I ate at the Chinese buffet from hell last night.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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:

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

Did the buffet have Ancient Chinese Pizza(tm)?

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

:thumbsup:

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

very odd combo plates you could come up with.

Cabbage rolls with your chicken balls? :puke:

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

That should be your first hint.

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.