All you can eat...

Tin Tin Buffet is your standard americanized Chinese Buffet including all your favoirtes like general tso's chicken, spare ribs, chicken teriyaki, and crab rangoons. The server told us there was everything, and she was right. My first plate included my standard go-to's for chinese food order.

Chicken and Brocolli, General Tso's Chicken, Lo Mein, Vegetable Fried Rice, and a Chicken Wing

The chicken wing was marinated in oyster sauce which was great, but the meat was a little on the tough side. The general tso's was a good consistency of not too soft like mush but not to fried like jerky, but it was on the sweeter side, which i liked, but general tso's should be a little spicy, so it loses points. The lo mein was ok - the noodles were a bit overcooked and a little oily. The chicken and brocolli was great - not too much sauce and not over or under cooked.

My next plate was a mixture of everything else that looked worth trying. The crab rangoons should have just been called fried cream cheese - not crispy and no crab. The pepper steak and the vegetable fried rice were excellent and what you would typically expect from any Asian restaurant. The chicken teriyaki was awful – I’m very particular about teriyaki sauces and this one had a hint of orange – no thanks! Lastly, I tired their chicken and shrimp meatball – I have to admit that it was an intimidating meatball. It sort of looked like the leftovers from some other meal rolled up into this semi round meatball. I slowly took my first bite with apprehension and it was delicious!

I finished off with a slice of watermelon, a piece of lemon jello, a sesame ball, and fried wontons in honey. All delicious and worth a second round if my tummy wasn't about to explode. My only criticism was that there was barely any red bean paste inside the sesame ball =(. 

Overall Rating: "Worth the cheap stomachache"

- Sweets

GLUTEN CORNER

"You want a salad? you can do salad!!"

Rice noodles with egg and onions, White rice and vegetables

Anybody else sick of hearing that? I know, I know, it's an Americanized Chinese restaurant in Brighton, down the street from a U-Haul and a gas station. High expectations right? But just once, I want the generals' f%!#ing chicken!! Anybody else jonesing for a crab rangoon like their three weeks into withdrawal? Anywho, here's what was safe, according to the hostess.

I know what your going to say, and I did not have high expectations that I was going to be able to eat EVERYTHING on the menu. I was really hoping for more than slightly-above-zero-nutrition white rice products. For giggles, for anyone who would enjoy an american chinese style dish, chances are you need gluten free soy sauce. Here's a list of a few brands, by no means an exhaustive list:

• Kikkoman
• San-J
• La Choy (although not directly advertising gluten free anymore)
• Little Soya (if you can find it, and don't lose the little bottles)

If you venture out, and are absolutely, positively, dead set on asian food, download and print a gluten free translation card created by celiactravel.com for overseas travel. This should get the point across, or at least find out what it's like to hear somebody yelling at you in mandarin to get the hell out of their restaurant.

Cheers, fuckers.

-the Babe