Peking Buffet

Always good showing up at your family’s house in Indiana, and knowing that you will either eat pasta or Chinese food! Well we got word that it was going to be Chinese this time and we were trying a new place (for us) called Peking Buffett!
We were ordering out, so we didn’t actually get the buffet but I offered to pay and go get the food so I got to see the steam rolling off the food even at 8pm at night! It looked hot and delicious!
Our take out order was hot and delicious as well! I got bean curd tofu with veggies and dang, I loved it. The tofu was crispy and hot, just how I like it and I seriously downed my whole meal with rice included in about five minutes! No time for chopsticks here, we are going in with a fork and we ain’t coming back out until every drip of the sauce is licked out of your plastic to go container!
I was super stoked on my meal, and the service was very nice when I went to pick up the order as well, offering up extra sauces and fortune cookies!
If you are in Auburn, IN or driving down I-​69, and your fortune cookie is telling you it’s time to eat, I would easily recommend! Peking Buffet! It was great! I will be back for sure!

The food was good enough that I ate 2 plates of dinner plus desert! The chocolate cake was a little too rich for my taste, but the star shaped cookies we’re a real treat! They have some interesting filling in them and overall I enjoyed myself at Peking Buffet.

I have tried a lot of Chinese restaurants some of it is huge buffets where the food is usually luke warm before you even get any I have been going here and the food has always been fresh service has been always been friendly had no issues with servicer the staff

Peking Buffet is a pretty poor excuse for Chinese food. It’s not the worst i’ve had but its FAR from the best. The orange chicken is good as is the fried rice. One thing I’ve noticed is they have a great habit of severly skimping out on the protein in any dish containing veggies. The egg roles aren’t good at all and the egg drop soup is so watered down the broth is more clear than yellow. One of my coworkers at one time even got an empty crab rangoon lol. All things considered it’s a very cheap buffet, you walk out for less than $ 6. Nothing changes for the dinner service except the price, $ 2 more, I’m not sure why…
The best part of the meal is dessert, by dessert I mean the hard ice cream that you serve yourself. Great flavor selection too! I don’t know what that says for a place when the best thing they have they don’t even make…
If you’re looking for good Chinese in town, I recommend China Gourmet!

In our quest to eat our way around the Chinese restaurants in Auburn (and, no, it won’t take us long to do that – I believe there are three), we decided to try Peking Buffet tonight. It’s located next to Kroger (off of Grandstaff), so parking is not an issue with the big lot right in front.
I really wasn’t in the restaurant itself for more than 2 – 3 minutes as I picked up my take-​out, so can’t comment too much on that. Other than to say my cursory glance saw no glaring issues or concerns.
Ordered the Chicken with Garlic Sauce (intended to be spicy) and our other order was a combination platter of the Orange Flavored Chicken. The latter comes with Roast Pork Fried Rice and either an Egg Roll or your choice of soup (Soup Wonton, Egg Drop, or Hot and Sour). We opted for the Egg Roll. Can’t comment on how good (or not good it was), however, as it never arrived in our lovely little carryout bag of goodies. Failure to provide correct order equals automatic one star deduction.
Overall this food was easily 10x better than the food at China Buffet. The Chicken with Garlic Sauce was at least somewhat hot (spicy), but I did add some hot sauce to it (as it wasn’t *that* spicy). Having a dish like that placed in the cute white papery quintessential take-​out containers, though, is not a splendid idea. The container was wet and stained before I even got it out of the bag and that’s just not overly appealing. Again, at least it was decent food.
The Orange Chicken was pretty good (3.5 stars for that item versus 3 for the Garlic Chicken). I’m told that the Pork Fried Rice was also a thumbs up (especially compared to the other Chinese place). My white rice was your typical sticky white rice. Tasted fine. Wished I could get brown rice instead.
The woman who took my order (and cashed me out at the restaurant) was definitely of the expected ethnic background, but was very understandable when repeating back my order. (Perhaps that may come across to some as racist. If so, then you should probably reread the definition of the word as there is nothing «superior» or «inferior» implied here .) I’ve certainly ordered from places where I just say «Ok, thanks» and have no clue what was just said to me. Let’s be honest, it’s helpful to be able to understand the person who works in a customer-​service industry, so big A+ for them on that one. The woman was also pleasant, friendly, and efficient. My order was ready and waiting for me when I walked in the door.
I really think for Chinese places, in general, it’s a solid 3 stars. For Auburn, though, it’s more like a 4 star Chinese place. However, ompared to places elsewhere it’s not true «Yay! I’m a fan quality.»
They are open later than many places around here (at least 10pm every night except Sundays). The entire order was also just over $ 13 with plenty of food for lunch tomorrow.
For «true» 4 star Chinese head West to Garret and go to Chef Peng’s restaurant!
Thanks for reading!
P. S. If you dine-​in kids under 4 yrs. eat free.