I love Chinese food. I had virtually given up trying to find a good chinese buffet in Utah County when I found then reviews for Lotus. When I found that it had Mongolian BBQ and outstanding reviews on this site my wife and I went staight over for lunch. The service was not good at all as we waited almost 10 minutes and were through an entire plate of food before our drinks came. The food was very dissapointing...dry from heat lamp, old, poor selection. The sad part was that some of the items tasted like if they were fresh they would be somewhat nice.\r
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The worst part came when we tried the Mongolian BBQ bar. Very limited choice of ingredients with no one available to help us, but worst of all there was a crawly creature that rhymes with Poach (this website will not allow you to use that word in a post) crawling around the food bar. When I noticed it, it wasn't in the food, when it did try to get into the food I tried to knock it away. When I told the employee he DIDN'T even care!!!\r
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If you have ever been to a truly good Chinese Buffet, don't waste your time going here. I have been in the kitchens of a lot of restaurants and as a general rule, whatever the front rates on a scale of 1 to 10 the kitchen is a good 5 or 6 points lower (yes even for some of the very expensive ""Fancy"" places. One R to the O to the ACH in the food out front means I DON""T WANT TO SEE THE KITCHEN!!! \r
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I will NEVER eat there again and the only person I will recomend visit this place in the near future is the health inspecter. Maybe I will tell Johnny Walker of Seatle, Washinton to eat there before it gets shut down. Man I hate that guy!!
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