Asian Buffet

A typical buffet style Asian restaurant. This one was clean and the wait staff was very prompt & friendly. They have a large selection.

This buffet is really good. Lots of selections and are all fresh and hot. The place was clean and the waitstaff was good. Really enjoyed the garlic wings. We were there on an off time too and they kept refilling with fresh food. They have several chicken dishes lots of options. $ 7.99 for Saturday buffet. Good price. Well will be back.

The buffet has a wide variety of dishes, lots to choose from. There are several good chicken dishes including fried and grilled options. I particularly liked the garlic fried chicken wings. Good flavor and since it’s all you can eat, a pretty sweet deal on wimgs. $ 7.99 for Saturday buffet, not bad. The water is also filtered, which makes a difference in San Angelo, where the unfiltered water can bite you back. The staff was friendly and the place was clean. I’ll be back.

Just don’t do it! Go to the airport for Chinese.
This place my family loves. My first time trying it thoughts as they are digging in is are we eating the same food because mine taste horrible. I’ve lost trust in their cuisine judgement. Geez Louise it was bad.
It took me two bites but I pinpointed why my sweet and sour sauce tasted familiar in a icky way. It taste like lipstick. How does that even happen? My lo mien noodles were over cooked and it just continues a horrible review of items I tried from there. My kid wanted the pizza which I am very familiar with as a cheap dollar pizza from the grocery stores. The best part was the ice cream and the exit.
9.99 for adults

This buffet is delicious! I have eaten here several times and the food was always hot, fresh, and tasty. The ambiance inside was low lights, discreet, and cozy. Try it today!

It just didn’t seem clean or fresh. The buffet was a bit of a mess and none of the employees seemed to care for keeping it clean. The water isn’t filtered and has that nasty San Angelo water taste.

It’s really your typical Chinese Buffett not bad not spectacular. Can eat here every so often!

This used to be our favorite place back when they served crab legs. However now they charge too much and do not offer what they used to at the same price. Its average Chinese food. The staff is always changing, and never professional.

The bulk of these reviews were from a few years ago. Based on that (and being stubborn) we still went. Turns out, bad reviews are timeless. I won’t be completely negative about this experience, so here is a list of the good things.
Ice cream.
…that’s all.
Granted, when you walk in, you might be impressed by the layout. A lot of seating, fairly spaced out, koi pond in the middle (because, that’s why you come to a buffet, look at the fish and oversized buddhas.) and it doesn’t smell bad. Military/​seniors discount, and for $ 8.99, in theory, that’s a great deal. Standard buffet/​restaurant trick. Drinks? Sure, I’d love a $ 1.79 soda/​pop/​coke (to make all regions happy) that will be offered for refill once. …two minutes before the check is delivered.
On to the food…
‘Sushi’, mogolian grill, cold food bar, three main dish (term used loosely) bars, dessert, kid food, and ice cream (tasty ice cream).
Sushi– first off, if you’re going to a buffet because you’re having a sushi craving, you’re either a moron, have never actually had sushi, or both. Dry/​stale rice, more less flavorless and the salad bar salad dressing tub of wasabi looked more like green mayo (also… zero flavor) It kind of looked like the sushi was under heat lamps, but it was only warm, not hot. my mistake. Mmm, warm sushi, almost as good as hot beer.
Salad/​cold dishes– well… room temperature isn’t technically hot, but crab salad shouldn’t be warm. Impressive jello selection though. I think there were 5 flavors? and entire side of the bar. Love that chinese buffet jello. Again, koi pond and jello. Lifeblood of any good buffet.
Main dishes– unlike the cold dishes, these were actually cold. Wait… that’s also a bad thing. Damn. Egg rolls– dry, and flavorless. Rice– dry and stale. Noodles– dry, cold, and stale. Mozzerella sticks– cold and rubbery. Kind of like biting into the sole of a shoe. (nothing with flavor yet). Pot stickers– possibly had extra greese dumped on top. still not hot. Fried fish– cold. Shrimp– cold. (maybe they meant to put it on the salad bar.
You should get the point by now… Strangely enough, reaching for the tongs of most of the dishes you could potentially be burned by the steam. Of course, by the time you get back to your chair, that sensation is gone and you’ll realize the food is cold.
Kid food– really? pizza on a chinese buffet? Gimmie. That looks like Totinos. It is Totinos, but tastes like what I imagine it would if you didn’t actually cook it and just let the pizza thaw, then dry out, and then serve.
At this point of the meal I remembered the mongolian grill and convinced myself that there was no chance it could be bad as well. Your options include different meats, broccoli, onions, rice/​noodles, and baby corn (the stupid ingredient at many buffets). Sauces were (assumption, since they weren’t labeled) garlic, oily red spicy, and oilier red spicy. Based off of the food temp of everything else, I opted for beef since that seemed to be the safest of room temperature meats. chop chop, grill grill, why do you keep spraying water on there? grill grill, more water? chop chop, hey… no shit? you’re talking on the phone while cooking? sweet gig for you mr chef guy. Oh good, more water sprayed on. Plate it, and done. HOLY SHIT this plate is hot!
Perhaps this will be delicious? nope. bland. …but at least it was hot.
Sad and depressed over this awful experience and failure to listen to the advice of the naysayer (more trusting of Unilocal that I. Naysayer 1, me 0) I turn to the ice cream. YAY, ICE CREAM!!! It was good. 8 flavors and they actually had flavor. Win.
As was pointed out to me, there is not such thing as a non-​shitty buffet for $ 9. I still disagree with that, but it’s completely accurate for Asian Buffet.
I would recommend going here if you’re constipated. For that… effective. Other than that? Nope.
One other positive. The quarter toy vending machine things. The love donut. I will assume it’s meant for the keys of a person that enjoys donuts. This was the best use of my cash here. So, if you want a donut keychain. hit them up as well.

