/ck/ - Food & Cooking

A local chinese place that closed due to the pandemic (well, and the fact the owner caught some felony charges for illegally soliciting bear's paws from a local national park so he could sell them in China...)

>>16008871
Uh... you can’t take two plates at once, that’s illegal

Chinese place where I used to live last year. As boring as it may sound.
Worst one I ever went to was an Old Country Buffet. Jesus christ what a buncha plain ass boring food. Seemed like a boomer restaurant.

seafood place in myrtle beach that had crab legs on the buffet. don't remember the name.

>>16008871
SEPA represent.

>>16008871
Sushi buffet in Atlanta. They had all kinds of rolls, seafood and assorted Japanese items. Crazy good variety and freshness for a place so far inland. It was like $30 for dinner but I feel like I got my money's worth.
>>16009448
Yeah Old Country buffet is widely mocked for being a boomer restaurant, South Park even did an episode on it. The food was pretty meh when I went but I found the early 90's esque decor particularly awful, along with the bright lighting which gave it the ambiance of a school cafeteria.

My dad used to take me and my sister to Old Country Buffet on fridays all the time when we were young, I never liked the food all too much, but I have good memories there. Plus it’s dirt cheap

ucla dining halls

>>16008871
fat boys in mooresville nc. had good fried chicken, hush puppies etc

>>16008871
That looks like trash

>>16009623
That looks like a funeral home
>>16009988
That does too.

>>16009584
I really enjoyed bennet's calabash when I went there but it was years ago when I was living with my family.

>>16009623
Is this worth the hour's drive?

>>16008871
I've never been to Vegas or Atlantic City, but I went to a casino in Oregon called Spirit Mountain and they had a good buffet. Fresh seafood, good prime rib, fresh bakery stuff made in-house, etc. My favorite part was the shrimp bar where they sauteed fresh shrimp to order however you like it, fried catfish, and jambalaya. Oh, and the from-scratch chocolate eclairs. The entire buffet was super nice-looking and clean, too.

Although, it was a couple years ago, and it cost $24 per person.

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Top 3
The Wicked Spoon, Cosmopalitan Las Vegas - lots of foodie type selections that are mostly plated for you creatively and a Helluva gellato bar.
Madras Pavillion, ITC Gran Chola Chennai, India - huge selection of local and international foods, made to order dosas and amazing service by an army of workers
Citrus, Leela Palace Bangalore, India - much like the previous five star hotel's buffet but in a better setting with both in and outdoor seating because it's actually nice outside in Bangalore.
Middle 3
Any Chinese buffet - they're all kinda OK.
Golden Corral when they first open in the morning- they're all kinda OK and the made to order omelets and fried chicken is really the only reason I went. Bread was ok.
Pizza Hut - the ones that still have buffets are kinda ok,especially at the 6-7 bucks price point my local has.
Bottom 3
Golden Corral more than 30 minutes after opening - fuck no.
Cici's - fuck no.
Olde Country Buffet - fuck no plus food poisoning. I hear it's a chain but I went to the one on Bryan, TX just once. Never again.
University 3 (1998-2000)
Sbisa - ok
The one semester there was a makeshift buffet in the MSS when Sbisa was closed for renovations - ok.
The Commons - not ok.

>>16010043
Most casino buffets are somewhere between my top and middle 3. The off strip ones in Vegas that cater to locals are pretty good and also good value. Had a lot of mussels at Sam's Towns buffet and they were tasty and I ate so many it would have cost much more at a Italian restaurant. Mirage champagne brunch was good and had those magic coke machines that make everything. Also coffee machines that made espressos. The ones in downtown are mostly meh, Main Street Station used to be pretty good but has suffered in the last decade. The M Resort way south was great and included draft craft beer.
The one exception was the Sahara before it closed. Everything about that property had gotten disgusting by the time they threw in the towel.

>>16008871
Casino buffets in Louisiana with oxtail, crawfish etoufee, cornbread dressing, gumbo, etc. I love getting drunk all day while gambling and then slamming a huge buffet dinner. And the desserts holy shit

>>16008871
Gasthof Amish Village in Montgomery, Indiana

ichiban buffet in Orlando.

6$ for AYCE Sushi, Hibachi, Chinese Buffet standard fair, soda-drinks and Ice Cream. and it doesn't taste like shit.

>>16010505
That sounds economically unfeasible, ie too good to be true. I don't know if 6 dollars a head would even cover fixed costs for a buffet. Do they also have a la carte options at a premium?

>>16008871
I think it was called Tomo, maybe Tomi? In Daly City, CA USA. They went out of business a couple of years ago because apparently the owners were stealing employee tips.

They had a noodle bar and ayce sashimi, in addition to both chinese and american buffet standards. Lots of seafood. Pretty cool place.

>>16008871
An Indian buffet near my hometown that had the most perfect butter chicken and lamb curry. Ain't nothing like it.

