China Star Chinese Buffet
| Address: | 4414 North Fwy, Houston, TX 77022, USA |
| Phone: | +1 713-884-1618 |
| Site: | chinastarbuffet.com |
| Rating: | 3.4 |
| Working: | 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–9:30PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–10PM 11AM–9:30PM |
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Chase Dizzie
Went here with a friend of mine who recommended the place. I see some people complaining about food quality and service. I am a Certified Chef so I have a certain understanding when visiting buffets. They are mass producing frozen food using huge automated machines and appliances. This is honestly required to create that much food, especially if very busy. What matters to me is that it is correctly cooked, available at all times, and not contaminated in any way, with variety. This place met the same quality I expect from most for the average price. Chicken, beef, and pork dishes cooked in various sauces, steamed vegetables, various dishes with duck, shrimp, fish, and many fried options. While not that meaty, there is crab and even crawfish. Theres also a basic dessert layout with ice cream, fruits, those infamous jell-o like slices, and assorted cookies. What truly caught my attention was the sushi option. While not the most advanced rolls, they were still some of the favorites and quite a lot of it. It seemed appropriately prepared and tasted better than I had expected. I dont run in to many buffets with a Sushi option and that does make a difference if you are a fan. Our service from the server wasnt over the top but still adequate and Id love to come back here sometime in the future. Hopefully it will be just as good of an experience or even better.
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Angie Mtz
First of all, food is excellent. I have no complaints about that. The only thing I do have a HUGE complaint is everytime I order take out to go from the menu, they always mess it up. Never fails. I usually order the low mein house special (chicken,pork,shrimp, and beef) and for some reason the cooks never add shrimp or pork. So I always have to check my order before I leave. And a few other times they have forgotten my eggrolls. Then when I confront the staff about it, they act like im in the wrong n they dont ever want to help. They dont even have any more menus to go. The only reason I know what that order has, and everything else is because I have an original take out order at home. For some reason they stopped ordering the print out menus...so when u ask the cashier what exactly my order comes with, they dont know or they cant tell u because on their screen register it only shows the name and full price. But other than that, the food is great!
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Chris Gtz
I give it a 3 star y because the atmosphere was planned an bars placed well the food was plentiful the sushi bar was great I tried most of the food the only thing that I had a problem with was with the frog legs they was over cooked an tough to eat an also the first plate I grabbed was birth Im still here at 12:19 on this Sunday on 4-12-15 about to try the soup an desert an will leave my opinion after OK Im about to leave the food was good I have had better now about the frog legs I have had frog leg all over this great country an this place has the worst legs of them all an found another dirty plate I also asked one of the staff about the frog legs an she agreed that they were over cooked way over cooked dry an tough to eat the cook could use a lesson in cooking at least try to learn how to cook legs I taste no pride in the food he cooks an the habachi grill was OK u can tell he puts an effort in his work an is quick so no long wait
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Michael Webb
I ate there for the first time a couple days. My stomach started bothering but I thought it was just gas, until yesterday. My stomach was in severe pain and was in a serious knot. No medicine or food I ate calmed down the pain. Later on that night, my stomach ache was a pain that I could bear. Eventually my body threw up everything in my stomach until there was nothing left. I thought it was just me until that same night, my son comes downstairs crying his little heart out, tries to go back to sleep, and then he is also vomiting all night with me as well. He is 2 years old and should know what that feels like. We both ran to the emergency room. My son was a quick fix with pills and urine samples. But I was severe. My doctor thought I punctured my lung, had blood clots, or a broken rib from vomiting and coughing. Now it is the middle of the night and my 4 year old is coughing and vomiting as well. I will never be eating there again.
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Maria Medina
I used to come here alot when the food was good, but food started getting very nasty.. I usually come for the hibachi grill, crawfish and shrimp. Crawfish started getting worse in taste and always overcooked.. Shrimp is at its worse now.. They must have changed the kind of shrimp being used because now its horrible.. Todays crawfish smelled rotten, but when i tried eating them my fingers had a horrible stink and they were nasty. I told the manager and she didnt seem to care. She said it was from the chinese spices.. She still Kept them there and people were still eating them..Now i know it isnt true of the spices because im sure the spices are the same all the time and they never smell or taste like that.. All the food was not good today.. But I know this will be my last time comming here.
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DizzieDaCrazzie88
I wanted to give a negative zero rating cos a 1 star rating is still too high of a rating for this disgusting place. Dont eat here unless you like your brownies with a side order of a pile of ants then this maybe the perfect restaurant for you! I ate here once for my sisters birthday I decided to get some dessert BIG MISTAKE what i seen horrified the living crap out of me ANTS!!! ants crawling all over the brownies thats been sitting out. I can tell the brownies have been sitting there awhile cause the ant line was fully formed and everything. I promptly informed the clueless cooking staff which they quickly cleaned it up. Im pretty sure that constitutes as a health code violation. How is this establishment opened and still running is beyond me?
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Joaquin Torres
The hispanic hostess and staff were very nice and courteous.We were told toddlers under 3 are free and their posted sign confirmed it. They insisted we buy my 1 year old and my 3 year old soft drinks, but we told them they dont drink soda, they were pushy again insisting we buy them a soft drinks. We refused and went about trying to enjoy our buffet, my little ones barely ate anything. When it came time to pay a chinese manager scolded the hostess and talked to another chinese staff in chinese. Then she agressively modified our ticket charging us a fee for our 3 year old! We refused to pay additional charges, but they were aggressive. Screw these people!!!
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Axel Rose
Went here on a Friday and it was great. When here on a Tuesday and it was not good at all. The buffet selection was actually different. I asked the waitress what had happened. She said the owner changes the buffet from day to day. I would say stick with whats good. Some people walked out without paying while we were there. The lady whos the owner started going off on the waitress saying it was her fault and that she had to pay for it. Each person is responsible for their own actions and crimes. I told the waitress that she could not make her pay for another persons crimes. That she should call the Texas Workforce Commission and turn the owner in.
