Tiantian Kitchen — Restaurant in Melbourne

Super weird experience at this Restaurant. It's Saturday night and yet aside from a couple of people coming to pick up what I assume are takeaways, we were literally the only people sat in there for the entire duration of the meal. It was supposed to be a buffet but we were told because they didn't have any reservations that night (first red flag) we would just order off the buffet menu. After the first round of ordering the menu was taken away so we weren't able to order more, sort of negating the whole point of a buffet which is to try little bits of everything as much or as little as we wanted. Even though we were the only customers there we were sat at a tiny table too small to hold most of our dishes.

The food ranged from extremely average to way too salty, maybe slightly less in quality compared to cheap food court Chinese food, very much under par for what was supposed to be a restaurant. Nothing was particularly hot or feel like it came straight off a wok, everything tasted like it sat in a hot plate for a good few hours. The fried shrimp was good, but everything else was pretty bad. The corn soup was atrocious I've literally had better packet soup.

Due to the complete lack of customers (on a Saturday night!) we could hear the servers chatting, kitchen staff working etc. Just a really weird and uncomfortable experience as a whole being the only people there eating sub par food. No idea how they still maintained a 4.0 rating when they have literally no customers.

The food didn't feel particularly fresh, we'll see if our stomachs are still ok tomorrow I guess. Even though $34/pp is ridiculously cheap for a buffet, I still feel somewhat ripped off given the quality of the food and atmosphere.

We won't...

Have been going here for years. No complaints thus far. That all changed yesterday. Special Fried Rice was burnt (and that's putting it mildly). It was charcoal. The smell was unreal. Also asked for Satay Chicken skewers. Got skewers but no sauce. To top it off, ordered via phone at 6:13pm. Was told 15 minutes. Order actually handed over counter at 6:51pm. Funny thing is when I arrived at around 6:30, I was told I might have to wait for a few minutes. No problem, that's fine. Then some bloke came into the shop complaining his order he picked up 20 minutes ago was missing a Special Fried Rice? What do they do, well to appease this dude they disappear out the back and return with a SFR ready to go! This guy takes it, mutters under his breath and leaves the store.... Why funny? Well what are the odds this SFP was from my order? Now to be fair, once I got home and realised the order was wrong, I rang them and they offered to despatch a driver with a replacement SFP and tub of Satay Sauce which they did. However damage was done. $60+ later and not good enough. Waited too long and order wasn't right. Won't be...

Buffet dinner at 7:30. There wasn't a lot of selection. Some noodlea, beef and veg, and chicken. There were fried sprinv rolls, calamari, pork balls. There were some fried rice was and a small selection of soups. For dessert, different flavour of ice cream. Here's the letdown. For a chinese buffet, there were no dimsums or siomai. The fried rice was a few days or at least hours old, definitely not freshly-cooked. The chicken and corn spip was bland and honestly had the texture of something you have with hangover. My son who loves fries, wouldn't touch it. The kicker was the rainbow ice cream which was... Tada! Really only vanilla with different food colours. Thank God i love vanilla, that saved the night for me. The staff were friendly and nice. But food was underwhelming for $28.8 per adult and...