King Buffet - Titusville

So we were in Titusville, and the subject of lunch came up. Somebody mentioned that there was a Chinese place nearby, so I was game, and everybody else was in favour, so off we trooped. As I understand it, the name and ownership changed recently, but the furnishings look like they 've been in place for a number of years. You can order from the menu, which is fairly extensive, but apparently most people go there for the buffet. Chinese buffets seem to be an endangered species these days, but it 's a non-threatening way for people who aren 't familiar with Chinese food to try a little bit of something first, instead of committing to a whole plate full of something they might not like. Like most of the Chinese places I 've been to, it 's mostly Cantonese style, with some Szechuan and Hunan thrown in for variety. (Although I 've never had proper Szechuan food in a restaurant that doesn 't specialise in it. Non-Szechuan cooks just don 't know how to bring the fire properly. There were three soups on the buffet: wonton, egg drop, and hot and sour. I hadn 't had hot and sour soup in so long that I chose that. It wasn 't particularly hot (or sour , but I hadn 't had it in so long that I was happy that they even made the attempt. Beyond that, there were the usual suspects that you find in this sort of place: sweet and sour chicken, spareribs, chow mein, chop suey, General Tso chicken, and so on. One very non-Chinese dish that I 've only ever seen in Pennsylvania is cheese wonton, which definitely tells me (not that I needed the reminder that we 're not in Hong Kong anymore, Toto. There were also Western items like French fries and chicken fingers for those who just can 't bear the sight of rice or noodles. (I ignored those, as is my wont. They also offer take out buffet . I didn 't see anybody getting it while we were there, but I assume that they give you a container and let you take a pass through the buffet before you take it with you. As for quality, well, it 's a buffet. You can eat what you want (well, they may set a limit somewhere , but the tradeoff for an abundance of food without paying through the nose for it is that it 's... not great. It 's not bad, you understand. It just doesn 't live up to the kind of restaurant that I go out of my way to eat at. It 's a step up from the generic Chinese food chains you find in shopping mall food courts, but nobody is going to mistake this for fine dining. (Although, to be fair, I really should go back and order off the menu. I would imagine that the cooks would take more care with something cooked to order than they would to, We 're running low on the chow mein again! The menu doesn 't include lemon chicken, which is one of the things I always try in a Chinese restaurant, to see if it lives up to the Capilano Heights, but there are a number of menu items which look interesting.

The price is fair food excellent!! Compared to the Ling lings in Warren pa lin's is a 10 and they are a 4 at best .lin's good food at a fair price?

Foods great and you definitely get your money's worth!

This is one of our local restaurants. We were customers for years but in the last several we were disappointed in the buffet. Would order take out only. We decided to try the buffet a couple of weeks ago once again. We were pleasantly surprised. The food was delicious and fresh even though it wasn't a busy time. We stopped in yesterday afternoon and again had great food. It appears to be under new management and so much better now. I wanted to give it 2 thumbs up.

The food is pretty good most of the time. Take out is usually