As a person who has been a customer for over 10 years, I don't know this person's name, but 99.9% of the time, the Chinese lady who is always taking people's orders has been very, very nasty to me, my father, mother, sister, and boyfriend on many different occasions. I believe that, whether she is the manager or owner, her attitude is always rude. As mentioned above, going here for a long time and being so close, within walking distance, is why I keep coming back. In the beginning, during the first few times of encountering her attitude, I thought it was just towards me and overlooked the rudeness. However, I found out from many others, including my own family members, that they have experienced her bad attitude as well. This is why I have come to the conclusion of NEVER returning, even if it's within walking distance. Hopefully, others will have a better experience than I have had over these 10 years. Be aware! read more

my husband and I come here for Mother's Day, when I say that this was the worse food ever. I truly believe It's old food . I believe they reuse the food and serive the food again .It was also cold and got me and my husband really sick . This place needs to be shut down ASAP. read more

I visit the buffet Avery other week or so, food hits the spot. Nice variety and refilled frequently. read more

Chinese Express - Chinese Near Me - Summerville, South Carolina

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Worst food ever. Dried out and half the buffet was empty . Soup tasted like water. Won't be going back

Was not impressed by this place, some of the food was bland ( no taste) the green beans was cold limited items to choose from. The service was ok but what did they do, asked what you want to drink and refill, clear your plates and bring your bill. Going to go back to my favorite buffet. read more

This Restaurant is now open on Sundays. 11am to 9 pm. We love dining here. Give them a try. read more

New owners have sabotaged my favorite restaurant. Same great cooks. Same awesome hostesses. Different food and as the problem. Different fried rice, chow mien, chicken, wings - especially the wet soggy hot wings :( Even the sweet and sour sauce has changed. Definitely not the same as before. We heard other guests complaining too. I do hope that the new owners rethink these poor decisions and make this the best Chinese restaurant in town again. read more

I ordered two dinners. One the rice was beyond brown and dry. I also got sweet and sour chicken. I don't use the sauce so I had asked for no sauce and extra hot mustard. I got one packet of mustard. One soy sauce for two dinners. The beef in my hunan beef was so disgusting and chewy. I couldn't eat it. Two hours later I was super sick from eating the chicken. You need to watch what u are serving people. read more

Chinese Express - Beyond disgusting - Chinese Near Me - Summerville, South Carolina

was a great place for yrs since on ladaon rd same owners great food, diff people hv it now and the food is t as good as it was

China express was a pleasant surprise. The food was fresh and tasty. I had the lunch buffet on a Wednesday and the place got packed by lunchtime. The only thing is there were not many meat items that fit a keto diet. They did have some baked chicken, but everything else was pretty much battered and fried. I will certainly eat here again. Service was very good. read more

This is the worst thing I've ever ate, do not recommend. Food is bad, dessert is bad, doesn't even taste like real food.

Cheap, poor quality food, for not cheap prices. Don't let the exterior fool you, it looks like it would be a nice restaurant, it is not!

The Chinese Express in Summervile off Dorchester Road is the best. When my daughter visit from Charlotte, NC she always go there for Chinese food. It's the best and the staff isn't rude. read more

Food tasted good. The buffet was constantly being refreshed and cleaned. Signs request that a new plate is used every time you go up to get more. As soon as you sit back down, a waiter is clearing old plates. My son ate, my parents enjoyed. Salad bar to start, desert bar and soft serve ice cream to end. read more

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Cheap and convenient food ! Place is clean upon entry ! Never ate at the buffet but they seem to have people all the time in there . Food is always hot and fresh and I've never been dissatisfied neither my boyfriend. He ordered this plate and they definitely pile up the food so you will get your monies worth !! read more

Chinese Express - Lunch special wings - Chinese Near Me - Summerville, South Carolina

My boyfriend wanted to meet for lunch and he wanted to try this place out. I've never thought twice about this place. The parking lot is small so it was packed during lunch time. Inside is pretty small. It's clean. The selection is limited but the food is good. Everything is fresh and hot. They offer the typical food: fried chicken wings, lo mein, veggies, dumplings, soups, fried rice, etc. There's also a salad and dessert station. I noticed a few varieties of sushi on it too. The service was great. They had two employees collecting dirty plates and refilling drinks. They offer a full take out menu, as well, which is great. With most Chinese buffets, you have to take out from the buffet items. The lunch buffet price is super reasonable--about $18 for the two of us. I'll definitely be back for lunch. read more

Good food. Good buffet. Quick and efficient service. no complaints, and usually busy. 20 minute order out.

