China Buffet King

Hungry? Cheap? Fancy Chinese? The jobs a goodun here! Its even cheerful.
I’d passed this place on several occasions and thought it looked suspicious as the price was very low, but I needed somewhere to eat and line my stomach for drinking so went in (6pm on a Saturday during ‘Happy Hour’).
Food
Better than average for Chinese buffets, I was surprised (and delighted) to see mussels and profiteroles on offer. The food was hot and crispy and very tasty. Cheap ice cream but the lovely strawberry sauce hit the mark.
Service
This is what really surprised me, for a bargain buffet the staff were plentiful, happy and not pestering me for drinks orders.
Cost
£8.49 when I was there, I’d like to see how the cheaper and more expensive time slots compare. 10% off for concessions and if you get a card when you’ve been five times you get one visit free. really can’t complain with that.
Anyway I left much happier than when I arrived (then again I guess I had low expectations).
I will be going again, hopefully it’ll continue to impress so I can fill the discount card! If not, I’ll update this.

Woooorst food ever. And when I say worst, I mean the most nasty food I have tasted. Even worse, my girlfriend got food poisoned! This place should be shut down.

Hey great place to go and eat what you want from a great value menu
the food is always hot and ready for when you want it
the staff are friendly and always there to help serve drinks and other stuff

You pretty much know what you are going to get here before I even write this review, don’t you? It’s an all you can eat Chinese buffet, and these things tend to run to a forumla. You pile your plate with a tonne of hot, greasy, unhealthy food, you scoff it all, and then you go back for some more. Repeat until it’s time for you to go somewhere else or you are struck down with indigestion.
There is a good chocie of food here, all your standard fare you would expect from any Chinese takeaway, plus salad, soup, mini pizza and (very limp looking) sushi & sashimi. There’s also a decent range of puds, with various cakes, ice cream & fruit.
£12.99 to stuff yourself until you are queasy on a Friday night? What more do you expect?

China Buffet King was there for me when me and my friends used to come here after school. It was the destination of choice — cheap all you can eat, you can’t go wrong!
My first boyfriend used to absolutely love this place, and we’d bring our friends here to stuff our faces. It was nice to try some food I’d never tasted before and at the time I thought I was being so adventurous, eating mussels and all that jazz.
It’s good for that kind of thing, and of course it’s appealing because you can eat as much as you want! But can you really? This is what I realised as I gained some table manners. China Buffet King are masters of psychology. They know you’ll stuff your face really quickly, so you’ll feel bloated after a few bites. Your eyes will be bigger than your belly and you’ll burst. Rather than attacking the chicken like vultures, me and my friends now like to go out for relaxing meals where you don’t feel rushed to beat your contemporaries to the buffet queue.
Sure, it’s great for big parties and work nights out if you’re on a really strict budget. But essentially, it’s fast food at its fastest — it’s waiting for you under the hot plates! Rather than have a very colourful plate filled with appetisers that don’t mix well together, I now prefer to go somewhere with table service and superbly cooked food. Good for a laugh and the food is decent, but you can eat somewhere else for a tenner, and I guarantee you’ll feel more satisfied. Sorry old friend, sometimes you just move on.

This branch of the ever popular China Buffet King is so popular, sometimes you have to wait for a seat. It is probably one of the better ones around, and if you want loads of food for not a lot of money, then this is the place for you.
As a student, you get 10% off the bill with a valid student card, so that made it all the more enticing to come here every other day for lunch. That and the fact that it has a cool, Mr Whippy style ice-​cream machine, complete with different sauces, which is always the most fun part.
The food is quite nice, not the best and not the worst, with a great selection of cold starters and plenty of main meals to choose from (or just pile your plate with a bit of everything)
The entire meal only comes to about a tenner a head with a drink included, so you can’t really go wrong.
Looking for a cheap, incredibly over filling lunch? China Buffet King is for you!

