/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12737997
>the American phenomenon

They're pretty ubiquitous across the developed world.

>>12737997
Good job picking the least appetizing picture from the 1st page of image results.

>>12738004
it shows the unique flavors that grace a chinese buffet

>>12737997
I get excited about the buffet despite never managing to eat more than I would at a standard resturant.

>>12738006
0/10 bait.

How trusty would hygiene expectations be in such places? Have read that undercooked crustaceans and frogs can be a vector for rat lung worm.
Places I've been to featured duck, crayfish, shrimp, fried frog legs, and one even has a pho soup booth/counter in the back.

>>12738043
my local buffet got shut down for several months because it had roaches

>>12738047
Yeah I've heard such stories regarding other pests as well in other restaurants.

>>12738043
It's pretty bad. The kitchens aren't even up to code because most Chinese immigrants who open up restaurants do their own construction work.

>>12737997

I always go for the pizza and the roast beef and crab legs and afterwards it's chocolate fountain time!

>>12737997
They are some of the foulest places on earth. I mean literal garbage. The worst.

>>12737997
>french fries
>chinese food
anon I...

>>12738004
>>12738016
It looks almost exactly like the one here in town. I still go there for the sushi and spring rolls.

posting the GOAT buffet item

>>12740483
Bro I can't stop eating these. Not every place has them though and it pisses me off.

>>12738000
America didn't have alacarte restaurants until the late 1800's/early 1900's.

>>12740511
they're so rare here, there's a restaurant in the next town and a buffet that's an hour's drive away, and no other place to get them

Old country buffet a few towns over shut down and a Chinese buffet took its place :( sad

>>12737997
There's a Chinese buffet by a Master Chef in my city. Pretty good, but not traditional Chinese at all.

>>12740531
The only buffet that has them I know of is 3 hours away in New Jersey :(

>>12737997
Some of them are unironically quite good. I once went to one that had sauteed baby octopus in garlic sauce. It was in the top 10 best things I've ever eaten.

You have to eat at 3-4 until you find one that isn't absolute fucking garbage and then you go with all your friends after playing basketball or something.

>>12740573
Octopuses are insanely intelligent. Eating their babies seems wrong in so many ways.

>>12740573
Maybe it was just a really small species, I don't know.

when I was a kid, there was a sweet chinese buffet about 5 miles away from my house along the main street in our town
it wasn't a very big buffet, just one long-ish line with trays on each side, but it had all the standard staples, and it was only $5! (and only a dollar extra for a soda); everyone in our family called it "Cheap Chinese"
we went there at least once a week for several years, it was so good
eventually the food quality started to slip; the fried rice had fewer and fewer vegetables in it, the potato slices were often not cooked all the way through, etc etc
strangely, they never raised the price; it was always 5 bucks
would have gladly paid an extra dollar or two if they would have upped the quality again

they eventually closed down and the owners sold the building, and now it's a shitty thai restaurant ;_;

>>12737997
Why does all chinese food taste the same?

>>12740636
see
>>12738459

>>12738043
Norway? Yes. Its not fucking Japan, but at the least the inspections and laws are clear. Mattilsynet also got good media contact for when they need to shut down places.
USA? No.

>>12740636
It doesn’t thought. All the dishes are the same, but sometimes the cooks are just shitty. It just tastes very similar. The providers give the restaurants their ingredients, but sometimes the incompetent fucks mess it up for some reason. I had some shitty Chinese in Louisiana, just not good. They gave me free Asian meatballs that just weren’t good, but I still ate it because I was hungry. Compare that to my favorite local Chinese in North Carolina of all places, something about it is just so good. It’s a buffet with sushi and Chinese, I really enjoy it but the drive is a little too much for my car.

>>12740636
>>12740774
it all tastes different, but somehow SMELLS the same
you could order 10 different things on 10 different days, but every time, the scent drifting out of the bag your order comes in will be the exact same

>>12737997
What of them?

>>12737997
where my rangoon niggas at
best thing at these kinds of places, hands down

>>12740793
when I was a kid, crab rangoon was the ONLY chinese food I would eat
now I can't stand them

>>12737997
that doesnt look very chinese

>>12740793
I love crab rangoon. It tastes the best when you dip it in sweet and sour sauce. It’s basically impossible to perfectly emulate either at home.

Also that coffee cake is the most based dessert. Pic related, right next to the almost as equally based cheesecake and fruit bar. Dunno why they decided to put salad and shrimp with tartar and cocktail next to the desserts though.

>>12740821
only space for one cold bar, I suppose

I've never heard of a Chinese buffet before this post. Is this an East Coast/inland thing?

>>12738043
stopped eating a Chinese buffets because i no longer trust the average person who goes to a buffet to not be a disgusting lard ass nor do i trust chinks to pass health inspection

>>12740834
Anon, are you American? You mean to tell me you’ve never seen or heard of a Chinese buffet before this post?

>>12740834
bruh, every city and town in the US has a chinese buffet

>>12740837
>>12740843
To be fair, even normal buffets where I'm around are a rarity, but I've quite literally never heard of Chinese buffet before.

>>12740834
Are you living in a city where the population is all cousins that fuck? Some how no where near a railroad?

>>12737997
all cheap garbage literally nothing identifiable as "food"

>>12740867
What state do you live in? I’m convinced now you live in bumfuck nowhere and literally haven’t left since being born.

>>12740875
I live in fucking commiefornia. Found one result for Chinese buffet in my entire county.

>>12740882
Where in California? Just give me a general location. I live in bumfuck nowhere too, Appalachia and everything, North Carolina/Georgia border, but even I have Chinese buffets around me. How the fuck have you never even heard of one?

>>12740886
Wine Country, California

>>12740889

>>12740813
It's pretty easy. Get wonton skins, cream cheese, artificial crab meat, scallions, and an egg. The egg is to seal the wontons.

Mom worked at a Chinese restaurant once and I watched the chef make them.

>>12740918
Keep laughing, faggot. At least I'm not the one eating fucking Chinese buffet.

>>12740946
>those grapes are probably sour anyway

>>12740946
>actually believed anyone in this thread had a Chinese buffet before
it is called a shit bait thread, you new here m8?

Pee

>>12740774
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