My family and I have been coming here for years. The kitchen & establishment are very clean! They worked fast as well! Will have a table ready for you in less than a minute! The wait staff is phenomenal! They pay attention! They know when exactly to refill your cup and remove plates when you are finished fast! I love the food! It may have its days when there's not a crowd and food sits out longer than expected and may end up dry! But they replace the food regularly throughout the day and it's awesome! They are really such nice people. You respect them, they respect you. For all my Hispanics, check in the soupa area, THEY HAVE MENUDO & IT'S GOOD!!!!! It's our favorite spot. And we love it. read more

Rice Garden Chinese Restaurant - Chinese Near Me - Dallas, Texas

CLOSED !! Due to rats and roach problem!! This is a old old building, was a former Panchos in the 80's. Many customers complained of seeing rats under seats and roaches in kitchen. This building needs to be demolished!! read more

Gas prices are high. This restaurant has been closed for almost a month now. There are several other buffets in the area. Check it out here on this app. read more

Rice is very dry. There was very little meat. What little meat was there was dry. Tastes like it was sitting for days. Extra sauce means only 2 packets. Best thing was the egg roll. It was at 11AM when it opened. Won't visit again read more

Rice Garden Chinese Restaurant - Shrimp fried rice - Chinese Near Me - Dallas, Texas

Great food. It is a hidden place and might look janky from the outside but great food. The chicken was a bit dry and chewy to my taste but good flavor. The shrimp in the white cream was excellent. Would 10/10 recommend it. Seating was fast and quick. The only reason this didn't get a 5/5 starts was the service. The host was very rude when seating us and our waiter was a tab rude. She was attentive to our needs but it seemed that she was pushing us out. She gave me the check and stood there until I gave her my card. Upon receiving my check she stood there waiting for the signed copy. read more

Rice Garden Chinese Restaurant - a plate of food - Chinese Near Me - Dallas, Texas

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Good food with a lot of variety. Good and quick service. Good value for your money. Good place to check out!

Came here with 8 people. They have everything here. Chinese food, fried chicken, pizza lots of deserts. The Chinese food was good. The kids loved the pizza, fries. You can't go wrong here because of the diverse buffet. I had the whitefish with ginger, noodles , Spicy fried rice was the bomb. Sweet and sour shrimp was breaded and deep fried and really good. Peach cobbler, ice cream, and fried bananas were so yummy also. Basically everything I ate was so good. read more

This shit is nasty you can tell the food has been sitting out it was hard and tasted like if it was cooked in some plastic,example I guess they keep ice in the lettuce bowl and when I got some my lettuce were drenched in water, very disrespectful the lady in the front, we came in got some things and sat down I kid you not I took two bites from my plate and started gagging and keep gagging we finished and I could not keep it in any more then i ran to the restroom and throw up, when I brought it up to the lady and asked for a refund she was giving me problems saying that I didn't give it to the waiter but the plate was sitting on the table still full, she said no one else has problems (um nobody gonna tell you if your food nasty but I will) she tried talking shit. I talked my shit back, talking about $15 ain't nothing - but she was complaining about it, anyways the man who was there was saying I was crazy and for me to hush down because he didn't want everybody to hear about what happened! Never again in my life will I ever go back if I could i would give the a negative rating read more

it's a small place, and some of the food items could be better but let me tell you about how good the CRAWFISH IS!!! some of the best crawfish i've had for the price for sure. i'll continue to go back just for the crawfish every time i've gone it's been so good. cooked well and taste great! read more

First time trying this place and all I can say is that it did not disappoint. Their food was amazing and I had no complaints other than the service. The service wasn't bad but it could've been better. read more

Rice Garden Chinese Restaurant - three plates of food - Chinese Near Me - Dallas, Texas

I first noticed and smelled the MENUDO! On a Tuesday!!! YEOW!!! I'm in love! This place is $9.99 buffet!!! In lower Dallas!!! You gotta come here!!!! The food is magnificent in this dump. You would miss it if you weren't looking. I gotta stop writing so I can stuff my food into my head!!!!!! read more

Honestly don't waste your money on They're food. Both of the different fried options they had looked and tasted like from several days ago. I highly doubt it was fresh. The chiken teriyaki had a funny UNPLEASANT taste. read more

Customer service is the worst I have ever experienced!!! Waitress was just watching us eat the whole time. Came and brought out ticket which was fine but like 10 mins later walked up to our table and rearranged it on our table. Then when we were eating still came up to the table and demanded payment pushing ticket towards my husband. We were literally pushed out of there. We felt very uncomfortable and we complained to management they said that's the way they do stuff there didn't even bother to apologize. Also bathrooms are very dirty. Food was cold. Don't go here if your looking to be treated fairly. read more

The good : There was no wait time. Seated right away. Good fruit. So there's that. THE BAD: The buffet is pretty expensive for the quality of food. $10.99 for the buffet. $2 for a soda. The upkeep of the restrooms are not up to par. I was honestly considering leaving after using the restroom. It smelled terrible and there was trash all on the floor. It seemed like they do not clean their restrooms throughout the day. The beef was very chewy, I couldn't even eat it. Overall the food was bland and just wasn't good. There were 9 of us and only one person enjoyed the food was my 11 year old nephew. To be specific, he only liked the chicken wings. What made it even worse was the stale fortune cookies. read more

It is so good! I just ordered from here and I got the orange chicken lunch special, veg egg fu Yong and the spring rolls, and they were absolutely amazing!!! read more

RECOMMEND: Nope. Skip it. PRICE: Lunch Mon - Fri, 11am - 4pm $7.99 Adult $3.99 Children (ages 4-10) Dinner Mon - Thur, 4pm - 9:30pm $9.99 Fri, 4pm -10pm $10.68 Adult $5.29 Children (ages 4-10) Sat - Sun, All-day $10.68 Adult $5.29 Children (ages 4-10) FOOD: Man... while eating, I actually questioned several times "What the heck did I just put in my mouth"?! Stay away from: - ANY imitation crab. It has a questionable texture. - Orange Chicken. - General Tso Chicken. BUFFET ITEMS: - Chinese (typical buffet items) - American (pork ribs, sausage, pizza) - Seafood (salmon, crawfish, shrimp) - Fruit Bar - Desert Bar - Mongolian (stir fry on-order) - Mexican (menudo? Yes. Menudo.) SERVICE (Monday, Lunch @ 12:30pm): Pretty attentive server. Always filled my water and took away plates when needed. Tables and eating areas remained generally clean. BATHROOM: - Men's... good. - Women's... dirty. read more

This buffet is absolute trash. The food must have been sitting out for hours, because I feel sick af. Food did not taste good at all. Definitely never coming here again. read more

The Japanese club in high school ordered takeout from here several times in high school and we were always impressed with the food. Decided to dine in once and found that everything was kind of lackluster... Maybe the takeout was so good because they had to make everything fresh, but most of the stuff at the buffet looked like it wasn't quite as fresh as I'd like at 6:30 p.m. Still, it was decent, especially for the area of South Dallas it's in. read more

Food was okay depending on what it is but they do like to honor discounts and coupons even after I showed them on the yelp app. The other manager tried to pretend it was not there when I showed her on my phone because she wanted me to more than should have. Very unprofessional and the bread and pizza is extra hard and stale. The staff like the Managers could be more courteous and smile more. read more

Love the food and service, this is a must go Chinese buffet!! Specially now they added a Mongolian grill!!! read more

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Food looked like it had been sitting there for hours, sauce was very salty and didn't taste like it came from quality ingredients. Bathroom was very dirty, smelled terrible, and had trash overflowing. read more

I love this place, nice owner friendly staff food fresh and hot , takeout is available I wish I could eat it every day but I would probably blow up pretty fast but all in all I love this place coconut shrimp is to die for. read more

So disgusting! Restroom was horrible! Vomit everywhere!! And just gross!! Trashes were full!! And I told the manager and she didn't do anything about getting it cleaned!!! read more

I've been coming here for years, and they make the best fried rice here, if it's not from rice garden, then i don't want it

Me, my friends, and my family were @ Rice Garden for my 25th birthday/anniversary. The food was okay and all, but unfortunately, a cockroach and two bugs were involved, making my mother upset. Had a great time yesterday, but we're never going back. I still love Chinese food, but still. read more

Well I eat here about once a week. The food is fresh and a wide variety. They are always bringing out fresh food. Even while it's slow. The ginger white fish is wonderful. Three kinds of fried rice, and three kinds of eggrolls. The service is wonderful and friendly the only time I did not like this place was on a Sunday after church. It was packed. And the service was bad. And I am treated well. I don't know what the others review are talking about bugs, had to share condements. This sound like some other place down the street but not rice garden. . read more

From reading the reviews I'm glad I waited 15 years to come back. It was great back then but changed jobs & just happened to come back through. I travel a lot & this pretty good food. I'm really glad I missed such a bad period. I really enjoyed what I have eaten! read more

