Camellia Buffet, Honolulu, Hawaii, Asian Restaurant Details

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THE BEST KOREAN BUFFET UUUUUUUUUUM UUUUUUA!!!!!

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my guests, my wife and I enjoyed our dinner

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The service and food were OK, and the prices decent for a buffet. I prefer Makino Chaya.

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The food was good and the atmosphere was nice. The decor could use an upgrade and is in need of comfortable seating. The service was slow but friendly. The kids had fun with their self service and enjoyed the ice cream. Try the Kalbi beef (my favorite) along with the Korean sweet tea.

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Wooooooooooow. I had a terrible experience here.

I went with my husband and two friends, and it is the first time I have ever left a restaurant WITHOUT leaving a tip.

OK, I'm Chinese, so I'm not expecting fawning, amazing service at places like these because I'm used to brusque service at restaurants. What is important is their efficiency, and the Chinese are damn good at that lol. But there wasn't any service to be had. Our plates just sat, gathering dust. Our cups (and throats) sat, unquenched and parched.

We went an hour before closing. We had just gotten our first plates when the lady came over and said that they were closing and that it was our last chance to get food, and HAD TO PAY. So I gave her my card to ring up. She brought back the slip, and while we were debating about what to give as tip (my friends at this point have already been horrified by the service and were telling me to leave very little), the lady came back and reached over, declaring, "YOU DONE?" I grabbed it back from her, but at that point, I finally made the decision to not even leave a tip and just handed it back to her. I mumbled something about leaving cash, and she walked off.

The meat was meh, the sides were meh...the food was just meh. It's not even worth the effort to decribe. Meh. Our whole experience was so bad that I can't even remember the food. I spent the entire time anxious about what the lady in the restaurant was doing--I didn't even enjoy the lunch. I just know that nothing really was TOO terrible. Oh wait, no the tofu was really bad. I left my tofu untouched on my plate. The sides at Peppa's taste better than the ones here.

Our grill wasn't the best either. One side of it wasn't working well, and I ended up having to cram my meat onto my husband's section.

The lady started sweeping, and she would purposely come right by our table, multiple times. She would then ask something (I have no idea because she just barked something incoherent), and then leave. She wouldn't even take a single dish with her. I was getting really uncomfortable, and wanted to leave since she clearly wanted us out the damn door. My friend had a different plan, "I DARE her to ask us to leave!" Haha.

And when we left? I didn't leave any cash tip on the table. I had a harsh inner turmoil for a little bit, but I'm over it. I'm pretty upset I even had to pay $18/person for that lunch.

When we left, I looked at my phone and it was 2:40. We hadn't even been there TOO late. The way the lady was acting, it was like we left at 4pm!

I was spoiled by the other Camellia Buffet, the one on Beretania. Why oh why did they have to close down? Their selection was 10 times better! And I never had a complaint about their service. The ladies at that Camellia's were so nice :)

I will never come back here!