At lunchtimes £4.50 will get you a box stuffed with as many of the different standard Chinese dishes sat steaming behind the glass as you can point at (at least until they start giving you slightly dirty looks for trying to fit too much stuff into one box).
The options haven't changed for as long as I can remember, and includes bases of Egg Fried Rice, standard Noodles, Vermicelli Noodles and Ribbon Noodles, topped with the usual selection of Chicken or Beef in Black Bean, Crispy Chicken, Sweet and Sour among others, plus Vegetable Spring Rolls, and on the odd occasion the smallest Sesame Prawn Toasts known to man.
The quality of the food is OK. Nothing to write home about, but certainly nothing to complain about. Admittedly on occasion the Crispy Chicken has just been made up of crispy coating, but compared to many other places who offer an all you can eat service they don't tend to bulk up the portions with lots of vegetable and very little meat.
They could do with labelling the food behind the counter. The first few times I visited the lack of labelling, plus condensation steaming up the glass made it almost impossible to know what I was choosing. Pointing and asking what each one is usually just ends up with them assuming that you want whatever it is you're pointing at and loading it into the container. read more