>>16010024
I haven't been there since COVID, but I'd say it's worth it if it's only an hour. Used to drive 45 minutes once a week when I was in high school. Popular skip spot.

>>16008871
some Asian buffet place that was huge and was crowded as fuck. Lots of fresh seafood, typical Chinese dishes, a section for western food, and a dessert section that had a huge selection. Place closed down 10 years ago though but I had fond memories of that place.

Not a buffet, but there was this one barbecue joint when I was a kid about 70 miles from home. We would stop there every chance we could to eat.

They served everything family style. You could get a single meat or multiple meats. Also, big bowls of beans, slaw, onion rings, and a big plate of Texas toast.

They would mix their dill pickles with jalapenos and let the flavors meld for a few days so that the pickles packed some heat. (I still do this, but have learned that if you try to keep them too long, the pickles eventually become indistinguishable from the jalapenos.)

And when you finished off anything, they would bring more.

The restaurant is still there, but is a shadow of what it once was.

I know a rancher who used to regularly take his cowboys there for lunch on Fridays. They would get the three meat family style dinner.

One Friday, the cowboys finished off the first plate of ribs and started away on the second plate. The ribs were stacked several high. When they got down past the first layer, they discovered that the ribs below had already been eaten.

They all got up in unison and walked out. Didn't pay their bill at all. And they never went back.

That stupid stunt by the restaurant staff easily cost that place many tens of thousands of dollars in lost revenue since then. (Twenty or thirty cowboys eating there once every week at the most expensive item on the menu really adds up.)

Those of us who know the rancher and the cowboys (I got covid-19 from one of them and his wife) refuse to go there any more. I drive by occasionally, but won't consider stopping there.

Polish place in Chicago burbs. Nothing but old people in there but fuck it was good.

>>16010384
are you 60?

>>16010764
>skip school
>hangout at a buffet
Whew lad you were with the cool kids weren’t you?

>>16010848
This is some food related homosexual fanfic

>>16010896
No, why do you ask?

>>16008871
i hate america and its people with every fibre of my being

>>16010913
sounds like a fabulous life anon

>>16010903
On senior skip day literally the entire class went there. It was where kids both popular and unpopular went.

>>16008871
Sweet Tomatoes. Salad buffet near where I lived. Surprisingly clean and the salads and pastas and brownies were awesome. It was a big part of my childhood. Sadly it closed all of its locations a month after quarantine hit.

was dragged here every year as a kid for family reunions
if you know, you know

>>16011272
>catfish buffet
Holy shit that sounds like heaven right now.

The Wandering Horse Buffet in the Talking Stick Casino near Scottsdale AZ is awesome. High end food and huge variety for a very reasonable price. At least pre-covid. Not sure if they're still open.

>>16008871
ah yes amerifats and their buffets. gotta keep stuffing your fat faces!

>>16010505
I live in Orlando and not far from where you are talking about and not once have I ever even thought of stopping there.

>>16010913
rent free

>>16008871
buffets are for fat retards.

>>16012333
This anon lives a joyless existence.

Yes, fat people do love buffets. Most people do.

Aria in Las Vegas. Will never be topped.

>>16010005
t. never had funeral home food before

>>16008871
Where’s that OP?

>>16009623
Just ate there the other day. I go for their breakfast for 10 dollars. Love it.

>>16010903
>he didn't eat at Chinese buffets when he skipped school with friends

It's the comfy low-key place to eat lunch while skipping. Going to the popular bistro is how you run into your parents or someone who knows them.

>>16010913
rent free faggot

>>16011721
rent free faggot

>>16008871
Tucano’s Brazilian BBQ

a local chinese buffet, at fridays they serve this amazing haixun pork which goes perfectly with their noodles and i absolutely love their sushi with selection of many different fish and plant sushi. i really liked the squid sushi also the salmon was very soft and the wasabi had a very tight, almost dry texture. i like to finish the meal with a slice of cake and a cup of green tea.

>>16009623
You get a free buffet meal there on your birthday. Signs strictly stating you may not take any food home and cameras all over the ceiling. I wasn't impressed with the food. If you live nearby it's a free meal on your b-deal. If you only have two or three working tastebuds left, you might find their food heavenly.

>>16010848
>One Friday, the cowboys finished off the first plate of ribs and started away on the second plate. The ribs were stacked several high. When they got down past the first layer, they discovered that the ribs below had already been eaten.
That’s so disgusting.

>>16012347
>you have to be fat and retarded to have joy in your life
lmaoing at amerilard logic.

>>16010384
Classic boomer.

>>16008871
Old Country Buffet, by far the best one ive been to. Their fried chicken was amazing.

>>16013011
rent free faggot

>>16010848
Sounds like someone being a dumbass/drugged and mixing up the plates rather than it being an intentional stunt. They'd have to take their sweet-ass time eating them otherwise.

