Chef Lin’s Asia Buffet

Good chinese buffet. Nice variety of dishes with a sushi bar and Mongolian grill.
Food was fresh and hot. Sushi is OK but not top notch. A few dim sum style dishes were really good. Especially shu mai and steamed dumplings.
Cost for dinner about $ 12.00 per person.

Reader’s choice in 2012&2013 but not 2014? It’s obvious why. The last thing they should put in their windows is «people love us on Unilocal». I tried several of the meats to no avail. All chicken was luke warm so let’s put that across the board now. The sesame and general tso’s chicken were both bland and soggy, black pepper chicken was cooked to death and was mostly breading, bourbon chicken tasted grainy and like they dumped a generic sauce into cooked chicken. The cheese rangoons tasted like what you can buy in a box at Wal-​Mart. Even the steamed rice tasted weird. How do you mess up steamed rice??? The only thing worthwhile was the shrimp and that might be because i havent had the opportunity to go a seafood house. All this nonsense and im paying $ 8 a person at lunch? Never. Again. I dont know if they got complacent thanks to a couple years of decent reviews or if people have a bland sense of taste but I would never send friends or family to this establishment. It sadly gets 2 stars based on atmosphere alone…

I initially have it two stars.
Everything was cold… EVERYTHING! next I’ll try the grill, hopefully the food will be warn. The food had some flavor, not all bad, but only lukewarm, and we went at 1130 when food should have been warn. Try somewhere else .
I tried the grill and the food was warm but bland; I mean, it tasted like nothing.
Seriously, avoid this place.

I visited this restaurant for lunch today and will not be returning. This has to be one of the worst Chinese buffet’s I’ve ever experienced. The fried crab legs smelled of ammonia, which can’t be good. The Peking duck was dry and tasted like it was old, maybe freezer burned. Baked oysters had no actual oysters, just some sort of minced fake crab meat and lots of grease. The sushi was not fresh; the pieces of fish were very small. One sushi item appeared to contain canned tuna or some such thing. The décor was from another restaurant which inhabited the building more than 15 years ago, including torn seats. Carpet was dirty. A putrid smell was wafting toward the salad bar area seemingly coming the kitchen (smelled of rotting flesh). I cannot recommend this restaurant to anyone.

Wow. This place is great. I’m a senior so I got an extra dollar off. Seniors are 60 or better. I love shrimp and they had 7 kinds for dinner. I was there about 6:30 on a Tuesday night-​the place was packed but service was good and the lines moved fast. They had the biggest snow crab clusters I’ve ever seen and I’m from the Northwest. The sushi was fine, too. Eel, crab, shrimp, tuna and salmon. All for just over $ 10. I could go on and on. The hot and sour soup was not the best I’ve ever had, I told myself as I finished the second cup. The chicken skewers were a little dry and the pot sticker sauce was a little different than I’m use to. But everything else was great. I think they have a limit on the snow crabs as I did not see them refresh it after about 7pm. Oh, they have 6 dumpling steamers, a hibachi grill and special chilled section. All drinks are $ 2.80 but water is free. Try it if you like buffets you’ll love this place. After writing this I’ll have to go eat there tonight.

I love this buffet. I am normally not a big fan of Chinese buffets but chef Lins is very very good. The sushi is not fresh tasting at all. But everything else is wonderful. Lots to choose from and service is always very good.

Over the years I have been here literally dozens of times. Dependable. Tasty. Eight buck lunch. Great selection. Staff hovers close at hand to offer refills. Dark and dated interior. Third world bathrooms. Senior discount. Now to the food: the buffalo wings and the bourbon chicken remain MSG free. Everything else brings about — in this Unilocaler at any rate — a food coma! I like the crunchy sweet salt and pepper chicken, the plantains, the sushi, oh yeah the tea has a great full bodied oolong taste. Some funks dim sum items await in aluminum steam trays. Not bad… The bok choy and long green beans remain favorites, along with the egg rolls. I’ve never been here for dinner… couldn’t handle a food coma so late in the day.

