Max Orient Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "One of the best taste Chinese in the area."
• "The food was delicious, everything was fresh and hot."
• "The food is always hot and tasty and there is a good range and selection including salad and puddings."
• "The beef and the sweet chilli chicken were amazing."
• "Salad was fresh and the meat tasted good."
• "Food was great, plenty of choice! Food replaced often, so hot."
• "The food here is always on point, and the desserts are lovely and light."

Cons:

• "When we got to the food it was dried out, having been left there for some time."
• "Food is cooked badly, very salty and dry sweet and sour chicken."
• "Everything was very low quality one of the people that I went there with ended up with diarrhea."
• "Other food was very very stale, tasteless and cold."
• "The prawns were overcooked and the poo track was left in."
• "The food was low quality and cold."
• "The food was so plain and had no flavour whatsoever."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "For £8.80 it's great value, all you can eat."
• "Price very reasonable at £11.50 excluding drinks."
• "All you can eat oriental buffet for £12.50 per head."
• "Not a bad place. I will rate it £. They have this buffet package called everything for £8.8 where you get to eat anything you can for that much."
• "All for a tenner."
• "It's an all you can eat buffet for under a tenner with a glass of filtered water in one of London's busiest tourist spots."
• "Great value for money."

Cons:

• "The drinks are expensive, £3.00 for one glass of cartoon juice."
• "The price is now that high we go to a rival buffet restaurant which do hot food not cold food."
• "Drinks are too expensive...? 3,5 for a coke?"
• "The soft drinks some expensive £3.50 per glass (drinks unlimited) I think it's too much."
• "We paid 16,50£, p.p. so quite a lot for not really quality food."
• "Pricey for a mediocre food."
• "It's not cheap."

Staff and Service

Pros:

• "Staff was very friendly and helpful."
• "Staff polite and friendly."
• "Staff were pleasant and clean up quickly after you."
• "Staff working very hard to clean up after everyone."
• "Staff are really friendly and always smiling."
• "Very friendly staff a girl named Carmen helped us and she was very friendly."
• "The staff here are attentive."

Cons:

• "RUDE STAFF, NO WAITING AREA, NO TIME TO EAT"
• "Customer service could be better as they seem to be on the lookout for you to eat fast and leave."
• "Her customer service is terrible she was very very rude for no reason at all."
• "Staff were excruciatingly rude, to both myself and my friend."
• "Also both times the staff was unhelpful and unfriendly."
• "The waitresses are so rude, they don't understand English."
• "The staff is extremely rude, unprofessional and they don't even speak English."

Cleanliness and Atmosphere

Pros:

• "Beautiful fish tank as scenery setting pretty ambiance."
• "The environment was clean and pleasant and the food was great."
• "The ambiance is good providing a pleasant dining experience."
• "Clean and friendly, a nice spot in Camden for a cheap fast meal."
• "Very nice clean restaurant with nice interior."
• "Hard working, friendly staff- food topped up regularly."
• "A lovely place, it has everything you need for an enjoyable meal."

Cons:

• "Very cramped upstairs."
• "The restaurant was not very clean or well organised."
• "The toilets are full of graffiti too."
• "Also the place was dirty."
• "The toilets were even nastier than the restaurant."
• "The restaurant was not clean or organised."
• "The seating area was so small and cramped up."