I mean you can always sit down with a pile of fried shrimp and load up on clams and get your money’s worth, but the other place has way more options that Hazlet doesn’t, like peel and eat shrimp and the hibachi bar. But whoever is doing the interior definitely is doing a good Their lunch was 12.99 I believe. It’s interesting because they all have slight variations on the name and their own web site. I just checked their yelp page and the interior setup looks the same! It must be some kind of franchise type setup. Since they opened post-Covid, I was under the impression they had new owners based on advertising I saw on Route 35 but I could be wrong (the originals ran the Middletown and Eatontown locations).ĭo you remember how much they charged? I remember five years ago they were getting what far larger and better buffets were charging which I thought was asinine. I don’t mean this any certain way, but I felt back then that the majority of their clientele was not quite concerned with quality and the owners know that. I know its a buffet and you can eat all you want, but damn, you are allowed to go back a second time. Not that I was there frequently, but the few times I was, I literally saw people piling mounds of food maybe six inches high onto their plates. You could tell they were just going through the motions. I created this thread in 2019 and have not been there since probably a year or two before that. They’ve had that “old shitty vibe” for a while now. Now this place is totally sad in comparison, it’s worn down, has that old shitty vibe. I really hope we get some more buffets coming back. I was surprised to experience this, as I always expected all buffet/takeout quality Chinese food to basically be all the same. Going to both these places back to back, I think I ultimately enjoyed the sadder Hazlet buffet better, mostly because what they did have just tasted better. However I do enjoy their selection and a lot of their foods are quite tasty. Their mongolian grill station is permanently shut down, and it just feels like one of those old sad dying places. Next - is a place I’ve been going to for a while, Hazlet China Buffet. It looks nice and impressive, but why is my calamari cold when the buffet just opened? Shouldn’t it have been fried (even if reused from previous day) right as it came out? Still, based on price and selection I think I will definitely be returning for dinner buffet, it looks like they have things like crab and oysters, and at their prices it will pay for itself just on the oysters I will be eating. And they don’t have a sauce selection so it’s always the same flavor.Ī lot of the food is presented at opening in a heaping pile, and as a result much of it was not quite hot enough. In my entire existence on earth I can’t think of a single other time I didn’t finish my meat because it was too chewy. The beef at the mongolian station was so chewy it was literally inedible. However the yumminess of the food left me a little dissatisfied. They had some kind of braised beef in gravy thing that looked promising but it was so chewy it was a total dud. They also have a large “American” food selection that I had no interest in. The sushi wasn’t horrible (bottom tier but I enjoyed it), and any time there’s a mongolian grill I can eat my entry’s worth just in shrimp so it’s hard to complain. The selection is enormous, they have a sushi station as well as a hibachi/mongolian grill station. And the price is insane, 10.99 for lunch. There’s a bunch of these around the state with minor variances in the name, it seems to be some kind of loose chain? įirst of all this place is immaculate, huge and just really nice. First one I went to was Flaming Grill in Linden. The other day I had 2 buffet lunches back to back. So I’ve been borderline obsessing over buffets lately, this post covid buffet situation has really got me down.
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