China Restaurant Orchidee in Göttingen

It was a very nice evening The food was very tasty The service was very attentive We felt very comfortable with 10 people

Jedesmal wen ich dort gespeist habe war es ausgezeichnet!! Ich komme sehr oft mit meiner Familie zu diesem Restaurant.

Well, I'm really outraged. I went out to eat with my girlfriend for dinner. We didn't have a moment's peace. We were being watched the whole time. I asked the waiter, who looked like an Indian, why he was watching us the whole time. He said "I don't know what people like you do here, definitely not just eating." After that statement, I left everything and left. That was the last time I was there and I've heard similar things often enough.

The restaurant is nicely decorated, but the food is no more than average. Rather less. We found the selection for a buffet quite poor.

The furthest trip to the restaurant is worth it. Very tasty, large selection, nice service, very nice decor. Try it out.

Everything was great. Thank you very much

Very friendly, and everything was delicious!

Buffet was not always refilled in time, Kangeruh meat for example was refilled after an hour. Meat was still half frozen and only shreds were not recommended Staff well, friendliness is different, no repeat factor

There is a wide range of delicious dishes here. The drinks menu is also very good.

Eat cold, honey watered down, banana baked soggy. There were 5 of us, never coming back

This place is SUPERB!!! Very tasty food, pleasant service, nice welcome. The atmosphere is unusual and calming. Nice girl manager. Was here 02/02/2025.

Great service, food absolutely delicious.

Completely disaster. Find flies in the vegetables and one of the service was so rude when he take our order! Very oily food and I hope I don’t get sick tomorrow!

Enjoy a crispy duck in the Orchid? That was the goal after a long time. I got a lukewarm and limp duck. After complaining to the friendly waiter, the dish was brought back a little hotter. The duck was now completely gone, warm but without any crust. The duck was swimming in a brown sauce. Not tasty. No recommendation.

A nice location, but it has declined a lot recently and is being overtaken by the other restaurants... The whole salmon is really good!

2024/03 Dinner single person Everything was good, at the very end it cost two stars. I arrived at 5:35 p.m. The entire buffet was set up and we could start straight away. I quickly ordered a beer and when I got to my seat there was a cold drink. That's exactly how it went on. The plates were quickly put away. Drinks were quickly refilled. The buffet is extensive and there is something of everything. The dishes are very well prepared, the grill master was great. In the toilet there is only a hand dryer with airflow, there is a toilet roll for paper - not nice. The Gau came at the end, it wasn't the gentleman who had been serving me the whole time who came to collect, it was the older Chinese gentleman dressed in deep black. I wanted to pay by card and had cash ready for the tip. The gentleman entered the amount of EUR 37.30 and asked: “Do I really want to pay this amount?” I was so perplexed that I put down the cash, this was accepted. In my 20 years of field service, I have never been asked for a tip. Or did I misinterpret the question and could have paid 30 EUR. I slept on it for one night and then wrote this review.

The food is varied and excellent 👍

Good food restaurant in Goettingen.

Das Buffet war sehr abwechslungsreich und auch geschmacklich in Ordnung. Leider haben wir in den ganzen 3 Stunden wo wir da waren nur einmal Getränke bekommen. Finde ich ein für ein Restaurant echt bedenklich. Aber vielleicht kann man sich in der Hinsicht verbessern.

Very good food and friendly service!

Food and selection was good. Friendly staff. But the food could be a little hotter.

Delicious. Great service. The absolute highlight is the chocolate fountain and the soft ice cream.

Attractive atmosphere, delicious food. Rich buffet, reasonable price. The staff is very attentive and friendly. We'd love to come back.

Today was fantastic again. We always go there.

delicious food, large selection and very good price/performance ratio. Highly recommended

The service was friendly, reserved but quick. The buffet was generously laid out, there was no shortage of pots. The dishes such as duck, baked chicken, spring rolls etc were too cold. The soup is very weak and needs to be seasoned a lot more. The food in the sauces wasn't very tasty either. (In the "Eight Delicacies" I could only find four at most....) The shrimps had been in the container for a long time... The dessert buffet was clear, the fruit wasn't fresh! Overall, loveless and average at best.

Nice, attentive employees. Buffet tasted good, very pleasant cleanliness.

Yesterday I ordered a portion for the lunch buffet via the app to go for €5. I ate it a little later and then I immediately felt sick and sick and my stomach has been really queasy since this morning. I will never come back. The food doesn't taste good at all

The dining environment is quite clean and enjoyable，service is particular nice and kind, and there are many varieties of food.My favorite is their grilled shrimp and lamb chops, which are highly recommended.

