Buddha’s Orient Express

I flew all the way from Maryland to try some decent Chinese metro station food and I was highly disappointed. I would not recommend this place. you will get a better meal in guantanammo bay being force fed potatoes chips and water board for three square meals a day

Don’t use delivery. More than 1 and a half hour wait, then they call to say its going to still be awhile. No thanks

The meals here aren’t cheap and cheerful, they’re merely cheap and acceptable, many of the foodstuffs still screaming in silent agony at the shapes they have been contorted into, barely fitting the definitions their masters have given. However, you will get a decent portion of food and so this is a place you go to when you need to eat a lot and don’t care so much about how it tastes, what it pretends to be or how long it has festered under those warm lights.
Is it hygienic and safe? Absolutely. I’ve never had a problem with any of the food here, it’s just rarely tasted all that good. If you need nothing more than raw calories and to fill the (non-​existential) void inside yourself, then numb your senses, strengthen your will and step through the door.
Or just go somewhere better.

Food quality, service, convenience, etc is a 3 stars. The extra star is for the decent price and massive portion sizes.
I always get sweet and sour pork, mixed vegetables, and half rice half chow mein. Always tastes the same and the sauce from the pork blends well with the rice for added flavour. This chinese food isn’t loaded with salt so it’s palatable.
The portion size for me is good for lunch AND dinner. My boyfriend has been here with me too and even he didn’t finish all of it.
Overall a decent place to get your chinese food fix in the area.

The girl serving clearly hates her job and makes you feel guilty for ordering.
When I did order, I came home and found out I had been given someone else’s order. I called back and the same girl answered said they wouldn’t send the delivery guy to my place as it would be doing me a favour and that I would get 10% off next time.
The food is ok… When you get the right order.

Wow; and I mean WOW!
This might be the single worst «American» style Chinese food experience I have ever had, and that is, frankly, saying a lot.
The delivery time was 45 minutes over the estimated time of 45 minutes and when I took the bag from the friendly driver I smelled that something was burnt. I’d like to tell you what dish was burnt, but out of the 4 items I bought, I can’t say which is the General Poons Chicken and which is the Sweet and Sour Chicken Balls.
Are they the same? No, they are very different from each other and completely different than anywhere else, I have ever ordered, across several countries and multiple cities. I have no idea what this junk is and it tastes awful.
The fried rice suffers a similar quality among Vancouvers «American» Chinese food as in it doesn’t feel it ever was fried and is just tasteless.
Avoid this as much as possible, I would settle for mediocre food at this point over Buddahs Orient Express

The amount was good for the price. Taste is okay. Good quick fix after a starve. The ladies that helped me were kind and patient.

The guy who helped me gave me lots of noodles. And i love it. Please note this was around 10pm at night. I got the sparerib and showmein. Over all i never had a bad experience here.

I have to be really desperate for asian food but it’s more for the convenience here by the Commercial/​Broadway skytrain and if you want fast, cheap food loaded with artificial everything lol.
surprisingly, it’s not a bad place to hang as the food’s all the way to the back, yet one of the entrances is at front facing Commercial so there’s a column of 2-​seaters.
Personally, it’s close to Kent’s Kitchen, which I already don’t think is the cleanest-​looking, if you know what I mean.

I’ve gone here on a few occasions… usually when I’ve had a craving for some Chinese food, was short on time and rather hungry. It’s all that is nearby on the drive for Chinese but you’re better off giving it a pass. The last time I gave them a shot their noodles were incredibly salty. Bland, warm and dry, no other flavour to be found. The other dishes had been heavily salted as well and would not save the noodles, the combination was overwhelming. The first couple of visits my food had been average but I’ve caught them on enough off days since that when I see them my thoughts lean towards NOOOO.
One potential benefit is if you’re really lean on cash, exhausted and happen to come around near closing time you’ll see how they’ll stuff large portions of what’s left into boxes to go and charge very little for them. You. could. luck out on something that tastes decent.

Starved last night after a long-​ass day, I ran over to grab some quick dins. I chose the two item and noodle combo. I picked chowmein, the soft tofu with peas stuff and the green beans with fried tofu (my fave)… When I opened the styrofoam container at home, there was not a single piece of the fried tofu in the entire pile of green beans. I was seriously upset. What a let down…
But the other stuff was tasty enough. Not the greatest. Maybe a once a year thing…

Convenient location under the skytrain. I think I’ve been here a good number of times already for 2 years just for quick meals or when I’m craving for some of their lemon chicken.
Most of the time the food are served hot and fresh but sometimes late in the afternoon when it’s not peak hours, its not that fresh anymore.
I always get the 3-​item meal for around 8 bucks: this includes the fried rice, lemon chicken (w/​sauce), sweet and sour pork, and honey garlic chicken. It’s actually really good! At least better than manchu wok and flaming wok. :) However its not the fine chinese restaurant you’re looking for. its a chinese food chain! But hey its cheap and they serve alot compared to others. Well, lately they’ve hired new staff (youth that is fluent in both english and chinese, some filipino) and they serve less :(boo. But still enough for me and my boyfriend to chow down and SHARE one order of a 3-​item plate and still be full. But we usually buy extra steamed rice for $ 1 – 2. Their corn soup is pretty good too but it can be made better at home.
Oh and use CASH because if you use debit or credit, they charge you an extra fee (i think 1.50ish?). They just added this «policy» recently last year :(.
Service: they’re okay and friendly but not obligated to please you and they just chit-​chat and do whatever they want. I think its just a family owned business somewhat? But you can see the cooks are working hard. You’ll see the same people all the time.
Over all, its not bad. I’d say its one of my fave places to eat when I’m really really really hungry.

I see this place only has one other review, and it is poor. I have only eaten there once (tonight), and the quality could vary, but it was actually really good for take-​out-​asian-​food-​by-​a-​skytrain-​station!
I got a 3 item combo for about $ 7, and had these crispy spicy prawns (in the shells still), some broccoli/​cauliflour, and some chow main. Nothing tasted too greasy or like it had MSG in it.
I would have given it four stars, and I will if it tastes this good in the next couple of rounds. I hope it stays consistent!

Unfortunately, this is not the kind of place where even the fat Buddha would go to eat. Located in the fast food den on the North side of Broadway Station, this shameful Chinese «restaurant» deep fries poor quality vegetables and meats and soaks them in sugary sour sauces, creating food that would kill you if you ate it on a daily basis.
I like fish sauce as much as the next person, but when you’re mixing it in with the vegetarian options it’s like a slap in the face to people who refrain from eating meat, Buddha included. Especially since the food sits there for so long that the fish flavor becomes «fishy» flavor, and the spongy bins of heat-​lamp-​lit dishes start to look like chopped up neon glow sticks.
I know it smells good but buyer beware, this place puts nothing into your stomach except that pitiful sinking feeling.