Ho Wah Restaurant

Reviews

• Ted B.

  star star star star_border star_border 28 May 2026

  This is a small Chinese buffet. It has a standard selection of traditional choices with a few "American" selections thrown in. All of the food was fresh and hot, and I enjoyed everything I tried. The staff is friendly, and they were quick with drink refills. I've seen some reviews call the place dirty, in reality it is more just worn and dated. Everything is clean, it just needs a bit of renovation.
  
  If you are looking to be impressed by an amazing experience on your Myrtle Beach vacation, you will surely be disappointed. If you are looking for a quick meal at a reasonable price so you can get back to the beach, you will walk out the door happy and full.

• Don F.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 15 May 2026

  Not the worst, not the best.  Small Buffett.  Food choices were ok.  Some didn't look edible.  The ones that did were ok.  Staff were friendly and attentive.  
  
  In this area, there area other places to try that are probably better.

• Kalinda T.

  star star star star_border star_border 8 May 2026

  Pretty pricey, not a lot of options usually when I go to buffet there are so many options especially for vegetarians. Very small and were not offered and refills and no one checked in with us to see if we needed more drinks or anything. The food was ok, the muscles were really good I enjoyed them. I don't think if we visited South Carolina we would come back here due to the price and limited selections.

• Drew K.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 7 May 2026

  Me and my daughter decided to visit this place tonight. SURPRISE! while trying to find a good chinese place here in MB since we moved here. It was HO-WAH  chance to impress.  NOT IMPRESSED.  workers were fine, and attentive to the customers, BUT!  small buffett ( not a problem) but the food was not cooked properly, Fried rice almost broke my teeth, it sat to long, Sweet and sour chicken wasn't cooked fully to a crisp.     Fried shrimp wasn't fried, and the cocktail sauce, well I have no clue what it was, never seen watery cocktail sauce before. Though the people around us seem to be fine with the food, we wanted and expected more.  Sad that this place could have been a regular place for us.  Need to freshen up the food, make it cleaner and upgrade the place. You will get away with it when it is tourist time, but not regulars.

• Matt D.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 6 May 2026

  This place isn't so bad.  There are pretty shady peeps in here so no, this is by no means an upscale Chinese dining establishment.  They do a to go buffet and it attracts you know, the type of person who wants to stuff as much food as they possibly can in a styrofoam container to avoid paying 2.00 for a soda or having to leave 1.00 tip.  
      The clientele is the working type.  Construction guys, road crews, landscapers.  
      Plenty of the usuals is what to expect.  Nothing exotic and if you were expecting more from a 6.75 buffet, you are a fool.  Egg Fool Young perhaps.  I like to get some chicken, brocolli, a few Rangoons, and egg roll and pour some of the pink on it and I'm good to go.  It was fine.  And yes they have the mystery chickens and porks, which were also fine.  
      Would have given it 3 stars until I used the restroom.  Pretty nasty inside.  Yea, the clientele is nasty, but a little effort wouldn't hurt.  Granted, I didn't go there to shit, it just happened.  But if the restrooms look like that, guarantee other things look like that too.