Want to eat hair. then you have found the right place. No that wasnt a typo. I’m not a big fan of their food and to top it off the 3 times I have gone I always find a hair in my food and its not mine. I preferred century buffet but they closed down. Three of their items were bad when i got them. This place has the worse service ever! The server stayed by my side to see what I left of tip like he was hounding me. I wouldn’t recommend it! I only rated it a 1 because I can not do 0. You have been warned. Terrible terrible place. To top it off when I brought it to their attention that their food had gone bad and and I seriously had just taken one bite out of my plate she made me pay for the whole thing. I was extremely upset that I paid for food I never ate. I paid $ 14 for a diet coke basically.. I will never ever visit this place ever again.

Not bad. Coming down for vacation and I say this is better than the buffets I have at home. Staff is friendly, food is worth it depending your taste. Overall, not a bad place to eat if you’re starving. But pricing can be a problem. $ 11.95 per person for dinner is kinda pushing it. But overall great but not the best.

Went here for dinner. They have great seafood but they don’t clean their shrimp.

While in town visiting family my wife suggested dinner here since she knew I liked frog legs. A wide variety of items on steam tables and a hibachi grill for special orders.
Dinner $ 11.95
Lunch $ 7.45
Kids (3 – 10) $ 4.45

We ate here yesterday and the food was wonderful, but it was all cold. Not one piece of food I ate was even warm, and it Is a shame because other than that it was really good.

As far as Chinese buffets go, this was pretty good. Would not go out of my way, but when in area definitely worth considering.
Food was hot and tasty, though I prefer mine a bit spicier.

Buffets typically are never as good as a typical restaurant but I have been here more than a dozen times, 3 this fall\winter already and honestly it’s almost as good as a prepared meal from your typical Chinese restaurant. The food is very good, but they can have their days when the food is either low or sitting a bit long, maybe both. Again, typical.
One of the best Chinese buffets I have ever been to and a go-​to place when I am hungry and don’t want to do the restaurant thing. We are always seated and offered drinks immediately and you get the typical «here’s your bill» after a second dish, which I have never been a fan of. I usually go up twice, sometimes once. If you’re in a hurry, take out is available, but expensive by the pound.

Yum! One of the best Chinese buffets I have found in florida so far! A lot of choices and food was good! Will definitely be back

Just average, nothing that says awesome. Crab legs were rationed and not plentiful when brought out. Food is just warm, sushi bar is limited to a few plates.

This is my 3^rd time here over 3 years. The only thing consistent is the progressively worse service and quality of food. Was last here on a Tuesday evening for dinner. Although the selection is large enough to satisfy most appetites most of the items seem to be fried or overcooked just tanning themselves under heat lights. The table service was attentive as to beverage refills but the woman tending the buffet items was outright rude and useless. They offer snow crab legs and clam steamers but on 4 separate occasions I went back to the buffet only to find empty trays for both items. I asked the woman each time for an estimate of when the trays would be filled and she raised her voice to me stating, «it’s cooking». For over 45 minutes I twice picked through the steamers and never saw the crabs. I found most of my choices to be luke warm at best leaving me to wonder if the heat level being maintained was safe enough to prevent spoilage. Note: I’m writing this review 24 hours later and I didn’t get sick — I owe that to them. It’s a shame that our experience wasn’t better as there are few choices for Chinese in the Vero Beach area that offer any variety. Will I go back again? In short. .. No.

I just can’t stress how awesome this place is.
When I was away from home, I feened for this place, constantly. They have it all. Let me break it down for you:
They have…
–your typical Chinese food options (General Tso’s chicken, fried doughnuts, etc.)
–a sushi bar (and not just any crappy sushi, they actually have eel, crab, salmon, etc.)
— a raw bar (oysters, shrimp, mussels)
— the best spicy octopus salad!
— Desserts galore, ice cream bar also
— Stir fry bar
— Salad bar
— Florida specialties (frog legs and blue crab, anyone?)
Man, the service is great, the food is great, just superb and at such an affordable price ($ 7/​lunch, $ 13/​dinner for all you can eat), you can’t beat it. You can’t leave Vero without coming here.

It’s about what you’d expect from an Asian buffet in Florida. Not bad, not great, but passable. There’s a sushi section as well. Service was very good.

My favorite buffet in all of the land. I have been a loyal customer since they were in the dilapitated shack (now vacant) around the corner.
While everything on buffet is top notch, I find myself gourging on the spinach, cream cheese crousant rolls.