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John Kane > wrote:

> On Jun 26, 3:14*pm, Omelet > wrote:
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> > > I love having a variety of little dishes for meals! *Two nights
> > > ago, I had dim sum. *Ordered too much to get some variety, and ate
> > > some of it for breakfast yesterday. *Yum.
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> > Variety is why I like a good chinese buffet. ;-d
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> "good chinese buffet" is an oxymoron. Chinese food is just not
> intended to sit around in steam trays. For a cuisine that developed
> the sizzling hot pot, a buffet is a terrible idea.

There's a Chinese restaurant not far from me with a good lunch buffet.
The hours are pretty limited, the food selection is limited, and it is
popular, so the food turnover is very high. Some of the dishes seem to
get replaced every few minutes. That's as good as "cooked to order",
since a platter of food will sit on your table for much longer than that
while people eat their fill. For most of the day there is no buffet,
and the food is cooked to order and served.

There's an Asian buffet, also not far from me. The hours are very long,
and they have nothing besides the buffet. The one time I went, there
weren't many customers, so the food turnover wasn't high. Worse yet, at
their most expensive time, they offered 150 dishes!

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA