Young-Young Chinese Buffet

Reviews

• Joseph B.

  star star star star star_border 5 June 2026

  I've been coming here for 15 years on/off. Best value for a Chinese buffet in the area. I like it the most out of all the area buffets for a number of reasons.
  
  1. The buffet isn't too big. It's got all of the popular Chinese dishes that we all know and then some. You're not paying $15 for a buffet full of crap food. You're paying $7 to $9 (depending on time of day) for an all-you-can-eat of essentially decent take out Chinese food.
  2. The soft serve ice cream is as good as many ice cream places and is included.
  3. The place was recently remodeled and nicely re-done.
  
  A few tips! When you first get there, if a dish looks like it's been sitting out a while, take a tiny bit only then sit down. The staff tends to watch what you take and then goes to make a fresh batch the second they see you take it. So just a few minutes later there's a fresh dish of whatever you wanted.
  
  Be wary of some of the fruits and desserts. If there's one questionable thing about this place it's those dishes. Not the ice cream though - it's really good!

• Seb T.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 1 June 2026

  It's a shame. This use to be my family, my friends and myself's go to Chinese place since I was a small child. I would go almost every weekend with friends in middle school and high school. Years later...I've ordered from them twice in the past year and I have been so utterly disappointed no flavor and incredibly more greasy then it should be for Chinese food (yes ik it can be greasy this was just not okay) I'm sad I don't have a reliable Chinese place anymore

• Laura P.

  star star_border star_border star_border star_border 24 May 2026

  We have been getting takeout from Young Young from the day it opened and loved it. We had read on Southington talks how the quality of food is not the same but decided to place an order anyway. We ordered three meals, pork lo mein and three appetizers costing $46. It was a take-out order and when my husband got home with it we realized two dinners were not what we ordered. I called the restaurant and explain the error. I asked them if they could please deliver the two correct meals and I would give them the incorrect ones. I said normally I would bring them back but our appetizers would get cold. The woman went and spoke to someone and came back stating if they brought the two meals I would have to pay for one of them. I asked why would I have to pay for one when all they would be doing is replacing the two wrong meals. She just kept insisting we had to pay for one to which I must admit I got upset raised my voice. I finally told her to forget about it and we would never order there again. A while later the owner called us...His name appeared on our caller ID as "Dr"  He said they would replace the meals if we just brought them down  At this point we had had it! I told him we are keeping the meals but never ordering from there again especially since Zengs is just as close with comparable prices and better food. The food was not as good as people stated and the handling of this matter was terrible! They have lost business from two families who were longtime customers.

• John S.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 16 May 2026

  I love Chinese buffets. Like, so much to the point where I wish one of them could cater my wedding. But this one was not good. There were very limited options and the flavors were all very strange.
  
  On a positive note, the employees were very nice, and the cost was great: only $9.50 for all I could eat.

• Katie H.

  star star star_border star_border star_border 11 May 2026

  Back in high school, I used to come here with friends before movies because it was cheap and the food was reliably decent. Either my standards were lower back then or the food's gotten worse, because I returned for the first time in many years on a weekday around noon, and the food was pretty mediocre.
  
  I grabbed some stuff to go from the buffet since I was in a rush, and pickings were slim. There was a bunch of stir-fries that all looked very similar (and tasted very similar too), your standard buffet mainstays, as well as some fried odds and ends, including fried dumplings. After trying most of the dishes, I couldn't really tell you what I ate since they all tasted the same. In addition, they all tasted like they had been sitting out for a while. The General Tso's chicken was not crispy at all. I wouldn't have been so disappointed if the food was dirt cheap, but prices for takeout were about the same as they are at other Chinese buffets in CT, and this buffet is much smaller. To their credit, they did remodel the place and it looks much nicer than it did back in my high school days, but I just wish I had enjoyed the food more. Sadly, I won't be coming back.