I don't normally assign a rating of 4 stars to a Chinese buffet as most taste the same but I place the value of a meal attaining the status of comfort food for continuing to be consistently good for certain food choices weather you choose to eat in or carry out! These are those dishes in random order; grilled garlic green beans,Curry chicken and Vegetables, pepper steak,chicken wing (though getting smaller size) shrimp ball! Try other things too like their salad bar that offers mini sushi if you dine in. Their facilities are showing age but the owners are nice! read more

Horrible Chinese Food. They use spaghetti pasta for lo mein.... Nuff said..Give me a break. Don't go here especially when Great Wall is 6 minutes away on Dorchester. read more

Great food and the buffet is very good !!! I like it so much, I eat there at least 2 times a week !!!! Their Chinese quinine is very tasty !! Gotta gotcha some TONIGHT ... read more

It's your standard Chinese express style buffet restaurant. No frills . Just good food . I usually do take out. read more

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Needed lunch in the area, decided to try this place out. Seemed like an easy fast buffet and I could smell the Chinese food aroma from around the block. I went inside the place looked clean, the staff seemed nice, but I think the most important thing when dining at an establishment is the taste of the food. Although the price was great for lunch, the food seemed clean and the people were nice, the food was pretty bad. The variety of meats were pretty bland and just had the same taste to it. The Lo-mein was bland and so was the rice. The "General chicken" and their version of bourbon chicken tasted the same and was pretty dry. I wouldn't go back. read more

We do carry out here about every other week. The food is good and the service is pretty quick. Our order is always right. Everyone behind the counter is very nice. We have only eat at the buffet twice but they are constantly refreshing the food and cleaning the counters. I would recommend this restaurant. read more

Food and service are always great. We eat her frequently and order takeout often. Mushrooms, green beans and their fried chicken are the best. read more

I eat keto which is super low carb, high fat, moderate protein. When my family invited me to join them for dinner at this chinese buffet, I was nervous. Chinese food is tough to find low carb because of hidden carbs in the sauces plus so many temptations! I loooove a good General Tso's and Chinese restaurant's chicken wings. The nervousness was compounded because no Mongolian grill to build my own and a smaller buffet equaling a smaller selection. I left there impressed and stuffed! First stop was the salad bar. So many fresh, delicious options for a small buffet! Two types of lettuce mix bases, fresh mushrooms, black olives, fresh slices of cucumber, fresh broccoli cut into tiny, perfect-for-salad trees. Wonderful salad bar. For the hot options I was able to load up on smoked sausage, black pepper shrimp, they had a spot for boiled shrimp but it had salmon which also found a temporary home on my plate, and two types of chicken. That's what I can remember! One of the chicken options ended up being sweet, but it was so good I ate it anyways. I had to try at least one of my standard Chinese favorites, opting for a fried chicken drumette which did not disappoint! Just to double check how well I did at avoiding excess carbs I checked my weight the next morning. I didn't gain any weight! So def two thumbs up on this buffet. Small but a great variety of fresh, delicious options even if you're trying to eat a certain way. Oh and the service was great. Drinks regularly filled, dirty plates removed in a timely manner. Honestly, this is probably the best Chinese buffet I've ever eaten at. read more

We walked in and like most of the reviews that I saw were on point the food is bland and the taste weird they have good service that I like and that your cup never gets empty over all I might not come back read more

We eat here at least once or twice a month, they have a great buffet, where the food tastes the way it should. Everything on the buffet is great and not bland like a lot of Chinese buffets. They also have lots of variety to choose from and free ice cream at the end of the meal, which is an added plus. Love this place and plan on eating more and more of it in the future. Highly suggest that everyone try it out, it's great and the service is excellent. The owner even knows us by name now! Try it and you'll be hooked, I promise!! read more

Several of the food items were cold. Food was ok. Not bad but not even good. Don't eat the shrimp ball or the dumplings. We never got our check and had to wait in line to pay even though checks were delivered to other tables. read more

