Orchid Restaurant

Best restaurant around! Authentic Hong Kong and chinese food. Real taste no, SS souce like in many other restaurants.! Real soze portions, staff very friendly! Food very delicious, match like you buy in Hong Kong. Very happy with this restaurant! Highly recommended! P.S. has small car parking(with parking fee till 6pm)

Amazing chinese, by far the best in Cambridge. Huge portions and maybe a bit too much (had to take home half our main course (not a complaint at all)). Prices are very reasonable and that staff are very friendly. Crispy noodles are so tasty and plenty of choice. Recommend the shared started to give a taste of everything

Right, so it's just before Christmas and I've started my holiday by driving the family about 4 hours from Bristol to Bedford, there was an enormous traffic jam somewhere because the journey usually takes about 2 1/2 to 2 3/4 hours. On the way, wife's sister suggests we go to a new buffet place they found, sounds great! Of course, it's not in Bedford but in Cambridge! That's another hour's drive away😒. Luckily, we have an hour to rest before we have to get there for 6pm. Enough moaning, we get there, park up outside, sit down and get settled. First impressions.... nice decor, slightly pricey food but all you can eat buffet so not a problem. Then we get to the strange part. It IS all you can eat, but it's the type where you order from the staff in rounds of food for the whole table/party. So, everyone orders what they want, eats and then orders again. Repeat until everyone has had their fill. This might be confusing it you've not experienced it before, but is quite easy to understand once tried. You don't have to leave the table, or stand by big warming cabinets poking at gastronorms full of food you don't want, just order what you like from the menu each round and wait for it. The food itself was very nice, better than many buffet places except you have to wait for it to be freshly cooked to order, so the whole experience does take a bit longer than a typical buffet, but much less waste and most likely more hygienic. It encourages you to eat more responsibly, since you have wait between courses. I always thought if I visit Cambridge, it was to see where Sir Clive Sinclair (I'm of a generation that still thinks of him as Uncle Clive!) made it big, not eat some nice, if slightly pricey food!

Food and service is excellent but expensive. The karaoke rooms were ok but technical problems kept interrupting our enjoyment, the staff were very good at sorting it out each time though. For the karaoke rooms unless there are at least 10 of you I wouldn't bother as you need at least 2 hours and it's not cheap.