I went there on a Saturday afternoon. The restaurant is big with outdated decor. There are two buffets. One with salad, canned fruit and some desserts. The other buffet is more traditional Chinese food. Everything was ok. Boring fried rice. Most of the fried chicken dishes tasted the same. The steak with peppers was surprisingly the best thing. But what do expect for $10.95 a person. There was a constant stream of customers and I think the restaurant has been in business for over 20 years. You just get what you pay for. read more

We enjoyed the buffet at Peng Garden tonight. Everything was fresh. Crab cheese wontons are great. Hot and sour soup was good. My favorites tonight were the pepper steak, twice cooked chicken and the lo mein. Ice cream was a good finish. Service was great. People were friendly. This is a place we have been coming to for over 25 years. It's a buffet and always at its best when crowded and the food is kept fresh. read more

Service great. Not my favorite Chinese food. Breading too thick. Crab ragoons tasted off

food tasted like it was cooked yesterday, reheated this morning, and given up on sometime in between. The fried rice was a sad, soggy mess with zero flavor--like someone whispered the word "soy sauce" over it and hoped for the best. The noodles were glued together in one lifeless clump, and the vegetables had the texture of overcooked regrets. The chicken was so rubbery I honestly wondered if it was meant to be chewed or bounced. Everything was swimming in oil, yet somehow still dry. The sauces were aggressively sweet, painfully artificial, and tasted exactly like they came from the cheapest bottle on the shelf. Service was just as bad. Orders took forever in an almost empty restaurant, and the staff acted like fulfilling basic requests was a personal inconvenience. This place doesn't just miss the mark--it launches the food into orbit and pretends nothing went wrong. Save your money, save your stomach, and eat literally anywhere else. read more

Just Don't. As two other reviews stated, all of the different dishes tasted exactly alike. And it wasn't what I expected it to taste like. Very disappointing. Won't stop here again. read more

I ate here for the first time 25 years ago, and to come back to check them out was a pleasure-- it's still just as fantastic. I enjoyed everything I ate, and our server was so polite and timely with removing plates and refilling drinks. The price was worth it too-- we paid $11.25/person I believe. Worth every penny. The restaurant was fairly loud at the time of our visit because a large family came in to celebrate a birthday; otherwise, it was of average volume. read more

Good value, good food. The only thing to make it better would be bean sprouts in the fried rice, that would put them at another level with the other Chinese places in the area. read more

A friend took me there for my Birthday and the food was great. My favorite food there is the crab rangoon. We ate there, but you can get take out, which is filling one plastic box with food, instead of eating there, where you get all that you can eat. I highly recommend this restaurant. Patsy Walker Ronemous, RN, Retired read more

The food was awful. Everything fried was dry, hard and chewy. There wasn't one thing on the buffet that wasn't over cooked or just plain old and should have already been thrown away. When you go out to eat, you expect to eat fresh food, and this buffet didn't have that! I will never eat here again. I'll take my chances at the Hunan Chinese restaurant on 98 any day over this place. I can't sit here and tell you a worse Chinese restaurant I've ever ate at, and that's bad because there have been many. The service would have made this review one more star than it was, except when we complained about the food as we first started eating, all the 2 employees did was say "sorry" instead of offering to fix it. They should have gave us freshly cooked food! We will NEVER EAT HERE again. Waste of $60! read more

Peng Garden Chinese Restaurant - Dry, hard, chewy chicken for sweet and sour chicken. Hard as a rock fried shrimp and fried potatoes. - Chinese Near Me - Foley, Alabama

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We arrived at 11 am on a Saturday. Buffet was fresh and delicious! We definitely will come back again when in the area!

Awesome lunch and dinner buffet. All you can eat. Lots of different things to choose from. Food is very good.

Terrible. Better to just eat nothing then eat here. Everything was super dry and honestly has a blood taste to it. Gag. Never will I ever eat here again. Not even if I was starving. read more

Waitress was great. Food was good for the price. Hard to find a good Chinese buffet anymore but this one will fit the bill.

It was just ok.. It put food in my belly.. wasn't really delicious but not terrible either. The server was good, very attentive. The food just didn't have taste in my opinion. But my 3 yr old loved the noodles.. I won't be back.. read more

The worst Chinese food I have ever had. I don't know where to start, so, I will just end my review. HORRIBLE. While my last name is not Quan, I do know good Chinese food. read more

The service was great but the food has absolutely no flavor what so ever to it...I'm surprised anyone goes in to eat the food..The Ambiance is nice as well..If the food was better it would be one damn good place to go to eat at all the time.. read more

Ordered Szechuan Shrimp vid Doordash. Couldn't believe how flavorful it was. Absolutely delicious!

