Mings Palace Restaurant - Williams Lake

Ming is one of the first restaurants I've ever eaten after I moved here as a child, and we still love it today. Buffet every day, and everything from the menu is great and made fast!

I'm usually not a fan of buffet restaurants, but at least here at Ming's they keep the food quite well in stock. Prices are reasonable and the service is usually quite good.

I have never felt less valued as a customer. We were cold and wet after driving through a nasty snowstorm. We called a half hour ahead was told it would be 20 minutes. Past experience told us that being 10 minutes late would be just about right. When we arrived, the front entrance was full of people waiting for their late orders. Slowly, they all got their orders. The woman at the front desk seemed unable to find my order, and was slammed with people ordering, picking up, and paying for their meals. I ended up waiting a full half hour in the dingy waiting area. We ended up getting our food a full 40 minutes after they said it would be ready. When I finally got my food, I asked for a discount. The woman asked the manager, but no luck. It wasn't her who took the order (or anyone else's who was waiting), but she was totally getting someone else's mistakes dumped on her. The food was okay, but not great.

Ordered the chicken chow mien and received noodles with strips of deli lunch meat on it. Wings were cold and slightly soggy, beef and broccoli was the only yummy part of the meal. Not impressed!

I cant believe they chopped up sandwich chicken processed meat into little strips and gave it to us and called it chicken chow mein. We should have left, but were so shocked that we stayed. This is unbelievable, but I wish I took pictures...