China Best

I experience restaurants in the same way I experience movies; I don't go see the Farrelly Brothers Three Stooges movie and leave disappointed because I was expecting something more along the lines of Schindler's List.  After all, Schindler lived at the same time as the Three Stooges...but that's a bit idiotic, right?  Well, so is going to a buffet and complaining about a specific dish.  Is your pallet so refined that not one of the twenty or so dishes at China Best was sophisticated enough for you?   Please remember, you've made the decision to eat at a buffet, the human equivalent of a pig trough.  For $8 per adult, perhaps you were expecting the owners of China Best to resurrect Zuo Zongtang himself to cook General Tso's Chicken for you?  This is a buffet; please expect buffet-quality food.  If you want something a bit more sophisticated, check out Asia Wok down the street, where you'll get noticeably smaller portions of high(er) quality Chinese food.  
I have very low expectations for buffets, Chinese buffets in particular, and don't recall ever eating at one before, but for some reason though (I remember being terribly hungry), China Best finally got the best of me.  I've eaten at China Best three times total, and have had the same combination every time.  I'm not a picky eater; they've just never changed the menu.  Sure there were things I tried and didn't like; I just didn't continue to eat them.  That's the beauty of the buffet; if the chicken skewers are a bit too smoky for you, fill up on the vegetable lo mein.  Don't forget to leave room for the fried sugar donut holes, they go really well with the ice-cream.

Well, I tried this place because it was cheap and I was hungover. Even in this condition, I was pretty disgusted by the offerings at this buffet. I tried to sample as many items as I could to be fair, but there was a lot of disappointment. A lot of the food wasn't even hot which had there been adequate heat, the food probably would have tasted a lot better.

I think the price was pretty cheap, I don't remember exactly how much I paid, so maybe you get what you pay for. The service was good and the people were nice, but since the food was pretty bad I wouldn't go back.

Of the items I sampled while I was there, the only ones I enjoyed were their General Tso's (sweet, although missing some of the trademark spice) and the beef with broccoli (which is difficult to screw up). Their lo mein had thicker noodles than I was expecting, but it was passable.

Their cashew chicken, which is one of my favorites, was terrible. Way too salty too much celery. Also, there was some kind of butter shrimp that I tried which was as advertised. Way too much butter on frozen shrimp... I might as well have ate a stick of butter instead.

But the worst was the crab rangoon. They were tough, overfried, and had very little crab in them. I simply bit off the bottom and tossed the rest. Crab rangoon is best when light and flaky, and this was definitely not.

If this place is China's Best, then China needs to demand a recount of the vote, because this is poor to average Chinese buffet at best.