Hunan Buffet - Athens (TX)

1 /5 Dylan Hughes: RUN!!! I would like to start this off by saying I am by no means a picky eater. This place served me genuinely the WORST Asian food Ive ever had. Upon walking into this not-so-fine establishment I had high hopes. I was STARVING. I got myself a variety of chicken to sample the menu. Upon sitting down and attempting to eat my food, my first bite of Jalapeno chicken was cold. I move to the honey chicken in hopes of a better result.. nope... Onwards to the orange chicken, where upon taking a bite, I get my first taste of some food that was slightly above room temperature. Lukewarm at best. I push my plate in front of me and get up to see if there is anything eatable in this establishment. Next to the cold plates sat out for serving I see a nice posted note stating that if you have any food left over on your plate they charge you extra!!! So thats how they make their money? Make the food so ineatable that you get charged extra for not eating it!! To bring this rant to an end, it was ballpark $36 for 2 people to not eat. With that said I am leaving now and will be finding somewhere that serves human food.

5 /5 Michael Yeo: Been to many Chinese Buffets and surprisingly this is pretty good. Selection of food is great from chicken to beef to seafood to frog legs, yup you read it right. The soup was more on the salty side. They also have a section for stir fry where you get your own ingredients for them to cook. The restaurant has lots of seatings and is clean. First time a Chinese restaurant that doesn’t have sticky floors.

3 /5 Lisa Callaway: Good food, but usually its not very hot. Even though we got there at opening time. Could use some remodeling inside. And service pretty quick to seat you, but lacks sometimes when needing a refill.

2 /5 Maria Patiño: Came here last night with my family for dinner. When we arrived, parking was plentiful but the lot was so dirty- trash everywhere. That’s not necessarily their fault so we carried on. Upon entering, they asked how many and seated us. There was only one other family there. The carpet looks as if it had not been cleaned in decades but everything else was clean. While there was a lot of selection, most things only had a little bit left and looked like they had been sitting out for far too long. After tasting the food, it was confirmed that was likely the case. My egg rolls were stale and cold. Noodles were salty and chewy. Fried rice was fine. I had some kind of shrimp with sauce and that was probably the best thing I had but it was still a little crusty. Sushi was ok but there wasn’t much of a selection. For the deserts I figured no way could they mess up jello but boy was I mistaken. I don’t even know what flavor the green one was supposed to be but it was awful. The mango one was delish though. They had little cakes and those were stale. Overall the food was lacking. My son barely ate anything and he didn’t like most of what he tried. Same with myself. My daughter ate like one cookie and a few fries. Total for 4 people (2 adults and 2 kids) was $62 and change. They also had a sign saying you may be charged for any food you do not eat but I sure hope not considering a lot of it was not good. I’m not sure if they did because my husband paid and I didn’t look at the receipt. I would like to visit again and see if last night was just a dud but we will see. The only great thing I can say about the restaurant right now is that the staff was super nice and attentive. They were great with the kids and we always had drinks.