Let me just say: I am suppose to cook today, but my husband and I decided we wanted to go to Sam's Club, which is 45mins drive from our house. We needed dog food and booze lol, naw we needed some other stuff too.
The China Buffet in South Meadows, Austin is a modern, contemporary restaurant that I think their facade looked so inviting and very calming in the eyes. Unlike, most Chinese Buffet I see around the country, it's not in a so so neighborhood and it is at the shopping area rather than near a dorm room or apartments like most of them. This is our second time here. What attracted me to this place was not because of the look of their facade or building, it was because of the Delicious SMELL! I literally followed where the smell came from and found out it came from this restaurant.
We were greeted by this Chinese man, the owner of the restaurant(I assumed), he was not in a good mood today, but other than that he was okay. The 3 buffet spreads are in the left side categorized by: dessert, entries and condiments. One of the waitresses showed us our table and our waitress came for our drinks. We had 2 sweet teas since they don't serve Coke only Pepsi's.
Entries that we ate are the following:
Fried Crab one of my favorite they were fresh and a bit sweet which is an indication that they were fairly fresh, Stir Fried Clams was not good, Fried Shrimp which is also my favorite, Fried rice which it was delish, I added some chili oil in my fried rice because I liked spicy a lot and their chili oil was also good well it's not like you can really ruin chili oil. Steamed Tilapia which my husband liked a lot(mind you, his not a very big fan of fish with soy sauce but he loves this one), Spring roll which he said was so so and he did not come back for another one, Beef and broccoli was good and came back for more, chicken and broccoli was also delish and came back for more, spicy chicken was not spicy and texture was not good did not come back for more, Banana bread pudding for my husband's dessert and he really loved it that he came back for more with more than a dollop each time, I had the chocolate ice cream which I think was so so.
They do have a Sushi Bar that looked appetizing but I am just not into Sushi's neither is my husband. I saw a lot of people eating them so must be good. They have fresh oysters and a lot more dishes that I can name of for the price of $9.99 per head. We paid total of $27.00 including tax; which I think with all the food that I get to try and eat is a bargain.
The con on this restaurant is the techno music that they play it's not as loud as in the dining area as in the buffet spreads; but for me it's quiet annoying. Their restrooms are fairly clean and the service was better than most Chinese Buffet and everyone speaks English. All in all this is one of my favorite Chinese Buffet that I had in a while. I would definitely go back again!
