Peking Gourmet

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  Let's face facts: Chinese buffets are almost always a risky choice. It's really hard to make food in large quantities that stays tasty sitting on a steam table for hours, yet allows you to charge under $10 per head. My dining companion came to the Peking Gourmet nearly ten years ago and had some good memories of it, so we decided to risk it for a late lunch. It was sadly disappointing.
  
  I tried a variety of dishes from the buffet. It's pretty sad when the Crispy Chicken--heavily breaded and deep-fried chicken in a sweet sauce--was the best of the buffet. It was passable, but still all you tasted was sauce and breading, a single note of flavor blasted, trumpet-like. The kung pao chicken was dry and overcooked, with hardly any sauce. The spring rolls were chewy (though on the plus side, they avoided being greasy). The teriyaki chicken might has well have been bought frozen in a grocery store, and the parsley chicken, which I had hoped might show some delicacy and refinement, was just bland.
  
  However, there is one saving grace of the Peking Gourmet is its Mongolian grill. Diners selected their own bowl of ingredients: chicken, pork, or beef and assorted vegetables, and a cook prepares it while you watch. I will say that while the flavor of the sauce is still bland, the freshly cooked plate of food is the best option on the buffet. It's still nothing special, but it's better than the dry, flavorless stuff on the buffet.
  
  The service was perfunctory but attentive, and the restaurant is showing its age with its interior decor and old furniture. There may not be other Chinese food options in Clayton, which is a pity. Because, apart from the Mongolian Grill (the reason I give this restaurant 2 stars instead of 1), there's no reason to visit the Peking Gourmet... that is unless you like quantity over quality.

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  Posted on 07.07.12 Keith T.

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  Going to a chinese restaurant when you are out of a major metropoloitan area is always a matter of faith. In the case of Peking gourmet, your faith is rewarded with competent food and service.

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  Posted on 04.27.12 Greg C.

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  A good North Georgia alternative to country cooking when you're ready for a change or heading home on Sunday evening when much else is closed.  Buffet a good value and the Mongolian Grill, included in buffet, is excellent.

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  Posted on 04.09.11 Wayne R.

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  How come I have to go all the way to Clayton to get good Mongolian BBQ style cooking? Peking Gourmet had the usual buffet suspects, plus snow crab clusters and a very unusual Chinese veggie soup. I go here for the Mongolian food. Tonight, I asked the chef to take my mixture of ingredients I had carefully assembled from the variety on the cold bar and cook them with their house sauce, then make it HOT! OOweeee! It was HOT, juicy, and crazy delicious. Cooled mah belly down with some nice cream puffs and a square of tiramisu (yes). Very helpful and friendly waitstaff provided valuable assistance. Grampy is jazzed like a buddha.

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  Posted on 03.27.10 George C.

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  Nice variety buffet, but my favorite is the Mongolian style barbecue.  They have a buffet of raw veggies and meats, like shrimp, chicken, pork and beef.  You pick up a bowl and make your own mix, then hand it to the chef and tell him which sauce you want.  He throws it on the griddle and cooks it with the sauce you asked for.  When it is finished he plates it and hands it back to you, YUM!
  
  We always eat here prior to a Boy Scout camping weekend.  The word has gotten around and now it is very popular with many scouts.  Try it and you will see!

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  Posted on 11.13.08 Chuck L.

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