Lai Lai Asian Buffet and Dining

Very good servers and food is good too

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Drive out to Monett, Missouri from Springfield based on a friend's recommendation. He wasn't wrong. Much better than any Chinese restaurant in Springfield. Definitely worth the 45 minute drive. Food was fresh and hot. Vegetables were not overcooked. They still has some crispness to them.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Great restaurant, good prices. The General's chicken is the best!

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 5

Monett is not known for its cuisine but, with very limited choices, this is as good as you will find. Which means it’s not great. Imagine all the Chinese dishes that white people know about covered in extremely sweet sauce. Because they use the same sauce on everything it all tastes the same. You can get full but you can also get diabetes. To make it perhaps the worst dining experience in town they play this offensive Christian music that pretends to be pop. Oh my god save me from your morons. Go get Arby’s. At least you won’t spend as much to get the same quality.

I’ve been coming here for many years and it’s safe to say this will be my last visit. Overall, the place is okay. The atmosphere is horrible. The tables are so close you can bump elbows with the next table. The place is so loud and cramped. The service is okay. The food is good which is the only thing saving it.

Atmosphere: 1

Food: 4

Service: 2

I love the food and always friendly there

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

We love there food. But if your gonna open back up at 4:30, I would appreciate there be food ready, hardly ever ready until 5:00

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 4

Service: 3

Love this place. Always a good place to sit and chow down. Foods hot and always fresh. Service is great. Glass never got over half empty. Come hungry. I garuntee you’ll leave miserable full

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

Got ac dripped on us the whole time we ate and found lettuce stuck to the inside of my cup. Server came to the table once right after we sat down with food. Didn’t even have a chance to mention the drip to the server cause she never came back to the table. Brought up the table being dripped on while paying and the employee said “yeah the leaks are bad”. Cool, I love that. Last few experiences here have been less than mediocre👎🏼

Atmosphere: 4

Food: 2

Service: 2

Meh is putting it mildly. Everything tasted the same. We had to ask for things that they were out of on the buffet. The protein choices were mostly chicken, so if you don’t want chicken, skip them. Maybe just skip them anyway. There is nothing authentic about this place, other than the name. Not great if you need gluten free. Not great if you want dishes that don’t have some kind of sweet sauce or something deep fried. I think all of the various chicken dishes are the same deep fried chicken with a different tasteless sauce over them. The “cashew chicken” was just deep fried pieces of chicken. The crab rangoon was hard as a rock. The “salad bar” is just lettuce with very little options. For dessert you can have chocolate pudding, the premade little cakes that aren’t Asian at all, a coconut macaron type cookie, ice cream, or sliced bananas in strawberry sauce that is sweeter than any sauce I have ever had. I don’t think we will eat here if we are ever back in the area. Oh, one last thing…Chinese mustard in the packets is horrible. It doesn’t cost much to have the real thing. We were very disappointed.

Solid spot for some good food. I got takeout and everything was hot, fresh, and tasty. The General Tso’s chicken was especially good — crispy with a nice kick. The staff was friendly and the whole experience was easy and pleasant. I’ll definitely be back when I’m craving some comfort food.

Our family loves this place. The food and service is fantastic. Don't forget to order some sushi while you're there!

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 5

Service: 5

It's ok better then the other Chinese place. But it's a little pricing

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 4

server was laughing and making fun of a customer. manager was notified and nothing was don. these people are disrespectful and disgusting food is like a hippo in a sauna sat on it! and judging from the disgusting actions of staff that probably isn't far from the truth. Att is a picture of the woman who clearly needs to be fired You're rolling now - got any more to add?

It's a buffet. The food was ok. The chicken was good, most of the crab Rangoon was very over done. There were no bowls for sauce for dipping anything. I finally found some stacked behind the ice cream machine. Not very convenient.

The atmosphere was very family friendly. The wait staff was very attentive.

Atmosphere: 5

Food: 3

Service: 5

Recommended dishes: Cashew Chicken, Sweet Sour Chicken