Once upon a time I ordered a delivery, then it is on my block list forever.

Absolutely friendly team, clean, tasty, highly recommended!

Super nice, lots of space and a huge buffet with something for everyone. A dream for children with a chocolate fountain, various ice cream flavors, including a soft ice cream machine and toppings.

Very cheap option for lunch. Feedback from an Asian colleague: “It tastes great!” Buffet. Good selection, clean buffet, soft ice cream machine, cake counter, chocolate fountain. WiFi on request. Restaurant is clean, subtle background music. Fast and friendly service.

We recently had dinner for two and we didn't like it at all. The selection was very small for the price of €22.90. The food was somehow completely unseasoned, it really didn't taste like anything. The sweet and sour had a tiny hint of sweetness, but otherwise it didn't taste like anything. The noodles were bland rather than tasty, as were the vegetables. I didn't eat the fresh food, so unfortunately I can't rate it.

Food was from toogood togo for 5 euros for lunch It was ok, just the cheapest food, like rice and fried tk things with a few vegetables (but very little of each) I would have liked more, but I'm so far satisfied I had more expectations

I hope can have more kinds of seafoods and desert.

We are shocked because we have never experienced anything like this. Stomach pain..and even broken..the food was cold and anything but fresh. We paid 72 euros for dinner buffet for 2 adults and 1 child. Everyone had 1 drink. When we went out, we asked ourselves how we could pay so much money for such miserable food. Tipping was more or less almost forced on my husband with repeated requests. We are not the people who cause stress on site. Now that my son has even vomited several times, I regret that we stayed there. Dear owners, you can't continue selling stale, spoiled food to your customers for outrageous prices. How long has the cake been in the counter please? Think seriously about what you are actually doing. I'm horrified.

Eigentlich war das Essen sobst immer ok. Heute jedoch sehr enttäuschend weniger Auswahl, kein Lamm, kein Schweinefleisch, frühlingsrollen müssen wir zurückgeben waren schlecht und ungenießbar. Wurde ohne Kommentar aus dem Buffet geräumt. Leider hat das Restaurant sehr nachgelassen 😐Service war gut

I ordered for pickup. I can't complain about the service, it was friendly. But the food doesn't taste good at all. So not at all. The sweet and sour sauce was just sauce, without any vegetables or pineapple pieces or anything else, and only tasted sweet. I paid 11.50 euros for rice with crispy chicken and sauce that resembled liquid ketchup. I won't do it again. I get the impression that if you order and pick up, you're getting yesterday's leftovers, whereas you might actually get good food when you get there. But I wouldn't risk eating there.

Top loading.... The buffet is definitely worth it...

I like the restaurant The food is always very tasty, with a few exceptions that the employees can't completely prevent, such as cartilage, etc The staff is always friendly, although I have to say there could be more than two waiters present, which would, among other things, shorten the waiting time and you wouldn't have to wait 20 minutes until you can finally pay Otherwise everything was excellent and I would like to come back

It was very warm in the restaurant and the existing air conditioning was off. That's what fans are there for, but they were also switched off. We were quickly assigned a table, but it took a while before we could order our drinks. The food was very tasty and apart from the sushi, everything was always refilled. The rice from the sushi was still a bit hard. A very good price-performance ratio and if we weren't just passing through, we would come back. Edit 2024: We were there several times this year and we are surprised at what can change in a year. Food was tasteless and not very seasoned. The Peking soup was spoiled and many types of fruit were also bad. Fruit flies flew out of the spring onions. That doesn't work at all! It was also very, very warm in the restaurant again.

Tasteless food. Don't know if it's because the Germans don't like spicy food or if it's just this restaurant. All sauces taste more water than they actually said they were. The orange chicken was soggy and tasteless. The only positive is that there was soft ice cream.

Miserable. 1. The food is inedible. 2. I was also almost forced to give a tip when I picked it up. 3. The staff is very rude. 4. Conclusion: Not recommended!

I ordered something to pick up there. When I handed over the receipt I was asked what I wanted to pay. When I didn't tip, the food wasn't handed to me and I had to ask where it was. The waiter was quite unfriendly. To make matters worse, the food also tasted sour. I think it wasn't quite good anymore. I would never eat there again and cannot recommend it.

