Chin-Thai in Limburg a.d.Lahn

We're always happy to come back. We're always very satisfied. Our favorite cellar, in particular, is always worth a visit.

Huge selection, very friendly and attentive staff, and cool koi swimming around. We'll be back.

Simply fantastic! Very tasty, huge selection, great atmosphere, and very friendly staff.

Super delicious Asian buffet. The service staff is exceptionally friendly. We'll be back.

If you want a wide selection of different dishes, then CHINTHAI is the place to go. I love Asian food. I could actually eat it every day. Love it 😉

Nice, friendly staff. When we're in Limburg, this Chinese restaurant is a must for us.

Outside: self-storage facility. Inside: koi ponds, chandeliers, and one of the best buffets in Germany. I hate surprises. In travel, surprises usually mean delays, bad food, or discovering that your “boutique hotel” is just a rebranded youth hostel with Instagram filters. But this surprise was — finally — a welcome one. On a long drive home from Dortmund (a city that had already punished us enough with its culinary offerings), my wife and I were desperate for our first meal of the day — at 5 p.m., no less. We searched for Chinese cuisine, a mutual soft spot, and ended up at Chin-Thai in Limburg. First impression? Dismal. The building looked like a self-storage facility. The location, a commercial district with all the charm of Soviet suburbia in November — even though it was summer. Our expectations dropped straight through the floor. And then we stepped inside. Suddenly, a little Chinese fairy tale unfolded before us: silver chandeliers, classic carved furniture, indoor ponds with cheerful nishikigoi gliding around. It was as if the grim exterior had been built purely to amplify the surprise. The buffet was extensive. The raw bar — where you can choose fresh products to be grilled — offered everything from cuisses de grenouille to shark. Elsewhere, an array so broad and varied that leaving hungry would require a medical condition. Service was attentive and warm, without the robotic rush you often get at buffets. The tea selection was proper, the homemade iced tea was refreshing, and Coca-Cola was served in .33 glass bottles — proof that someone here still respects carbonation. So here is the lesson: do not judge the book by its cover. Chin-Thai may look like a warehouse from the outside, but inside it delivers one of the richest and most satisfying Chinese buffets I’ve come across in Germany. Clear recommendation. Sometimes the ugliest doors hide the best surprises.

Very tasty, friendly staff, I'll be back again and again.

As a family of four (2 adults + 2 children) we paid 106 euros including drinks (buffet). Then the waiter got rude and threw the change at us because he had understood a higher tip. Sorry, the price is so excessive - the children eat for a maximum of 5 euros. We paid 26.50 euros per person (lunch). Never again! Go to the Globus Chinese restaurant, there you get a menu that three people can eat from for 12 euros. This is really just a rip-off - if the children leave something on their plates they get upset - Hello? I paid for it! And if they leave a whole plate unfinished, the plate is paid for!

We've been regular customers at Chin Thai for years. We'd especially like to praise the friendly service, the delicious food, and the pleasant atmosphere. Keep it up 😀

I'm now a regular. The price/performance ratio is excellent. Very friendly and competent service. In short, the best Asian food for miles around. The customer is always the king here. Also suitable for large birthday parties. Thank you, Chin Thai🙏⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

We were there on September 13, 2019. The atmosphere was great, but the food was so good. We were back a few years later, and the food was great.

We always enjoy coming here. The food is delicious and the selection is extensive. In the evenings, they even offer Mongolian specialties like shark, etc. It's always a return visit and worth every penny. The buffet is definitely a recommendation 😃.

As always, the team doesn't disappoint. The food is great, the service is friendly, and the restaurant is always clean.

Excellent food, welcoming staff, fair prices.

The Asian food here is delicious. The selection is extensive, the prices are reasonable, and the staff are very friendly.

Good food and good friendly staff

Great food!! Very friendly staff! And the kids even get a bag of fish food each so they can feed the koi. 😊

Highly recommended! The selection is truly gigantic, and the service is fast and friendly.

Great place! Been there three times and happy every time!

Very friendly service team, delicious food with a great, wide selection (a very pleasant choice for me as a vegetarian!), nice decor – I'm short, so the table was a bit too high for me, and the chair a bit too low, but that's a minor issue :) The koi in the water... well, I don't think that's necessary; without it, I would give them a full five stars! Beautiful and super intelligent animals. I was totally impressed, but these little darlings would definitely have more fun in a great and appropriate swimming pond.

