China Buffet
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Cuisine
Meal Periods
Dining Format
Phone
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EXPERIENCE
China Buffet is an established Chinese-American dining room in Eastgate, a place woven into local routines over years of lunches and family dinners. It sits on Eastgate Square Drive behind a broad cream-colored facade with red lettering, in the shopping area on Cincinnati’s eastern side. The buffet is at the heart of a substantial, informal sit-down restaurant.
Curved pale counters give the food area a distinctive shape, with a chandelier and touches of greenery adding a little flourish overhead. An aquarium and a grip-strength arcade game bring a family-restaurant touch to the surroundings. The room has a little more personality than the broad shopping-center frontage initially suggests.
Family get-togethers and holiday meals form part of its longstanding local role. Those recurring occasions give the large Eastgate dining room a neighborhood character.
The changing Chinese-American spread remains the reason for the visit, with sauced chicken, beef dishes and filled wontons at its center. American extras and desserts have their place further along the meal. Both lunch and dinner belong to the buffet’s routine, Tuesday through Sunday, with Monday closed. Carryout and delivery are other parts of the restaurant’s everyday business, supported by its own extensive Chinese-American online ordering menu.
FOOD
China Buffet’s Chinese-American hot dishes give the meal its foundation. Honey chicken, sweet-and-sour chicken and black pepper chicken are among the main preparations, with pepper steak bringing beef into the selection. Chicken with broccoli, chicken wings and fish also appear among the hot foods. The assortment changes, so these dishes describe its range rather than a fixed daily menu.
Honey chicken brings the sweeter glazed-chicken style to the spread. Sweet-and-sour chicken carries sweetness with a tart edge, the familiar flavor combination behind its name. Black pepper chicken puts the aromatic bite of black pepper into another chicken preparation. Pepper brings warmth and fragrance as a seasoning, giving that dish a different flavor emphasis from the sweet-sauced chicken choices.
Pepper steak is the beef-and-pepper main dish. In the classic Chinese-American style, sliced beef cooks with bell peppers, with the vegetable as an important part of the preparation. Chicken with broccoli is another established entree. Chicken wings also belong to the selection, alongside the fish and other hot dishes.
Crab Rangoon is a substantial filled appetizer here, with a generous crab-and-cream-cheese center inside the fried wonton wrapper. The mild, creamy filling is a particular feature of this version. Cream cheese brings its familiar dairy richness and slight tang to the savory filling, while the fried wrapper supplies the pastry around it. This is a Chinese-American restaurant preparation, with the filling as much a part of its appeal as the wrapper.
Pork dumplings and egg rolls give the appetizer selection further substance. The dumplings have a savory pork filling within the dough wrapper. Egg rolls provide another filled, fried preparation. Together with the Rangoon, they make the appetizers a distinct part of the meal alongside the larger chicken, beef and fish dishes.
Sautéed green beans are among the cooked vegetable dishes, while rice and noodles accompany the entrees. Broccoli also appears in the chicken-and-broccoli preparation. Spaghetti and bacon-wrapped hot dogs remain American extras within the assortment, alongside the Chinese-American hot foods.
Sugar doughnuts and assorted cakes give dessert two clear preparations of its own. The doughnuts bring a sugar-coated pastry to the selection, with cakes as another dessert choice. Banana pudding, ice cream and fortune cookies are also offered. The pudding supplies a home-style American sweet at the end of a meal whose main appeal remains the Chinese-American chicken, beef, appetizers and vegetable dishes.
FOOD HIGHLIGHTS
♛ Honey Chicken — sweet-glazed chicken among the buffet’s Chinese-American favorites.
♛ Black Pepper Chicken — pepper-seasoned chicken alongside the sweeter preparations.
♛ Sweet-and-Sour Chicken — a familiar sweet-tart main dish.
♛ Pepper Steak — a beef-and-pepper alternative to the chicken entrees.
♛ Chicken with Broccoli — chicken and vegetables together in a savory main dish.
♛ Chicken Wings — bone-in chicken among the hot-food choices.
♛ Crab Rangoon — fried wontons with a crab-and-cream-cheese filling.
♛ Pork Dumplings — savory pork-filled wrappers in the appetizer selection.
♛ Egg Rolls — filled, fried rolls alongside the larger hot dishes.
♛ Sautéed Green Beans — a cooked vegetable choice among the savory selections.
♛ Sugar Doughnuts — sugar-coated fried sweets to finish the meal.
♛ Assorted Cakes — a changing selection of baked desserts.
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