XIAO Köln

Vanessa 5 months ago

The food here is really tasty even though it is a buffet! We were positively surprised, as we saw the restaurant while walking by and decided to enter because it had such a good atmosphere. They have a lot of food variety and actually pretty authentic foods. They also have sooo many desserts!! I don't get the negative reviews, since it is pretty obvious: If you enter an hour before or close to closing hours, why should they resupply the food? There would be so much food wasted because they can't guarantee there will still be so many guests entering and eating everything that late, so idk. We arrived there at lunch times and everything was full of food and tasty. The bathrooms also look very pretty - can only recommend!!

Vidhya Basak 5 months ago

The all-you-can-eat buffet was amazing—we genuinely enjoyed every single dish served. Everything tasted fresh and was deliciously prepared. We only did two rounds, but we saw others going back several times without any issue. Just keep in mind: any food waste over 100 grams is charged at €2, so it’s best to take only what you can finish. The buffet offers a wide range of Asian-style dishes. There’s sushi as well, though it’s quite basic compared to a dedicated sushi restaurant. What really stands out is the variety of seafood, meat, and vegetables—you can choose your ingredients, pick a sauce, and have it freshly grilled for you. There’s also a great selection of meats, stews, fried dishes, and salads. I especially loved the Korean BBQ chicken—there was also duck, grilled fish with sauce, and the salmon was absolutely incredible, easily the highlight for me. They also offer two types of soup. The dessert section is just as impressive: fresh pancakes, cakes, brownies, pandan cake, Italian profiteroles, tiramisu, pastries, banana balls, and even both white and milk chocolate fountains. There are also six flavors of ice cream, frozen yogurt, and a lovely variety of fresh and cocktail

Marta Szumiata 7 months ago

Buffet all you can eat. Wide range of Asian style food, sushi as well but very basic, worse than at sushi place. Lots of seafood and meat that you can grill freshly. Big choice of meat, stews, fried food, also salads. Amazing salmon! The best if all. Also one soup. Many different fresh and cocktail fruit like strawberries, pineapple, lichi, kiwi,Elon, grapes. Also cakes, nice one with pandan, Italian profiteroles, tiramisu, Belgian waffles, brownies, chocolate fountains (white and milk), ice cream. All you want. Buffet 26.90 euro during weekend. Reservation necessary!

Al So 10 months ago

I seldom do bad reviews, but this is going to be one. How can you do rice and sauces in Asian food badly!!! I wanted to give one star but I’m giving two because of the sheer quantities of ingredients. Service and ambience is very nice. Food looks really good but had only salty unbalanced flavour. Sharp, sour and umami missing. Was here at around 2pm. (Maybe evening is better) Basics were bad: -Rice in the sushi was hard and cold (or hard because it was cold). -But even the Fried rice had hard grains, and completely tasteless. I mean for even a beginner that’d easy if you have a wok. -Most of the items were flavourless. Or just sweet with no other flavours. -The gyoza was lacklustre. -The live grill was fresh and hot, but again not flavourful. All I could taste was soya sauce. Here is the good: -The dishes that were ok, but not good good, were the Korean bbq and the beef with onions. -The bao had no filing but was otherwise good. -And ofcourse there were salads and fresh fruits, which are hard to mess up. I had that. -The dessert that I tried was good, profiteroles with chocolate were good. I don’t see me coming back here. Which is a shame because it’s in a good location has n

MAnA M a year ago

Well as a seafood and Asian food lover, I can say it was a good experience. But maybe I had a high expectation… the noodles and the chicken curry was almost the same as the normal as the takeaway simple Imbiss. The desert was really well sorted and different types of fruits. They also had waffles and some cakes and brownies, and also 6 to 8 ice-cream flavors. When we entered a lady received us and guided us to our table which we reserved a few couple of days before. Then she explained us how the procedure was with the buffet… so then a waitress came, took our orders for drinks and then we could go to buffet area. One thing that I really I loved about it, was that they had informed the customers of they had more than 100gr food remaining on their plates, for each 100gr, they would be charged extra!!! So in this way there would be less food wasted! And I think it’s a really good way to save and not to waste. Specially when it’s a “All You Can Eat” buffet! Well done!