The food was excellent again. Everything was warm and always in stock. It's just that big and noisy there, but we'll be back. The staff are very attentive.

I often come to this restaurant because of its delicious food, excellent service, and pleasant atmosphere. I highly recommend it!

Yes, you can recommend it if you like it.

We've been going there to eat at least once or twice a month for years. This time, we (two adults with two children) had to endure a lecture about how much food we had to eat and what the kids didn't like, we had to eat! What a disgrace! We'll never be back. With adults, it's understandable that they fill their plates and leave half of it, but with small children who want to try everything, you have to act a little more professionally and not give them a lesson in front of other guests at the next table who also noticed it. Although the children were charged a fair amount for the buffet! Sorry, but you won't make a cent more from us!

Very good price-performance ratio, we will be back

Simply fantastic! The food was delicious, the service attentive and warm. You immediately feel at home – the people there are truly incredibly nice. We were completely satisfied and would love to come back. I was truly delighted to have eaten here. I highly recommend it!

This was a visit 6 years ago: Food was good, constantly refilled, buffet was really large. 1 star deduction for the cafeteria atmosphere. Incredibly loud. But the staff was super good and efficient. Plenty of parking. Update from today, June 29, 2025 Staff unfriendly and very taciturn, food cold, cafeteria atmosphere unchanged. If you like very oily food, then this is exactly the right restaurant. Downgraded from 4 stars to 2 stars. What a shame.

Delicious food, super attentive service, but like all restaurants of this kind, you sit in a soulless open-plan hall

Highly recommended with disabled access requirements.

Mass processing, loud background noise, not everything was enjoyable.

Beautiful interesting restaurant. Very tasty 👌

I can highly recommend this restaurant.

A good Chinese restaurant with a rich buffet, service very courteous and friendly

We always enjoy coming here for the buffet. There's a huge selection, everything is always replenished promptly, everything is very clean, and the service is always friendly and quick. Very tasty food. Very good value for money. I definitely recommend it!

As always, very good and tasty.

Unfortunately, this restaurant is getting more and more expensive. The pricing structure is misleading and incomprehensible. They deliberately offered fewer food options, so you had to wait for some meat to be brought out. By the time it was there, it was quickly gone. We no longer felt comfortable. With drinks, the price came to around €40 per child and per adult. Absolutely outrageous and no longer worth a visit.

The food is great! There's a lot to choose from, and it's not expensive. It's the best place to eat! 😍

Very nice service, very accommodating and polite.

Delicious food, very friendly and attentive service,

The waiter was great. The noise level is rather strenuous and loud. Food was warm and appetizing. Unfortunately the robot didn't visit us. Unfortunately, the fried foods were dripping and sticky.

Our absolute favorite restaurant. The selection is very large, the food is delicious and freshly prepared. The live grill is highly recommended. The staff is friendly and competent.

Food very tasty and fresh. Containers at the buffet are not overfull and fresh. Very large selection of main courses, salads, desserts and sushi. Noise level not high despite the size of the restaurant. All dishes on the buffet are labeled.

Great restaurant. Great desserts. I recommend

A great place to visit with the whole family or alone. A place with many tables from which we can choose what we like or try new flavors.

Yesterday I was eating there with friends and my boyfriend, the staff were all super friendly, the food was great, we'll definitely be back. But I don't think it's that great that dogs are allowed in a public restaurant because food is open? Thank God we had finished eating but the hygiene regulations should be adhered to 👍

Whether buffet or a la carte, you can find all kinds of food choices here. Fast service

It was really very nice and pleasant there. The food was super delicious and the employees were really cool and nice :) There was a large selection so there was something for everyone. It was just a shame that there was no vegetarian sushi, but maybe I was just there at the wrong time. Otherwise everything was great, I'd love to do it again

We always enjoy being there! I'm celebrating my birthday with my family there! Everyone satisfied, everyone happy! The grandchildren get the food for the fish! I always get great gifts! Last year I got a beautiful hair clip! It's still there!😍😍😍 We say thank you 👍👍👍

The food and drink...Great...Quality simply excellent...Everything was good..., thank you very much...

