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: adult lunch from ¥158 (≈$22, was ¥208) — each adult brings one kid under 1.2 m free · Lunch daily 11:30–14:00 · Dinner Thu–Sun 17:30–21:00 · Valid Jan 15 – Dec 31, 2026 · Phone booking required (see below) Ask Xiamen locals which hotel buffet punches above its price and the Tianyuan Hotel （厦门天元酒店） keeps coming up. Its Taste all-day restaurant (1F, 1813 Huandao East Road, in the AVIC Zijin Plaza by the convention center) runs nearly ten stations with two claims to fame: salmon sashimi and pan-seared foie gras, both unlimited — the foie gras seared crisp outside, molten inside, finished with a sweet-tart blueberry sauce. Add fresh-cut sashimi (salmon, sea bream, vinegared mackerel), grilled steak and squid skewers on the teppanyaki, Turkish kebab you slice yourself and wrap in flatbread, roast duck, Minnan specialties like 土笋冻 (sea-worm jelly), a made-to-order noodle bar with chicken or satay broth, and a dessert counter anchored by the hotel’s signature cheesecake (one or two varieties daily, famously not too sweet), Black Forest cake and crème brûlée. Dinner adds red wine and a seasonal served dish for adults. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 child (under 1.2 m) — weekend lunch ¥158 (≈$22) / dinner ¥198 (≈$28) · Lunch Sat–Sun 11:30–14:00 · Dinner Wed–Sat 17:30–21:00 · Valid Sep 2 – Dec 31, 2026 · Book by 21:00 the day before The InterContinental Xiamen （厦门海景洲际酒店） sits on the quiet eastern end of Huandao Road, steps from the beach and the convention center — look for the giant whale sculpture floating above the lobby, the hotel’s beloved mascot. Its Straits all-day restaurant runs the buffet families keep coming back for: 9 stations and 100+ dishes, currently in seafood season. Dinner is where the big guns come out — king crab legs on weekend evenings, Alaska snow crab legs on weekday evenings, plus Taiwan oysters, razor clams and a rotating cast of Fujian-style seafood, all self-serve. The sashimi counter cuts tuna, salmon and octopus to order; the teppanyaki station does steaks, lamb chops and skewers with the occasional flame show; and there are noodle soups (wonton, Xiamen satay, chicken broth), German pork knuckle, BBQ ribs, a chocolate fountain, and red and white wine included at dinner. ...
Deal price: weekday lunch, 1 adult + 1 kid under 6 — ¥168 (≈$24) (was ¥228, ~26% off) · Weekend tier ¥188 (≈$26) · Bookable Jan 21 – Dec 31, 2026 · ⏰ Lunch 11:30–14:00, reserve by 21:00 the day before The Market Café on the ground floor of the Hyatt Regency Xiamen Wuyuan Bay — Xiamen’s first Hyatt-branded hotel, attached to the Wanyuecheng mall in Huli District and a short walk from Wuyuan Wetland Park — runs its lunch buffet (11:30–14:00) as a big, open-kitchen spread of 100+ dishes: seafood hot dishes, a teppanyaki grill working steaks and skewers to order, fresh sashimi, roast duck, sushi and live noodle stations, plus juices, tea and coffee. The room is designed as a Minnan “market” with retro patterned floor tiles and open cooking stations, so the meal has some theatre to it. ...
Deal price: single buffet lunch ¥108 (≈$15), dinner ¥118 (≈$17) (was ¥198) · Valid Oct 9 – Dec 31, 2026 · Lunch Sat/Sun · Dinner Fri–Sun · ⏰ valid through Dec 31, 2026 For its 20th anniversary, the Xianglu International Hotel （翔鹭国际大酒店， 18 Changhao Road, Huli) is running a Southeast Asia Food Festival at its Four Seasons Restaurant — “Nanyang flavours on a Xiamen table.” The lineup is properly regional rather than generic “Asian fusion”: Singapore laksa, tom yum seafood, bak kut teh, Indonesian fried rice and gado-gado salad, Malaysian fried flower cakes, Indian chicken, curry-onion meatballs and satay patties, with Thai green papaya salad and a sour-spicy beef vermicelli salad on the cold side. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid under 1.3 m lunch — ¥148 (≈$21) (was ¥228) · Dinner ¥188 (≈$26) · Bookable Jul 22 – Dec 30, 2026 · Lunch Sat/Sun, dinner Fri–Sun, weekends and holidays at no surcharge · ⏰ Reserve by 19:00 the day before The venue is half the story here: the Xiamen Hotel （厦门宾馆） on Huyuan Road in Siming District is a 60-plus-year-old garden property — Minnan red-brick courtyards, quiet grounds in the middle of the city, opposite Xiamen No. 1 Middle School and a short walk from Zhongshan Park metro station and the Wanshi Botanical Garden. Its Pearl of the Sea Café （海上明珠咖啡厅） is currently running a Thai Food Festival theme on top of its regular spread, and the format is an old-school Xiamen buffet done generously. ...
