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    China Buffet

    3.2 (47 reviews)
    InexpensiveChinese
    Closed 10:30 am - 9:00 pm

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    Pink Lemonade with Yao Ming and great food !
    Bryan S.

    Just right. Exactly where you want your Chinese food to be. 3 stars. Great Service. The lady who was my cashier was also my waitress. I even saw her go into the kitchen and eat from the buffet line too ! She might of cooked the food too ! Ambiance was awesome. Felt like I really was in Hanover Park rather than Carol Stream. Will be going here again soon. Even saw Yao Ming !!!!

    Fried rice, bbq pork, Crab Rangoon (10), Sesame Chicken

    Delicious food, always fresh, clean, friendly, hidden gem of the town! Favorite Chinese buffet in the area!

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    Robert G.

    Well, I had an hour to kill before an important meeting, and I figured I needed to try this place just to see how it stacked up. The China Buffet is one of those Chinese restaurants that was widespread in the 1980s, but has managed to survive until now. The interior is completely bland. Buffet prices and descriptions are stuck to the wall with 3" tall block lettering. Oh, and there were french fries mixed with the crab rangoon, and fried chicken served on the side. Such was my introduction to the restaurant. The food was completely hit-or-miss. The fried rice was somewhat crunchy, and had a good texture, but its flavor was completely obliterated by an heavy hand on the soy sauce. Some sort of seafood dish was ruined by something pretending to be imitation crab meat--crab meat is not supposed to be chalky. Most of the buffet food had been out there a while. The mushroom dishes did not skimp on the mushrooms, and they were quite good. Some sort of mushroom-chicken dish was pretty good, though the chicken was dry. The orange chicken (I think that's what it was?) was surprisingly flavorful, though a bit salty, and easily the best entree out there. The hot and sour soup was standard fare, but avoid the very stale wontons. The crab rangoon also was stale. If you wanted fried chicken, though, it came out very nicely. The sushi in the back also was quite good, although I'd probably head a few doors down if I wanted to eat sushi. Avoid anything at the dessert table, where most of it was dry, except for maybe the Jell-O. The owners run the house in front and cook in the back, and serve you with a smile. I regret to say that unless their food quality turns around, I probably won't be back.

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    Best Chinese food around! Decent buffet, fair prices. I love the crab Rangoon and the beef lo mein.

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    14 years ago

    Ok food, but nothing to write home about. Good if you don't feel like driving/walking far or work near here

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    Jin 28 - Beef and Broccoli

    Jin 28

    3.7(169 reviews)
    1.5 mi
    $

    Excellent food, excellent service. We have ordered from Jin28 for many years and it's always…read morefantastic.

    I was disappointed with my recent experience because it doesn't seem like the restaurant looks at…read morethe special requests when I place my order online. I've repeatedly asked that they don't include so much rice in the chicken rice soup since it ends up more like wet chicken and rice, and yet they continue to do it. The flavor was pretty bad this time around anyway, so I will not be ordering it again. Strangely enough, the egg drop soup, which I do not normally care for, was quite good. So the quality varies, I guess. Speaking of quality, the vegetable eggrolls were over-cooked and dry, but the shrimp eggroll, which was part of a lunch order, was good. I also tried the fried rice for the first time and was not impressed at all. It looked like Panda Express fried rice, except Panda Express is better. Usually Chinese fried rice is much better than any chain. As for the main dishes, the sesame chicken and teriyaki chicken were good, but the broccoli chicken was just so-so. In the photos online it has a brown sauce, but it came with a white sauce. I'm not sure if that has to do with my special instructions asking to put garlic in it or not, though. I also asked in my special instructions not to provide utensils or any sauce but sweet and sour but they threw in hot mustard, soy sauce, and utensils anyway. So I still don't know if they can see the special instructions or just choose to ignore them. In any case, I will probably still order here occasionally since the location is convenient, but I'm not as thrilled with the food as I was in the past. That being said, they do pack the containers as full as possible which I appreciate as not all places do.

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    J's Kitchen

    J's Kitchen

    4.2(154 reviews)
    9.1 mi
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    Family-owned & operated
    Women-owned & operated

    J's Kitchen is in a strip mall which makes it easy to park and locate. They are small/locally owned…read moreand halal certified. I had a craving for wonton soup and thankfully J's has it. I ordered online for carry out and the platform was easy to navigate. Once my husband and I arrived at the resto we were greeted by a very kind staff member. Our food wasn't ready but within 5 mins of us being there it was good to go. We tried the wonton soup and chicken dumplings app. Both were on the bland side. Normally I'm used to wonton soup also having noodles and theirs does not. Flavors were OK, felt like both dishes were missing spices. Everything was cooked perfectly though. Maybe we ordered the wrong items from here and need to try others instead.

    It's not a pretty joint. There were boxes stacked near the…read moreentrance, the tables and chairs were pedestrian at best, and the decor wasn't (if you get my drift). In my experience, this signifies either the place was going to be a shithole to pass up, or it was a serious place to eat, then get out and go somewhere with an atmosphere. Happy to say J's (IMHO) is a serious place to eat. No-nonsense, direct and to the point. When I walked in, all those common chairs I mentioned were stacked upside down on the tables in the way that places do when they are closed. The taciturn fellow who worked there assured me they were indeed open, and explained they had just finish washing the floor. Please dont read any of this as negative-the best Chinese places I've ever been have looked like this-and if you've paid attention to the Travel/Food shows on the TeeVee, the joints in China itself are pretty much the same. On to the food, know this place is a Serious REAL-DEAL Chinese resto. I didn't notice if there were "Occidental" Chinese-type dishes on the carte, (primarily 'cos I wasn't looking for them). What I saw looked yum, and had a hard time making choices, even though I had read the menu multiple times and thought I know what I was going to order in advance. Confessionately, this is a chief feature for my tortured dining self-It's a wonder I even get fed in restaurants (especially the great ethnic ones), due to option anxiety. I zeroed in on "Street Noodles" for starters-wouldn't you? Then went to "Cold Beef Shank" for entreé. The Noodles were fab as was the Shank. The noodles were in a broth. with some hunks of bok choy and ground meat on top. Hearty, still light. The shank had a thin sauce complimenting but not obscuring the beefiness. One bugaboo: the Shank needed a bit of seasoning, and I wasn't going to use soy sauce, as I believed that would have marred the subtle flavors of the Beef. I asked for a salt shaker. It arrived, and I was a little taken back, 'cos it appeared it hadn't been washed in a while, and the salt inside was caked. It occurred to me this condition was present due to the non-use of said shaker. I don't think I've ever asked for a salt shaker in a Chinese resto. I pulled a toothpick out of my "Murse" and broke up the caked NaCl. Applying same to the pieces of Shank, the flavor bloomed and I was a happy boy. Bring some salt packets along when you visit "J's", maybe. The fellow who was waiter and cashier was a "western" fellow, whom I engaged and turned out to be quite an experienced foodie. some pleasant conversation indeed. Throwing 4 for this excellent establishment, with a few grains of salt separating it from 5...

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