I'm not a huge fan of buffets, but that has more to do with the fact that I don't tend to eat enough to make the price worth it.
As for the food, I usually find it good but never great, and I do my best not to think about all the ways it could go terribly wrong from a food safety standpoint.
And when the owner of an All-You-Can-Eat buffet decided to open himself to questions on Reddit, it seemed I'm not the only one.
Also unsurprisingly, it turns out many of the dishes are prepackaged and frozen. But, at least the meat dishes are made in house.
Certainly, anyone worth mentioning in the answer to this question got serious value out of the cost of the buffet.
Whether they shouldeat more than two pounds of food is one thing, but I know a lot of people who believe that they need to get their money's worth and will eat long past feeling stuffed.
Sure, the seafood and meat dishes may cost more to make, but most people fill up on noodles.
"Some is ok, some is amazing, never had one I hated, what is the story on it?"
I mean, it would make the soup the right thickness, but it just wouldn't be the same.
You know, I thought I'd be more surprised at the sushi being safer, but his logic about stricter standards makes sense.
I'd take this a step further because I don't even think the frosting tastes like sugar, just food coloring.
My one exception is at a local sushi place where the dessert options include red bean ice cream, which is the best.
"From groceries and fisheries past their prime"...yuck! Like, it's not even that they're sitting in the buffet trays for too long. They're bad before they even arrive!
I hate it when my favorite dish disappears from the menu, but his explanation makes a lot of sense.
His explanation makes a lot of sense, though. Having to hand-dip each chicken wing would take a lot longer than dumping sauce into a bowl to cover a bunch at once.
Well, they're messy enough already. Do you really want sauce all over the spot you're meant to hold? And it would be much harder to control how much sauce was on each.
The pests answer is most interesting to me, in that it puts my concerns about cleanliness to bed.
Really, are we surprised by this answer? That red sauce with the rooster on the bottle makes everything better.
It makes sense, though. One container of flavor syrup can fill a ton of cups before needing to be replaced.
Luckily, people apparently tend to leave the cheap stuff, like noodles, on their plate, rather than the protein.
I'm more of a multiple servings girl. Then my food is still warm when I'm finishing a plate of it.
I don't know, I've seen remarkable amounts of protein get eaten at buffets. You almost want to try it just to prove him wrong.
Not only do they let people work for food if they need it, but some have even gotten permanent jobs!
I think a lot of restaurants would just shrug at a person who literally can't eat a full-sized meal and just charge them full price.
My heart would have broken if he'd revealed the dumplings were unsafe to eat. Dumplings are my happy place, and you should never mess with my happy place.
Avoid the oysters and crab legs, enjoy the sushi, and eat all the dumplings. And sriracha is the greatest sauce on the planet.