I have eaten here for YEARS. And sadly I will probably never visit again. PRICE: Good price for an endless buffet with so many options. No complaint here. FOOD: Great variety to appeal to more than just the traditional Chinese food. However, the food isn't always fresh. I usually take from the bottom because it's more likely to be warm. I really wonder if it meets temperature standard. SERVICE: This is my biggest complaint. Lately every time I go its worse than before. Today's debacle was that they were very busy and seated me in the weirdest spot. It looked like a large party had just left. The tables to my immediate left and right were occupied. However I had no table setting (napkins, soy sauces, etc.) I asked the server (who I think wasn't sure he knew I was his table) and he asked the customer next to me could he share. He never came back to remove plate or refill until much later than usual. New customer came next to me and I asked the server if they had more table settings. Of course she said no and when I said I would share she replied "that's nice of you." RIDICULOUS. I shouldn't have to share. No one else in restaurant that I could see was sharing. Of course the rest of time was spent hovering waiting for customers to leave so they could bus table and seat remaining people. This will definitely be my last time. Decent food isn't worth crappy service. read more

I moved from STL and I find this to be the best China buffet thus far. The price is definitely reasonable!

Just ate here the other day and I have to say I was VERY impressed! I used to come here all the time before i moved. Well recently I came back and stopped by to eat and was very surprised with the place. They had remodeled the place and added additional buffet lines. The spare ribs are to die for and the spicy shrimp is delish!! They had way more variety than i remembered and the food was fresh. The workers here were very nice and gave us coupons for $1 off our next visit. I will definitely be stopping by more often! read more

this restaurant is expensive and disgusting. I ordered garlic shrimp to go, and by the time I got to work and looked at my order it was completely wrong. I had no choice but to eat the concoction, and not only was it unpalatable, it made me physically ill for 24 hours. Upon returning to ask for the manager, I was told there was no one in charge and no one that can help me. thanks to my trusty cell phone this is all caught on camera. next stop Fox 4 News read more

With respect to Ty L., this restaurant is nowhere near South Dallas, unless he was referring to southern Dallas Co. It's in a neighborhood called Oak Cliff. I used to frequent this place in high school. My whole family loved it. The food was always fresh, the prices were fair, and the service and atmosphere were great. When I moved back after college, I found that the restaurant, and the surrounding neighborhood had gone downhill, and that the food wasn't as good as it used to be, the interior needed some reworking, the prices had gone up, and the service flat out sucked. The staff seems so angry now, which may be why it's always empty. It also didn't help that other patrons hassled us while we ate there one evening. It's just different, and not in a good way. I used to love this place, and I now I refuse to ever go back. There are better restaurants in the area. read more

Its a very good restaurant the food is so delicious and the ladies are very friendly I recommend this place if you want a take a good breakfast lunch or dinner because is a good food to take anytime read more

This place is terrible I'm amazed that this place has not ran out of business because there so bad my first problem is the drinks, the soft drinks are not carbonated and the food is bland. read more

I absolutely love this buffet! The new remodeling really made a difference as I can now peering at the streaking chandelier while I eat the food. Their variety & taste has increased significantly since the last time I went, with new additions like pork ribs, roast chicken, cinnamon cake, & chocolate chip cookies. Not to mention, they added this grill where they grill free, fresh food for you. Something I've never experienced at a Chinese buffet. Definitely will come back, but bringing the whole familia this time :) read more

I used to go to this restaurant quite often back in the 1990's. It's right on the border between Oak Cliff and Duncanville, and there weren't a lot of restaurant choices in the area at the time. It was quite good back then, with a very good buffet. The quality gradually dropped, and it eventually became what it is now, a place that I'd only go to if I was with someone else who really wanted to go there. The selection is small, the food is mediocre and rather bland. I've seen a lot of better Chinese restaurants go out of business in the intervening decades, I'm not really sure how this one has stayed in business. It's not terrible, but there are several MUCH better choices in the area now. read more

The food is delicious . The first time I came here I was 15 now I'm 23. I've gone to so many Chinese restaurants but they always let me down so I rather stick to rice garden. The place is got new updates so that made it more better. read more

The food is really good. The service is great. I love the ribs. They taste really good. The waiteresses were really nice. I felt so welcome there. They were very clean and showed no sign of cockroaches. Their deseserts were amazing and I feel very fulfilled by the end of our meal. Talking about it makes me hungry and I want to go back. I can't even believe how good it is. Everyone come! read more