Two people who both ate different things had an upset stomach the next day

Price/performance is OK. Sometimes very loud and restless.

The restaurant looks very nice and is large. The service is also great, as soon as you sit down, drinks orders are taken and served quickly. The various options are also filled up quickly. Unfortunately the acoustics are a bit loud, but the rest is really great. Anyone who loves a large selection will get their money's worth here. Whether you put it together yourself and have a dish prepared for you or use the huge selection, everything looks very appetizing. From soups to main courses, breaded or fresh salads to a large selection of desserts, there is something for everyone here. We really enjoy coming and trying something new every time.

Very friendly and nice atmosphere.

Chin-Thai, eat lukewarm. The service and the ambience were great, the staff is attentive and friendly. It has now become very expensive here

I visited the restaurant on several days with different groups. After the visit on July 30, 2023, several people in our group had health complaints such as stomach problems and, in one case, vomiting. One person received a refund after reporting back to the restaurant. Another point of criticism concerns how we deal with guests who don't want to or can't order a drink. During a visit in 2024, we were only informed when paying that not having a drink was apparently not desired. This is particularly disappointing for families with children (and not only), where the costs are already high. We find this practice unpleasant and customers unfriendly. That's why we will prefer other restaurants in the future. PS: our visit was in July 2023 and not 2024! This experience was in Limburger Restaurant! Dear owner, if you don't like the negative review, that doesn't mean it's not true! PS the review is based on several personal experiences at different points in time! One person in our group received the refund after their visit in summer 2023. The experience with drinks was in autumn 2024. Unfortunately, the new regulation was only announced when payment was made. My experience still remains experience, even at different times, with different groups!

A visit is definitely worth it :)

Yes, great from 1 to 100, something for everyone.

👍🏻 Tasty, inexpensive, there is a great children's corner. Very relaxing ambience

The best Chinese I know, very high quality food, attentive staff and nice atmosphere.👍

Very tasty food but unfortunately the Coke costs 3.80€ which makes the food inedible

Delicious lunch buffet at a good price. More expensive in the evening and even more choice

I've eaten here many times on different days of the week and with different group sizes and have to say that so far I have almost nothing to complain about. Once we had to wait 30 minutes despite having a reservation, but that was one time, otherwise we always came straight to our table. Delicious food, the grill is also impressive. Empty things are quickly refilled. The ambience is also convincing. My personal highlight are the fish that swim around the sitting islands 🐠

Friendly, clean, nice staff. Large selection at the buffet - something for everyone. 1 point deducted because some things at the buffet are only lukewarm.

Highly recommended. Buffet everything was delicious, everything was clean, everything was always well stocked. The atmosphere is very inviting! We would go there again at any time.

Yes, buffet rich. We enjoyed it. There's something about mass processing that's kind of good too. You can do it, not a highlight but also better than others. Recommended.

Very good food, especially the buffet offers a huge selection of freshly prepared meat, vegetables and side dishes. But you should come hungry 😉 À la carte is also highly recommended and the price-performance ratio is very good. The service is courteous, fast and very friendly, even when the restaurant is packed. Since the restaurant is quite large, the noise level is not insignificant. Reservation is strongly recommended.

The food is really good and there is a lot to choose from. If you don't find what you're looking for here, it's your own fault. Sometimes it could be a little hotter. The service is super friendly despite the fact that it is usually very busy. When it comes to ambience, you have to take into account the size of the restaurant and the throughput of guests. The restaurant is committed to being child-friendly, and that is exactly what it is. However, if the children are screaming and playing catch in the hallways, the staff should take some regulatory action. We often visit the restaurant.

Great buffet and a unique selection of dishes

Very friendly staff and large selection at the buffet

We found the ambience to be quite good for such a large restaurant. The selection at the buffet was good and sufficient. (But we have had a larger selection elsewhere). The staff was friendly towards us. Overall, everything seemed clean even though we were there at a busy time. But in contrast to our last visit, this time the dishes simply didn't meet our personal taste...

Very friendly staff. Very tasty and fresh food. Huge selection. We would love to come back.

We treated ourselves to the buffet and were very impressed.

The waitresses are very impersonal and there is a noise and atmosphere like a main train station. The food is good and it looks clean too. But going out to eat comfortably is something different.

