Chinese buffets. What a great deal.

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
the downside of course is eating shitty chinese food.

Well don't eat at Tuong Lu Kim's "City Wok" and you won't get city Chinese food.

 

[BabaBooey]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
the downside of course is eating shitty chinese food.

QFT and then some....

 

[Agentbolt]

I'm glad I live far away from one. It's enjoyable as hell to go, but I'm pretty sure I'm taking 6 months off my life every time I hit one up with how much I eat while there

 

[0roo0roo]

its ok, but as said, its cheap fatty chinese food.
i prefer ordered take out dishes myself..

 

[imported_Imp]

Ugh.. cheap chinese buffets = potato meal. Everyone has fries, and it seems like its the only thing they don't get wrong. Been to many chinese buffets of various quality and the cheap ones have food that taste like cardboard. Maybe they cut costs by cutting down on some salt.

As for buffets overall, I recently went to Mandarin again (love in question), and realized theres no "focus". If you go to eat one item, you're wasting your money. You eat a bit of everything and you're just sampling. Think I'll just stick to normal restaurants in the future.

 

[quikah]

All the ones I have been to are terrible. Very low quality food.

Personally I like americanized Chinese food, not really into heart/stomach/other weird stuff.

 

[Beller0ph1]

Yeah, too bad all the food tastes EXACTLY the same. It just looks different.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: quikah
All the ones I have been to are terrible. Very low quality food.

Personally I like americanized Chinese food, not really into heart/stomach/other weird stuff.

You know real Chinese people eat quite normal food. Its just not as crappy as the stuff you get in most Chinese restaurants.

 

[mattocs]

Originally posted by: techs
This past week I was getting some work done on my kitchen. So I hit the three chinese lunch buffets in town. Two of them cost 6 bucks, the other 7.10.
By the time I get home I can barely waddle thru the door. And I find I am not hungry til 9 pm.
I think I could live quite nicely on 6 bucks a day for awhile if I had to. Granted the food was full of salt and fat, but mmmmm tasty. And since they have a nice variety of deep fried foods, not hungry again after an hour.

I had a china buffet yesterday. $6.35 includes a drink and tax. Great deal and tasty food.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: quikah
All the ones I have been to are terrible. Very low quality food.

Personally I like americanized Chinese food, not really into heart/stomach/other weird stuff.

You know real Chinese people eat quite normal food. Its just not as crappy as the stuff you get in most Chinese restaurants.

The problem is half of you who speak of BAD Chinese food don't know good Chinese food. I mean seriously, if you came from an area loaded with Chinese people i.e. SoCal like Monetey Park or NorCal like in the Silicon Valley or SF or whatever, you would know where to hit up. More importantly, if you were Chinese, you would know what's really good. It bugs me when people speak of bad Chinese food and they still order Americanized dishes like CHOW MEIN and what not. I'd like to see people try out chicken feet at dim sum =)

I know where to go if I want $1.45 chinese food that's loaded with MSG. I also know where to find $7.95 all you can eat lunches. I also know a higher grade buffet that goes for close to $18 but at least you get a lot better quality food.

 

[quikah]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: quikah
All the ones I have been to are terrible. Very low quality food.

Personally I like americanized Chinese food, not really into heart/stomach/other weird stuff.

You know real Chinese people eat quite normal food. Its just not as crappy as the stuff you get in most Chinese restaurants.

The problem is half of you who speak of BAD Chinese food don't know good Chinese food. I mean seriously, if you came from an area loaded with Chinese people i.e. SoCal like Monetey Park or NorCal like in the Silicon Valley or SF or whatever, you would know where to hit up. More importantly, if you were Chinese, you would know what's really good. It bugs me when people speak of bad Chinese food and they still order Americanized dishes like CHOW MEIN and what not. I'd like to see people try out chicken feet at dim sum =)

I know where to go if I want $1.45 chinese food that's loaded with MSG. I also know where to find $7.95 all you can eat lunches. I also know a higher grade buffet that goes for close to $18 but at least you get a lot better quality food.

I know where to go to get real Chinese food. I go to Ranch 99 once a week with my Chinese wife, hit up many Chinese restaurants in silicon valley, etc. Whatever, I don't think chicken feet are good, I found the whole experience of cooking pig stomach to be rather unpleasant, and the taste to be equally unpleasant.

I enjoy a number of authentic Chinese dishes, I just think the rap that Americanized Chinese foods gets is unfair, there is a lot of GOOD American Chinese food.

