Jade Garden

I took my two children here tonight for the first time. I wasn’t expecting much, but for a buffet I thought it was great! We spent $ 20 for myself and two children, and that was a bargain in my opinion. Best Chinese buffet we’ve tried here so far!
They have a good variety of foods, a salad bar with some (limited) sushi, and a dessert station with an ice cream machine. Like some buffets, they didn’t have an overwhelming option of generic «southern» foods, which was fine by me. I tried a little of everything and was impressed.

My family and I have been here many times, we’re from Atlanta and come to Monroe a few times a year to visit family. If I were reviewing this place in Atlanta, I’d say it’s about average, but we’ve been to many Chinese restaurants is Monroe/​West Monroe, and this place is top notch compared to the others. The buffet is reasonably priced, has a large selection of food, and the food is pretty good. Compared to other local Chinese restaurants it’s a 10! If you love Chinese food like me, and you’ve not been here, give it a try, you’ll like it!

OK folks, here we go. First off, yes I do understand that I found this place while looking for Chinese food… in Louisiana… kinda like looking for the moon in the bathroom, I know… but anyway, here it is.
Decided on the buffet, cause thats what one does in this situation, and it looked like there was going to be quite a bit as far as selection goes. Then, upon further inspection, I realized that every single dish was swamped in its respective sauce. I mean Exxon-​Valdez swamped, at least a half inch of liquid in the bottom of each steamer tray.
There were quite a bit of veggies in many of the dishes but again, you couldn’t taste any of them due to the sauce. Selection seemed to suffer too. There are four different buffet areas but only two had anything Chinesey on them. One was salad, like at any salad bar, the second was all desserts, leaving the last two for actual chinese food. Was it inedible? No, absolutely not. Would I send you there as a must eat in Monroe??? No, absolutely not.

I like Jade Garden because I can get carry-​out from the buffet. It’s good but it seems like an inordinate percentage of it is fried.