First time stopping in and I really wanted to have good things to rave about this place, however it just may not be the place for me and that's ok! I will say, their lunch options are extremely affordable for a buffet. It's less than $15/person, but you definitely get what you pay for-- so be aware. The quality of the food was not it for me. A lot of the items that were served were stale (as if it's been sitting out too long) and there were very limited options. Service is great, the staff is wonderful and so so kind. Lunch time is not busy, there's plenty of seating available and it's pretty quiet as well. I hate to admit it, but Star Ocean is the better buffet of the two. Sure it's bit more costly, but you get better options, more options, and better quality. To each their own! read more

We were very disappointed the last time we went to this place. The food was cold, the egg rolls and crab rangoon tasted bad. It was like the fry oil was old. I asked to speak to the manager, to let him know how dissatisfied were. I explained the issues, he said he couldn't comp anything because we didn't tell the wait staff our concerns about the cold food. I won't return. read more

Solid Chinese buffet in Rochester, MN. We got there right at 11 AM, and it was already gathering a decent crowd. Food tasted fresh and service was friendly and speedy. Was a bit surprised of the sushi quality - it was surprisingly good. Rolls came out fresh and were periodically replenished. For a $12 lunch, you can't go wrong with Kingdom Buffet if you're looking for some good eats and indecisive and want variety at an affordable price. Cheers read more

Your typical Chinese buffet. Nothing crazy and nothing bad. I do wish the food was a bit warmer. But the server was nice Food tasted good and nobody in my group got diarrhea. They also have a grill in the back. Just bring what you want and he'll cook it up for you read more

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I only give this plane two stars because it was cheap(ish). The bathroom was disgusting. The table was dirty. The soy sauce holder on the table was all rusted out. For real, how do you even allow that to happen as a business owner? Do you have no pride in your business? The food was so so. Everything tasted like it had been out for hours, to the point that I didn't trust the sushi. The fish on the sushi was dried out it had been sitting out so long, which wasn't a good sign. Won't be visiting this place again... read more

In town for an appointment at Mayo Clinic. Decided to give the Kingdom buffet a try. The food was very bland! Hardly any flavor. No seasoning and/or spices. Very disappointing! Giving 2 stars because the service was good. read more

Super nice staff and big location so you can easily sit 8 people. Very good food and one of the largest buffets I've went to.

The food was good and the waitresses are nice. The problem is the employee who runs the sushi/hibachi station. He is very rude and acts like he hates his job. Makes rude comments and swears at you under his breath when you bring up food to be cooked or take sushi to eat. He needs to be fired for acting like that constantly. read more

I hadn't been there for quite a while, and after going there today, I remembered why. The service was fine, but the food was not good at all. In fact, the quality of the food has gone downhill. The various chicken dishes tasted "old" like it had been reheated for a couple of days. The chicken wings had a very foul taste. Not a pleasant experience at all. Will not dine there again. read more

Great buffet lunch. Most of lunch was fresh and hot. A couple items were not as crispy as I like them. A couple sauces were very thin and caused breading to get soggy. Not mush choice of salad dressing if you go to a Chinese restaurant for salad. Servers were very attentive and courteous. Great for early lunch at 11:20 AM read more

Lots of choices. Food is a good value for $13. Kitchen is diligent about keeping buffet stocked. Good flavors sushi, Mongolian grill desserts lots of entrees. Pleasantly surprised. Staff is busy and well managed. read more

Our group has been a weekly customer for about 5 years now. The quality of food and service seems to be going down rapidly. There past 3 weeks the food temp has been from refrigerator cold to room temp. We are pretty sure that we can find a better restuarant to enjoy our lunch and visit We were wondering why they were not very busy, now e know. read more

Decided to treat myself to some Chinese food. Went to Kingdom Buffet. It was friendly, clean, great service, and a wide variety of different foods, including baked Salmon. I went straight to the grill and had chicken and vegetables with fragrent sauce and some chili spice. It came out fabulous. My favorite dish. Then a side dish of shrimp and other assorted foods to compliment my main dish. Everything was fresh, well cooked and very tasty. read more

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Food was good. Service was hilarious, our male server wasn't very pleasant though. The highlight of the night was dinner with a show. There was 2 female employees ARGUING EXTREMELY LOUD. It was really entertaining. The one in the red shirt was clearly the one causing all the problems. The other girl was just trying to fold the silverware up with a little boy probably 8-10 yrs old. This went on for probably 20-30 minutes, no one stopped them.. Clearly this place is lacking some guidance. read more

