located directly next door to a Walmart which makes it easy for us to park our semi and walk across. You can also park on the street and walk a short distance inside.
This wasn’t phenomenal food, but it was fresh and hot and cheap. 22 $ for a nice dinner in a clean restaurant with constant re-​fills and friendly staff, I’ll take it.

The food was… OK. The service was… OK. The general feel of this place was… OK.
I can’t give this place more than an OK rating because that’s how I felt the entire time I was here. The food is very middle of the road, the décor made me feel like I was sitting in a Chinese Themed mid-90’s diner, and the service was very spotty. They cleared the plates just fine but having to ask every time for a re-​fill, and I never did get those chopsticks I asked for.
My favorite parts of the meal were the two different kinds of chicken that were literally the exact same. The General Tso and Sesame chicken are different only if you put your own sesame seeds on top of either. The wontons were alright, but don’t bother with the egg rolls.
Oh and as a piece of advice… if you find a hair in your food that is most obviously not yours? (My hair is red, the hair in question was BLACK). Don’t bother mentioning it to the guy at the counter at checkout, he will yell at you to tell you that it was obviously your own hair.
The sit down chinese restaurant is WAY better.

For a Chinese Buffet, this place was pretty good. I have been to a few terrible buffets back in California, and some very good Chinese restaurants. The food is very good. Very nice lunch time establishment. I would go back again. Lo mei fun is delicious!

Awesome buffet, not traditional by any sense of the word. Majority of their dishes are chicken (I especially like the jalapeño chicken and general tso’s chicken). They even mix it up with some other totally left field dishes as well. Like the mozzarella sticks (which surprisingly I like when its not sitting out for hours), macaroni and cheese, they even have garlic bread there!
To be honest, the staff is friendly and takes your plates right when you finish. But the food will never «wow» you, but there is always this little place in you that says «man I gotta have some wok n roll». Trust me, plenty of people who eat there often will tell you the same thing.
Did I tell you about the ice cream? They have a ice cream bar and some weird desserts that just do not look appetizing at all, but I think one day I will have to courage to actually try them.
So, if you are not a fan of traditional Chinese but love food like Panda Express, then this is your place to eat. At $ 7 a person w/​drink at lunch time and $ 10 a person w/​drink at dinner, it will not hurt the pocket book either!