I take Chinese buffet reviews with a grain of salt. One can usually find something they like at a buffet. This place had VERY limited food choices, and the food didn't taste like your typical buffet. The rice and noodles were okay, but that's it. The meats, not. For the lunch price of $13, I would go elsewhere. Not sure about the other buffet in town. The Public Buffet in Robertsdale would be worth the extra drive. read more

This place was great. I know, I know when you come to gulf shores you think seafood seafood seafood! Well, this is a nice break from the typical seafood fare. They do have shrimp and some sushi for those die hards who can't live without seafood. Their lunch buffet is $5.99. You get all the delicious staples, salad, and dessert which includes pudding, cookies, and soft serve ice cream. I'm from Hawaii and I have no complaints. The meat was not chewy which happens when the meat is fatty and one often gets at buffets. My favorite was their egg drop soup! If you want a quick, tasty food with lots of variety at a great price this is the place. This place is clean and the service fantastic. read more

Peng Garden Chinese Restaurant - Egg drop soup. DELICIOUS! - Chinese Near Me - Foley, Alabama

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Fantastic Chinese buffet in the downtown Foley area. What makes this place unique is not just the fantastic food, but the wonderful service they offer. I absolutely loved everything and the salad, soups, desserts, and sushi made it better than your average Chinese joint So, if you're looking for a great and very inexpensive place to stuff yourself, look no further. Kudos read more

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Went here tonight with my wife for dinner after landing in Pensacola and driving to Foley for a wedding tomorrow. It's not...bad, but it's not really good either. It's food, and it's pretty cheap ($10/person tonight). I'd go here again if in the area and nothing better was available, but I wouldn't seek it out. Hot and sour soup was more sweet than hot, fish was overcooked, sesame chicken was alright (but not really sesame chicken), fried rice was mediocre, Kung Pao chicken was decent (but not Kung Pao), and the egg drop soup was good. Wife said the ice cream tasted funny. read more

Decided to go for some Chinese food. This was the busiest of the few options we had. Turns out it's another Chinese buffet. Price was 9.99 since it was a Friday. Fridays and Saturdays are seafood night. Drinks not included. Huge restaurant. Quite a few options. Food was average. Don't bother with the fried shrimp, all breading. It's like salad shrimp breaded over and over and over to look like there's a decent size shrimp. Nope. There sesame chicken was good, lots of nice white meat, not a ton of breading. There were definitely a few items that should have been pulled and replaced. Staff was nice enough, but, there were two waitresses (?) at the front register who were so loud it was distracting. Dessert items to choose from very limited and no vanilla ice cream. Would not make a special trip back to this restaurant. read more

Very disappointing. My wife, daughter & I were craving chinese food so we thought we'd give Peng Garden a try. Its a buffet style (serve yourself) restaurant & were promptly seated. The restaurant needed someone to give it a good cleaning and the food was not very good. The hot & sour soup was temp hot but the favor was more "sweet & sour" then hot & sour. I had a few teaspoons of it & then swapped it out for the egg drop soup which was decent. I was surprised to see the only chinese offering of chicken was that of sesame chicken. No General Tso's or anything related. The chicken pieces were rather tough & lacked favor, especially anything close to good Sesame chicken. Overall, we were so disappointed...I can honestly say we won't be be going back or recommending this restaurant to anyone especially to our friends. read more

we went around 8:30 pm, and the staff was so nice. the restaurant was really clean and well-organized. the lo mein was actually some of the best i've eaten in a while. very reasonable prices as well! i will definitely be back. read more

The food tasted horrible, there was no general taos chicken. Over all the place was clean, the people were nice but the food was terrible.