Gross.
Sloppy, unauthentic Chinese food mass produced and left to curdle and dry out on metal trays under lamps, served by the ladel with the dirty hands of children and hen-​night goers? Methinks not!
I remember this place being the main eatery for my friends in high school — this was their idea of eating out. Well, this or Pizza Hut, which I’d prefer not to think about! It’s about a tenner or so per head, which is perfect when you’re that age and feeling independent because you’ve got your first job and a pocketful of cash.
Masquerading under the guise of «cheap», at £10 or so a head it is actually so much less satisfying than a £1 burger from McDonalds that it’s not even worth it. One night my friends and I piled in (I politely abstained from eating, pondering a quick Burger King at the train station on the way home), and after half a plate my good friend returned to the table and decided he was done. I asked what happened to his 3-​plate marathon plan, and he announced that he’d just been to the loo and observed 4 men leave without washing their hands and make their way directly to the buffet, leaving no serving utensil untouched.
That, my friends, is reason enough to pay more than a tenner for your dinner next time. Or at least find somewhere on Unilocal that’s cheap but cheerful!

When my younger cousin was going through his rebellious teenage phase of desiring to eat crap by the bucketloads, I was coaxed into eating here three or four times with my aunty and her family.
Had I been less polite, I would have stopped after the first; if I felt like inhaling sticky gloopy msg ridden noodles, I’d… no, I never feel like that. If you don’t either, don’t bother. It’s all sticky and gloopy. Or at least soggy. And the tables are unclean too.
Nice prawn crackers though.

OOOOOH YEAH China Buffet King.
The name says it all. Straight to the point. It aint classy, and it aint expensive. In fact it doesn’t even have a menu. But everything is there, laid out in the buffet, like a line-​up of old beauty queens. You can go up with your plate and have a little of everything, if you want. China Buffet King is a vast canteen of happily scoffing Glaswegians.
Walk past any time and there is always a group of strapping male students, faces to plates, mowing through a pile of food. See also a large family of neds, their offspring scavenging for their first feed in weeks. While the young cubs play and nibble at chips, the mother lumbers over to chase them away, before returning to her fresh kill: a giant curry. Well it’s not that bad.
In fact the food is fantastic: if you keep your eye on the buffet area you can spot the fresh stuff coming in. This place is great for me because, while I may not have a very big appetite, I do like variety. I might not get my money’s worth in terms of quantity, but I still think it’s worth it for such a choice of nice quality food. There are starters, mains and a huge choice of desserts, including an ice-​cream machine.
*BONUS GAME* See who can pull the tallest tower of ice cream out the machine. I win this quite often because I used to pull ice cream cones as part of a (hellish!) job.

We were there on the evening of 10÷08÷09 and were singularly unimpressed to the point where I have to say it was possibly one of the worst meals I have ever had. We had been looking forward to eating here as we had passed it a number of times and enjoy Chinese buffets. We found that the temperature of virtually all the food was tepid to cool at best, most of the chicken dishes were extremely tough, particularly the salt and chilli chicken. The pork char sui, labelled as the Chefs Choice, was so tough we could barely cut through it let alone chew it. The only saving grace were the dishes in sauces i.e. the beef in black bean sauce, the chicken in green pepper and black bean sauce and the duck in ginger to name but three. These were very nice and redeemed what could have been a disastrous meal. A real shame as the variety and choice were there just let down by the cool temperature and toughness of the meats. My advice would be to try somewhere else, after all it’s not as if there’s nowhere else to go.

This is a large all you can eat chinese restaurant. They have hundreds of attentive staff waiting to flog you expensive drinks, clear your used up plates and coo over any cute babies you may have. This restaurant has a good and seemingly ever changing rotation of different chinese delicacies, set out under one of those hot food lamps for you to choose as much or as little as you want. They also have a good range of starters and deserts including a fun ice cream machine. The highlights are the rice noodles, and salt and chilli chicken which I could literally just eat a mountain of! The clever thing about this is that you can keep trying anything you want in hundreds of combinations of sauce– carbs– meat I think its great! The décor is a bit clinical i suppose, but it lends itself to cleaning up after hordes of hungry mungries, and it is quite sleek. They also change the prices according to the time of day and put new items on or off the menu accordingly. Overall if you want somewhere quick and good value, especially if you’re ravenous, this would be a good place to come.