We've been looking for some decent chinese food since our local favorite, China Lane, closed up. The restaurant has 4 seperate buffets. The obligatory "salad" bar with some fruit and desserts and ice cream, The Full Chinese bar which had a good selection of several classic dishes, The Seafood bar, I mostly stayed away from that one, and a Sushi Bar.
I had a bit of everything, and DH had some sushi. I had been craving some egg foo young, and that was one of the first things that I grabbed. It seemed reminiscient of a funnel cake, but with veggies in it. Giving it the benefit of the doubt, I added some sauce. Normally it is served with a lovely gravy, but this was barely even sauce. It had a hint of the flavor of the normal gravy, but it was disappointing. I decided that the Egg foo young was more like a tempura. Next up, was the General Tsao's Chicken. Now, this was very good. Sweet, but it had a good spicy kick to follow up. Fried Rice.....not so much. Just some yellow rice with veggies in it. Next up, wonton soup. I found it odd that they even had this on the buffet at all. They usually don't put those types of things out, as there are certain types of people that will take a bowl full of wontons and no broth. Lucky for me, someone decided to put it out there. The wontons were perfect. DH and I were split on the pot stickers. I thought that they were pretty good. They had a good flavor, but they didn't have any of the sauce to dip them. DH tried them with soy sauce, and thought that they were bland. Melissa enjoyed the Green Beans which were a perfect al dente and some chicken and broccoli. I was also really hoping to have a good eggroll, but alas my search continues. DH has been branching out and tried several of the california rolls, which he enjoyed. They did have peel and eat shrimp, and oysters on the half shell as well as the california rolls and a small selection of hand rolls. All in all, the food was good, the service was outstanding, and we will probably go again for lunch. The adult lunch buffet was $6.75. I will mention that this is a brand new restaurant, and therefore is still quite clean. The one thing that did bother me was that they were making dumplings in the dining room, and cleaning green beans. They didn't have hair nets on, or gloves, and I think that the health department might have written them up for that.
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