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man I just realized I made this thread about a month before lockdown last year. very prescient thread title 
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Crusty Nutsack posted:man I just realized I made this thread about a month before lockdown last year. very prescient thread title Asking you the same thing I asked Nintendo when they dropped Animal Crossing last year: What did you know and how?
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Mar 29, 2021 00:33
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Aardvark! posted:my kingdom for a plate of chicken on a stick and egg rolls with a cup of hot mustard YOOOO I am the only person I have ever known to get packets of hot mustard with chinese takeout eggrolls. They are phenomenal together, the mustard plays so well against the greasy crisp of an egg roll. Can't get anyone to even try a single bite. They don't know what they are missing. Also chicken on a stick is a top tier buffet item
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Mar 29, 2021 06:25
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WITCHCRAFT posted:YOOOO This is all true but they literally serve egg rolls with hot mustard? Also the packet mustard is poo poo, that stuff is worth making fresh
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Mar 29, 2021 15:52
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One of my favorite asian buffets closed down in February  https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Daly-City-s-Moonstar-Buffet-closes-after-30-15977163.php
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Mar 30, 2021 00:26
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Pakistani Brad Pitt posted:This is all true but they literally serve egg rolls with hot mustard? Also the packet mustard is poo poo, that stuff is worth making fresh Where does hot mustard appear at a buffet geography-wise, I've never seen it in upstate NY? When I order takeout as a group, some people use soy sauce packets, some people use duck sauce packets, but the mustard is 100% ignored and I get to keep all of it. It's also pretty good on a bunch of the fried ephemera that constitute a "pu pu platter" - except the shrimp donut thing, that is good with duck sauce.
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Mar 30, 2021 06:35
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WHATS IN YOUR PU PU PLATTER?! I think this is very regional, and many places don't even have a pu pu platter??? Google says it is a Polynesian/tiki bar thing that kind of wound up in chinese takeout????? The one from my local place is 2x bag of boneless pork spare rib, 2x meat on a stick, 2x ring of fried dough with whole shelled shrimp tails inside, 2x shrimp toast, 4x chicken wing, and 2x eggroll. It's like the appetizer sampler but a bunch of that stuff is exclusive to the pu pu platter, you can't order it alone. It is really good and fun to share with people that never tried it and are like "lmao poo poo platter"
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Mar 30, 2021 06:43
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WITCHCRAFT posted:Where does hot mustard appear at a buffet geography-wise, I've never seen it in upstate NY? Geography wise, it's located in the salad section with the dressings.
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Mar 30, 2021 06:58
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Who the hell are the people eating egg rolls without mustard
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Mar 31, 2021 00:16
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I've always thought of egg rolls as a hot mustard delivery vector
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Mar 31, 2021 01:46
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Aardvark! posted:Geography wise, it's located in the salad section with the dressings. not around here it wain't
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Mar 31, 2021 05:01
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Here I think you are much more likely to get soy sauce, but also the red sweet and sour sauce with most chinese take out which I think tastes gross, and I would rather have the egg roll plain then use that. The hot mustard is definitely the superior choice but typically I feel like you have to ask for it or they won't bother, but they generally have some.
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Apr 3, 2021 11:00
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It's gotta be a 50/50 mix of duck sauce or preferably the sns sauce that looks like duck sauce (not the red) and hot mustard. That's ideal.
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Apr 3, 2021 19:54
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if you're at a place that has the pink sauce you more often see at hibachi places ("yumyum sauce" or as I once heard, "chinese ketchup"), then applying a big line of that and a big line of mustard along the top is PRISTINE
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Apr 3, 2021 20:02
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I loving hate places that give you a pint of red sugar sauce and an eyedropper of hot mustard
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Apr 3, 2021 22:04
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Truly miss Sizzler buffet's, but specifically for the corn nugget/fritters and pudding selection. Oh man, whatever they injected into that deep fried ball of creamed corn was just delightful.
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Apr 25, 2021 17:46
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Iain posted:I remember Rax, a roast beef place like Arbys, having a taco buffet. I always liked the Pizza Hut buffets, especially when they did wings. The chicken alfredo pasta was pretty good. It seems like every couple years I come across a KFC lunch buffet, probably overdue for one. Need to travel more I guess. I never even heard of Rax until I saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEcz8I64Mz0
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May 4, 2021 01:13
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There was a great buffet nearby called Teppanyaki that closed down over covid. Nowadays if I want a buffet, I have to go to a famously bad one. There is a great Indian place nearby which I guess is buffet style but I don't think that counts?
