I've eaten here several times, and one thing is always the same, it's busy. That probably says a…read morelot about the times we are living in. With the cost of groceries, gas, and dining out continuing to climb, people are looking for a place where they can get a good meal without spending a fortune. This place fits the bill. If you come before 4:00 p.m. on a weekday, lunch is around $15. That's about what you'd spend on a burger, fries, and a drink at some fast-food chains these days, except here you get an entire buffet with plenty of choices. The salad bar is well stocked and includes fresh fruit. They also have sushi rolls and nigiri. Is it sushi restaurant quality? No. But considering that one specialty roll at a sushi restaurant can cost $12-$16 by itself, it's a nice bonus. My favorite item is fried chicken. It's crispy, flavorful, and consistently juicy. I would gladly pay the lunch price just for the chicken. They also serve a very good pot roast, meaty pork ribs, and on Fridays they have a surprisingly good rib roast. Those are just a few of the highlights because there are plenty of other dishes to choose from. As for the staff, most of the employees appear to be young and may be working their first job. The cooks aren't trying to be gourmet chefs, they focus on preparing the buffet items well, and overall, they do a good job keeping the food coming despite how busy the restaurant gets. If you're looking for a fine dining experience prepared by professionally trained chefs, this probably isn't the place for you. But if your goal is to enjoy a wide variety of good food at a price that's hard to beat in today's economy, this buffet is definitely worth a visit. Just be prepared for a crowd, that's usually a sign they're doing something right.

Very large buffet. Lots of parking in the shopping center. Located right off the 60 Freeway at…read moreGarfield. This place was busy with many parties of varying sizes. We did have to wait in line before getting seated. The wait wasn't too long for our party of 7 as it took maybe 15 min or so. The food was okay. It's what you would expect from an AYCE buffet like this. It's maybe on par with the likes of Golden Corral or Hometown Buffet (from back in the day). The highlight things to eat may be the made-to-order Mongolian BBQ where you load up your bowl with veggies, protein (chicken, pork, shrimp, beef, etc), noodles, and seasonings. Hand it over to the staff cook and they hand you a pager to notify you when done. The other food highlight may be the Japanese sushi area. While not the highest quality of ingredients, it was still decent for the price of the buffet and the fact that there's a staff member making the sushi rolls consistently rather than just leaving a bunch out in a tray to get old and dry. Definitely might be an even better deal as a lunch AYCE option. But for dinner it's still nice to go to.

Went for my husband's birthday as they offer a free birthday meal as long as you pay for your…read moredrink. Food was honestly great.

After having a great experience at the Paradise Buffet in Montebello my friend made a reservation…read morefor a very large family lunch after another funeral. Paradise checked everyone in as we arrived. They had no problem accommodating our large party. Paradise's dining room is very large and busy and no problem taking care of us. Their staff could not have been better. They were quick to clear our tables. Everything we ate was tasty. I cannot say enough good things about the selection and how delicious the food was.

Top tier service from servers Roman and Nessi! Super quick, amazing views and great food as always…read more Never a dull moment here!

awesome food, ambiance and Kelly took awesome care of us. my mom and son enjoyed every bit of it…read more the entire staff from start 5 to finish are just so courteous, friendly and helpful. loved it!

Me and my friend were craving All You can Eat sushi and this place popped up on Yelp so decided to…read moretry it out. We arrived 30 minutes before the lunch buffet was over & what a race to feed our face! Lol I went to the line first and came back w/ plate full of assrtd sushi, fresh baked fish, noodles, broccoli beef and crispy orange chicken. When my friend got her plate and returned to our table, I was in shoCk to see all the crab legs, crawfish, mussels and miso spup! I was like... where did you find that? Lol I felt like I chose poorly. Haha Overall a good lunch feast for about $22 bucks each and plenty of seats.

My family and I celebrated a birthday there at dinner time last Thursday. It was a pretty busy…read morenight, but we got seated right away with a reservation. The restaurant is big, very spacious and has casual yet pretty elegant look to it. They've been there before, and it was my first time I liked the ambiance and appreciated the friendly and attentive staff. We aimed for mostly the seafood, fresh poke/sushi, and hot Chinese dishes. They were delicious. I saw the grilled satay, short ribs, and mackerel, but I didn't try because they looked dry sitting on the hot tray for a while maybe those need to be made to order. The large beef rib was tender and delicious and tasted similar to nilaga or lauya (Filipino style beef soup). I was surprised to see character baon there--so cute that I had to take a pic! How much they charge is worth all that. The staff does bring out their tambourines and sing happy birthday when requested. They'll also store cake in the fridge for you. Will most likely go back there for another occasion.

I love this place, good food, good ambiance, room temperature was Great now, no more fridge temp…read morelike a few years ago. Just a recommendation to owner. You need to focus in the cleaning of the restrooms. People witnessed them but how the kitchen looks like if your restrooms are in this conditions. Use white vinegar to remove scale.

Heard a lot about this place. Finally able go and check them out…read more Plenty of parking here. Restaurant is very nice and clean. Front desk staff was very friendly and welcoming. Enjoyed the many varieties of items they had. Salads, hummus, many meat items, desserts, and soda machine. If you enjoy Mediterranean food, this is a good spot to explore the many items they offered. Come check them out.

I kinda love this spot. Food is relatively basic, but you don't go to Golden Corral for a Michelin…read moremeal so it hits for me. I usually go on weekends and it's busy enough the food has high turn over and for the most part always seems fresh. It's also cleaner than most buffets I've tried in the area and the staff does a good job at keeping things tidy and organized. If you're doing weekend breakfast, get here early or you'll most likely be waiting in a decent sized line. Even then, it's. big spot and moves relatively fast. My only complaint is sometimes it takes them a full extra hour to turnover from breakfast to lunch. It's advertised at 11AM, but I've had to wait until after 12PM for the actual lunch/dinner items to come out.

