Chinese buffets. What a great deal.

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Josh

Lifer
Mar 20, 2000
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Originally posted by: 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.

To each his own.
 

CPA

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Nov 19, 2001
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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.

ahhhh, isn't capitalism grand.... :D
 

DontTaseMebro

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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.
Dude, That cheap food will eat up your insides.
 

bignateyk

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Apr 22, 2002
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6 bucks is a high price to pay for your soul. (That you will be shitting out while crying ~1 hour after said buffet)