Best Chinese Buffet

Okay guys I know this is a challenge as most all buffets I have ever been too seem to have come from the same place. I believe the owners pick a place and then call a factory in china and order a chinese buffet in a box. Then 4-6 weeks later a large box arrives with all the same booths and buffet menus as every other chinese buffet in town complete with a huddled mass of servers with such names as maple. My wife enjoys chinese buffets every now and again but is extremely picky and has yet to find one that whe would really want to goto more than once. So any thoughts on what your favorites may be.

I view them all to be the same. I don't really like any of them. With great, inexpensive Chinese restaurants around like Oriental House I see no point in wasting my dollars on bad food simply because I could get LOTS of bad food.

No local buffet has really good food across the board. I find each one has a dish or two that really stands out but is surrounded by a sea of mediocrity. I'm with Carla, order from the menu at your favorite place.

Dim Sum @ Jade Palace is very good. While not a buffet it comes as close to a "buffet" type experience in that you pick and choose among many savory bites. It's in the recently rehabilitated Camelot Center (which I'm sure has a trendy new name which will always escape me. Lets just say it is down the street and around the corner from the old Sears building. )

We've recently given up on Chinese buffets. Not that we were going to them often before, but every once in a while the craving hit... There's one near my office in Frankfort that I still think is decent, but every time I try one in louisville since the demise of China Town (which I hadn't even been to since LONG before it's closing) I'm very disappointed. Oh well, no big loss. It was the rare craving these days any way.

Many of these Chinese buffets are being investigated and/or prosecuted for hiring kitchen staffs that are entirely comprised of illegal immigrants. It seems to me that the food at most of these buffets is no better than what you could get in the freezer section at Kroger. It would be nice if one or two of them offered lots of well-made and interesting Chinese dishes. I stopped going when I saw bad frozen pizza, potato skins, and hot dogs on the buffet.

There is one in Shelbyville just about across from the Wal Mart and Lowes...There is a waffle House in the front. I think that it is called Chinise Dragon...They have a good one...I remember years ago Chinatown off of Dutchman ls Lane was the best around town...but as a lot of places do they go down hill over time....

I work in the same shopping center as the recently opened 8 Chinese Buffet on Hurstbourne Lane. Having lived in Las Vegas for a few years, I can honestly say it took less time to build the Wynn Hotel and Casino than it did to convert an old Damon's into a Chinese buffet.

We were looking forward to having a different place for lunch or after work, but it's just like all the other places in town. They have school lunch chicken tenders, sub-Totino's pizza, and sliced bananas in some sort of red gelatinous slurry. A few of the Chinese dishes are ok, but nothing spectacular.

Since our son's 2nd favorite words are Chinese buffet, we have been to several. None are great, but the one that is better is the Asian Buffet next to Target on Bashford Manor Lane. They have decent sushi, the food is turned over frequently, a small seafood section of shrimp, oysters, crablegs and mussels, a grill at dinner. The other one I thought was OK was Dragon Garden ( I think!) on Brownsboro near Thai Taste, where Babylon used to be. We have only been there once, but they had some really good vegatables as I recall.

Anyone been to the place in Mid-City Mall? It's huge! I've passed by but have never eaten there.

Jay, I took my kids to the one in Mid cCty before a movie. It was not as bad as Chinatown on the last visit, but nothing memorable for sure.

The best long-running we've found is on LIme Kiln between 42 and 22. They actually change their menu on occasion, during the week have frog legs and other more interesting items, and their seafood buffet on weekends - while mainly fried - does have lobster and some other items.

Best rule of thumb: go to any new buffet the first two weeks it's open! To get people in, they'll have much better food, more costly ingredients, et al (eg: duck instead of chicken)

All the above given, I'd still go to Oriental House, Liang's, or others unless we just have a "quantity" craving in which case we go to Lime Kiln.

This is a bit OT, some may find this amusing!
We like to call eating at buffets as "being slopped".

Dynasty Buffet is the best, imo. They have a much larger variety than the standards and everything is usually kept very fresh and clean.

The best long-running we've found is on LIme Kiln between 42 and 22. They actually change their menu on occasion, during the week have frog legs and other more interesting items, and their seafood buffet on weekends - while mainly fried - does have lobster and some other items.

Best rule of thumb: go to any new buffet the first two weeks it's open! To get people in, they'll have much better food, more costly ingredients, et al (eg: duck instead of chicken)

All the above given, I'd still go to Oriental House, Liang's, or others unless we just have a "quantity" craving in which case we go to Lime Kiln.

I agree- it is the only one I have gone to and actually enjoyed.

Anyone been to the place in Mid-City Mall? It's huge! I've passed by but have never eaten there.

I went to this place a couple of weeks ago.. it was truly disgusting. Despite trying almost everything on the buffet, i couldnt find a single palpable dish. yick.