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Ok so this weekend my son and I are out shopping around town for Computer parts and he wants to go eat, so I ask him where and he says "The Chinese Buffet". Now I dont know where you live but here is a list of items on " THE CHINESE BUFFET"

Onion Rings
French Fries
Tator Tots
Fried Cheese
Deep Fried Mushrooms
Jalapeno Poppers
Macaroni Salad
Potato Salad
Fried Apples
and a Few assorted Chinese dishes.

My god what happened?

Looks authentic

Standard display of the US's grasp of geography and foreign culture I'd say

What's even more fun is that "American" menu is prepared by Mexican kitchen staff in a Chinese restaurant.

Jeeze...I guess my old high School cafeteria qualifies as a Chinese resturant!...who knew?

The chinese buffet up the street from me has everything you'd expect to see for sale on the street around mealtimes in Hong Kong. 5-6 hot-tables full, great stuff.

Then they have the table full of "American food". Everything is fried, and tastes kind of funny. It's like they knew what the ingredients are, but not quite what to do next

Usually a table full of iced mussels, shrimp and king crab legs too, yummy Raw oysters too, no cholera for me today thanks.

I usually leave in pain...

Crazy Buffet > ALL

masteen wrote:Crazy Buffet > ALL

Crazy Buffet = Too fooking expensive, slow and crowded.

Definately good stuff, but not worth the wait IMO.

Kinda-sorta mongolian grill place for those who haven't seen them.

rofl crazy buffet....used to drive past that place all the time....too scared to go in....I still remember the radio commercials

Gotta hit the Krajee Boofay before the lunch rush.

There's a great Mongolian BBQ near UCLA, for anyone in the area. You basically pile 10 pounds' worth of noodles, vegetables and meat into a tiny bowl. Somehow, during the cooking of the food, it all condenses to fit the size of the bowl. Amazing. Also creates major GI problems when the food re-inflates in your stomach an hour or so after eating.

My very first meal when I moved to Japan was McDonalds. Right next door to that was a KFC. Maybe those are now traditional foods.

What is the name of that BBQ place Millie?

I recommend for you traditional BBQ lovers this neat little joint in Panorama City called Dr Hoggly Woggly's Tyler Texas BBQ. It is the yum

There was one near the High St. bridge in Alameda called amazingly enough: The Mongolian Grill.

Man it was awseome. Had to mound food up on your bowel to get a decent plateful (cooked) there also. Dunno if it still exists, my purgatory in CA ended 8 years ago.

Cartalas wrote:Ok so this weekend my son and I are out shopping around town for Computer parts and he wants to go eat, so I ask him where and he says "The Chinese Buffet". Now I dont know where you live but here is a list of items on " THE CHINESE BUFFET"

Onion Rings
French Fries
Tator Tots
Fried Cheese
Deep Fried Mushrooms
Jalapeno Poppers
Macaroni Salad
Potato Salad
Fried Apples
and a Few assorted Chinese dishes.

My god what happened?

I think my heart just seized reading the words "fried cheese".

Downtown Manhattan is the Sterno lunch buffet capital of the world. For $3.99 a pound I can get my fried hell w/ a side of rice piled high just the way I like it.

When all of my hair started to find its way at the bottom of my shower drain, I decided to make a dietary adjustment.

Cincinnati has Grand China and Win Wok. Great Chinese.

Well you have Papa John's serving chicken strips now, next thing you know they'll be serving Fried Rice and chinese restaurants will be serving Pizza! Oh wait, I think some buffet places already do!!

I love chinese food but my bf detests it so I guess it would be an ideal place for the both of us. Stuff for him and stuff for me. Except I hate buffets in general so I guess that won't work!!

Heh millie, Ranzak and his girlfriend go there all the time. I've havn't been there yet, but im thinking about it...

Bubba Grizz wrote:My very first meal when I moved to Japan was McDonalds. Right next door to that was a KFC. Maybe those are now traditional foods.

Heh, I ate squid mcmuffins (I've no idea what they are really called) and various other "stuff" from the street vendors when I was in Japan. Couldn't afford MacDonalds usually

Fried cheese sounds revolting.

Millie wrote:There's a great Mongolian BBQ near UCLA, for anyone in the area. You basically pile 10 pounds' worth of noodles, vegetables and meat into a tiny bowl. Somehow, during the cooking of the food, it all condenses to fit the size of the bowl. Amazing. Also creates major GI problems when the food re-inflates in your stomach an hour or so after eating.

haha

I could see how this might be a problem

Fried Cheese is like a staple food in Wisconsin. Fried Cheese Curds is what you normally see here. I am sure you all have had Mozerella Sticks before.

...I had just started to date this chick... Cruisin' down the road and noticed it was about Noon, so I said "Hey, let's eat at Mays Inn" and she said "Oh Fucking Gross", so I slowed to 20 MPH and rolled her ass out onto the curb...

after 12 years of traveling the planet, I have concluded that THE BEST chinese restaurant on earth is called Mays Inn located in Universal City, TX just about half a mile outside the gate of Randolph Air Force Base. Last time I went to Dallas, I actually went the extra 300 miles and drove to UC just so I could eat at there (well, ok, I visited a chick too)

Remember Kiddies: If the menu item at Mays Inn says it is hot, then goddamn it, it is fuckin HOT!

Edit: I wonder if that place is still there? I have not lived there since '97

There's also more brandy consumed in WI than the entire rest of the country combined. My aunt is quite proud of that

Coincidence?

Bubba Grizz wrote:I am sure you all have had Mozerella Sticks before.

Yeah, but they're baked not fried. Eegads man

My experience, from travelling around either on busisness or on vacation, is that the further you distance yourself from a city with a historic Chinatown, the more American the menu becomes. I once went to a place off of I-90 in Indiana: the food itself was alright, but certainly not traditional in texture, ingredients and certainly in spices. When I asked for tea, I got a teabag (namebrand American) with hotwater, and the fortune cookie was a flat sugar cookie.

I think that was the place that also didnt even offer chopsticks. I mean, come on.

Here in Nevada I think I saw a buffet once, may have been in a casino I think.

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