Still worth leaving ofc.

old country buffet and sizzler

The last time I went to a buffet, it was a cheap Chinese place in a shopping strip.

What alarmed me was the fact that practically every table of obese brown people gorging themselves had at least one cellphone or tablet blasting a video at full speaker volume. Some tables were using it as collective entertainment, while other tables had every single person with their own device, again at full speaker volume. It was a cacophony of noise.

I'm not being a "kids and their cellphones" Boomer. I gave up on that long ago. The concerning part was 30+ YouTube videos ripping at full volume and nobody cared. It was disorienting, sensory overload. The mass of obese bodies shuffling around, shoveling mountains of fried rice into their mouths; the overlapping smells of cheap desserts and soy sauce and old sushi and cheaply made clothing; the sound of small talk muffled through mouthfuls of food, of toy unboxing videos and makeup tutorials and explosions, of foreign language phone calls being made over speakerphone, of the Chinese waiters shouting at one another over the din.

I was truly in Hell.

99% of chinese buffets are cheap crap

>>16012753
>Plant Sushi

>>16008871
Shoneys brefisk boofe

>>16008871
Harvey's casino buffet in Council Bluffs, Iowa. This place opened and operated for several years in the 90s before being taken over by Harrah's.
The place operated at a budgetary loss knowingly and had really really good food, expensive food, for a really cheap cost. I think it was something like $8 for the lunch buffet and maybe $12 for the dinner and only like $4 for the breakfast. I'm kind of making these figures up but it was something really cheap like that. I have never met its equal for being like 9/10 in quality at absolute dirt cheap price. Since then I have gone to several casino buffets and they are hit or miss, some are really good but they aren't ludicrously cheap like Harvey's was. I had moved out of the area when Harrah's took them over but I heard the buffet cost and quality took a downturn afterward and never went back to try it.

>>16013868

One possibility that I've considered is that a previous customer did that and the staff didn't check the plates.

>>16012724
Is this fat person cope? lol

>>16008871
20 years ago there was a chain called Todai in the mall downtown, was a sushi buffet, really crap sushi but they had crab legs and cheesecake too and as a kid it was awesome
Today the only AYCE place I'd eat is Mongolian HotPot, they give you a big bowl of oil in the middle of a table on a heat element and bring you as much food as you want that you cook yourself in the pot

some polish smorgasbord

>>16010886
oh shit my nigga>>16016096

also this irish place has an insane brunch

>>16012349
Every funeral I've ever been to (and my parents had kids late so I've been to a good amount) there was no food provided there, just a tray of cookies or Jimmy John's party subs from whoever organized it

>>16008871
in canada there is the three most popular ones: mandarin, spring rolls and local sushi buffets (they all serve same quality food same type of food slightly different depending on time and location but owned by different people which is super odd to me). mandarin serves chinese food, or they claim it is chinese bc some of it uses chinese ingredients and chinese cooking style and spring rolls is sushi but chinese sushi w a lot of fried rice and stuff and the other ones are pretty much the same. theyre lal the same price now, before mandarin was cheaper and spring rolls was kind of higher end but now they are all around 20-25 per person for evening. sometimes it is more cheaper like 20 for lunch or something w drinks. they all charge for take out.

>>16008891
omg u never went to restos unless they were dates to local chains like jack astor's or kelsey's?

>>16008902
in canada you can....

>>16009650
omg.... stop tyring to say that you know me it's so fucking creepy.

>>16009868
i hate buffets cos of this reason

>>16012753
nothing can be as disgusting and delicious at the same time as chinese food is.

>>16008871
Bacchanal at Caesar's Palace in Vegas. There's also a nice local sushi buffet nearby and Sweet Tomatoes/Souplantation was decent for a cheap salad bar when it was still in business. AYCE Korean BBQ is alright but I've gotten sick of it and the low quality meat.

>>16008871
Harrah's casino in new orleans

>>16016207
Because of spending time with your family?

>>16010886
This place was fucking delicious, entire shop is owned an ran by a bunch of Polish women and their granddaughters

>>16016207

I was at the best Chinese buffet in one medium sized city a few years ago and saw a kid take his plate back to the buffet, scrape the food off, and refill it with something else.

I never went back and now avoid buffets whenever possible.

>>16010913
Nobody cares what Europeans think about anything. Maybe Brits still have some weight. But not continental Europeans. Nobody cares at all. Not in Asia, not in South America, certainly not in North America, and nowhere else.

Europe is a nothing place, with nothing people. You talk so much online about how bad America is. But nobody knows who you are, where you are from, nor does anyone care. You're just a nothing from nowhere important.

>>16010690
place was always packed and its in a high tourism location. dunno since Covid. moved to a more rural area.

>>16011756
for what it is it is worth the price. especially if you're a fat POS like me