Chinese Buffets

[lisztisforkids]

Truly a gift from the gods to man.

My meal as follows:

1st plate: Shrimp with vegetables, stir mushrooms, lo mein noodles

2nd plate: Beef and Brocolii, Stuffed seafood mushroom, stir noodles

3rd plate: Mongolian chicken, Sweet and sour chiken, more lo mein

4th plate: Cantalope and grapes

And sometimes Ill get some icecream for dessert 

[m1469]

he he... that's impressive 

[donjuan]

that IS impressive..

I always take advantage of these things by avoiding the cheap filler stuff like rice and noodles (the stuff strategically put at the front), and load up on the shrimp and beef dishes.

Chinese buffets are ok, but if you really want a meal, check out hometown buffet.. Everything is smothered in some kind of gravy, and everynight, the place is wall to wall with fat, entertaining rednecks who threaten their kids, like "Ahve haid just'bout 'nuff a yooo.."  now thats some good eatin'   no wonder america has such an obesity problem...

[Siberian Husky]

i cant stand chinese food sometimes because several places really lack authenticity..thats not tos ay im gods gift to chinese cuisine, its just so much msg gets tiring afer a while

[Dazzer]

the whole point of chinese buffet IS the rice and noodles. everything else goes with it

at least, that's what i think... i DEVOUR rice and noodles. and suckling pig/ roast duck/chicken yum yum yum yum kay call me a carnivore.

[pianistimo]

i didn't know they had chinese buffets until a friend down the street who happens to be chinese asked me if i wanted to go to one.  it was fantastic.  the service was unexpected, too - as they still bring drinks to the table - but you get your food yourself.  egg rolls are my favorite.  i pile up on egg rolls and minimize too much sweet adn sour.  love rice, too.  chinese food is healthy usually, right!  so you can eat a lot and not get fat.

[lisztisforkids]

chinese food is healthy usually, right!  so you can eat a lot and not get fat.

Im not so sure thats right. 

[donjuan]

egg rolls are my favorite. i pile up on egg rolls and minimize too much sweet adn sour. love rice, too. chinese food is healthy usually, right! so you can eat a lot and not get fat.

nope; you may think like that because Chinese are stereotypically thin.  Well, that's because they are traditionally poor and through physical labor and long hours, work off every molecule of glucose they can get; give rich Americans such carbohydrate-rich foods like rice and noodles, and theyll eat too much of it and just sit on their ass to let it all fill out.  Buddha is so fat because he's rich! In old China, you had to be rich to be fat.  In north america, it's the opposite; poor people are fat.  now how does that work?? 

Many pieces of Chinese culture come out of the fact that the place was so poor; for example, those white teacups without the handles were originally designed to warm up the hands, in the absence of central heating.

oh, and maybe you should try some real chinese food (not just western) like Bean-Curd jelly (tastes like Playdough), fish head soup (with eyeballs  ) and that nasty Chinese New Year dessert made with 'Glutenous Rice Roll' (tastes and feels like snot), before making a true judgement of Chinese Food.  Things are not always as they seem..

i didn't know they had chinese buffets until a friend down the street who happens to be chinese asked me if i wanted to go to one. it was fantastic. the service was unexpected, too - as they still bring drinks to the table - but you get your food yourself.

yeah, that's how any kind of buffet is like..

[pianistimo]

where i come from, the usual 'buffet' is get everything yourself.  there's a soda machine and an ice cream machine.  the soda machine may not help you with taking the paper off your straw.  at the chinese buffet - they leave 1/2" of the paper straw at the top - making less work for you and thus allowing you to tip them for the drink and the straw paper removal.  they are pretty girls, though, and i saw a lot of guys who seemingly come for the food - when in actuality they want to see the girls bringing them drinks.

[BoliverAllmon]

I don't like Chinese I prefer Warren. 

[lau]

  Buddha is so fat because he's rich! In old China, you had to be rich to be fat.  In north america, it's the opposite; poor people are fat. 

i heard that budda didn't believe in over indulgence and fasted a lot. so he was very skinny. i heard this from my teacher in school.

[galonia]

Buddha wasn't Chinese, he was Indian and a Hindu.

I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about "Chinese food" because in reality, most "Chinese" restaurants in Western countries serve either Cantonese or Sichuanese food.  And then a lot of them serve a westernise version of the foods that no Chinese person could ever recognise.

There are 8 main Chinese styles of cuisine, each one with its own unique style.  China is such a large "country" - a Japanese friend of mine who studies Chinese said her professors told her, you should think of China as at least 6 countries, because each area has its own customs, language (well not really language, but dialect, to be more correct), food, etc.  The European Union is attempting to do what China did a couple of thousand years ago.

So there is no such thing as a definitive "Chinese" food.

[emmdoubleew]

i heard that budda didn't believe in over indulgence and fasted a lot. so he was very skinny. i heard this from my teacher in school.

Who are you gusy talking about? Bodhidarma?

[prometheus]

Siddhartha Gautama came from a place which is nowadays part of Nepal.

Only a (small) number of Buddha stateus are fat. I don't know to what kind of buddhism they are related. The fatness symbolises the size of his soul. Of course fatness also symbolises happiness, luck, and generosity. The whole buddha statue is a symbol rather than a person. That is why its features are likewise.

Why is Santa Claus fat? Surely there doesn't grow much in the snow.

[lisztisforkids]

i heard that budda didn't believe in over indulgence and fasted a lot. so he was very skinny. i heard this from my teacher in school.

The fat on Budda is symbolic of his spirtual richness... Budda was very skinny and did not own a dime or a stool. Budda taught that the only way to progress out of this world and to acquire Nirvana, was to let go of all material possesions.

[prometheus]

Actually, the complete idea behind buddhism is that one is unhappy because one desires something. Now it seems that when one desire is forfilled you will at least one new one.

If you do not desire anything, not even not to desire anything, you cannot be unhappy because you have no reason to be. Thus you are happy and enlightened.

I am sure you did not miss the paradox in the above statement, and that is the big problem.

[lau]

The fat on Budda is symbolic of his spirtual richness... Budda was very skinny and did not own a dime or a stool. Budda taught that the only way to progress out of this world and to acquire Nirvana, was to let go of all material possesions.

that's what i thought, but i was to scared to say.

koji (STSD)

[lisztisforkids]

Actually, the complete idea behind buddhism is that one is unhappy because one desires something. Now it seems that when one desire is forfilled you will at least one new one.

If you do not desire anything, not even not to desire anything, you cannot be unhappy because you have no reason to be. Thus you are happy and enlightened.

I am sure you did not miss the paradox in the above statement, and that is the big problem.

Another time, another thread.  ;

[lau]

yes, back to the "freeking" subject. I have only been to a chinese b-ugh-fit like once or twice. Ever heard of kings wok? I think that is a chain, it's pretty delicous. But i'd rather eat some biscuits. Dang, I had the pillsbury grands, and i ate about 5. but they are no way to handle or manage food if they are homade.  Rice.

Koji (STSD)

[limegreen]

Just as long as you don't get the fortune in your cookie that says "that wasn't chicken/beef/pork you just ate" it's all good ....

[donjuan]

Just as long as you don't get the fortune in your cookie that says "that wasn't chicken/beef/pork you just ate" it's all good ....

my friend once received a fortune cookie that said "Help support literacy; buy a box of fortune cookies today"

no joke, he really did.