Super Orient Buffet

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Cuisine

Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Sushi

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Meal Periods

Dinner, Lunch

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Dining Format

Buffet

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Phone

(407) 380-5583

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Address

4525 S Semoran Blvd
Orlando, FL 32822

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Website

superorientbuffet.com

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Cuisine

Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Sushi

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Meal Periods

Dinner, Lunch

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Dining Format

Buffet

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Phone

(407) 380-5583

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Address

4525 S Semoran Blvd
Orlando, FL 32822

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Website

superorientbuffet.com

EXPERIENCE

Super Orient Buffet brings a familiar American Chinese buffet to South Semoran, with sushi, seafood and hibachi grilled to order sharing the meal. This Orlando buffet is straightforward: the hot dishes you know, a grill that cooks for you, and shellfish that can make lunch a little more ambitious. There is plenty here for someone whose first loyalty is still to lo mein.

The restaurant describes more than twenty years of local service. Outside, the low tiled roof and long red awning give the building an established roadside presence, with the full name curved over the entrance. Inside, glass-covered serving islands occupy much of the room beneath a low wood-paneled ceiling. Blue and green lighting traces the counters, giving the practical buffet layout a little flash. The food line gets the spotlight, quite literally.

This is a casual place for family lunches, repeat visits and gatherings large enough to need more than one table. The sizable dining room accommodates bigger parties, while the self-service line and included grill keep the meal informal. A couple can return to familiar dishes; a family can make a weekend lunch of it. Sushi beside Chinese hot food is part of that everyday flexibility, and the hibachi cook adds a personal touch to an otherwise self-directed meal.

Lunch gives way to dinner at 3:45pm, when labeled dinner dishes carry the dinner rate. A late lunch has ambitions, apparently. The two services offer different selections, so the distinction is more than a clock on the wall. Cajun seafood boils belong to a separate ordering menu; the Chinese buffet remains the restaurant’s main offering. An appetite for those familiar hot dishes can grow into an afternoon of sushi, grilled food and seafood, all within the same meal.

FOOD

Super Orient’s hot line begins with the American Chinese dishes that make a buffet feel familiar: General Tso’s chicken, lo mein, fried rice and dumplings. Sushi and the grill broaden the meal, but the Chinese cooking supplies its heart. Selections vary between lunch and dinner and over time; the pleasure is in the mix of recognizable favorites and the seafood tucked among them.

General Tso’s chicken gets prominent billing among the classics. Bourbon chicken adds chopped pieces with a glossy brown coating, while sweet-and-sour chicken caters to that particular sweet-and-sour craving. Chicken with broccoli and beef with broccoli bring meat and vegetables together, with generous florets making broccoli a real part of the dish. This is familiar takeout territory opened up to a buffet meal, where the beef needn’t be an entire separate order.

The lo mein is a tangle of slender noodles, with vegetables running through it; fried rice is flecked with vegetables, too. Both belong near the top of the list for a diner coming chiefly for the Chinese food. Sliced mushrooms in brown sauce are among the wider hot-line selections, giving mushroom lovers something substantial to seek beyond a few pieces tucked into another entrée. The noodles may be reliable company, but they don’t need to monopolize lunch.

Dumplings add filled bites to the spread, and soups give this part of the meal a little more range. Hot-and-sour soup is among the buffet’s repertoire, a welcome name for anyone who habitually starts a Chinese meal with a bowl. The broccoli, mushrooms and noodles can wait a moment. Soup people know their priorities.

At the hibachi grill, the kitchen cooks to order within the buffet meal, with meat and vegetables among the ingredients. The cook can take a request about the vegetables, whether you prefer them softer or crisper. That is a welcome bit of say-so alongside the ready-made hot dishes. The Chinese classics remain close by, but this part of the meal gets a little individual attention.

Sushi is included as well, making a few pieces an easy addition beside shrimp or a bowl of soup. The selection is best approached with an open mind about the day’s rolls. Here, sushi shares a meal with lo mein and bourbon chicken. Those combinations are part of the fun, especially for anyone unwilling to let a noodle craving cancel a sushi craving.

Seafood brings shrimp, mussels and clams, with shell-on clams adding another choice beside the mussels. Steamed and fried shrimp belong to the broader selection, along with fish and cold crab salad as available. The wider hot selection can also include crawfish. There is enough shellfish here to give it a substantial share of the meal. Snow crab legs are a separate purchase by weight, however, and are explicitly excluded from AYCE.

Fruit and sweets close things out. Watermelon and orange slices are among the fruit choices, while cookies belong to the dessert repertoire. The fruit is a simple finish after the sauced chicken dishes; cookies keep the sweet course small if the savory part of lunch has been rather successful.

FOOD HIGHLIGHTS

♛ General Tso’s Chicken — one of the Chinese classics given prominent billing.

♛ Bourbon Chicken — chopped chicken pieces with a glossy brown coating.

♛ Sweet-and-Sour Chicken — a familiar sweet-and-sour choice in the changing hot selection.

♛ Chicken with Broccoli — chicken and generous florets among the hot dishes.

♛ Beef with Broccoli — a meat-and-vegetable choice for the beef craving.

♛ Lo Mein — slender noodles with vegetables, central to the Chinese spread.

♛ Fried Rice — vegetable-flecked rice among the buffet’s familiar Chinese staples.

♛ Dumplings — filled bites alongside the noodles and Chinese hot dishes.

♛ Hibachi — grilled to order and included with the buffet meal.

♛ Sushi — included rolls sharing the meal with Chinese food and seafood.

♛ Shrimp — steamed and fried preparations within the buffet’s broader selection.