Best Chinese takeout place in Summerville and trust me there are some awful 1s! This 1 isn't overpriced, always correct, and tastes amazing! My favorite! read more

Is a very nice place to eat whit a friend or family they have a lot options in the buffet chicken beef seafood noodles and rice and soup also they have boxes for to go read more

Chinese Express - Chinese Near Me - Summerville, South Carolina

Went early on a weekday so food would be hot and fresh. But food was not hot at all. Barely warm and very poor selection. Service was very good tho. Would not recommend. read more

I'm not really sure why people say this place is the "best Chinese food". Seriously, go somewhere else. We tried it because reviews on Yahoo! said "you HAVE to try this place". Here's the few issues I have with it: 1) Not a lot of variety at all. For $8 and change I'd rather head somewhere else and pay $10 for more than 3 small buffet bars. My husband and I thought it was a larger buffet because the restaurant looks really big from the outside. Don't let that fool you, it's TINY inside. 2) NO won ton soup unless you ask for it, I shouldn't have to ask for won ton soup... "Free for dine in only" sign, haha free... 3) The girls who work there hang out against the salad/fruit bar and ice cream. So basically if you want to get to it, they have to move. Not sure how that situation goes because: 4) They have salad dressing in their original Hidden Valley bottles resting against the back of the salad bar. I don't have an issue with it coming out of the bottle, but I don't think that's how you should present it to the customer. How trashy is that... 5) My husband said the lo mein tasted like plastic, like the packaging got into the noodles or something. I wanted to try it and he said "don't bother", and he LOVES lo mein AND crappy Chinese food - so that's saying something. I usually judge my Chinese food restaurants on how good the rice is cooked haha. Sounds dumb, but it seriously foreshadows how the food will be! The rice was cooked perfectly (if you're wondering), despite the small variety, I have to give it to them, was GOOD. The food was cooked well and the flavors were really good. Points off for the lo mein, staff, salad dressing bottles and the variety though for sure. read more

This is the third time I have come here and I have not found anything I do not like(still more to try, working on it). The decor is nice, food is good, staff is very nice and attentive. Prices are good and the bathrooms are clean- bonus!! I look forward to coming back! read more

Best Chinese buffet we've found! Service is great! We moved to town around 3 weeks ago and have been trying out different places so we can find our local favorites. We've been in search of a great chinese restaurant/buffet. We walked in to Chinese Express last night and found the buffet to be fresh, the service was fast and friendly and the food was good. All dishes were hot and it didn't look like they make huge servings with any of the dishes, which means there is constant fresh food coming out. My favorite item on the buffet is always the rice noodles, and the ones here were perfect! The buffet wasn't as large as other's we've been to, but the selection was good and they had everything that we liked. I did notice as we were seated that they have to-go and serve individual entrees and sides as well. So they are a full menu and buffet restaurant. The bonus for us is that while we've been driving all over Summerville and N. Charleston, they're right down the street! I can only imagine that the previous reviewers had a different experience and that it's possibly changed management. The servers were all in the kitchen or waiting tables, the salad bar was clean and the food was as good as you can get for a Chinese buffet. read more

The food was absolutely delicious and fresh. The staff is very friendly and courteous. Our waiter Boomer deserves a raise he was on point and very friendly. read more

Delicious and hot! The quality of this food REHEATED two days later is about what you get from other restaurants. Very good sweet and sour chicken, egg rolls and cashew chicken. read more

The staff is always friendly and attentive. The buffet is delicious and has plenty to choose from. The salad bar is very fresh. The entire restaurant is always clean. Great place for buffet or takeout! read more

I'm sorry but I tried to like this place. The employees were very good. I didn't see a smile out of them though. The food was chewy and odd tasting. The sweet and sour sauce was watered down. The dessert was very hard and tough. It was very clean and my glass was refilled every time it became half empty so that is the only reason for two stars. read more

This place is so good! I've lived here for two years and never knew it existed. It's by far the best Chinese takeout in town! A must try! Will definitely be going back. read more

Not bad smaller buffet than typical Chinese buffet but most things tasted good- Shrimp fried rice was solid and lunch price was a good value-Bottom line is its okay good dessert bar choices - read more