May 11, 2005

• INFINITE-SIZE MY BUFFET.

  
  

  I never got the concept of buffets. Pay to stuff yourself silly, till the food pratically climbs up your throat crying to be puked out? Alright, I get the variety part, where one can choose from hundreds of different tastes, but the “eat-your-money’s” worth just does not get through my head. Like why do i have to pay to feel miserable afterwards? When eating should be a pleasurable activity to begin with. When I walk into a restaurant, I demand excellent service and high quality food that will fill me at the satisfactory price; enough for the beneficiary of the business, and an affordable price for a middle-class meal. Is that too much to ask for?? Apparently, traditional day chinese parents don’t understand the “satisfy oneself” concept. “You eat crab and lobsta, NO WICE!” “But mom, i don’t even like seafood.” “I dun care, you eat high price food!!”

  
  

  Now, i’ve never been the big eater in the family. If you ask my boyfriend, I eat like a tiny little bird. So buffet has never been my thing, but it’s just recently that my parents took me out to a sushi buffet that brings back this passionate hatred towards buffets. Moreoever, I’ve always been the kid that went for the fruits and jello. I remember my mom slapped my head with her back hand and said: “don’t be stupid” and directed me to the more “high-priced food.” And when I was full by the second plate, mom would whine at how i shouldn’t have stuffed myself earlier with the rice. For God’s sake, it was a side dish that went along with all the stupid crab and lobster that she made me eat!!  Please, what’s the point of eating what I don’t even like. That’s when I decided to refuse all offers to dine at buffets, if  it wasn’t for a birthday party, wedding or banquet. I mean, all the oily food can’t be good for you. So ontop of paying for the ”suffering enjoyment” of your meal,  you are pratically killing yourself with all this cheap oil that they use in the “chow mein”, “xa gai” (fried chicken), and what-not.

  
  

  Now you are paying the restaurant one low rate to eat all the food you want. And most of the time, the food may not be or not-at-all at their best quality. Because hey, they gotta earn money somewhere. But people are just awed at the fact that they can eat as much as they want. — eat as much crap ass food as they want. Seems luring, doesn’t it? Food that is poorly cooked and prepared at a quick-untimely speed.

  
  

   If you ask me, buffets isn’t my favourite dinning alternative. If I was that much of a health freak as before, I would actually boycott buffets rather than spending so much time suing McDonald’s. Dumb people stuff themselves with fast food on a daily basis (Sorry, if that’s you). Dumber people go to buffets and stuff themselves FIVE times the food they would eat at a local fast food joint with ONE LOW PRICE. Cause hey, who’s gonna stop them? Trust me, buffets are DEADLIER than McDonalds. 

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