All-you-can-eat spreads worth traveling for. Updated weekly.
China’s five-star hotels take buffets seriously: live seafood stations, roast meats carved to order, weekend brunches that stretch past noon, and holiday feasts with real discounts. We track subsidized and coupon-backed buffet deals in major cities — Xiamen, Shanghai, Guangzhou and beyond — translate the fine print into English, and verify prices before listing. If a buffet appears here, it’s bookable now at the price shown.
Deal price: ¥598 (≈$84, was ¥912) · ⏰ Valid Oct 24 – Dec 31, 2026 · 🦀 4 visits × (1 adult + 1 kid under 1.4m), lunch or dinner · 🎠 4 kids’ playground tickets included · Refundable if unreserved Four weekend feasts for the price of one-and-a-half: this 4-visit card for Xiamen Le Méridien’s 新食谱 (Xinshipu) all-day restaurant works out to just ¥149.50 per visit — each visit covering 1 adult + 1 child under 1.4m for either lunch or dinner. Every sitting comes with hairy crab (the seasonal headline), iced seafood and salmon sashimi, all-you-can-eat crawfish and grilled oysters, rotating steak, chicken steak and fish, Cantonese roast meats, hand-pulled noodles, the chef’s signature pizza, plus free-flow red/white wine, beer and soft drinks. The dessert corner runs from cakes and candied hawthorn skewers to stir-fried ice, four-fruit soup and an ice-cream counter. ...
Deal price: ¥148 (≈$21, was ¥268) · ⏰ Valid Oct 23, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · 🍰 Kid under 1.4m eats with you — free-upgraded to 1.5m if redeemed by Nov 30 · Refundable if unreserved In Xiamen, “Marco Polo” is practically shorthand for one dessert: the Napoleon cake. Locals line up for a single slice on an ordinary day — with this deal, you can eat as many as you want. Twenty-plus years in the making, the Marco Polo buffet at Xiamen Marco Polo Oriental Hotel (Hubin North, Siming — Metro Line 2 straight to the door) still draws crowds for its steamed seafood (prawns, mussels, oysters, scallops, razor clams, tiny red snails — you pick, they steam), sushi from the hotel’s own Japanese restaurant (将军日本餐厅 chefs on duty), and the live grill stations that made its name — “big slabs of meat, generous pours,” in the buffet’s own unapologetic words. ...
Deal price: ¥1,380 for 10 — works out to ¥138/person (≈$19, was ¥198) · ⏰ Valid Oct 23, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · ⏰ No surcharge on weekends or public holidays The Marco Polo Oriental Hotel’s buffet (8 Jianye Road, Siming District) has been a Xiamen institution for over 20 years, and in Xiamen “Marco Polo” is practically shorthand for its Napoleon pastry — the flaky, cream-layered signature that locals swear by and that here you can eat without limit. The spread runs to a hundred-plus dishes built around live cooking: steamed seafood (shrimp, mussels, oysters, scallops, clams and razor clams — pick what you like and it’s steamed on the spot), a Japanese sushi and sashimi station run by the chefs of the hotel’s Shogun Japanese restaurant (lunch sashimi is unlimited, per long-standing guest reports), a charcoal grill station doing meat the hearty way, a made-to-order noodle bar (noodles, rice noodles or rice cakes with your choice of broth and toppings), plus Chinese and Western hot and cold dishes, salads, puddings, cakes, yogurt and mousse. The café-style dining room runs an open kitchen, so the cooking happens in front of you. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid buffet — from ¥218 (≈$30, was ¥416) · Lunch Sat/Sun from ¥218 · Dinner Tue–Sun from ¥228 · Valid Jul 10 – Nov 30, 2026 · ⏰ refundable anytime if unreserved The Guangzhou Emerald Hilton (Hilton Guangzhou Science City, 28 Ningcai Road, Huangpu District) is running its “Ice BBQ & Beer Food Festival” theme buffet, and the grill station is the headline: charcoal-grilled Rushan oysters from Yantai, shucked and roasted to order, alongside roughly 22cm grilled squid skewers, satay skewers and slow-roasted beef leg. The crab lineup alone runs six ways — curry crab, black-pepper crab, typhoon-shelter crab, ginger-scallion crab, cheese-baked crab and a Luzon-sauce crab — and the cold side counters with thick-cut salmon and 5+ sashimi varieties over 10+ live-cooking stations and 100+ dishes in total. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid lunch buffet — ¥168 (≈$24, was ¥308, 45% off) · Dinner ¥228 (≈$32) · Valid Aug 29 – Nov 30, 2026 · Lunch Sat/Sun only, dinner Fri–Sun, no weekend surcharge · Xialv Money-Saver Card: ¥30 off this product + ¥50 welcome bonus on signup Jiangxin Ge （匠心阁）, on the 3rd floor of the Curio Collection by Hilton Guangzhou, is the in-house buffet of the Greater Bay Area’s first Curio hotel — opened in March 2026 inside the reborn Guangzhou Building （广州大厦）, a Beijing Road landmark in Yuexiu District, right next to the Museum of the Nanyue King. Hilton’s Curio brand skips the cookie-cutter formula, and this one leans into Cantonese flavors: live-cooked Chaoshan fish, a Chinese noodle station, dim sum and the signature Hainan qingbuliang dessert soup alongside the international stations. ...