We can only recommend this restaurant

Very friendly and courteous staff, as well as excellent food. Always my pleasure

Diese Restaurant ist absolut nicht empfehlenswert. Wir waren mit unserer Familie (16 Personen) zum Abendessen (Geburtstagsessen) dort. Es fing damit an, dass mein Mann und ich à la carte bestellt haben. Bei Aufnahme der Bestellung fiel mir der Kellner ins Wort (ich hatte den Wunsch geäußert, satt Hähnchen lieber gebackenes Hähnchen zu bekommen). Er sagte: „Nein das geht nicht“!! Gerichte können nicht abgeändert werden!!! Er verlies das Gespräch. Kurze Zeit später kehrte er zurück um die Getränke aufzunehmen. (Die Reihenfolge ist auch absolut unüblich). Ich bat nochmals freundlich um Änderung meiner Bestellung. Daraufhin brüllte er mich an: „Nur Getränke“!!!!!!! Ich war wirklich entsetzt und bestellte fassungslos mein Getränk. Mir war eher danach direkt zu gehen…. So etwas habe ich noch nie zuvor erlebt…. Meine Bestellung wurde mir dann zwar kommentarlos wunschgemäß in einzelnen Bruchteilen reserviert, jedoch fehlte Besteck und eine Serviette. Das Essen schmeckte gut, jedoch war der Reis matschig. Für mich stand fest, so wie dort mit Kunden umgegangen wird, wird dieses Restaurant uns kein weiteres Mal sehen. Nach all dem, wie wir dort behandelt worden sind gab es natürlich keinen Cent Trinkgeld. Zudem gab es bei dem Bezahlen noch Diskussionen, weil ein Familienmitglied nur etwas getrunken hatte und das ohne es vor dem Besuch dem Kellner mitzuteilen. Nach der Bezahlung ging der Kellner einfach, ohne sich zu verabschieden. Jeder kann sich ca. ausrechnen, welch hohen Betrag wir dort für 16 Personen bezahlt haben. Nie wieder!!!! Bitte suchen Sie sich ein anderes Restaurant. Zusammengefasst: - Kellner unfreundlich, patzig. - Nicht Kundenorientiert - Kein Besteck vorbereitet - Teller nicht abgeräumt - 1x nach weiteren Getränken gefragt (obwohl wir knapp 2 Std vor Ort waren).

Awesome very tasty food great service

We picked up food through To good to go, we sat and waited and a man packed the food. Everything was packed, mostly things we don't like. Food was really bad and it smelled. To make matters worse, there was eggshell in the food. Even €10 was too much. Disgusting. Now we have a stomach ache and have thrown away the food because it has lost our appetite even more than the smell.

Unfortunately I didn't find the food very tasty. The sushi was already half dried and didn't taste good, the fish was very watery 😕. Not much choice of fruit or other dishes.

Dinner with 6 people, everyone was satisfied.

Were there 45 minutes before the buffet ended. The selection wasn't that big anymore, but it was absolutely enough to fill you up. There were enough parking spaces. The toilets were very clean.

Nice restaurant... large... buffet is very clearly arranged and plentiful... always well refilled...

We were there for lunch. The buffet was stocked with a variety of warm specialties, a large salad buffet, as well as sushi variations and desserts. Everything was very tasty and the staff was very nice and accommodating! Everything fine.

The food was very good. However, we couldn't see on the internet or on the menu that was available outside that there was only a buffet. We didn't mind, other guests left again. For us it was worth the price and we would come again.

It's a nice quiet place to enjoy, no mass processing (like other buffet meals) Nice staff, food is delicious (bought) but normal for the prices. Ice cream tasted good and was completely ok for the price. Would go back at any time as you can relax and enjoy.

We chose buffet, it suits our taste very well. The selection is varied and delicious.

Landed here by chance through Google Maps. We did not regret it. The food was absolutely delicious and seasoned a little differently than at our previous Chinese restaurants - but totally delicious. We are glad we were able to try the delicious buffet here today. Thank you for the nice management and the fantastic food! WE WILL BE BACK!!

Stayed nearby and was recommended to us for lunch. Never had such a bad meal at a Chinese restaurant. The best thing was that they asked for a tip when paying.

Everything was very tasty again. But what was missing was the great, firm, plain white rice! But there was rice with chicken and egg. The delicious blue marshmallow ice cream was also missing... But big extra praise for the always delicious soup!!!! We'd love to come back!!

A rich buffet, a bit of everything, including sushi. However, the food could be a little warmer. The price-performance ratio is therefore appropriate.

