New China Restaurant — Restaurant in South Bend

This will always rate near the top of my favorite Chinese buffets. Good fresh food, great ingredients, even if they do cater to the American preference for sweetness. Staff is friendly and quick, attentive to needs. Even better, drinks are included in the buffet price!!!! What they call pot stickers are actually steamed dumplings that use the same kind of filling as pot stickers. I only have a couple of issues with New China, and pretty much every Chinese buffet. The Hot and Sour soup, while good, has some of the sourness but none of the spice needed in a proper Hot and Sour. They use a standardized soup mix that I consider far below par. Also, very few dishes that claim to be spicy actually have any heat whatsoever to them. I like spice so when I eat Schezuan Chicken I want it to kick me a bit. American palates are weak and pathetic to the point I just don't condone how Chinese cooking has been so severely sweetened to appeal to the American appetite. When I prefer to diine at a Chinese restaurant, whether it is a sit and order or a buffet, I want authentic Chinese food. New China gets as close as it can...

Decent Chinese buffet. We had a late dinner at about 8pm- they are open until 9. My husband said the fried shrimp was cold and the fried chicken was cooked way to long. I always get the fried rice and sweet and sour chicken which was great. Our daughter smashed that and lo mein noodles and said they were "yummy" 😊 My only real complaint would be, seeing how im allergic to shellfish, would be that they should have the foods with seafood separated into a single area instead of throughout the whole buffet. They do have signs above most of their items, but a lot of people dont read those, especially the younger kids. I nearly made a hospital trip happen when i got their fried rice. The one on the buffet had little baby shrimps mixed in that my friend noticed before i ate any. The "plain" fried rice is in a cooker to the left of the buffet line. How many people miss that? Could've been...

We ate there around noon. Buffet was excellent. It had a wide arrangement of dishes that include shrimp, pork, and chicken but no beef. All were hot and well prepared. They had plastic gloves to use to keep hand off of serving utensils. They included a drink for 11 bucks or so. The fried chicken of all things was delicious. I had to stop eating it as I was at a Chinese restaurant. I tried about everything on the buffet. Everything was good to excellent. The almond cookie for dessert was good. The only negatives are the plates could have been picked up quicker and it was busy. Busy is good in this case as they did a wonderful job keeping the buffet well stocked and clean in appearance. Hats off to the owners for providing excellent quality food at a...