Shanghai Mandarin Restaurant: (in kamloops)
all you can eat lunch buffet chinese food is $12 (garbage in my chinese eyes, but locals love it)
The chef saw me as the Asian guy coming in and chatted with me in Cantonese and Mandarin; I ordered off the menu and the noodles were al dante (so so good); and their spicy marinated sichuan peppercorn sauce chicken was to die for.
LOVED it there, what an amazing find. 9/10 for me; would go back for sure.