Eric P. wrote: > Looking for a good (or even mediocre) Chinese food buffet (all you can > eat etc.) in the Pgh area. I was in Dayton, Ohio and was at this > place with a $4.95 lunch buffet with all you can eat gen. tso's and > lots more good stuff, and haven't been able to find anything > comparable around here. (I tend to eat a lot, see...) Any advice > would be appreciated. I like the Asian Palace on Route 22 in Monroeville (just over the hill past Penn Center if you are coming from Pgh.) It's about $5.95 (maybe $6.95 now) for lunch and $8.95 for dinner. There's a place in Oakland called Golden Palace which has a lunch buffet but their food is really lousy. Kate
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Chinese buffets?
Someone wrote: > Eric P. wrote: > >Looking for a good (or even mediocre) Chinese food buffet (all you can > >eat etc.) in the Pgh area. I was in Dayton, Ohio and was at this > >place with a $4.95 lunch buffet with all you can eat gen. tso's and > There is a place on Forbes Ave. in Oakland ( on the same block as > Schwartz's bagels) which has an all you can eat lunch buffet. I don't > recall the name offhand, but I think it is Hong Kong something. Two years ago, I had a really good and inexpensive tofu dish there (and it is the "Hong Kong....something...). The biggest of the cheap Chinese buffets is in downtown Pittsburgh on Wood St. I forget the name of it, but if you travel down Fifth Ave and take a left at Wood, this place is about a half block up Wood on your right. I don't remember the name of it. It's been open for a year or two. The food is not phenomenal, but it has an excellent selection and the cost is about $5.25 for lunch. The best EXCELLENT Chinese buffet is down at Mark Pi's in the Galleria (Mt. Lebanon) on Sunday. It's about $12-$13, but the quality of the food is great. The best Chinese place around, especially if you like dim sum, is the Tai Pei in Shadyside. Laurie Mann * [email removed] * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html *A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. --Chuckles* **************ServiceWare Database Wrangler and CyberLibrarian****************
Excerpts from netnews.pgh.food: 15-Sep-95 Re: Chinese buffets? by Laurie D. T. Mann@telera > The best Chinese place around, especially if you like dim sum, is the > Tai Pei in Shadyside. Actually, it's Dumpling House in Squirrel Hill, but to each their own and thanks for all the information about Chinese buffets. James (http://www-hep.phys.cmu.edu:8001/~walden/home.html) "Truth decays into beauty, while beauty soon becomes merely charm. Charm ends up as strangeness, and even that doesn't last, but up and down are forever." - The Laws of Physics
Well, if it's not a requirment to be in Pittsburgh proper, there is a good Sunday lunch buffet at the Fu Kwei Palace (not sure of spelling). The food is reasonably good (about 2 years ago they changed management and chefs which made a dramatic improvment) It is between Jeannette and Greensburg on Route 30 in the GreenGate Shopping Plaza (just east og GreenGate Mall). My family often makes the drive from Monroeville after church on Sunday. Price is about 6.00 per person half preice for small children (mine are 4 and 5, don't know what the age cuttoff is)
** Note: this review gives a favorable nod to the new buffet Chinese ** ** resturant in the North Hills. If you equate decent Chinese food ** ** in Pgh with Yeti sightings, hit 'n' now. You have been warned. ** Sally & I went to the new North Hills (McKnight Road) buffet place, on the site of the old Cathay Gourmet. Sorry, I forget the name. I think it's Mandarin Something, spelled correctly, but don't quote me on that. It's run by the same people who ran the Cathey Gourmet. They expanded their Monday night buffet and now offer it every night. The have 2 (semi)permenant stations now. Part of it is dedicated to hot, part is dedicated to cold. They have appertisers as well as regular dishes. The also have a soft-serve ice creame machine. Take out is offered at $3.95 / pound. They must have a new chef, because some of the items have changed. The cold noodles are quite different (more soy, less sesame paste), as are the sauces of a number of the dishes. I noticed a large selection of vegitarian selections, as well as fried chicken, chicken fingers, and french fries (presumably for the kids.) Overall, not bad. The General Tao's chicken was more like orange chicken, and the Hot & Sour soup wasn't much of either, but the wonton soup was passable, as were most of the vegitarian and chicken dishes. If you go to buffets for the same reason I do: to eat a little of a lot of things, I'd suggest you give it a try. Note: On Sundays they have a buffet Dim Sum brunch [11:30 - 2:00, I think]. When I asked the owner (I think she is one of the owners) about it, she "explained" is was "a lot of appetisers, that's what Chinese people like for brunch..." I just wanted to know if they used the steam tables (which they do) or if brunch was ala carte. I suspect we'll try it out soon. J ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- John Kochmar | Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human [email removed] | brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250 SEI Computing Facilities | -Harper's Index, October 1989
Someone wrote: > Laurie M. wrote: > > The biggest of the cheap Chinese buffets is in downtown > > Pittsburgh on Wood St...if you travel down > > Fifth Ave and take a left at Wood, this place is about a half block > > up Wood on your right. > I couldn't find any Chinese food places on Wood St. between Forbes and > Fifth (where I believe your directions place me). Is that correct? Yep, we drove by it just last Saturday. The name of it is just "Chinese Restaurant" (I kid you not). Someone mentioned the New Dumpling House in Squirrell Hill. I've had very mixed meals there. Tai Pei is consistently good. If you live in the South Hills, try the Don Don on Washington St in Mt. Lebanon. It's on the same block as Caruso's Pizza and the New Towne Fair. While it doesn't have a buffet, they make about the best pan fried dumplings in the area. They have lunch specials, and the dinner menu is about 10-20% cheaper than the Sesame Inn. Laurie Mann * [email removed] * http://worcester.lm.com/lmann/index.html *A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants. --Chuckles* **************ServiceWare Database Wrangler and CyberLibrarian****************