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May 4, 2021 07:16
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All my local casinos still haven't brought back their buffets.
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May 4, 2021 08:08
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Twenty Four posted:the red sweet and sour sauce with most chinese take out which I think tastes gross, its pineapple juice/syrup and ketchup NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH DUCK SAUCE
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May 6, 2021 05:06
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halokiller posted:All my local casinos still haven't brought back their buffets. the Wynn in Boston just completely demolished theirs and are putting in a sportsbook. it wasn't even open for a full calendar year i don't think, it was supposed to be really good (but expensive ofc). rip
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May 7, 2021 02:19
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i posted about this place in the Americana thread. it's a place i used to go to a lot as a kid and i have fond memories of it even though the food was almost certainly terrible. it's still exists, but only just. living on borrowed time. i'm surprised it survived covid honestly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDqLSQwI_44 ----------------
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May 7, 2021 04:36
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Chief McHeath posted:Shoney's breakfast buffet man. Just loading up a plate with heaps and heaps of bacon. literally a visceral memory for me, the year was 1997? We were towards the end of our once-every-few-years obligatory pilgrimage to Virginia to visit my paternal grandmother, who we largely ignored otherwise because my dad was an adultery baby and she was a horrible monster about it anyway we ate at Shoney's on the way home from that shitshow and I will literally never forget the experience of a cartoon-like trucker taking the entire steam pan's worth of bacon on one plate, like thirty people's worth, and then ladling an obscene amount of hot liquid cheese sauce all over the top of it The staff quickly replaced it but I could not tear my eyes away from this man, in his booth, just eating bacon and liquid cheese by the forkful We never made eye contact, but to this day I think if we did, I may have truly seen a man in the throes of pure bliss
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postmodifier posted:literally a visceral memory for me, the year was 1997? We were towards the end of our once-every-few-years obligatory pilgrimage to Virginia to visit my paternal grandmother, who we largely ignored otherwise because my dad was an adultery baby and she was a horrible monster about it he's dead now
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Previa_fun posted:he's dead now yeah that was like 40 years ago he's either dead or in assisted living
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The only buffet we've found that is still open is the Pizza Ranch's, which is a Christian values ... pizza buffet. We went a month back because of reasons and it was packed full of people who were seriously too fat to walk and rascals everywhere. As soon as a pizza came out, it went to empty. I think we sat for almost 20 minutes before I got a single slice of anything. Buffets have always been depressing, but I think all this inflation has magnified the effect of "fat people eat all the food at the buffet" effect. We're never going back because it was so loving depressing. Also, yes, hot mustard with my eggs rolls and the rest goes into the chinese meal which is hopefully peanutbutter chicken something something.
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Jul 8, 2022 14:32
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My GF hat to kill some time between appointments and she wanted to try a buffet. It seemed okay when we walked in but I noticed some cost cutting measures like the "crab bake" being obviously packaged surimi with cheese dumped on top and things of that nature. She has bad luck picking places, last time she found a conveyor belt pho place that claimed they had no idea how all the rotten shrimp got there
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Jul 15, 2022 01:59
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I'm gonne got to a buffet for the first time in like 3 years I want to eat the sweaty pan meats
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Jul 18, 2022 06:58
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Lawrence Gilchrist posted:"crab bake" being obviously packaged surimi with cheese dumped on top That's... normal for a cheap Chinese buffet? 
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Jul 25, 2022 18:36
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i don't think i've ever eaten it but i always appreciate when it's just named "Crab Cheese" on a hand written sign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn8KfYOOEuc
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I'd actually go to Golden Corral alone once every few months a few years ago - it was nice to be able to get whatever...pot roast, a salad, some meatloaf and some veggies...but it is like $15+ and that is getting water, and they have a waitress who comes around and fills your drink so you gotta tip to not be an rear end in a top hat. Just not worth it plus you are the solo dude in GC. If it was like $9.99 and you could just get 2 plates or something, they are making all their money on people like me not the old fatties in there camped out for 3 hours.
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