Chinese buffet restaurants come in a variety of flavors, some excellent and some good. The Jade Palace is definitely excellent. It is in a nondescript-looking, one-story orange-roofed building on the corner of Cobb Parkway and Windy Ridge Parkway in Atlanta, Georgia, around the northern trunk of the perimeter of I-285 (south of Marietta).
Large seats are seen for the lunch crowd, which begins just before noon and continues until a little past 2:00 PM, by which time the restaurant is noticeably quieter. However, plenty of fresh hot food, enthusiastic wait staff and excellent food keep the restaurant very busy. during lunch and dinner hours. The restaurant is clean and well lit. Although it is elegantly decorated and the furniture is quite good, the ambience is not the strength of most Chinese buffets – the food is good, fresh, well cooked, in plenty. Jade Palace lives up to expectations!
Prices are very good for both lunch and dinner buffets (lunch is $6.43 on holidays, $6.95 on weekdays and dinner is $8.95 every evening). Of course, a full a la carte menu is available, but with all the opportunities available for buffets, I rarely saw any diners ordering from the menu.
He was ambushed by a cheerful and intrepid staff. You are quickly ushered to your seat and asked for your preferred drink, after which you are about to!
Plaga is actually much more diverse than most “traditional” Chinese buffets, with a decent sushi bar and an excellent Mongolian Bar-B-Que. (The Jade Palace proudly sells it as “Special No Oil Mongolian Grilled BBQ.”
A fresh salad is always a nice start to lunch, and the salad at the Jade Palace is the freshest, with the usual ingredients like lettuce, tomato, onion, shredded cheese, olives, garlic, and a few standard toppings (Italian, French; vinaigrette). Another favorite meal is the starter soup, and I can’t recommend the hot and spicy soup enough – well seasoned with mushrooms, tofu, and egg flowers, it brings a hot, smoky flavor that will start to surprise you if you go for seconds. in the field As much as I hate to dissuade you, I have to recommend that you go after one bowl of soup – it’s more like tasting more food! If Hot and Spicy is not the right taste, you are sure to enjoy WonTon Soup or traditional Egg Drop. RIGHT
The sushi bar has several (non-fish) offerings, such as California Rolls and Philadelphia Rolls, as well. such as nigiri-sushi cooked shrimp and some very intricately wrapped sushi that is so delicious to look at, it seems a shame to eat it!
The sushi is delicious, though. The rice is neither too sticky nor too loose, and is well seasoned. The whole thing is a little watery, but this is compensated quite easily with soy sauce, and mixing shoga (picked ginger) is the best . And, the best aspect of the buffet – it’s ready to eat!
Don’t fill up on sushi, though – there’s too much else in the neighborhood to justify spending all your time at the sushi bar!
I usually start mine with a small selection of sushi, a bowl of soup, and some appetizers – fried food. Jade Palace has the best Crab Rangoon, egg rolls and spring rolls, and always has a plate of fried chicken wings available to top it off.
By eating my peace. When I have had my salad, soup, sushi and appetizers, I return to my table and return to the food a little earlier for “I enjoy my entrée”.
The Mongolian barbecue is included in the very reasonable cost. This is usually a flat round metal grill, usually in the center of the cooking area. Meals are prepared in it at one time or another, depending on the size of the grill and the number of cooks. I have never seen one cook more successfully than one dinner, however. The grill here appears to be a traditional American commercial grill – rectangular, with splashbacks and a drain in the front. It’s like what you’d find at McDonald’s back in the day, but that’s where the resemblance ends, because the artist behind this grill is definitely not your teenage burger joint.
At Mongolia Barbecue, you choose your food and spices, and it is cooked before your eyes. Start with an empty bowl and load whatever fresh, raw food you want into it – celery, Bok Choi, mushrooms, onions, peppers, squash, noodles, etc. . . as well as fresh sliced beef, pork, or chicken, or raw shrimp. Load your bowl as high as you want – it’s a coup! – and the cook would deliver. (If this is your first time at Mongolia Barbecue, I recommend that you just try a little of everything, and fine-tune it on subsequent visits).
Most Mongolian Barbecues I’ve visited, you load your bowl with sauces, oils and seasonings; The Jade Palace chef keeps those ingredients, and he will ask you what your desires are. The choices here are pretty simple, four mild to hot sauces, with a choice of light (one ladle) to heavy (three ladles). Again, unless you are familiar with sauces, I recommend that you choose a mild sauce. Once you’ve chosen your sauce, just stand back and marvel at the chef’s craftsmanship as he throws a bowl of food onto the grill and begins grilling.
Your Mongolian Barbecue takes only a few minutes to cook – meat the most terrible ingredient that requires cooking, and it is divided. So it happened very quickly. But always pay attention to the chef’s ear – a $1 bill in a bowl on the counter – in recognition of his art and craft.
Although your Mongolian Barbecue is more than enough for a grand entrée, you may want to sample a few of the other entrées available for the buffet. While these are generally common offerings such as Tso’s Chicken and beef (or chicken) with cauliflower, one of the What makes the Jade Palace such an enjoyable meal is the freshness of the food. Because of the restaurant’s popularity, it’s obvious that the food doesn’t have a chance to get old and sit uncooked on the steamy table.
Other buffet entrées include such items as roast chicken, fried rice, lo mein, and salt and pepper chicken. vegetables, skewered chicken, spare ribs Chinese style and a variety of other dishes that will change daily.
A wonderful feature of most Chinese restaurants is the attentiveness of the waiting staff, and the staff at Jade Palace lives up to expectations. Whenever you’re done with your bread, someone quietly slips in and uses your dirty plate.
Especially with appetizers and entrees available, the desert at the Jade Palace can seem rather pedestrian. Tasty and plentiful, but pedestrian – chocolate or vanilla ice cream, mixed with Jello, chocolate or vanilla ice cream (soft -serve), plus a selection of fresh produce and new daily toppings (Napoleons and Creampuffs) sourced from a local bakery. . . Face it – although it’s a nice end to a great dinner, if you’ve got room, no one comes to the Chinese Plague for desert.
Jade Palace is located at 2647 Cobb Parkway in Atlanta. It is open for lunch from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM for lunch, and from 4:00 PM to 10:0 PM for lunch daily. It occupies a prominent position in the dining offerings, which are available to those lucky enough to find themselves near Galleria or Cumberland Mall Around lunchtime. I