The food had a weird taste. When my daughter went up for Jell-O, the plate she got had dried food on it. The little I ate made me sick and I ended up throwing up. Service is not even service the person that came to the table to pick up the plates and bring the drinks never even spoke to us. I was credited $10 on my bill because the food made me sick. as far as the ambience there's so many darn flies in there it's crazy. And the woman's bathroom was not clean at all. read more

Easily the best buffet in town. Cheapest, and best food. Service is amazing. Great place for a quick lunch as well. If you wanted you can grab a to go box and fill it for a cheap price. read more

The Lo Mein is BOMB it literally tastes so good and so does the variety of food like the ice cream they have. Me and my friends LOVE THE ICE CREAM SO MUCHHH.like it literally slays and so does the grapes like those are some of the best i have ever had!!!!!!!!!!!!! read more

Snow crab legs have returned, the food is fresher than it has been in ages and the sushi is frequently stocked as well. I retract my review from a few years ago. Things have improved and I feel it rivals or bests Star Ocean now. They still have the punch card as well. read more

Pretty standard buffet. An extra star for having the Hibachi grill. Decent-looking meat and seafood quality. Over decent quality with good variety. Nothing is bad but nothing is really good either. read more

Good food, nice selection. The food was hot and seemed fresh. I liked the chicken, chicken and broccoli, Mac and cheese, donuts, fried rice. The ice cream was in large containers in a cooler and everyone uses the same scooper and it is "cleaned" in a bowl of water. I wouldn't recommend eating the ice cream if you have food allergies because it's all using the same scooper. Great price! I was hoping to get clams but they said clams are only served on weekends. read more

Love the quality of food her and the price. They had the whole shrimp with head which mandrian kitchen would charge 20 for and fried crab.

This is hands down the best Chinese buffet in town. It has won a bunch of "Best Chinese Restaurants in the US" competitions. All the food is really good quality, surprisingly good for a buffet. They have sushi (maybe 8/10 in quality), but also a hibachi station with a bunch of proteins and veggies to choose from. I love their chicken skewers: slightly sweet and perfectly cooked, just amazing. They have really good versions of the usual chinese dishes (general tso's, broccoli beef, coconut shrimp, sesame chicken, etc.) It's all really good. They also have a good selection of seafood (salt and pepper shrimp, clams, mussels...). Some days they even have crab legs! I usually go and take a styrofoam box to take it to go instead of going for the buffet: for $8 I have food for two meals. It's a great place, great value. read more

Very happy we found this by place!!! This day and age a good Buffet is hard to come by!! Thank you for hanging in there and implementing COVID precautions to continue delivering good quality food!!! read more

Very nice selection of typical Western Chinese food on the buffet. As a bonus, they have a large and tasty selection of Americanized sushi. If you are in the mood for this type of food (we all get those cravings), Kingdom Buffet will make you very happy. The most notable aspect of the place? The owner/manager that works here. I've never seen such an attentive employee. He ran (I'm not kidding, he literally ran quickly) around the place making sure everyone was happy, that the food met his standards, and that the place was spotless (Kingdom Buffet was one of the cleanest Chinese Buffets I've ever visited). The employees and service definitely get a 5/5 stars. The price includes a soft drink and ranges from $10-15 a person. read more

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Great food lots of choices service was excellent nice and quiet and they kept the buffet full

I came in and was Greated Imeaditly. Very Clean and Lots of Choices. Reasonably Priced. Will Return.

Steamed rice shouldn't be hard like a brick right? Fish plates between every dish, so everything smelled of fish. Won't be returning. read more

Tried this place for the first time tonight. The staff are very polite, and the pricing is fair. They have a massive selection of Chinese, Japanese, and American fare, as well as a Mongolian grill and modest sushi bar. I tried a variety of dishes and all were great to excellent, in my opinion. I really enjoyed their interpretation of coconut shrimp-it's definitely not what comes to mind when you think of coconut shrimp, but it had a great flavor! My issue with this place isn't the food at all; it's the dining area. My mom and I were seated in the dining room right off of the check-in area, and the carpeting in said dining room needs to go, stat. The entire carpet has a very distinct, noticeable stink of manure emanating from it. This would be a problem in any business, but you can understand why it's a major issue in a restaurant. I haven't been in the other dining rooms, so I'm not sure if this problem is throughout the restaurant, but it's pretty disgusting in the main seating area. I would love to give this place a higher rating in the future, but that smell just doesn't sit well with me. Great staff and food, though! read more

