I ate at the Chinese buffet from hell last night.

[Beware the Beast Man]

Granted, most Chinese buffets aren't too heavenly, so hear me out.

Cathy and I decided to try out a different place from where we usually go. Big mistake. I got my usual California rolls (I know that it's technically not sushi, but I like it anyway) and at the first couple without even looking. When I went back to get more for seconds, something didn't look quite right about it. Upon further investigation, i noticed they had used pickles in place of the usual cucumber. :puke: It all went downhill from there. My vegetable delight tasted like fish, and the pastry I decided to get to cleanse my palate was freezer burnt.

Fucking sweet pickles! The idea of it still turns my stomach.

[Love Bug]

1. Personally, I love sweet pickles, but not like that. I'd be grossed, too.

[Beware the Beast Man]

10. I'm a dill man, myself.

Ironic, considering I had the best dill spear of my life at a local deli over the weekend. :)

[Love Bug]

18. Oh, yeah, a nice, snappy dill pickle on a burger is good

[doc03]

2. Every thing is deep-fried, I think it's a secret

Chinese plot to kill us off. I can't believe the Chinese actually eat that stuff and there are so many of them.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

3. Mmmmm. Deep-fried Philadelphia rolls.

[terrya]

4. Ugh. That sounds vile.

And, maybe it's just me, but...

When Chinese food is bad, it's REALLY bad. Some of my worst restaurant experiences were from Chinese restaurants.

[Beware the Beast Man]

5. Indeed.

This is worse than the time I had Kung Pao chicken that tasted like it was stir-fried in bong resin. x(

[terrya]

6. Now, that's gross.

Bong resin is probably one of the least appetizing things one could put in one's mouth (that's an opening, isn't it?). And to eat something that seems like it was stir-fried in it... :puke:

[Magrittes Pipe]

7. Well, TECHNICALLY....

California roll is sushi. As long as it's made with sushi rice, anyway.

Did the buffet have Ancient Chinese Pizza(tm)?

[Beware the Beast Man]

8. Yes, as well as that old Cantonese favorite- potato skins.

I always figured sushi purists spoke lowly of Cali. rolls.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. I like the mac & cheese.

:thumbsup:

[Ravenseye]

16. Isn't it technically called Maki?

Sushi is fish, or somethign else, pressed onto rice.
Sashimi is just the fish, or something else, with no rice.
Maki is when it's rolled up with rice and seaweed into a roll and then cut into slices. Maki has two forms, one with the rice on the outside (inside out rolls) and one with the seaweed on the outside (ala Tekka Maki or Kappa Maki)

There are varients of the California Roll that have varieties of pickles in them (I forget the actual name, but my father orders it), but it's not a California roll then.

[Magrittes Pipe]

21. "Sushi" is the rice. Maki and nigri are both types of sushi.

Sushi doesn't need to contain any seafood at all. For instance, tamago -- that sweet scrambled egg nigri? That's sushi.

[Cathyclysmic]

11. I really thought you were going to be sick on the drive home

You were green! Everyone at work has been warned to avoid the Tasty Buffet. I told them the chicken looked suspect and was probably pigeon they caught out back.

[Beware the Beast Man]

15. I'm still nauseous.

I'm not exaggerating, either. I feel like ass.

[catmandu57]

12. Eureka Springs Arkansas?

My wife and I were there last year looking for a place to have dinner when we saw a chinese buffet, it was one of the worst dining experiences I've ever had.

[TimeChaser]

13. You're in the Pgh area, right?

What place was it, so I know to avoid it?

[Beware the Beast Man]

14. I'm originally from Pittsburgh, but I live in Cleveland.

As for the Bong Resin Kung Pao Chicken story, that was the Empire Szechuan on McKnight Road, which has since closed. :)

[Ravenseye]

17. Bad Chinese Buffets

I feel your pain. I once was stuck for 3 months doing work in Bedford, PA and our choices of food were basically Pizza Hut, Denny's and a shitty Chinese Buffet. Our foreman (I was doing CRM work at the time and food was comped) didnt' like the other places so we ate dinner at the Chinese place pretty exclusively for dinner for 3 months.

Denny's for breakfast. Chinese Buffet for dinner.

It was so bad that after awhile I basically just ate white rice and small pieces of other foods. I couldn't eat any chinese food for years after that it turned my stomach so bad.

[Fenris]

19. My cousin and his wife ate at a place called Thomas Super Buffet once

It's in Austin. They didn't even make it out of the restaurant - the food shot right through them.

[KittyWampus]

20. Oddest Chinese Buffett I ever had included Italian AND Chinese

very odd combo plates you could come up with.

[u4ic]

23. A place here serves Chinese and Italian and Ukrainian

Cabbage rolls with your chicken balls? :puke:

[NewJeffCT]

24. My Chinese wife loves a good Chinese buffet

There are several in Connecticut that she approves of... of course, I think she can eat the equivalent of her weight at a buffet.

[dorkulon]

22. Sushi's not Chinese.

That should be your first hint.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. I don't even go to Chinese restaurants that feature buffets any

more.

We still have some here who do not have buffet service and these three restaurants perennially make the top 3 in those "Best Of" deals the local paper does.

So when in Fort Worth, get your Chinese craving satisfied at:

Wan Fu
Szechuan (two locations)
China Jade.

Of course we now have Pei Wei and PF Chang's but that is a different type of place. These others are traditional family run Chinese places with excellent soups and attentive service and very fresh food.