China Buffet

The past few times that we have been at this restaurant we have filler our stomachs with food but have been disappointed with the quality, service and cleanliness.
The restaurant itself seems to be getting dirtier every time we visit and this evening the tables were sticky, the floor was nasty and the bathroom definitely needed a good cleaning.
Some of the food here was good but other items were lacking. The dumplings were overcooked, the «sushi» was almost inedible and they didn’t fill the cocktail shrimp which is what we have encountered multiple times.
Overall, very disappointed with the most recent experience and hope that it improves in the future.

Upon arrival, staff were friendly and welcoming. After being seated and served beverages quickly, my friend and I were left to eat at our own pace with no pressure of clearing plates or paying the bill.
If you’re looking for a typical buffet atmosphere and typical buffet cuisine, this is the place to go! Complete with greasiness, deliciousness, variety, and a few odd smelling dishes that don’t resemble any food you’ve ever eaten before and should not try at a buffet. Enjoy your fortune cookie… in bed.

Terrible atmosphere — great food!
Remarkably, this is one of my favorite local places to have Chinese food. The atmosphere is really not pleasant and the staff aren’t overly helpful… but the food is fresh and tasty! It’s a win for me… even with poor décor.

Casual, kid friendly, reasonable price and good food! My family and I eat there for dinner regularly and I often take my lunch break there. Their buffet food is kept fresh and they always have a good assortment. I recommend that you try the place before taking the bad reviews here seriously. People that give bad reviews like the ones I have seen here are generally people that like being negative and have nothing positive to say about anything. Don’t take the bad reviews seriously, just check the place out and judge for yourself. If you are looking for a decent meal at a decent price for a night out with the family or if you are passing through on your way to or from a skiing extravaganza and you have an SUV full of kids, this is where you want to go. It is kid friendly, the staff are always polite and the food is good. If you want junk, go to McDonalds, if you want upscale, go to NYC.

I’d eat here if I wanted food that was really cheap and didn’t care how shitty it was. This is never the case for me, so I never eat here. I’m not going to explain how I did end up here before, but there’s really no reason to go back, ever.

The chinese food is bad in a good way as well as pretty much everything else. I really come for the desserts, the pastries they have here are the bomb, all you can eat soft serve, delicious palmiers, and these little fried donut things covered in sugar. I wish it was open 24 hours cause it would be AMAZING when wildly drunk. Also has some very cool awful 80’s style. I’m sensing a trend in Brattleboro chinese…

I rarely do updates but I feel I’m really giving China Buffet the short end on this one. The mister and I have been back several times and it really depends on the time of day. When it’s busy, or just opened, the food can be good. The salt and pepper chicken is pretty dependable and the scallion pork is usually decent.
But the real sell – all you can eat California rolls. What?! Yeah! Of course it’s not top end, it’s all premade out of a refrigerator, but since it’s like five bucks for a single roll elsewhere and China Buffet is six bucks or whatever for AYCE… I’m willing to wiggle on the quality a bit, and the only real «problem», if you will, is the mushy rice. Doesn’t bother me as much as it does the mister, hence the quotes.
China Buffet has become one of our mainstays, for the casualness, for the ease, for the price, but yeah, we look at the clock first.

For a buffet, its what you’d expect. Food is OK, service was fine. I wouldn’t go back unless it was my only option. Ten bucks gets you dinner

Overall rating: 2.7.
Bottom line: Not an awful place to visit if you are dying to visit a Chinese buffet but avoid the sushi. However, if you live near or around Keene, you’d be better off going to Keene Buffet. The food at China Buffet is a hair, and I mean a hair better, but there isn’t much difference between the two and it isn’t worth the drive to go to China Buffet.
Corrections:
I decided to visit this buffet because of the decent reviews. I went for dinner on a Wednesday at 6 p.m. and I would like to note the following changes since the previous reviewers visited the restaurant one to three years ago:
1) Soda is NOT included in the price of the buffet.
2) There were no snow crab legs
3) There were no mussels.
4) This is NOT a four star restaurant.
First, things must have changed quite a bit since 2009 because I am shocked that someone gave this place four stars. I mean I am Asian and was raised by a Chinese buffet junkie (my father) who was also bitten by the travel bug so I can tell you that having been to Chinese buffets from Cally to Virginia, this is NOT a four star Chinese buffet. Now to be fair, you really can’t completely judge a place after visiting just once but based on my visit, this is how I would rate this place:
Food: 2.5 (which is 60% of my rating)
The decent: Some of the dishes such as the sesame chicken and the hot and sour soup were decent rating around a 3 to 3.5. As a plus, the pastry desserts were not stale… although this is a bit of a crapshoot.
The mediocre: The majority of the dishes were blah, from 2 to 2.5 and everything was a touch on the lukewarm side.
The awful: You don’t expect a lot from Chinese buffet sushi (with the exception of a handful of restaurants, most of the Chinese buffet sushi I have tried have been barely edible), but 3 out of 4 pieces of the sushi I tried was just disgusting. I don’t know why I didn’t just stop eating any of them after the first one, but I am apparently a glutton for punishment.
Atmosphere: 3.0. Pretty much on par with what you would expect from a strip mall Chinese buffet, which is to say, not great. I did give them an extra half point though because the place was pretty clean.
Service: 3.5. Dishes were picked up, waitress refilled drinks on time.
Value: No rating because I’m new to this area and though it wasn’t expensive, I generally thought that they charged about a dollar more than what the food was worth.

You get exactly what you’d expect at China Buffet: a vast array of cheap Chinese food with some odd desserts to top it off. The service is good and the price is right.

China Buffet offers the basic selection of Chinese dishes (lo mein, rice, egg rolls, dumplings, beef, chicken, pork, seafood, vegetables), sushi, cold salads, snow crab legs (dinner only), pizza, stuffed mushrooms, potato, soups, desserts (ice cream, fruit, jello, pudding, cakes), and more. Soda is included in the price of the buffet.
I stopped here for dinner on a Sunday night. Most of the food items on the buffet tasted fine with some foods (pizza, mussels) drying out from sitting around. The service here was good (refills on soda and used dishes cleared between buffet trips).