This used to be really good but not anymore. The lettuce on salad bar was stale.Open bottles of walmart dressing. THe iced shrimp is not deveined and taking it out on your plate is kind of gross. So is eating it. The egg roll I tried tasted off. The "crab" rangoons have zero crab and barely any cream cheese.Meat was tasteless and chewy.the only fresh thing was rice noodles. They were good. Everyone sticking their hands in the ice cream freezer is kind of gross. The booths are beat up and uncomfortable. read more

This is one of the very good Chinese restaurants in town. What i really like about it are a few things. First, it is pretty close to downtown. Location is very convenient and it has a huge parking just next to it. This makes finding parking a breeze. Another really nice thing about it is that it is a buffet. A relatively big and wide variety of foods are available. They keep them filled up, fresh and hot all the time until they close. So you don't have to worry about arriving late evening and not finding enough food for the group. It is great for family or friends. Great for big groups too. Their food is delicious. They have a nice desert corner with several options. I love their cookies and ice cream. All in all, a great soot for groups for an all-u-can-eat place. read more

This place is great. If you like authentic Chinese food, stay away. If you love phony midwestern Chinese food, this is the place for you. They have all of the usual Chinese buffet stuff, but better quality. When it's fresh it can't be beaten, and they do a respectable job of turning the food over and keeping it fresh. They also have mongolian BBQ and sushi, but I didn't try either one. For desert there are 8 flavors of ice cream, and baked sweets. They also have a lot of american items for that crazy member of your family that doesn't like Chinese food. read more

Kingdom Buffet is your typical low-quality and high-quantity Chinese buffet. There are vats of fried everything. About 60 percent are obviously Chinese food: pot stickers or sweet and sour chicken. About 40 percent have unknown items in them or items that were labeled as "coconut shrimp" which were obviously nothing of the sort. I put one item entitled a "crab fritter" on my plate that definitely didn't look like a crab, contained no crab, and no imitation crab inside of it. The desserts and non-Chinese options such as cookies looked prepackaged from the grocery store. Not exactly high quality food and if I could do it over, I probably would have gone somewhere down the street for lunch instead. I will give Kingdom credit, that there servers are polite, the food was full and looked freshly cooked. The prices were also pretty reasonable for a lunch buffet at $8.95. Just not my kind of place. I likely wont be back. read more

The Buffett is huge. $8.95 for lunch. $11.95 M- Thursday for evening buffet and $12.95 for Friday and Saturday evening. The Mongolian Grill did not have a ton of different choices, but it was the best food there. The sushi was basic and it was super Americanized. All of the seafood from the coconut shrimp, to the salmon, to the sushi, was pretty ho-hum. For non-Chinese eaters there were quite a few options available: pizza, criss-cross fries and meatloaf are a few I remember. The service was fast and timely. They did have plenty of baked sweets and 8 kinds of ice cream that I didn't have the stomach space to try. All 4 of us at the table found plenty of food we liked to eat, would go back if we come back to Rochester just because it has such a broad selection. read more

I used to come to this place once, but I'm pretty sure that it's gonna be second time :) for me, everything is good. Nice people and delicious food. yum yum yum read more

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Ok place with over cooked food and dirty patrons frequenting the food bars. Nice assortment of fried and steamed food. I've seen much better and I've seen much worse. read more

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One of the freshest buffets I have been to, no matter what the time. They also have a mongolian grill and a small sushi bar, but don't get too excited. The sushi bar primarily has small rolls with immitation crab and a lot of rice. But it's something, and it's never been bad. They also have an ice cream bar (that includes green tea ice cream), dessert bar, fresh fruits and veggies, and a variety of Asian and American dishes. Great for hangovers! read more

Sorry if this offends anyone but ugh this place is gross. Went there 2 times with friends and both times the food was left out for hours and hardened. I get it, it's a buffet, but still...overpriced and bad quality. read more

Best buffet we've had ever!! We are in Rochester at the Mayo Clinic and have dined at Chinese Buffets all over the U.S., and this was so tasty! We arrived at around 11:45 am and it was busy, so everything was fresh and being replaced quickly. The egg rolls were definitely the very best I've had, plus the crab Rangoon and pot stickers were awesome! My husband had the Mongolian grill, said it was excellent. They have a nice salad bar, plus non Chinese dishes such as roast pork, corn on the cob, lots of hard ice cream choices, desserts, fresh fruit, a great value for $9.15 per person, not including drink. Service was very attentive, overall, wonderful, will definitely be back on our next trip to Rochester! read more

Great selection! We are in town for a food show on a rainy day and dropped in for lunch. Great food & atmosphere!

I wil, never go anyplace else again. Just tried the new ocean star buffet... and I am ashamed of myself. Frozen egg rolls... no thanks!!! Will only go here from now on!!! read more