Just left there. The service was bad. The front girl was eating food the whole time she was talking to me. She wouldnt help me when I asked her she said to get someone else bit they were sitting down eating.

Ate lunch here on Sat. Lots of people but large enough not to feel crowded. Abundance of food choices. All was correct temp. & appealingly served. Wait staff attentive tho not too good with English… Crab legs, shrimp, choose it & they cook it… Way better then Lin’s…

Honestly, I don’t get the bad reviews. It’s a Chinese buffet. They have a big selection of Chinese buffet staples. When you really think about it (at least in inland America), are there any really outstanding similar restaurants? Come on… you go there because you want food that’s quick, fried, unlimited, and/​or made for you. This place checks all those boxes. Plus the staff is great– we were seated right away, servers were on top of our drinks and used plates, and the bill was at the table a minute after asking for it. Since a whole lot of Chinese places serve more or less the same stuff, I tend to judge based on service… and this one has it.

Great food, great service. Awesome Koi Pond! No complaints here! Much better than Lin’s Buffet across town. Try it. You won’t be disappointed!

Just another buffet. Nothing really special, food does not stand out. Sadly I have yet to find a good Chinese place!
Don’t get your hopes up, but still worth a round if in the mood, we go on average, twice a year.

I read so many bad reviews on this site about the restaurant that I was actually a little worried about trying it out but I was craving sushi. So we figured if it didn’t work out we could go to Wendy’s.
Well, it worked out. The staff is very friendly. The place was clean.
Such a variety of food!!! I think I read there’s 120 different things. I tried the sushi bar — wonderful! The man who worked the sushi bar was so friendly and helpful.
I also had several different seafood dishes. One was a mix of crab, shrimp, octopus and jalapeño. Love the Texas spin on it!
Hubby went nuts for the baked spinach. He won’t pick a favorite but he raved about it. He also had the stir fried beef which he referred to as Asian Fajitas.
Anyway, before you listen to too many bad reviews, give it a shot. I’m glad we did.

Woah! This was the worst food I have has PERIOD. I am from Massachusetts so I know I can not compare the two (No offense Texas you guys do steak realllllly well but the Chinese food. what the…) The meat from the buffet was cold and tasteless, I had three bites and was done. Save your money and go somewhere else.

Coming from San Francisco where I am surrounded by authentic Chinese cuisine, it is hard for me to write a review for an Asian buffet located in San Angelo. I normally wouldn’t even eat Chinese food outside of the Bay Area just because I feel what i’ll get isn’t going to be half as good as what i get in SF.
That being said, when the boyfriend said he wanted to have dinner at Asian Buffet before my flight back to SF brought some skepticism to me. At under $ 10 a person for dinner you can’t really expect much variety and quality. To my surprise, they offered more food than I had originally expected. They even serve crab legs for dinner and a freezer full of self-​serve ice cream.
Some of the food were decent while others, not so much. I tried their hot and sour soup and was not impressed. It was really bland and watered down.

They get one star for the awesome koi pond that my son was obsessed with.
My first hint that this isn’t a very good place/​authentic at all, is when I ran into an employee at walmart buying every single Totino’s party pizza that was in the freezer. Sure enough, that’s what was on the buffet line! The food was gross at best, it was served tepid-​warm, everything had cheddar cheese sprinkled on top and it was just… it was just weird. Not Chinese food at all. It’s as if someone came up with the brilliant idea to buy all the stouffers family meals and other freezer meals, and put them on a buffet line. The mongolian grill is pathetic and the food from it wasn’t good at all, way over-​seasoned.
I considered giving it a little extra for playing the soundtrack to Glee (volume 1) and the ice cream, but I don’t know if that’s just because they had no other option or better idea. Not good, won’t be back, won’t recommend it.

I went in to eat but didnt eat there because I didnt like the vibe. Get rid of the stupid oversized monstrous fish tank. Are you a restaurant or an aquarium? Focus on the customer, not the fish in the tank!!!

Tried this place for the first time today and I can safely say I have no reason to go back.
The first thing I noticed when we walked in was the INCREDIBLY tacky décor. It was like going to a crappy Chinese restaurant in Vegas. Lots of neon, a big fountain with a bridge walkway towards the back (near the buffet)…just really tacky all around.
The food was more or less the same mediocre stuff you get at all the Chinese buffets in San Angelo. It also seemed like there was more typical «American» food items than there were Chinese. I did see some dim sum near the soup… I was hoping they were filled with pork and shrimp, but no, it was some stale tasting adzuki bean paste.
The hot and sour soup may be the absolutely worst hot and sour soup I’ve ever had. There was nothing hot (except for temperature) about it, and nothing sour. Instead it was incredibly bland, and somehow greasy. I have NEVER had a greasy hot and sour soup. I took two bites and pushed it away.
The sushi is decent and they do try to be a little bit more creative than most of the places here. It was fine until I got berated by the woman making the sushi for leaving the tongs on the sushi tray. Yes, I admit fault and I honestly just wasn’t thinking… but you don’t need to point angrily at me and yell at me like I’m a child! Something to the effect of, «Oh, could you please put the tongs back on the plate? Thank you so much,» would have done much better.
And finally, we gave our drink orders before we went to get food… came back to the table, still no drinks. In fact, we still didn’t have drinks for another 10 minutes after that.
Asian Buffet is somewhere to go if you’re looking for quantity, not quality. You know it’s sad when I, as a non-​Asian, can make better Chinese food than any of the restaurants in San Angelo.