Great Moon Buffet

Great variety and the food is always hot and fresh. They have an awesome fresh made sushi bar.

A+ for variety, D– for taste. I tried so many dishes, I can’t list them all here (even the sushi). The one constant was lack of taste. Perhaps they’re catering to a bland Midwestern palate, but I literally could not find one item that had any flavor. Everything was ordinary. Nothing was bad… it was all edible, but I know that an Asian buffet can be tasty (Cleveland Wok, Ho Ho Gourmet, for example). People were friendly, but the meal sure was a disappointment.

16 Years ago when I first ate here it was da bomb! If I could have Unilocaled about this place back then, it would have gotten 5 starts, but over the years it slowly declined in quality. The sweet and sour chicken always look burnt. They pump out food quick and fresh, but the taste of some of the dishes are just off.
The BBQ pork strips are tough to chew sometime or have way too much fat. Their sushi is just regular buffet sushi, nothing special about it. Crab legs are still regulated when they have them (I guess that’s a good thing so people don’t be hoarding it all), but people still have their kids go stand in line to get extra crab leg servings.
Not sure how to explain it, but maybe too much MSG is the best way. I guess I’ve been eating too much real Chinese food lately and don’t appreciate buffets anymore. I would probably take Panda Express over GM nowadays.
Their service is probably the only thing that hasn’t changed. Drinks are refilled almost instantaneously and plates cleared off quickly.

Consistently good, tasty food. The dishes get refilled frequently and I always see staff cleaning. I’m not a buffet expert like some on Unilocal but I do like the food here. I only get over here every 6 weeks or so when I get my haircut across the street but every time I’ve been here the food has been good. The buffet tables are always being refilled so the food is hot and fresh. There’s a huge assortment of different Chinese American dishes like Sweet and Sour Chicken, Sesame Chicken, General Tso, etc. There’s also dishes such as chicken with black pepper which is one of my favorites. They have sushi bar too with a pretty good selection of fresh and a couple of cooked options, I haven’t been here over the weekends so can’t comment on the seafood I’ve seen mentioned elsewhere. The staff also does a nice job of keeping your drink refilled. The place is always busy, even at the off hours when I’m there, for example 2pm. I always leave here very full and wanting a nap!

Great food and services. I love their sushi bar and the dinner menu. This is definitely my to go chinese buffet.

There is always a fair amount of people here, however the line never takes longer than 15 min. To get through before you receive your seat.
The food is alright, however it is one of the few buffets that have sushi. The sushi is on average with a general buffet, but cannot top a made to order all you can eat establishment.
Order multiple dunks at a time as it can take a while to receive any refills

Great customer service & I love how fresh the food is here! The green beans are incredible, fresh salad bar, & the sushi is amazing too! At night the menu changes & it’s great when mussels & crab legs served. Really good price for the food. I am continuously bringing friends there too.

3.5 Stars
Great Moon Buffet has framed signs on the wall indicating they’ve been voted «Best Asian Food» at least twice. I don’t know who participated in this dubious poll but I’d say Great Moon can at most lay claim to Best Asian-​ish Buffet On The East Side.
You pay (and tip) up front after waiting in a long but quickly moving line, and then you are seated. Someone makes the rounds with pitchers of water and soda for endless refills (I think you can get hot tea too), and someone else clears your dirty plates. This place is always busy but they’ve got an efficient system down for feeding the suburban masses in a gluttonous yet timely manner. Prices are reasonable, I think around $ 12 or $ 13 per person (adult?). I have no complaints about the service, but I also have fairly low expectations because it’s a freakin buffet.
Meanwhile you are free to consume as much food as you can manage. I mostly fill up at the sushi bar. It’s all rolls (no sashimi or nigiri) and nothing too adventurous, but definitely decent. There are two more (hot) bars with an odd mixture of American comfort food (eg mashed potatoes, breaded fried stuff) and Americanized Asian food (eg beef & broccoli, breaded fried stuff). There are many things of the beige-​carb variety, but vegetables too and some surprisingly tasty sauces. Then there’s a (cold) salad bar but I have to admit I have not spent much time over there. And there is also a dessert bar but I am proud to say I’ve never headed in that direction. Not even my boyfriend can stuff in dessert after an AYCE buffet anyways.
Great Moon Buffet doesn’t deserve the very good or very bad reviews. If you would vote this as Best Asian Food, you should expand your horizons and head down to University Ave and treat yourself to some actual Asian food. And if you want exotic non-​Sysco food, top notch service, and an ambient dining experience, don’t go to a buffet.

This place has favourless, mushy food with very little variety. I would not recommend, not worth the drive.