What attracted us to the restaurant was the ambience. That was the only good thing about the shop... We weren't asked if we wanted to eat a la carte but were asked straight away to go to the "buffet". Mozzarella that was so hard that it squeaked like an eraser on your teeth and dried tomatoes awaited us... Anyone who is used to good food should avoid this shop! It wasn't worth the money at all! The waiter even asks you about the lack of a tip... really an impertinence. Never again !!!!!

Very tasty and a nice varied buffet with a huge selection of soup, dishes, salads, desserts, cakes, tarts, ice cream, sushi and fresh meat and raw fish

Never again Staff are not that friendly

The Chinese food is very well done and tastes good. This is the best Chinese food I have ever eaten abroad.

The food from any frozen food counter is better. As soon as I walked into the restaurant, I wanted to leave straight away (which I only didn't do because I had an appointment with a group) because it smelled like stale fish. My orange juice was stale and tasted like a refrigerator (so it was probably left there open for a long time), the food was edible, but nothing more. The mushrooms in my à la carte dish were tough as leather (probably dried and then not soaked in water long enough), the bamboo pods were canned and covered with a typical thickened glutamate sauce. Basically the same as you would expect from many of these lower category all you can eat Chinese restaurants. Has anyone ever wondered why you never see Chinese people eating in restaurants like this? And how is the so often praised “huge selection” of fresh products supposed to work? A discounter's own brand Bami Goreng for under €3/750g from the freezer definitely tastes fresher. It's a mystery to me why people go out to eat there and then praise it. Probably just because of the sheer amount you can eat at such a buffet. Incidentally, not well suited for vegetarians and vegans. There are 4 vegetarian dishes on the menu, which are anything but particularly appealing. Otherwise you are surrounded by the cheapest meat from frogs, zebras, pigs, beef etc...

We have been visiting this restaurant for years and it is always delicious!! Staff very attentive and we always feel very comfortable.

Ate the evening buffet. Totally worthless, cold food, chewy chicken, sour ice cream, rude staff, had to pay extra because the food was inedible and needed to be thrown away. We were tourists having dinner, no language skills from staff and no information about food waste, only a note on the table that said in German, bad for tourists! Angry man came and said we had to pay extra because we didn't want to eat their ice cold old food. Really bad place, never again!

For the amount paid you get a very small selection of dishes, some of them are overcooked, others are bland and not very tasty. Seafood is in a kind of slime. the service is very unprivileged and very rude in answering the phone call. the plates were dirty and a few tiny mosquitoes flew over the salmon sushi. the rice was 100% stale and very tasteless.

There was only a buffet for 22.50 euros, nothing from the menu. impertinence. Why does the man use the first name of me in his answer? I don't need to lie. It was Monday May 13th around 7:30 p.m. and there was only a buffet. We left again.

First of all... I can't understand the good reviews... Went there for the lunch buffet... There was enough choice... Soup fried noodles rice beef duck pork chicken 3 sauces... chocolate fountain with fruits ice cream soft ice cream cake jelly pudding... Salads vegetables warm and cold... Sushi... So something for every taste... The taste was ok but I'm used to better... Quality was sufficient... Definitely not again... But at least the service was always attentive and friendly... All in all I would say there is better Chinese food in Göttingen...

Lunch buffet during the week, 2 adults: friendly welcome and service. Delicious food, a wide range of options, everything very tasty and of great quality. Our highlight at the end was the soft ice cream from the machine - delicious! Unreservedly recommended!

The fresh meat that could be fried was spoiled for the second time. I didn't even want to try the fish. Very sharp smell and that's exactly how it tastes/doesn't taste.... Unfortunately I've already lost my appetite.

No complaints. Everything okay.

Super great restaurant. Many options. Exactly my taste. We recommend

Delicious food at good prices. The buffet is definitely worth it.

The quality of the food has deteriorated. The food got cold very quickly on barely warmed plates. The waiter's grumpiness didn't make it any better.

For us one of the best Chinese in Göttingen. Great atmosphere, delicious food... again at any time

Things were better here: the buffet price was significantly increased. But not the quality and presentation of the food. The food got cold very quickly on barely warmed plates. The waiter's grumpiness didn't make it any better!

Have eaten there several times and have always been satisfied. Service is great, the employees are nice and clear the plates after every course. The food tastes good & is always warm/fresh.

After the restaurant tried to have my review deleted, I have already done so myself and am writing a new review. Food tastes very bland, hardly seasoned and sometimes cold. Poor quality. The ambience leaves a lot to be desired. Very loud in the restaurant. Everything looks like a bad factory canteen. The whole restaurant also doesn't seem particularly clean. The brief contact with the staff was friendly and there was nothing wrong with that. We didn't like it at all. A lot has to happen for us to visit it again.

