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| - Here's my guiltiest not-really best-kept food secret: I love greasy, questionable, cliched, brown-sauce-or-red-sauce you-will-be-hungry-soon-order-takeout-now Chinese food.
In a rising city of farm-to-table, manageable portions, and mindful eating, buffets are certainly not on the increase; and, while the city proper has a few (a nice small one in Oakland, a truly classic one downtown, another in East Liberty that hits the spot), my personal self-unimprovement mission to hit all of the Chinese joints in the area fatefully brought me to this buffet.
The staff is friendly. The place is huge. The seating is comfortable. The decor is perfectly classic and just what you need to hound a buffet full of Chinese menu all-stars, a sushi bar, a build-your-own hibachi grill, and some fried American cuisine just in case you can't stomach any of the other options. Everything tasted pretty alright, too. Not bad for less than ten bucks.
I wouldn't rave about any of it (except that I kind of am), but sometimes this kind of food really hits the spot--and if you're close by, or willing to drive out, the Grand China Buffet is a Chinese Buffet gem surviving the dying genre of cuisine.
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