Asian Seafood Buffet — Restaurant in Baton Rouge

I have FINALLY found it! A real deal scratch made asian restaurant at the corner of Florida Blvd. and S. Sherwood Forest in Baton Rouge.

Don't let the name fool you. It's called Asian Seafood House but I think looking at the name, at a glance, is a little misleading.

This is not some Hot Wok - China Bear or King Whatever - strip mall restaurant and or buffet. This is a quality place, along the likes of Lee's Asian fusion in Denham.

Let me say that the menu is HUGE! Read it beforehand so you are not overwhelmed like I was. I was very impressed with the cleanliness of the dining room. Many places can be dingy/dirty and smell less than inviting. This place was clean.

The appetizer dishes were the Walnut shrimp and the Peking roast duck. The Walnut shrimp (I'm guessing were fried in a light tempura batter) and then dipped in a slightly sweet coconut style sauce. The walnuts were fresh and crisp with no burnt or overly heavy nutty flavor. The Peking roast duck was a treat simply because it is such a rare find especially when it is done correctly.

The seafood hot and sour soup was served in a HUGE bowl. The table had a lazy Susan which was nice to pass the bowl around so everyone could serve themselves. The soup was a white hot and sour soup, which did not have a dark soy and or dark vinegar, (ingredients in mushroom hot and sour soup) which would have taken away from the star of the show which were the diced pieces of seafood inside the soup..

I was very impressed when they brought the Ginger garlic white gravy lobster. That presentation was impressive. The lobster was properly shelled to make it easier to pick/eat. The sauce was light with ginger and scallion notes and complimented the lobster without being too overbearing.

I ordered the Salt and pepper Teriyaki Beef ribs. Thin cut and properly prepared and served with broccoli.

The shrimp fried rice was fresh, but standard, so this would not be my first recommendation due to the lack of seasoning and soy/wok/sesame tones and or notes that I enjoy with fried rice.

The Fresh flat noodle with beef was my favorite next to the lobster. This to me was very similar to a drunken noodle and the texture of the noodle was nothing but tender and light freshness. The sauce was money. This is enough for a meal and I recommend this as a lunch plate by itself.

The waitress (manager??) brought some sliced watermelon out for desert. It was cut in a fancy way, that she cut herself, so I wanted to get a picture of her with her masterpiece. She only took her mask off for this picture. I support local and home touches/cooking. It was awesome to be in a high caliber asian restaurant which is hard to find with so many cookie cutter places being the standard today. RIP Shing's on Government Street.

Obviously this was way too much food, but I was able to take plenty home.

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Update: 8/13/25

My sister and I went to eat here on their first day of opening after being converted to a buffet and were the first customers in. The price was roughly 26.00 per adult and I tried virtually everything at the buffet.

I don't have the words to express how incredibly disappointed we are. We spent almost every Thanksgiving and Christmas here and either ordered from or ate there two or three times a month, aside.

We loved the food and the waitstaff, even the manager, but the food at the buffet is mediocre. Largely, it's the same, generic asian food you'd expect at any other Chinese buffet.

Exactly the same desserts you always see, sad, skimpy sushi rolls poorly wrapped, weird American bbq sauce on the ribs, overcooked or weirdly seasoned food, frozen and steamed seafood (some are ok but the snow crab legs are gross), (really stinky bamboo-scented squid salad???) So on and so forth. There are still 3 random dim sum options at the buffet and decent-tasting roast duck, but overall it's just awful. You'll struggle to find 26.00 worth of actual good food from a restaurant that used to have amazing food and was often overflowing with customers.

This was a terrible decision in direction. It would have been better to limit the original menu options to something more reasonable.

We probably will never go back unless it reverts, which breaks our hearts because this was our hands' down favorite restaurant for years where we took our family and all our friends and unless they do something different quickly, they'll probably go the route of every other Chinese buffet in Baton Rouge (inevitable closure).

Please go back and just reduce your menu to a more manageable size or offer more of your old popular dishes on the buffet. Even your fried rice which was some of the best fried rice in BR isn't the same on the buffet at all. We love you.

The staff is still wonderful. Best staff at any restaurant in BR.

Always great. We eat there at least twice a month and it's amazing. The quality of food and the service is always stellar. Honestly, we are asian so we love the atmosphere and service because it exceeds our expectations.

Including just a few pics from our last few trips.

Update: 01/14/23

For others like me with a neurodivergent child who has an extremely sensitive palate and limited texture/flavors consider trying the salt and pepper pork chops. You'll need to be careful to avoid bones but my 11 year old 'picky' eater cleared a whole plate of them (though he doesn't care for the shallots and bell pepper).

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We were long time customers who went at least once a month, sometimes every weekend. The new setup is better than a standard chinese buffet but loses a lot of the quality \ ambiance of the old setup. It's not a straight up worse experience but it's not the same either. The current dim sum setup is awful and a straight up loss.

The food quality was higher than a standard chinese buffet and much better than the bland sushi barn next to Arby's(RIP). Even the standard stuff like chicken and broccoli is better quality. There were several dishes from the old menu that were there, so if you liked the old menu you can try \ eat several things that you might normally order at a lower price.

For example the Fried Rice, Eggdrop Soup, Hot and Sour Soup, Mei Fun are all higher quality than other buffets. The crab, fish, broad rice noodles, baby octopus, Dim Sum, eggplant, shrimp and chicken curry and more than I can list are on the buffet. The weekday lunch buffet is a great value.

Now the switch to the buffet as a format come with some unfortunate side effects. Dishes that rely on being "hot to your table" won't be like that. There's also now a bunch of standard chinese buffet stuff like chicken nuggets and corn nuggets. It's not bad, it's just kind of the opposite of what the place was going for originally.

The worst thing to me is the downgrade in the dim-sum situation. There is a VERY poorly placed dim sum station in the corner of the buffet next to the ice cream freezer. It's a complete bottle neck. First, it's bunch of little pans with lids that need to be opened to see what's inside. So everyone is just touching them little lids over and over. Secondly, it's only accessible by one side of the buffet, so it's SO SLOW. You sit there and watch as the person before you gingerly molests each little pan only lid to put it down and take nothing. I came across a pork bun who had been mauled by many attempted extractions.

99% of the problem would be fixed it the dim sum accessible by both sides of the buffet. My kid loves the pork buns specifically. If I can't get those, we aren't coming back.

Service is and always has been excellent. The servers are top notch and super friendly.

All in all it's still really good but it's not the same. The place was packed with more people than I've ever seen, so there's interest now. We'll see where it is in a month. Buffets tend to do well in the first months, but eventually have to cut cost as curiosity declines. For now it's a good value with some...