We have always been very satisfied with the buffet so far. The service made us wait a very long time for the drinks and rarely came around. But always very friendly and helpful. I even got a little something from the house for my birthday. We'd love to come back. However, getting a parking space is a matter of luck.

The lunch buffet was sufficient, the staff was very friendly.

The food was excellent and it was very good

Buffet restaurant, tasted good, we were in the restaurant around 8 p.m. - there was only a small selection left - unfortunately it was hardly refilled.

An der Frischetheke lagen tiefgefrorene Frösche. Matschig Ente Erdnusssauße: Geschmacksrichtung irgendwas. Und so ging die Kulinarische Reise weiter....

Sehr lecker, außergewöhnliche speisen.tolles Ambiente. Gerne wieder.

Wir waren sehr zufrieden, Essen war lecker, die Bedienung war sehr freundlich und die Getränke wurden schnell gebracht. Wir gehen mal wieder hin.

Das war das schlechteste Buffet, was mein Mann und ich je gegessen haben. Der Kellner (sehr ungepflegt )ging ab und zu mal mit schlürfendem Gang an uns vorbei, das Buffet wurde nicht nachgefüllt, war nur lauwarm und geschmacklich so schrecklich, dass wir nach ca 25 Minuten das Restaurant verlassen haben. Die Auswahl war noch dazu sehr gering. Direkt neben unserem Tisch war die Decke nass und hatte Löcher. Definitiv nie wieder. Schade das mindestens 1 Stern vergeben werden muss.

Sehr freundliche und zuvorkommende Bedienung. Essen lecker und vielfältig. Frischebuffet top.

... leider darf man wohl nicht seine Meinung schreiben...

Ein sehr vielfältiges Buffet mit außergewöhnlichen Zutaten

这家餐厅的服务人员很差，长象也怪怪的，又难看，好象根本不是中国人，态度恶劣，点饮料才能进餐，食物质量又差，比上次去差了很多，一点味道都没有，就象工厂里加工的食品，昨晚和朋友都很失望，不会再去了。

Ich hab noch nie so ein unfreundliches Personal erlebt wie heute ! Das Essen war mehr wie schlecht ! Und zur Krönung kostet das Essen an Silvester 25Euro ! Das steht nirgendwo ! Absoluter Wucherpreis für die Auswahl an Essen !

Das Essen war wieder einmal super lecker

Super lecker. Auswahl groß. Ein wenig laute Geräuschkulisse.

Qualität vom Essen ist leider schlechter geworden. Preis-Leistung passt leider nicht mehr.

Wir hatten einen sehr schönen Abend mit Freunden. Das Essen war ausgezeichnet, die Auswahl groß. Versorgt vom nettem Personal und umgeben vom modernen Interieur. Was auch deutlich positiv auffiel war die angenehme Geräuschkulisse....keinesfalls so ein Mensafeeling wie bei einigen Mitbewerbern vor Ort. Klare Empfehlung.

Am Eingang wird man von einer Servicekraft begrüßt und zum Tisch geführt. Platzauswahl ist genügend, da mittags nicht übermäßig viel los ist. Dementsprechend ist das Buffet nicht so dicht gedrängt, wird aber auch nicht aufgefüllt wenn etwas so gut wie leer ist oder kein Fleisch mehr im Curry ist. Geschmacklich kann man sich nicht beschweren, ist solidie und den meistens anderen chinesischen Restaurants auf Augenhöhe. Für die Größe des Ladens erscheint das Buffet passend. Wer schon mal beim Chinesen All-you-can-eat gegessen hat, wird hier mit der Auswahl der Speisen vertraut sein. Leider keine Alleinstellungsmerkmale vorhanden, aber von der Qualität her passend. Enttäuschend war nur das Dessert, einfach Fertigkuchen aus dem Discounter um die Ecke in die Vitrine gestellt und fertig. Der Service war angenehm. Nicht zu aufdringlich aber man hat sich auch nicht vernachlässigt gefühlt. Benutzte Teller sind zügig abgeräumt worden. Rückblickend war der Besuch in der Orichdee angenehm, man bekommt anständiges Essen zum fairen bis günstigen Preis. Service ist nett und fix. Wie man es von den meisten Chinesen kennt. Und so reiht sich auch die Orchidee zu den anderen Restaurants des gehobenen Durchschnitts ein.