Khoo’s Garden

I was in the restaurant last week eating while the health department was placing a yellow warning sticker on the front door.
Our meal was wonderful, but after I went online and read the health department report, I am not sure i will ever go back

This restaurant is under new management and totally different. They had a small lunch time buffet that had a nice assortment of American Chinese. You can’t beat the price for a lunchtime meal. Under 8 bucks. The service was attentive, restaurant was clean and it just felt so different from my last trip there. I will update my stars when I actually try a meal and not just a buffet.

My wife and I went here last night and had a great meal food and service was good can’t wait to try the buffet for lunch will be back

Love this place! We go often for the lunch buffet and although a smaller size buffet, the quality of food is great and the staff is always soo friendly. Crab rangoons have real crab in them. I don’t think I’ve ever had them so delicious ANYWHERE ELSE!

I’ve been here 3 times now.
First time I ordered takeout… ma po tofu. It was lacking flavor in my opinion. Not only that, but I ate it around 5pm and roughly a half hour later I fell asleep and didn’t wake up until the next morning, feeling awful. Not sure if I received an msg overdose or what.
I later talked with a friend who raved about her meal when she visited, so I decided to try again. I ordered a vegetable spring roll and kung pao either shrimp or tofu, I can’t remember. This meal I had at the restaurant and was significantly better and I did not lose a day to sleep. I felt fine after eating.
I just ordered takeout again. Veg spring roll and vegetable egg foo young. The spring roll is a bit undercooked inside and the egg foo young has a great variety of veggies, but is a bit overcooked and mushy.
All in all, this is place is just average. The staff are SUPER friendly but the food is a bit inconsistent and I feel the prices are too high for the quality.
Because it’s new I am hoping they can get it perfected. I pray they replace the carpet. And because it’s 2 minutes from my apartment, I will go back, but only when I don’t feel like driving further to a few of the better spots in the area.

I can only rate the lunch buffet since that is all we have tried, but it is a 4.5 (I decided to round up because as I write this, I am ready to go back). The only reservation is that the selection was pretty small. On the plus side to having a smaller selection is that the food always seemed to be fresh. I have been to the buffets that claim over 100 items, but some of those items might be sitting forever. With a small selection means more turnover so fresher food.
The selection was pretty good as well with your standard noodles, rice, eggrolls, Rangoon, soup, but the other dishes include a veggie dish, pork, general tso, chicken and shrimp, chicken and broccoli, beef, and fish. Even though not a large amount of dishes, a good variety in the protein department. For me, all the dishes tasted great. The only item I was a little disappointed in was the spring rolls. They were decent, but I have had better.
Anyway, overall you can’t beat it for 7.99. FYI, not sure the ages for kids but one of ours was half off and the other free.

I stopped by here this past Tuesday with my father for lunch. We were originally trying to head to one of our stalwart restaurants, The Great Wall, whenever I noticed a new sign over the building. Since it was still a Chinese restaurant and they had a sign in the window advertising a buffet for 7.99 my dad and I decided to give it a try. The interior of the restaurant looks much like it did in it’s previous incarnation with an addition of a tv and then a buffet. It has ample seating with both booths and tables and with the tinted windows always seems a bit gloomy inside.
The lunch buffet here actually wasn’t ready whenever my father and I walked in although we were promised that it would be in 5 minutes. After only a short time our waitress came over to us and let us know that the egg rolls and soup were ready and that we could help ourselves. I did just that and grabbed an egg roll, crab rangoon and some hot and sour soup. All of it was pretty good and the crab rangoon was one of the best that I have had recently. By the time that I was finished with all of that, the rest of the buffet was ready. I ended up trying some General Tsao’s chicken and some garlic pork as well as having a spring roll. The sauces from the dishes seemed to be on point and I liked the taste of them. Their General Tsao’s ended up being a dichotomy of good and bad though. I loved that the chicken in it was super crispy. Oddly at the same time it seemed over cooked. So the great crunchy outside also came with a chewy inside that was hard to get through. In the end I left restaurant satisfied and with a full stomach.
The bottom line for me is that I would head back here again in the future. While their buffet is certainly smaller than most Chinese buffets at the same price point, I felt like it made up for it with better quality food.

This new family owned restaurant is Amazing! The owner is a very well known Professional Chef who has worked in many high end restaurants all around the World and recently moved his family to Pittsburgh. The food is The Best Chinese Food I’ve EVeR Had! My family came to visit and we had a Great Time here. The owner’s wife taught us Chinese and she was Soo Sweet and explained that all of the family helps out including their 7yr old daughter and Teenage son. I highly recommend eating here regularly! They stayed open during 4^th of July evening just to accomodate people while every other restaurant was closed. The old Wall that was here was not Nearly as Good as these new owners with food Or Customer service. I want Everyone to know how Great these new owners are! :D The portions are Huge and the food is Delicious and made with Beautiful Presentation! Certainly a 5 Star Cuisine Restaurant hidden in the surburbs of Pittsburgh & I’m Thankful that they are here!

khoos is amazing! buffet is only $ 7.95 and well worth it. they do have limited selecton, but i tried everything on the buffet when i was there and there was not one dish that i was dissapointed with. actually that is an under statement because i really enjoyed everything on the menu! also you wont find a place that makes a better calamari then khoos! for $ 5.95 you get a generous helping of calamari. though fried the calamari was not greasy at all. i brought my extrememly picky niece and nephews and they were munching on the calamari non-​stop!

Used to go here when it was the Great Wall and always had amazing chicken because to me it was amazing. Under new management and named Khoo’s Garden the amazing chicken WAS NOT amazing. Rather than pieces of chicken it was thinly sliced and by the time it was cooked became quite chewy and actually hard to cut. The egg roll while hot when served was actually dry. My dining companion had the shrimp and scallops but our server had no idea what vegetables it came with. Another girl said it would be baby corn, carrots, broccoli, onions and snap peas. Well there was no corn or carrots but there was zucchini. At 1:30 in the afternoon we were the only 2 people in the restaurant the entire time of our visit. Sorry to say we won’t be coming back, although the prices were good, the food was not.

I noticed that Khoo’s Garden was under new management (and they have a nice new sign, too), so I figured I’d give it a shot for lunch. I noticed that they had a lunch buffet, but elected for takeout instead since the buffet was small and only had a handful of choices.
I ordered beef and broccoli with an egg roll to go. The counter staff was polite and friendly, and the order was ready quickly. Unfortunately, the quality of the food was pedestrian at best. The egg roll was good, but my entrée was flavorless, and the beef was quite chewy. I was actually quite amazed at the utter lack of seasoning and flavor in the brown sauce.
I’m hopeful that Khoo’s Garden can turn it around, and use higher quality ingredients and boost the flavor of their dishes. If they do not, there is no reason to go here when there are other high quality Chinese restaurants in the area like the Sesame Inn and Empire Palace.

We decided to try this place as it’s been quite awhile since the North Hills has seen a Chinese buffet. We were greeted with an overpowering aroma of incense and seated promptly. We went up to the buffet and boy was it tiny! 2 soups, rice, noodles, a tray of fried selections and a few entrees: General Tsos, Kung Pao chicken, chicken with broccoli, sweet and sour chicken and pancakes. No salad, no fresh veggies etc… Once we got to our seat I was pleased to find complimentary hot jasmine tea and wonton chips with dipping sauces. Sorry to say these were the highlight of the meal and the tea was only thing that was hot. Good service but I will not return.