The ambience is wonderfully bright, not like other Chinese restaurants where it is more like a dark waiting room. The buffet was very rich and had more choice than most other Chinese restaurants in the area. The food was delicious every time we were there, it's definitely worth a visit here.

Of six visits, two were delicious. Once we were sitting next to the clearing table on our birthday (!). That was stressful and loud. I reserved a special birthday table, which was not taken into account. Once I discovered green, inedible meat next to the buffet. And today it's just cold, inedible and not seasoned. Among other things, the worst tofu I've ever eaten. The staff has problems with dogs. I wasn't asked if I liked it, unfortunately. Thereupon there was no tip, to which the male service worker reacted grumpily. I'm not coming back PS: Free the poor koi. What bad animal husbandry

Everyone will find something to eat. Large selection. I recommend.

So the atmosphere is really nice, I have to say. Now about the food, the real reason you go there; Despite the large selection, you can hardly find anything that doesn't dripping in unhealthy seed oils, the tiredness factor afterwards is comparable to a sleeping pill and you're definitely not doing yourself any favors, in the future I'd rather cook for myself because going to the buffet is suicide for your health. Then to the service; When I ordered a To Good to go order, the waitress forgot how to do the math when paying and just looked at me questioningly just because I didn't want to pay a tip for any service. I was in the store for maybe 5 minutes. What should I give a tip for? my suggestions; Use coconut oil and butter for frying, then maybe we'll see each other again.

Very nice Very nice staff especially the diamonds 👍

CLEAN, GREAT SELECTION, DELICIOUS AND VERY FRIENDLY SERVICE... THANK YOU, WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND AND WILL BE GLAD TO COME AGAIN!

Big, loud, impersonal but food of good quality, always fresh and a large selection. But €25.80 is also an announcement

I was with my family. Buffet until 15.00. Tasty and inexpensive. A good opportunity to meet friends, eat and chat.

If you like Asian food you can eat very well and a lot here! Since it is usually very busy, it is also very loud due to the construction! But the food and the friendly staff make up for it (for me)!

Food was unseasoned, cold, dry and tasted burnt. If you made the staff aware of it, you were contacted. Not recommended

I give this restaurant 5 stars because I was always satisfied, the food was always great and everything else, the staff is great and the cleanliness is also very, very good. I would always come back to eat here because it says “Customer is King”.

Food was the absolute worst, cleanliness left something to be desired, the only good thing was the service, which was very nice

Chin Thai is our favorite restaurant. The staff is always friendly and helpful. The food is excellent.

We were there with 9 people, unfortunately the food was poorly prepared, The employee was very unfriendly

I was there for the first time on Monday. Compared to other Chin Thais, I was a bit disappointed. The time-limited items were extremely greasy and unfortunately no longer really warm. Then I grabbed the chocolate fountain. 😉 Unfortunately I have to say that I had problems with my stomach after the visit.🤷🏽‍♀️ But I'll do it all again. Give it a chance and see if it's better.

The buffet used to be better, but is still good, with a very good price-performance ratio

Tasty and not expensive. Drinks are a little expensive, but the food is varied and everything is fresh and hot. It's nice and clean inside. The staff is polite and fulfills orders quickly.

Very rich buffet, friendly and courteous service.

Very nice, courteous service. Rich buffet

It's always very loud because it's an open, large room. Food was good as usual.

For each of our birthdays we go to Chin Thai and look forward to the happy birthday and the sparkler at the end. Unfortunately, neither was available this time. As always, the food was very tasty, the selection at the buffet was great and the service was very polite and committed when clearing up. But despite everything, our birthday child ended up leaving the restaurant very disappointed and will probably not want to spend future birthdays at Chin Thai. Very unfortunate.

Delicious food...fresh 😋 good & friendly service! All very good!

Food is very tasty. Service great. A little loud but still okay.

Buffet selection is good. The food was refilled quickly. The taste is good. The staff quick and friendly. Due to the narrow space, the noise level in the fully occupied restaurant is high, but bearable. We were satisfied.

Food was very good, we will be back The ambience is very nice The service was very good

Such a delicious meal. I can really only recommend it. Super large selection. Service top and everything else around it. Always my pleasure.