The Lucky Star Chinese Restaurant

Perfectly decent spot if you want to fill up on some just-OK Chinese buffet.  I went on Sunday, when the all-you-can-eat buffet is $8.25 all day.

There were five eight-foot buffets, including an American salad buffet, dessert buffet, and mostly traditional American foods buffet.  One of the two remaining buffets was half soups, so that really didn't leave a whole lot of space for Chinese main dishes.

Those Chinese dishes there were, were fine, and everything was reasonably freshly cooked, not standing out and overheated.  But not one dish was especially delicious (nor bad), and there were a few misses.  My biggest complaint is, not only was there not a selection of vegetable dishes - there was not even one!  Even the limited dishes that included vegetables were light on them.  The best dish was the garlic chicken and broccoli, which was just fine.  Other than that, the rice was yellow Spanish rice with hard-chewy peas.  There was no sauce for the sweet-n-sour chicken.  The wanton soup broth was oily and completely plain (no shredded greens or pork).

During the week, the lunch buffet is $5.85.  I don't know if the selection is the same.  But if it is, my rating would go up a star, for pretty good value for a variety of just-OK food.

Food 4 + ambiance 4 + value 5 + service 5 = overall 4.3 /10 (forgettable)