 

[Ns1]

Originally posted by: Jeff7

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
the downside of course is eating shitty chinese food.

Well don't eat at Tuong Lu Kim's "City Wok" and you won't get city Chinese food.

WTF? I don't eat at these places and hence won't eat at chinese buffets.

 

[Locut0s]

I have yet to eat a Chinese buffet, a la the all you can eat variety, that has anything that tastes recognisably Chinese. It's usually just tons of lemon chicken, noodles soaked in oil, dim sum that tastes boiled, bad deserts, and soft serve ice cream. But hay it's all you can eat!

 

[RU482]

$7 for the buffet, $15 for the happy ending

 

[Megatomic]

The only stuff I like at the chinese buffets I've been to are the sauteed green beans, the singapore noodles (like pancit), and the cut up melon. The rest is garbage imho.

 

[Locut0s]

Originally posted by: DLeRium

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: quikah
All the ones I have been to are terrible. Very low quality food.

Personally I like americanized Chinese food, not really into heart/stomach/other weird stuff.

You know real Chinese people eat quite normal food. Its just not as crappy as the stuff you get in most Chinese restaurants.

The problem is half of you who speak of BAD Chinese food don't know good Chinese food. I mean seriously, if you came from an area loaded with Chinese people i.e. SoCal like Monetey Park or NorCal like in the Silicon Valley or SF or whatever, you would know where to hit up. More importantly, if you were Chinese, you would know what's really good. It bugs me when people speak of bad Chinese food and they still order Americanized dishes like CHOW MEIN and what not. I'd like to see people try out chicken feet at dim sum =)

I know where to go if I want $1.45 chinese food that's loaded with MSG. I also know where to find $7.95 all you can eat lunches. I also know a higher grade buffet that goes for close to $18 but at least you get a lot better quality food.

Only reason I don't care for the chicken's feet dim sum is you are paying for hardly any meat. Yes it tastes good, I have had them, but most of it is gristle and skin which is OK but too little meat if you ask me.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: Rage187
I love me some chinese buffet but it's a 50/50 crap shoot on food poisoning. Nothing is ever properly heated or cooled on the buffet.

I'm VERY skeptical about Chinese buffets...on 2 occasions, everyone in our group got food poisoning...That being said, there's one in the East Bay that has decent Chinese food and decent sushi...about $12.00/head. Not bad considering I can eat my weight in Ahi tuna...

There's one that opened here in Modesto earlier this year that isn't bad...so-so Chinese food and sort-of decent sushi...$9.99/head.

The other Chinese buffets here in town, everyone I know avoids them...

 

[TecHNooB]

Originally posted by: BoomerD

Originally posted by: Rage187
I love me some chinese buffet but it's a 50/50 crap shoot on food poisoning. Nothing is ever properly heated or cooled on the buffet.

I'm VERY skeptical about Chinese buffets...on 2 occasions, everyone in our group got food poisoning...That being said, there's one in the East Bay that has decent Chinese food and decent sushi...about $12.00/head. Not bad considering I can eat my weight in Ahi tuna...

There's one that opened here in Modesto earlier this year that isn't bad...so-so Chinese food and sort-of decent sushi...$9.99/head.

The other Chinese buffets here in town, everyone I know avoids them...

Sushi is damn good.

 

[StormRider]

My parents love going to Chinese buffets. A long time ago the big thing was Dim Sum but now it's Chinese Buffets.

 

[techs]

Darn, after reading my own thread, and despite my kitchen being fixed, I think I am going to head out for another......
CHINESE BUFFET!!!

 

[Phokus]

I live in Connecticut and the Chinese Buffets here are so unbelievably disgusting, it's not even funny. The ones near Boston are pretty good. I guess you have to have a higher concentration of Chinese people for good Chinese Buffet.

 

[Engraver]

There used to be a really good Chinese restaurant around where I live. The lunch meals were like 5-6 dollars. The owners sold it to another Chinese family who changed it to buffet style, and now the food is bland and greasy.

 

[alkemyst]

We have some great ones here and some crappy ones...oddly most are about the same price. Nothing all you can eat is under $12ish for lunch though. You can get a lunch special for around $6 though (2 meats, vegetable, soup, eggroll).

Most places don't use MSG around here.

 

[Miramonti]

We found a good one around here that's $8, but $15 with all-you-can-eat king crab. We took in some new utility scissors from harbor freight around the corner and ate a remarkable amount of crab that night.

 

[wheresmybacon]

When you add in the price of the triple-bypass you'll need when you're 40 it really isn't that good of a deal.