I hadn’t been to Great Moon in ages. Then a friend shows up out of the blue and says meet me here, I’m hungry. Well, here we go.
Service was lacking, as it always is. Get your refill and set your dirty plates out as you normally would, and it takes them for freaking ever to clear off. They were pretty quick to deliver our fortune cookie and try to rush us out though. Little do they know, it don’t go down like that. I’m getting my $ 12 worth bitches.
So… the rundown of foods:
Salad bar, try at your own risk. Definitely not the freshest of ingredients.
Egg rolls — not too bad. I’ve had worse, I’ve had better. At least they were warm.
Mongolian Beef — very fatty, decent flavor at least. But, skip worthy.
General Tso chicken — swimming in it’s goo, tasty, crunchy and worth a try.
Chicken (?) on a stick — good, probably the best thing here.
Chicken wings — better than I remember, try worthy.
Rice — sketchy on it’s freshness. Pretty hard.
Rib tips — hahahahahaha, sure. Call them that, skip these fatty, gross, wanna be pig rip tips.
Sweet and sour chicken — not bad at all.
Warm apple pie (yes, it actually says warm apple pie) — meh. It was warm. We’ll give it that!
Fried fish — it’s fried… and it’s fried into oblivion. Try if you want to eat breading.
They do have a sushi area too, which, I’m not a sushi expert by any means, didn’t look like any of the sushi I have had before. But, I digress, I still ate a couple rolls and kept them down… so that makes it good sushi?
Overall, I’ve had better, I’ve had worse. We’ll give it the solid «meh»

This place is amazing. The food is fresh and tasty, the waiters are polite and helpful, the trays are always full and the space is reasonability full at all times. It is 10 $ + tax per person and comes with the drink. I strongly recommend this Buffett.

I have reviewed a few buffets before, and my stance on buffets has never changed: You pay a static amount for shoveling food in your face. No hidden fees unless you waste food. It is the simplest way to move a variety of food into your mouth hole and down into the stomach. The bar is set where it is set, and that will never change.
Great Moon Buffet lives up to that low-​hanging bar. Dinner buffet is around $ 13.00 + tax and lunch buffet is around $ 10.00 + tax. Prices include a drink, and for the children, they have a complex weight + height + age algorithm posted near the cash register to help you deduct if your little gremlin can make a mess for free.
They have a good selection of Asian Buffet regulars — General Tso’s, Beef and Broccoli, Sugar Puffs. They have a good salad bar too, and a lot of «american» buffet fare like spahgetti, bread sticks, pizza, mashed potatoes. I really do enjoy coming to eat here, though, because the buffet selection is larger than most asian buffets I’ve been to. They also have a sushi area, and I was able to pick and choose which pieces of rolls I want because I am still a sushi beginner.
The dessert area is the typical fare: sheets of slightly sweet mocha cake, crème puffs, pudding and a chocolate/​vanilla ice cream machine.
A waiter will come around and bring you beverages and tidy your plates when your done.
This place does get very busy. Very, very busy, and the line can reach out the door during peak times. With all of that in mind, I’ve never waited longer than 10 minutes for a place to sit.

Horrible service. Probably only a couple times I was happy with the service. I’ve been here since I was a child and growing up, I started to notice how they treat you differently depending on your skin color. Try taking a few moments to see how they interact with different types of people. You’ll see.

Low quality buffet for the price. Mostly all the chicken was Mushy. The chick on a sick was ok, the pot stickers were highlight of my visit. Service is good!

Bad service tonight our plates were never picked up and we had to ask for our drinks!!! More worried about cleaning then service

You gotta come for the seafood dinner.
It’s a buffet, so don’t expect anything too fancy, but the seafood makes the trip so worth it. They have this breaded shrimp that is crispy, and not too greasy. Sooooo good. Would come here just for that shrimp.
Crab legs are alright, but if you are lucky enough to take the fresh ones they are just like a sit down restaurants.
Tons of options for anyone, for any mood that you’re in.
They offer a salad bar, sushi bar, fresh fruits and a dessert table.
I’ve never tried the sushi… honestly don’t know if I would trust it. But overall this place is good if you are really hungry and in the mood for some seafood at a very reasonable price. Definitely can go in sweatpants and t-​shirt, so that’s a bonus :)

Great service. However, the food is mediocre at best. My broccoli beef tasted like the broccoli was once frozen. The beef in it was fatty and robbery. We won’t be going back.

Yes, I am a fan! I would go back again and again. Food was great. Customer service was great. Price is awesome!

The food is legit and fresh. I went on a Saturday it was approx $ 15 a plate. Although I ate $ 50 worth of crab. The servers were on point. They cleared out plates and filled our drinks constantly. I’m now sitting here over stuffed and having to poop. I will say it’s worth it.

The food was good. They didn’t have as much food though. My favorites are the sushis. I feel like they really did try. I mean if you were to compare their sushis to restaurant sushis then it’s not great but it’s almost as good. Let’s just say by far they have the best sushis in buffet.
The place was clean and there were decent amount of people in there. You know if you find people in a restaurant or place you know that place is doing something right. Our servers were good at their job. They didn’t let our plates piled up.