Deal price: 5-visit buffet pass — lunch ¥666 (≈$94) (was ¥1,888) · 5-visit dinner pass ¥919 (≈$129) (was ¥2,688) · ⏰ valid through Jan 31, 2027 (not usable Dec 24) The Haiyue Shanzhuang (海悦山庄） at 3999 Huandao South Road is one of Xiamen’s grand old seaside resorts — a vast mountain-and-sea garden property on the Huangcuo beach side of the island. Its Mediterranean Café on the 2nd floor runs the buffet: window seats look over the blue infinity pool and the gardens, and the stations run ten-plus themes deep — grill, Japanese, Chinese hot dishes, seafood, noodles and pastries, desserts — with 100+ dishes in all, from fresh coastal seafood and sashimi to old-school Minnan snacks. This pass covers 5 visits and is usable on weekends and public holidays at no surcharge, which is what makes it a family staple rather than a weekday-only curiosity. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid buffet (lunch or dinner) — ¥198 (≈$28) (was ¥265) · Solo ¥168 · 2 adults ¥320 · Kid ¥128 · Bookable through Dec 31, 2026 · Fri–Sun and holidays, no surcharge The Millennium Harbourview （海景千禧大酒店， 12-8 Zhenhai Road, Siming) sits right by the Zhonghua City shopping district — Metro Line 1 to Zhenhai Road station, then a short walk. Its Harbour Café on the ground floor is done in soft Morandi tones with marble counters and rose-gold lighting, and the buffet runs to roughly a hundred dishes: a hot-dish line whose theme rotates weekly (cream-garlic cheese-baked mussels, French red-wine pear with honey-glazed goose steak, rosemary lamb chops, ham-and-mushroom lasagna), a grill station working through ten-plus seasonal seafoods and meats — small yellow croaker, baby squid, T-bone steak, chicken chops, skewers — cooked on the iron plate in front of you, and a proper Xiamen showing in the cold seafood: prawns, crabs, scallops, oysters, plus local specialties like tusundong (sea-worm jelly), aged razor clams and marinated fish skin. There’s a noodle station with your pick of ingredients in clear or spicy broth, thick-cut sashimi and handmade sushi, and a dessert wall of 20-plus sweets — signature cheesecake, Napoleon, crème brûlée, mango pomelo sago, milk-tea mousse, fruit tarts. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid (under 1.3 m) buffet — ¥138 (≈$19) (was ¥298, about 46% of list) · Saturdays & Sundays · ⏰ valid through Dec 30, 2026 The Xiamen Sheraton on Jiahe Road in Huli — a 10-minute walk from the metro and right by the SM City mall — runs its all-you-can-eat at the Ocean Wave Pan-Asian restaurant. The format Xiamen families keep coming back for is the seafood: much of it is the day’s catch, piled up at the seafood station — prawns, shellfish and scallops — next to a circular Japanese counter doing thick-cut sashimi (salmon, octopus, mackerel), a live teppanyaki grill station cooking skewers and meats to order, dozens of Chinese hot dishes and steamed dim sum, double-boiled soups, and a dessert spread with seasonal fruit to finish. Open kitchens and live-cooking counters keep it lively rather than hushed. ...
Deal price: dinner for 1 adult + 1 kid — ¥279 (≈$39) (was ¥318) · 2 adults + 2 kids — ¥529 (≈$75, was ¥619) · Valid Jan 15, 2026 – Jan 15, 2027 · usable Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays only, 18:00–21:00 A Marriott-grade family dinner by Qiandeng Lake in Foshan’s Nanhai district. The Zhen Chu Western Restaurant （臻厨西餐厅） sits on the 5th floor of the Lizhi Hui Plaza （丽致汇广场， 38 Haiba East Road) inside the Foshan Marriott — a European-castle-styled hotel that has become a landmark on the lake. The dinner buffet runs around 100 land-and-sea dishes, and it leads with seafood: swimming crab, emerald snails, flower snails, mussels, scallops and big prawns laid out by the plate, plus a lobster course served to your table. Around that core there’s a sashimi and sushi counter, a long run of hot dishes, and a dessert-and-drinks finish. The value jumps on the 2-adult-2-kid bundle, which prices a family of four’s dinner at barely more than one adult’s door price elsewhere. ...
Deal price: weekday lunch, 1 adult + 1 kid under 6 — ¥119 (≈$17) (was ¥228) · Valid Oct 10, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · ⏰ refundable if unreserved, auto-refunded on expiry The Hyatt Regency Xiamen Wuyuan Bay （厦门五缘湾凯悦酒店） was Xiamen’s first Hyatt-branded hotel, set on Wuyuan Bay — the bay locals call the prettiest in the city — and connected directly to the Bayview City shopping mall. Its Marketplace Café on the first floor runs an open-kitchen buffet built around a “freshly made” idea: dishes are stir-fried, pan-fried and grilled to order rather than sitting under heat lamps. Expect seafood hot dishes, a live teppanyaki station, sashimi, roast duck, sushi and a noodle bar, plus a dessert run that punches above lunch-buffet weight — lemon Basque cheesecake, cherry chocolate cake and yuzu cheesecake among them. ...