Hunan Chef

The best Chinese buffet in Houston! Food is fresh and delicious! Restaurant is very clean!

One of few halfway decent chinese buffets in the Houston area. The selection is average. This buffet doesn't have much seafood (no crawfish, crab) or hibachi but a moderate selection of chicken and beef entrees. They do have sushi, but I generally avoid sushi at chinese buffets.I only give 3 stars for this visit because all the items in the first plate I made were cold. Also, the water had a very awful after taste. I could only drink it when I had a mouth full of food so I couldn't taste it. I recommend the fried rice and orange chicken. Pretty tasty!The dining room is large but not that comfortable for a long visit; no booth seating and not many outlets.Customer service is better than most - frequent visits to the table and my server brought me chopsticks even though they were available at the buffet.

Lots of buffet items to chose from and service is good. Buffets are a little iffy for me, but this one was pretty good. I'm not a germaphobe, but there's something about other people touching the same utensils I touch. Good news, they keep things very clean. The orange chicken was good, love the mushrooms and the eggdrop soup was really good. Restaurant is clean.

I always have a really good experience going to Hunan Chef. The food is really good and the staff friendly.

Chinese buffets are not my favorite places to eat, generally speaking, because the food is often not fresh, doesn't always taste great, and many are sadly not very clean.That is definitely not the case here. This place gets very crowded at times, and for good reason! It may well be the best Chinese buffet in the Houston area. The only one I think comes close is the King Buffet in Friendswood, and it is about half the size of this one.It's been my experience that the food is fresh - even as closing time approaches - and the selection is always great. Items such as sesame chicken, Mongolian beef, and Singapore noodles are among some of the best dishes they have. Their selection of stir-fried vegetables is also good.

I always enjoy ordering the sesame chicken is delicious, the fried rice is just fried no taste and I like there vegetables egg rolls I wish they sold meat egg rolls. The general Tso chicken is good too I wish it was a little spicy.

I like this spot. It's smaller than the big Chinese buffet places, but they still have so much delicious classics to choose. Attentive staff also make the dining experience excellent.

Went there for lunch on a weekend one day and food was good and price was respectable. I do recommend this restaurant buffet.

So it's the start of Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. To all my brethren out there, 中秋快乐! So yeah I was feeling lazy and everyone kinda had different thoughts on what they wanted. So what better option than a buffet I thought using those critical thinking skills. Well, first let me say that I haven't been to a buffet in ages. I used to get my moneys worth in my youth and then some. I actually some of the chefs feared me as I could really sock it away. But these days I'm but a shell of my former self. And the prices have really gone up making these run-of-the-mill buffers not as much of a bargain as they used to be. There's no real specialty items on the buffet line here. So if you come think quantity over quality if you're looking for a deal. I called in advance to get an idea of the price. It's $15 for most everyone. Kids are by height. They wouldn't say how high a kid needs to be to get charged an adult. And I think it's because there's just an arbitrary number on the wall when you get there. It's pretty low. My kid easily towered it and she's not even a pre-teen yet. I think there's two tiers with the smaller (shorter) kids being $5.95 and the taller ones $7.95. Probably the taller one is 4 foot and the lower one maybe 3 foot. Just a guess. When we got there it was crowded. But not a single Asian customer. And in fact, none came in the whole time we were there. Yeah, kind of a red flag to me. Because if it's good, the first thing us Asians do is tell our Asian friends. So let's start with the sushi. Damn, it was looking so old. You know how the seaweed gets all mushy and all? Well the sushi here had gone beyond that stage. And just tidbits on each plate making it look like leftovers. The food area is tight. Like no space. I was always hitting elbows with folks when getting food. If there's a building code for that I'm sure they didn't meet it. The food is very very very average. No one dish stood out to me as being wow. Again, if you can pack it away go for quantity. Cuz quality ain't there. Everything seemed to kinda have a sweet tinge on it. My kid only has a small plate of 5 items before moving to dessert. I did only slightly better. For desert, the choices were slim. They didn't refill anything while we were there so like the sushi it just looked like a bunch of leftover crumbs. They have an ice cream machine. It came out looking icy but was actually soft. The cones were fresh too. And the fortune cookies were not stale. Service was good. And wait staff attentive. All Chinese folks. One old lady and one young man. Felt kinda sorry for them having to work on a Chinese holiday like this. Immigrant life can suck being far away from home (they has accents so I'm assuming they are immigrants). Nice folks. Tried really hard to please. Sorry for any typos or ramblings. I'm too tired to proof this post. Even though I didn't eat much I'm in a food coma. Old age sucks. Cheng'e viewing of the moon will have to wait until next year. Good night.

Had dinner here last week and it really wasn't good. I was so disappointed. The fried foods were definitely left over from the lunch rush since they were cold and hard. Also, you could tell some of the fried foods had been refried because they were overcooked and dark brown. The wonton soup didn't have any wontons. Overall, the food has just gone downhill .