The Best Chinese Lunch Buffets in Pensacola

Finding a Chinese lunch buffet isn't the hard part. Finding the one you want to stick with is the hard part. For a town that doesn't have a tremendously huge Chinese population, Pensacola probably has more than its fair share of top notch Chinese restaurants that offer terrific lunch buffets.

Where to start? The oldest continuous Chinese restaurant in Pensacola is the House of Chong. Located at 3820 Navy Blvd., it features a traditional Chinese exterior so you can't miss it. Once inside, the aroma of delicious Chinese cuisine knocks you over. The lunch buffet here is a very reasonable $5.15 and you will definitely want to start out with the specialty of the house, cashew chicken. Quite simply, the House of Chong's cashew chicken is the best in town. But if that particular dish isn't your cup of tea-get it, Chinese food, tea?-then there's an enormous offering to choose from.

The buffet is typically stuffed with poultry, seafood, beef, pork, and veggie dishes. In addition to the cashew chicken, you definitely will want to partake of the sweet & sour pork, dripping in an orange-red sauce. For those who like their Chinese food with a little spicy kick be sure to try out the General Chicken. Although I personally am not a big fan of hot Chinese food-it tends to be more sweet than hot, in my opinion-I must say that the General Chicken is quite tangy. The eggs rolls at the House of Chong are not the fanciest in town, but they are the best, as are the fried won tons. Both are loaded with what can only be termed mystery meat and traditional Chinese veggies.

For those who enjoy to eat food from the sea, you have your choice of shrimp and scallops prepared in a variety of ways, from hot with garlic sauce to not so hot with lobster sauce.

The China Star, China Town and Ocean Star Chinese restaurants are all owned by the same people are generally are listed together as an umbrella operation. All three feature identical menus, spread out in a massive nine-bar system. You can find these restaurants all over town and the price here is a slightly steeper but still reasonable $6.45.