Golden Dragon buffet in Las Vegas is located in the Smith's shopping
center on the corner of Tropicana Ave. and Jones blvd. This buffet tries
to do the best that they can within a small store front which made me
feel real sorry for them and I really think I could have eaten them
straight into bankruptcy. The staff (Which I believe are husband and
wife) do keep the place very clean and are polite but that's where it
ends and the twilight zone begins.
I went for lunch which
there was just one other customer but then I seen the buffet table (Yes
One) at the back of the room. They offered 16 items including beef and
broccoli, chicken with string beans, shrimp toast, lo mein, veggie stir
fry, sweat and sour pork, fried rice, fried dumplings, lightly coated
shrimp with shell on and not cleaned (deveined) and spring rolls. They
also had two soups including hot and sour and wonton soup. They do not
have anything else, No Ice Cream or dessert, No Cookie at the end and
not even jello. I couldn't believe it that they did not give a fortune
cookie at the end, well that's because I was given the check right as I
sat down with my first plate.
Now for the food quality at the
Golden Dragon buffet starting with the beef and broccoli. They put nice
size pieces of beef in it which was very tender and seasoned very well
but they could have done a better trim job on the meat which is probably
why most other Chinese buffets use small pieces plus they just want to
be cheap on the offering. The broccoli was cooked just right but it
tasted like they must have cooked it in oyster sauce and it was nasty,
really. The beef did not have the oyster flavor so the broccoli must
have been cooked separately.
The chicken and string beans was
pretty good with juicy chicken and snappy beans, The shrimp toast had
no flavor of shrimp and was dry and hard like the salt flats in the
desert, sweat and sour pork was burnt and more like a BBQ burnt nugget,
The shrimp was a 15 minute battle to get the shell off and to scoop the
crap out which then left me with mashed shrimp (I should have used it as
a spread on my non shrimp toast).
This place might be ok if
the price was a few bucks cheaper and you only expect to find two things
you will enjoy and this might be the only Chinese buffet in the world
that does not have fortune cookies....... No Cookie For You!
R W