Deal price: 1 night for 2 adults + 2 kids — from ¥518 (≈$73) (was ¥1,299) · Two-buffet tiers ¥539/¥588, Fridays & Saturdays · All-week breakfast tier ¥518 · ⏰ Valid through Dec 31, 2026, no weekend surcharge Poly Junya Guangzhou Science City （广州科学城保利郡雅酒店， 99 Lanyue Road, Huangpu) is a 30,000㎡ hotel wrapped in greenery next to the Baiyun ecological reserve — guests keep describing it as a “city forest,” and the rooms (36–40㎡, floors 5–12, King Koil mattresses) face the green. The bundle is built around the Moonlight Western Restaurant, a garden-style buffet room on the ground floor: on buffet nights the theme is BBQ and beer, with sashimi, freshly grilled oysters, skewers, free-flow beer, unlimited salmon — and unlimited Häagen-Dazs. The hotel says the two buffet meals alone are worth ¥700+, which checks out against local pricing (a 2-adult-1-kid buffet dinner here normally runs about ¥338 on its own). ...
Deal price: 2 adults + 2 kids ¥368 (≈$52) (comparable value ¥664 — save ¥216) · 1 adult + 1 kid ¥188 (≈$26) · 5-person dinner ¥888 (≈$125) · kids’ dinner ¥78 (≈$11) · ⏰ valid through Dec 31, 2026 (not valid Dec 24) The Linlanghui restaurant on the 2nd floor of the Sheraton Guangzhou Panyu (Aoyuan Sheraton, at Nancun Wanbo metro station in Panyu) is running a “Korean flavor” themed buffet dinner — Korean BBQ and fried chicken headline a spread that also runs to fresh-cut Norwegian salmon and sashimi, river prawns and tiger crab, a grill station doing steak, lamb and chicken to order, and individual beef hotpots with three broths (coconut chicken, spicy, beef bone) and 20-plus ingredients including fresh-cut beef and Clearwater chicken. Desserts are a station of their own: chocolate fountain, nine rotating cakes, six ice-cream flavors and churros made on the spot. Red and white wine, beer and sparkling wine are all free-flow, alongside juices, sodas and handmade Hong Kong milk tea. ...
Deal price: 1 adult + 1 kid buffet + Adventure Island ¥198 (≈$28) (was ¥298) · Weekend dinner + park ¥268 (≈$38) · 5-visit cards ¥898/¥1,198 · ⏰ Valid through Dec 31, 2026 The pairing is the point at the Yuzhou Wyndham Grand Xiamen (882 Zhongzhai Road, Huli — the Wuyuan Bay hotel): its Stellar buffet restaurant on one side, a 400㎡ Adventure Island kids’ park on the other, bundled into one ticket for 1 adult + 1 kid (under 1.2 m). The park is a genuine energy-burner across four themed zones: a wonderland adventure area (rock climbing, zip lines, pulley rides), a relic forest (big slides, ball-pit castle), a hands-on flint workshop, and a treasure valley of hoops, claw machines and challenge games. The package even throws in a bonus extra child’s play pass — same-day use only. ...
Deal price: ¥188 (≈$26) for 1 adult + 1 kid lunch · 1 adult + 1 kid dinner ¥288 (≈$40) · 2 adults + 2 kids lunch ¥338 (≈$47) · 2 adults + 2 kids dinner ¥498 (≈$69) · Xialv Money-Saver Card: ¥30 off this product + ¥50 welcome bonus on signup DoubleTree by Hilton Guangzhou (Dongfeng Middle Road, Yuexiu) runs a seafood hotpot–themed buffet where you can have it both ways: pile up salmon, iced seafood, fresh sashimi, Häagen-Dazs and German beer — or drop ingredients into your own little hotpot right at the table. Dinner also comes with signature served dishes brought to your seat. ...
Deal price: from ¥118 (≈$16) for 1 adult + 1 kid (lunch) · 2 adults + 2 kids lunch ¥216 (≈$30) · Dinner from ¥138 (≈$19) · Xialv Money-Saver Card: ¥30 off this product + ¥50 welcome bonus on signup The Beihaiwan Howard Johnson Wanda Plaza (Jimei District, Xiamen — ranked among the city’s Top 10 family resorts) is running a “Crayfish Festival” themed buffet, and the crayfish situation is gloriously over the top: 10+ flavors, all-you-can-eat, made fresh to order — iced/chilled crayfish, spicy, garlic, curry, steamed, braised, thirteen-spice, tom yum, bo-bo chicken style, even crayfish nigiri and hand rolls. Beyond the crayfish stations there’s chilled seafood, live grilling, a sushi bar, hot dishes and dozens of desserts (guests rave about the dessert spread enough to call it “an afternoon tea after the buffet”). ...