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BRING THE BUFFET BACK!!!!! Delicious food but I really liked coming for the buffet to have a little sample of everything for good value. Really disappointed that they took it away. Also, sometimes the staff are a bit weird and come across as rude. I was told that they didn't have ice tea or lemonade when I could clearly see it in the fridge? kinda made me uncomfortable. Food is delicious though, would recommend :)

The food is fantastic, and easily the best Chinese takeaway I've ever had. We are now semi-regular customers here, despite normally avoiding Chinese because so much of it is bad. Cannot recommend it enough based purely on its taste and quality. However the staff - especially at the front counter - are really rude. Not a worry when you do takeaway like we normally do, but probably very off putting when you try to dine in.

Get in while it's good before they start cutting corners ;)

This yum-cha restaurant is really a hit-or-miss affair. If you go on a weekend you will find a line out the door, and inside is bedlam. Loud, noisy, and seat so close together that you will touch the person seated behind you. However on these days, they are constantly wheeling around the trolleys of food, with a good selection, including duck, pork belly, and greens. Go on a week day, like we just did, and it is a totally different restaurant. Quiet, with the SAME two trolleys going around the same four or five tables, with nobody taking anything off the trolley. You can watch them going round and round. Eventually, like today, the girls didn't even bother anymore, and just sat at one end staring blankly. 15 people at 5 tables, with at least 12 staff in evidence, and nobody is eating. I looked across, and I saw 12 other bored and frustrated faces. The staff, and this includes the two senior wait staff, simply stand there. You would think that someone would simply ASK what dish it is that you want.... Unlike an normal restaurant, where you order, and know that your meal IS coming, at the Aspley Oriental, everyone sits there waiting for the first 20 minutes for different items to come out. When they realise that it isn't going to happen, they try to get the attention of the staff. Then try to order off a menu. Another twenty minutes go by, and the items you ordered specially come out on the trolley, and start making their way around, of course, starting on the other side of the room. Finally you get to grab them off the trolley, and a waiter comes with your plates 5 minutes later, and then tries to mark them off on your order list. Confusion all round, as the staff very rarely speak any English. Finally you get bored, and tired of waiting and leave, hungry. Not only that, but with a little stamp on each line of an order sheet, you have no idea what the cost will be, and like today, it was more expensive, by $20, than on other occasions when we at our fill. Cannot recommend during the week. But on weekend, the food served is no different from that available from restaurants open in the Valley. So if you would rather park for free, and not have to go to the Valley, this place is an option.

There are lineups of people to get into this place on the weekends! So book ahead if you don't want to wait. The food is good. Some staff do not speak english much so you just have to be patient and try asking on different ways with jestures.

Really good authentic Chinese food at reasonable prices.

We were recommended this place by a friend. we arrived after 9pm on a Friday evening and the place was busy, but we were quickly shown to a table. we ordered the beef pawpaw salad and the sizziling garlic pepper chicken, with Vietnamese cold rolls to start. Cold rolls were great, not too chewy. The garlic pepper chicken was superb, the flavours were amazing, an almost creamy sauce but not too rich, and fresh pepper flavours. the beef pawpaw salad was good, but I would have liked some bigger chunks of pawpaw and maybe a tiny bit of chilli to set it off. the only reason I didn't give this place 5 stars was the atmosphere on a Friday evening is more like a beer garden than a restaurant. we had intoxicated patrons leaning over our table to speak to one another and it was pretty hard to hold a conversation without yelling. depends on the atmosphere you're looking for though! you can't fault the service of the staff, they were attentive and the meals were served quickly despite them obviously being busy. will try and go there for lunch as it sounds good value (and maybe less raucous than a Friday night!).

They have the best chinese food & the best service!!! But always busy so be prepared for the wait as they cook your delicious food.

I will go back again, one of the better restaurants in the area.

Pretty good. We had a big table with a lazy susan, BYO wine and alligator was on the menu. I'd go back but consider that they do have karaoke on weekends.

Some pretty good quality Chinese food. And look at me... I know Chinese food. Cause I'm tall and eat a lot of foods with protein. What?

Good food. Love the duck noodles (dry). Very crowded during dinner.

Fantastic atmosphere, delicious food and good service.

Used to be great as best service Chinese restaurant on the Coast. We came here quite often but we were so disappointed with the foods the last time we had. Please keep your standard!

Great food, average on price.. Worth stopping in.. Been going here for years.. If they don't have what you like on the trolley you can order it specially - same yum cha price.. Lunch and dinner.