Golden City Buffet

I am a regular customer and I always find the food to be good for the bucks and the service to be impeccable. The staff is a nice couple who are always nice and they go out of their way to help, no matter how busy it is. It is not a fancy place but it is also not expensive. The menu has excellent selection of dishes for a very cheap price. It is remarkable how fast they fill dishes once they are out.

I love this place! I have visited Asian buffets all over the US and this is as good as any of them, and better than most. Good quality food, clean standard atmosphere. They even have some dishes you don’t normally get like coconut shrimp, and salmon ( or other types of fish), and a great selection of desserts. The best value for the money of any restaurant in Monroe WA

Best buffet in town. Can not beat the price. $8.99 per person for lunch and $11.99 for dinner. The quality of food is really good comparing to other Chinese buffet places I had. The vibe is relaxing and unique. The staff is friendly and great. They even let the 2 highschool students eat for $5 total because the boys did not have enough. What a good human being!!! I’d recommend this restaurant to anyone I know.

Regrettably, Golden City Buffet earned Silver status this visit. I arrived at 7pm, there was hardly anyone there beyond another couple. The waitress sat me down and took my drink order of water but was not seen often through my meal. Selection is not large which was nice. General Tsao Chicken has nice flavour and so did the other chicken dishes I tried including Chicken on a Stick, Peanut Chicken, Salt & Pepper Chicken, and the Teriyaki Chicken. Beef with Broccoli was tough to chew, but nonetheless still good. The coconut shrimp was sticky to chew and the buttered seafood was a bit dry (some of the shrimps still had their tails to them), though the bacon wrapped shrimps were divine! The Crab Ragoons a bit overdone, the first few were dried out, but the second few were nice and warm. A constant during my meal was many items not hot, only warm if at best. I had one of the sweet rolls, it was warm and soaked up the oil it was friend in. There was a variety of deserts including apple pie, cupcakes, actual cake slices, mini peanut butter cookies, and soft serve “ice cream”. The apple pie broke the moment I picked it up and had a bitter flavour (think of a cleaning chemical sprayed near you) and I had to dispose of it, the cupcake frosting was delicious but the cake itself was dry. The cake slice had rich chocolate flavour while the peanut butter cookies had more of the peanuts than peanut butter flavouring. The soft serve “ice cream” was sour (think vanilla frozen yogurt) with candy toppings leftover from Valentine’s day (they had those candy hearts with messages on it!) Overall, personally I might not return soon to Golden City; however, I encourage you to try them out for yourself and see how you like them, especially if you’re in town for the Evergreen State Fair.