My family and I have not dined at China Inn in several years. We went there for lunch on Christmas day. Going out to a Chinese restaurant on Christmas day is a family tradition. Even though the places we have been going to have been carbon copies of a typical store-front restaurant, we went to different ones, hoping for something, well, different. We had grown tired of the lack of choices so, this year we searched for something new. We went to two highly recommended places in Graham but both of them were take-out only. These places also demanded that their customers be masked just to walk into the place. We searched online and discovered China Inn Buffet. What a great find! For years the buffets in other places have had dry, often cold food, and what was offered often ran out and the pans remained empty for long minutes. The service at those places was poor. This was not the case at China Inn. The wait staff were efficient and wonderfully cheerful. The lady at the cash register was delightful. The food was hot, fresh and amazingly delicious! The pans were constantly being kept full. Plus, there was plenty of food and choices of food. There were 3 large, double-sided hot-bars with great selections of beef, pork, chicken, shrimp and choices of rice. There was also a bar just for other seafood goodies. One bar had salad, desserts and a great choice of soup. This brought back great memories of the truly good Chinese restaurants of the past. My family and I had the best time in years, at any type of restaurant. I highly recommend that you choose China Inn as the place to go the next time you want to eat out. Wear your masks if you want to, the staff wear theirs, but you are not going to be forced to wear them.

Returned today, July 15, 2022 My friend and I had a wonderful time and a very good meal. Fifteen dollars for a buffet such as this and a tall glass of fresh iced tea with endless refills is a very good price these days. The waitress was very nice and very efficient with removing used plates and keeping our glasses filled. This place keeps my original 5 stars and, if I could, I'd add two extra new stars for the experience being even better than the last time I was here. I seriously recommend folks to give China Inn a try.