As a remembrance of my dad's birthday, my wife, her mom, and I went to one of his favorite chain…read morerestaurants to eat dinner (after my wife and I had just gotten back from visiting our daughter). I intentionally chose a Golden Corral that we hadn't been before (we usually go to the closer one in Bellflower), and found that this Downey location didn't have the best aesthetics or service, but the food was on point. Gold Corral was already pretty busy when we got there before 5 pm. Dinner pricing was in play, costing $22.79 per person plus $4.39 for a soft drink. One stands in line to enter, grabbing your drinks from the self-serve soda fountain, and then paying the cashier. There was no option to add a tip, which was a bit surprising (since other food places that have far less service commonly add the option to their checkout process). Large sections of the restaurant were on reserve, but there were still plenty of places to sit, so was still on find-your-own table status. Once we found one, said hi to our server and went up. Two of the best things on the buffet were the golden fried shrimp (jumbo in size, nicely deep fried in a good oil) which were delicious dipped in their cocktail sauce (though each item were at opposite ends of the buffet) AND their freshly grilled sirloin steak. Once you get the grillers attention, he will fork over half of one, with the right level of doneness according to your request. Even though I was disappointed in learning that the steaks are now delivered frozen, they didn't taste that way. It was very good, as good a steak as I've had at any other fast casual restaurant, and certainly the best at a AYCE place. I tried their well known pot roast as well, and it was the same as before: really tender, going well with the accompanying gravy. I also tried their cornmeal fried catfish: quite good and not overly greasy. Good deep frying seems to be common here. Did notice they had fried chicken and grilled chicken available. Each table had paper napkin dispenser, and condiments like ketchup, steak sauce, and hot sauce. Other things I noticed were the self serve 3 flavor ICEE machine, self serve soft serve ice cream, and chocolate dipped fruits and snacks. What it did not have were two things that I've seen before at other Golden Corrals: a cotton candy machine and a self serve chocolate fountain. They did seem understaffed, as our dirty plates kept piling up and our drinks didn't get refilled. I was tempted to go to the nearby beverage station to just refill it ourselves, but the clear signage stating 'Employees Only' deterred me. My wife did get a server's attention, and he did clear our plates and refill our drinks...thus got a chance to use my 2 dollar bills before we left. We ended up only staying for 40 minutes, which would have disappointed my dad (who made it a rule to stay at least 1 hour at any AYCE place). But we ate well (my mother in law really loved the fried shrimp), which is what really mattered.

I have to admit, I was very impressed by this buffet. From the presentation to the taste of the…read morefood. Customer service was very good also. What I loved about the presentation is the way the food was placed and the order it was placed in. Cuisines were placed in order. And the desserts were placed in the back. They had koren cuisines in the side. EVERYTHING and I do mean everything taste delicious. I didn't know what to choose from so I sampled most of the dishes. Orange chicken wasn't your average dry and hard. It was moist and fluffy. The egg rolls were crispy. The rice was moist as well and very enjoyable. Even their lemonade was on point. I'm definitely returning. Ambiance was perfect. The tables are spacious and wide enough for guests to enjoy their company. The decor was gorgeous as well. Parking can appear limited depending on how crowded they are. My friend paid about 42 bucks for th both of us. This definitely a buffet worth trying.

Honestly it's really bad quality of the food I've been here 4 year ago and it was pretty good,I…read moredecided to to come today with my family and we tried different options of the food and everything it's really bad and disgusting nothing has flavor not even the orange chicken .do not recommend

A variety of Korean foods from salad bar and kitchen, freindly staff, big room for people, and…read moregreat price! Highly recommend this restaurant

Our server Steve was amazing and very attentive! The food was also great, very fast service.read more

I'm the one that usually picks where me and my crew are gonna eat, well, since I'm the one paying!…read moreActually, I know this crew well enough to know what keeps them happy. I yelped around some places and found a Chinese buffet. Buffets are good cause everybody gets to choose what they want and there's enough choices to keep everybody happy. Heck, these Chinese buffets even have American food like ribs, pizza and French fries. This place, China Buffet, not the most imaginative name, is pretty decent sized and seems to have a lot more choices than the small town buffets I've seen. More of the more authentic Chineasy stuff that I have no idea what it is, but there's plenty of choices of familiar stuff to keep us all fed, like hot and sour soup, all kinds of noodles and egg rolls and ribs and veggies. Service was the normal Asian buffet service, not friendly, just efficient at filling drinks and clearing the plates. The prices here in SoCal seem a little higher than Nor Cal, but I think you do get a better buffet here.

China Buffet was a great find and I would definitely be a regular if I lived in the area…read more I decided to tour the Del Amo Fashion Center on the way home from LAX. I was hungry and hoped to find something good at the Mitsuwa Food Court, but got annoyed at the exorbitant prices, so I decided to check out local buffets for affordable Asian food and stumbled upon China Buffet on Yelp. The decor and ambiance was comfortably warm, pleasant and welcoming with the carpeted dining area and nice wall art. Service was just as warm and friendly. I loved a wide selection of food to sample. The seafood dishes weren't as tasty as the dishes at my favorite seafood buffet in Murrieta, CA, but it was satisfactory. The had freshly grilled chicken, meat, fish, and calamari in the back. Dinner price for AYCE was a mere $24.99 on a Friday and $2.35 for a soda w/ free refills. Can't go wrong with so many options to sample and choose from. Highly recommend!

Love the place, good food and great service from Ben K. I would definitely come here again!read more

Food was so great!! And Tommy was very attentive. (-: vibe is very laid back ams casual. (-: def…read morewill be coming back.