How to Eat at Chinese Food Buffet

Enjoying a meal when you eat at a Chinese food buffet is not only is relatively inexpensive but allows for pigging out,until stuffed and unable to move an inch. It is possible to enjoy the foods on the buffet yet walk away satisfied, and not full. Eat in the order that the food appears. Wanton Soup, Sweet and Sour Soup, egg roll, spare ribs, rice/noodles, main dishes and cakes and cookies and chocolate ice cream left for the end.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Enjoy all the dishes that you like or would like to try for the first time when you eat at a Chinese food buffet. Take a walk around the buffet table first and check out what there is to offer. Start with what you would usually eat if you were not at a Chinese food buffet. The idea is to enjoy and try, and not to get sick stuffing yourself until you feel you will burst.

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   Do not fill up on the soup.

   Notice the first item at any chinese food buffet are soups and chinese crisp noodles. Sometimes they place offer sweet rolls, but since you are here for the chinese food and not bread, pass up on the rolls and get a bowl of chicken egg drop soup instead with crisp soup noodles.

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   Sit and enjoy a little

   Take the soup and appetizer type food back to the table, and enjoy. Do not rush as there is plenty of dum sum to go around. Put a few of the appetizers and get sweet and sour dipping sauce for the spare ribs on your plate, and maybe a taste or two of fried shrimp or chicken. This will start you to taste some, and have room for tasting more.

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   Look at how the food is set up

   Return to eat more at a Chinese food buffet as many times as you like. Do not pile a variety of foods on top of each other. Place a small variety of foods on the plate next to each other. Instead of just eating one selection, eat at a Chinese food buffet and you can eat the same quantity of many selections for the same inexpensive price.

5. Continue, until your hunger is satisfied and you are ready for desserts. If they have cubes of cake, take one of each. When there are fruits, again take some of each kind. If you still have room for some ice cream, enjoy a little and then walk away, pay the bill, and go on your way.

Tips & Warnings

• Have a cup of soup and noodles. The idea is to taste and enjoy and not to get stuffed at the first course.
• Never pile up the food on your plate. You can go back for seconds and thirds and more. Take only what you can eat of that particular dish.
• Think of what you would have eaten if you were not at a buffet, and follow those steps.
• If you have rice and want to taste the noodles, take a spoon of rice, noodles and anything similar. This way instead of eating a great deal of one, you can sample all.
• Do the same will each dish on the buffet and you will walk away happy but not stuffed and sleepy.
• Walking back and forth to the buffet, will also make you eat less and give you a little excercise.
• Eating until you are stuffed is not healthy and puts a strain on your heart.
• If you leave out some food this time, you can always eat it the next time you return to eat at a Chinese Buffet.

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[ljstraight]

on 1/6/2009 I love chinese food, and your recommendations are right on the money, on how to eat at a chinese buffet. Now, I'm hungry for you know what. Thanks for sharing! 5 stars

[Haoie]

on 10/26/2008 Don't go to a Chinese buffet and eat nothing but non Chinese foods!!

[Felicity]

on 10/19/2008 Ooh yummy! Thanks for these ideas!

[asksummer]

on 9/1/2008 I dig chinese food.

[momofour]

on 8/28/2008 I guess pulling a chair up to the buffet itself is out of the question? Ha! Thanks for the article.