Tin Tin Buffet — Restaurant in Gresham

Let's clear the air on something: if you're expecting restaurant servers with Chinese backgrounds to be overly-polite, you're having a cultural miscommunication. They're more likely to do their jobs without question because it's culturally appropriate for them to just know what needs to be done in that space, and being asked to do something as a server means you don't know how to do your job.

Now that that's clear, a three-star rating isn't bad. For a buffet, I think that's actually pretty good. The servers are quick and polite, and will mostly keep out of your way. Some of the food is not good. Some of it is tasty. I had at least six of the fried sugar balls (don't know what they're called, but they're like mini donuts), and stuffed them with fried plantains and vanilla soft-serve ice cream.

Here's what I had that I loved:

orange chicken potstickers small clams calamari had good flavor but was way too chewy onion and peppers chicken teriyaki chicken skewers vegetable egg rolls sliced cucumber buffalo wings

fried sugar balls soft serve vanilla and chocolate ice cream fried plantains

The Cantonese-American dishes people are used to in the U.S. were pretty tasty, as was some of the seafood. I'd avoid the crab and anything with it (sushi), as I think it's imitation, or just not good. Most or the fried things are pretty tasty.

My partner loves Chinese fast food, so we'll be back. I don't expect a lot from a buffet place that has to cook a lot of food quickly. If you set your expectations properly, you can have a really chill Chinese buffet experience here.

Table seating is...

7/22/25 4 stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I used to love coming to this place pre Pandemic. I would get food to go for me and my brother. Lots of variety for a pretty decent price.

They closed down during the pandemic. I'm not sure when they opened back up, but I haven't been able to go for several years due to physical limitations.

I had my helper go there today, to get a container of yakosoba noodles and singapore noodles. This is really the only place in town that you can get good yakosoba noodles and singapore noodles. I wasn't disappointed.They were both just as I remembered them from several years ago. I was not able to go in the restaurant myself to see if anything else had changed. So I can't comment on the smell or the variety of foods, only what I ordered today... and I was pleased with both items.

The downside to this was... my caregiver took my credit card in to make the payment, and while I normally would have left a tip, that's not something my caregiver would do on her own. However, the server took it upon herself to add a tip to my bill without my permission or even asking my caregiver. I find this highly unethical... and possibly illegal i'm not sure. Now considering my caregiver got the to-go container herself, filled up the food herself, and all the cashier did was check her out, I'm not even sure a tip was warranted. Still happy with my...

It was our first time coming in I will say the hot and sour soup was good but that and fruit is all I really ate because the other food was just not what I liked the seafood was really fishy tasting yes I know seafood has a seafood taste but this was way fishy tasting I had to spit out a lot of the food in my napkin cause I just couldn't swallow it ,there wasn't much options or variety of food it was shrimp, Crab,fish, they had churros, with the seafood and dumplings, it was just different from all the other Chinese buffet we go to we are trying to find a good Chinese buffet place and we haven't really found one that is worth the money here the price is good it was 15.99 per person so not bad at price it just wasn't my place. They had Susi but not a variety the fruit was good it was fresh and sweet and juicy. We had to ask for napkins three times and had to asked four times to get our drinks refilled and they weren't very busy and had two servers and one person upfront they would stand up front and talk and be on phone and one server was sitting down and counting there tips right in front of us and we didn't know there was video poker games there so that was a surprise,the place was clean it just not a place I will be...