[EA]

The wife is looking for a cheap and decent Chinese buffet that does take out. Everything she's found is for stuff on the strip. We're not interested in $20+ per person places. Something on the east side that's edible would be fine.

[ScoopLV]

The best in your area is Hibachi Grill on Nellis. But it's nothing to write home about.

[macgeek]

There are TONS of chinese buffets on Spring mountain, go into the 88 store, and fill up to your hearts content!!!

Jonathan

[NLVgal]

Buffets are just so gross. Don't do it, EA.

[EA]

I don't eat chinese food. The wife loves it. It's insanely expensive to order everything she wants, but it's pretty cheap to just get it off the buffet. There was a place, where we used to live, that let you carry out off the buffet. She could get what she wanted, and I could get food I could identify.

[ScoopLV]

Does she have specific dishes she wants? Or would just "good Chinese food" fit the bill?

The reason I ask is because the best inexpensive Chinese is at the Chinese supermarkets. And 99 Ranch opened a store at the Boulevard Mall. You can get inexpensive dim sum, and basic Chinese comfort food, cafeteria style. The dim sum is a couple bucks an order. And $5 gets you fried rice/noodles and an entree. But it isn't going to be General Tso's or Mu Shu Pork or the other Americanized Chinese classics.

If it's gotta be orange chicken or beef with broccoli -- then yeah, off to Buffet @ Asia or Hibachi. But I agree with NLVgal -- buffets are generally gross.

[oeccscclhjhn]

We like Hibachi grill buffet. There's lots I don't touch, but I eat the same stuff every time and it's good. Hibachi chicken, sliced sausages on a cutting board next to the mongolian bbq, won ton chips, chinese dougnuts (sesame mochi balls), chinese tea, seaweed salad (which is what I go there for), peanuts from the peanut chicken pan, egg fu young, and a few other things.

[MediocreButArrogant]

Originally Posted by ScoopLV

The reason I ask is because the best inexpensive Chinese is at the Chinese supermarkets. And 99 Ranch opened a store at the Boulevard Mall. You can get inexpensive dim sum, and basic Chinese comfort food, cafeteria style. The dim sum is a couple bucks an order. And $5 gets you fried rice/noodles and an entree. But it isn't going to be General Tso's or Mu Shu Pork or the other Americanized Chinese classics.

The absolute worst dim sum I've had in ten years was at the Ranch 99 in Cupertino, CA. I've been back as recently as this year and it's still terrible. So I would not be surprised to hear that the dim sum at the Ranch 99 at the Boulevard Mall is just as bad. Non dim sum items are ok though, I got a pretty decent box of beef chow fun from them.

Speaking of Chinese food, I ate at "Rice Republic" in Downtown Summerlin today. Wife and I needed to go clothes shopping, and I wanted Asian/Noodles and didn't have time to also drive to the Asian corridor to one of our regular spots. Rice Republic describes itself as the first location in Summerlin to serve dim sum from carts.

It would do in a pinch. Prices were about 2x what I would pay in Chinatown. Four pieces of Har Gow was $5.88. I'd normally expect to pay around $3.25 or less. My bowl of rice with roasted duck and bbq pork was around $14. I've spent half as much and gotten better quality (in particular, the duck was overcooked and dried out, like maybe it was leftover from the day before). If I went back I'd get some kind of noodle soup. I'd never go to Downtown Summerlin just to eat there, but I could imagine going back if I was already there at lunch time and wanted full service Chinese, and did not have time to go anywhere else.

[EA]

She gets stuff like lo mein, fried rice, the rib things, and some other crap. To order containers of each would be way more than I am willing to spend.

[unf0rgiven6262]

Originally Posted by NLVgal

Buffets are just so gross. Don't do it, EA.

Agreed. Chinese buffets have an even worse reputation in my book for unsavory food sitting out for way to long.