We have been going here for over 10 years, and it USED TO BE a good restaurant but then the quality of the crab legs went from sweet to salty a while ago so we stopped going on crab night we then found JADE GARDEN down the street which is owned and run by a part of the family that owns peng garden and apparently they took the cook and heat with them. The quality of the food here NOW at is unacceptable and the temperature is warm at best the flavors are bland and all tastes the same not like MSG but like old deep fry oil WE WILL NOT BE BACK unless they do a 180* until then its not worth the measly $5 Nothing personal the service is fair the place is nice enough and prices are reasonable if the food didn't suck read more

My ice cream bowl was hot, the variety of food was very small, and you are expected to pay more if you 'waste' any of the bland (literally 0 flavor), stinky food that you didn't like for any reason. Its very inconsiderate. But, there are some decent selections and they do have ice cream, if you dont mind it melting practically instantly when it hits the blazing hot small bowl they provide. Oh, and there's only vanilla. i give this restaurant a 2/5, but because my ice cream bowl was hot, i am deducting one star. Final score is 1/5 soups, because they only had one legitimately polite waiter who was very fluent with her english. read more

This place was horrible horrible. I've never seen workers that were so rude and cared so little and the food was cold and I was afraid to eat it and I like Chinese food I do not recommend read more

This is probably the worst Chinese buffet I have ever had, sushi taste awful and they didn't have a very good selection to choose from. Will not ever go back read more

Worst service ever. I asked for coffee to drink and the waitress told me it was old. I asked how old and she couldn't remember. So, I asked if she could make fresh and she said no. It took a manager to get her to make coffee. Then she never checked on us. I had to hunt her down for a refill. Then, they charge .50 for a to go cup. Asked for a to go box, my mom has dementia and forgot she already had a plate. The manager came over and told us no, so they threw away an almost full plate of food. But, just do to the attitude and poor service, we won't be back. read more

The ONLY thing that was okay on the buffet was the salad. Lettuce and some dressing already mixed. The rest of the food was terrible. This was my first time eating there in over 10 years. Goodness, how downhill they have gone. I also paid for a tea and at the end of my meal, I asked for a to-go cup and was told it was an extra charge. Are you serious? Never again. read more

Well I am not big one to give a place this bad of a rating unless the earned it. What can I say, they earned it. Peng Garden is more like Pend dumpster. The selection was bad very bad and tasteless. A lot of the food was cold and looked to have been out all day. My cocktail sauce and duck sauce was weak. That is as it seems that it was watered down. This place make me wonder if it is the dollar tree of Chinese buffets. This is a Christmas tradition that won't take place here next year. read more

Not bad for a Chinese buffet. We went on the night they had fish , most of the week they don't serve this and the price is higher for this fish. I was disappointed as the waiter said they had baked salmon and I never saw the plate filled till we were ready to leave. It is all the basic items , some were tasty others just ok. The crawdads were way over cooked and mushy. Don't expect much sushi they have a few tasteless pieces. We may go back again or there is another one in town we may Check out. read more

As far as Chinese buffets go, this place is pretty bomb. All you can eat for lunch only 6.50. & the food is quality. I had my doubts eating here at first because the reviews seemed a little shady, but I'm very happy I gave this place a try. read more

This was a great choice for a buffet. They had a big selection and it was all freshly made and delicious. The service was good as well.

Food selection was poor. All food was warm at best. Leaving even 1 crumb on a plate subjects you to an additional meal cost. One of the worst places to eat in my opinion. Any other place in town will provide better food. Avoid this place or risk a poor dinning experence. read more

We were in the Gulf Shores area for a few days and were looking for a Chinese restaurant. We happened upon this one on the main drag in Foley, S. McKenzie Street. It was a Monday night and there were only a few people in the place, but the buffet had ample food and it was hot and tasty. I especially liked the beef with peppers and onions, the chicken with vegetables, the chicken skewers, the barbequed pork and the green beans. It was inexpensive and the staff was helpful and friendly. We'd definitely go here again. read more

I called to get pricing before went. They said it was 7.95 for the buffett. When I went to pay they charged me 10.95. I complained that I was told 7.95 on the phone and they basically said oh well. I won't be returning there again. The food was ok. Tastes like every other Chinese buffett place. Our waitress was nice. read more

This Place has horrible food, even the steamed rice is t good. Frozen fried shrimp, fish and chicken. Good luck finding any shrimp inside all the breaking. Most stuff is fried, poor quality and does not taste good. The chicken on a stick is deep fried to a nice dry crispy texture that is like eating leather. I tried to manage by with a salad and theses is no dressing that isn't heavy to choose from. Not a fan of buffets, and this just proves why. Not worth the 6.00 I paid. read more

All the Chinese restaurants around here run by these people are great. Very personable.