1 - Scout the Buffet (observe before grabbing) 2 - Skip salads (not worth the money) 3 - Focus on seafood and crab legs (most bang for your buck) 4 - Do not get fried rice or lo mein noodles (fills you up too fast) 5 - Don't eat anything with broccoli (It's not real Chinese food) 6 - Avoid General Tso's chicken (terribly unhealthy) 7 - Drink tea not soda 8 - Eat for the fun of it 9 - Put down the egg drop soup (not worth the money) 10 - Don't bother with non-meat dishes Also, food is sometimes saved from dinner to tomorrow's lunch SO, avoid going to a buffet early in the day to try to avoid yesterday's leftovers.

@bestiesmukbangchannel642

4 жыл бұрын

Wot if u vege or somert tho

@elliotmyers9071

4 жыл бұрын

If you like fried rice then prime time is lunch time. Food science at its best

@jhitacle5183

3 жыл бұрын

none of it is real chinese food tho

@3-methylindole730

Жыл бұрын

Not true, for example the fried rice and noodles

#1 your doing it wrong at a chinese buffet:You paid $20.00-$30.00. Good god, I've been to ones that goes all the way down to $9.00-$10.00 and that's the fully loaded dinner, hibachi/sushi set up.

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

9 жыл бұрын

***** lol thats pretty funny

@XLRAshon

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know right! Where do you even pay that much for a buffet???? Well maybe at very nice places. The most expensive Chinese Buffet I went to was like $15. But most of the places range from $7-$12!

@Serenitie3

9 жыл бұрын

In tourist towns. I live in Myrtle beach and pretty much every buffet is between 10 all the way up 25 dollars. Be it Chinese American seafood anything lol

@rickibanzine6752

9 жыл бұрын

Depend if you buy at night or weekend which price increase and depend on your state/country

@jewelzdany1

9 жыл бұрын

Serenitie3 Not true. Never heard of Myrtle Beach, but I live in an ultimate tourist destination, Miami, and Chinese buffets can be as cheap as $5. The more expensive ones, say $15-20, are Japanese seafoof buffets.

"Broccoli takes up unnecessary space in your stomach" isn't that... Great for a vegetable ?

@1sissy2

3 жыл бұрын

I agree its unecessary!!!😂🤣😅

@yriafehtivan

3 жыл бұрын

It's good for your waistline, bad for getting your money's worth of expensive items.

"bbbut im allergic to shellfish" "doesn't matter you gotta get your moneys worth" "ugh fine" (dies)

@kev-dm5388

4 жыл бұрын

Lmao 😂

@ChadTower

3 жыл бұрын

This is me exactly. Though I have seen people literally shove each other out of the way to get at a new drop of crab legs. And then the first person takes the whole batch at once.

There is no wrong way to eat a buffet. That and, who is paying 30 dollars a person at an Asian style buffet?

@ismokesomuchcrack

7 жыл бұрын

Alex Gregg for real man, the one by me is $9 a person!

@cfaithn

7 жыл бұрын

Alex Gregg There's a nice Chinese buffet called Mandarin in Canada. It's $26.99 + 13% tax = $30.50. Sooo worth it though.

@sladewilson3289

7 жыл бұрын

over here is 6.99 for lunch and 8.99 for dinner

@cfaithn

7 жыл бұрын

Slade Wilson Jesus. That's like free food!

@sladewilson3289

7 жыл бұрын

Chichi Nwaeze well per person and if u want a drink its like 1.69

#11 don't let strangers tell you what you like.

@ithila6712

8 жыл бұрын

YES! Especially so-called Foodie Elites with you tube channels that earn them money when people like us watch their lame vids. LOL

@DrDespicable

8 жыл бұрын

+MickyAvStickyHands THANK YOU! I watch these OTGW and Strictly Dumpling videos for information and tips and to learn about new things I might want to try, and I do try to keep an open mind - but more and more, I feel like I'm being judged and condemned by food snobs. Which leaves me less and less inclined to pay attention to their videos.

@shinyam75

8 жыл бұрын

+MickyAvStickyHands Exactly. Not everyone is the same. When you go to a buffet, you naturally eat what you like the most, and that's how you get your money's worth. Getting your money's worth by loading up on the most expensive items and enjoying the foods you like the most are two different things.

@ItsJustMilkISwear

8 жыл бұрын

+MickyAvStickyHands the things they said are objectively true. you can still like and eat things like fried rice and noodles that fill you up, but if you do it at a buffet you're wasting your money, because you could have just bought the fried rice and noodles at a restaurant and ate them and been full for less than the price of the buffet in most cases. this is a guide on how to get the most out of your money at a buffet, not a guide on what food you like the most at the buffet. the idea is that you can go to a buffet and eat unlimited crab or even lobster at high end places, that would cost you a ton of money if you had ordered it all at a restaurant. the video has good tips that not everyone knows, and it's not the bible so you don't need to abide by all 10 commandments of the youtube video you just watched.

@shinyam75

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, what you say is mainly true. However, part of the buffet experience is being able to eat many dishes that you like, not just one. Sure, you can order a plate of noodles for less if you like noodles, but it would be way too expensive to order the 10 other dishes you like as well. At a buffet, you can sample all of your favourite dishes.

Tip about the hot tea. Drinking the hot tea will make sure those oils in your stomach don't harden so they pass through easier.

@jonkienlen7332

6 жыл бұрын

ok fat man,now were talkin

@jonkienlen7332

6 жыл бұрын

and dont wear a banadanna if your a white dude, you cant hang

@jonkienlen7332

6 жыл бұрын

tip about the chinese guys, they respect you more if youre indignant

@richardrusin3932

5 жыл бұрын

jon kienlen y

I totally agree with these guys. I used those same strategies and won so many buffet quests.

"its a stomach trick to make you eat less" hahahaha oh my dear little cricket... You have to become one with the buffet. Dont fight it. Eat it. Eat it all. Even the plates.

@charger19691

6 жыл бұрын

Hugo Mendes, lmao

@duncansmith8687

6 жыл бұрын

Hugo Mendes LOL!!

@Nowadaysss

6 жыл бұрын

😂😂😭😭

I'm still trying to figure out where the hell Chinese buffets costs $20-$30!!

@toonybooper

7 жыл бұрын

TyGuy189 I'm missing out then lol

@Bevity

6 жыл бұрын

In Sweden.

@phoophop8167

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't been to China Town in years but I'm sure there are a lot of them .. (Chicago) There are quite a few in the nw burbs where it can be $25-35 for the weekend dinners. Which would include sometimes lobster, crab legs, prime rib, and just about any type of shrimp you can think of .... as well as several other types of seafood. I'll usually crab a small bowl of hot n sour soup , then jump into several plates of the various seafoods .. Maybe a little rice at the end ...

@ivyneedle2167

6 жыл бұрын

where i live almost all buffets cost $6

@phoophop8167

6 жыл бұрын

tickle my a hole Where's that at ? I'm guessin the display n menu for the buffet is somewhat limited them for that amount

$30 for a Chinese Buffet. Must be New York or California.

@xlWillyWonkalx

6 жыл бұрын

Vazcular I’m in a part of Cali and they got buffet specials for 6.50 and dinner with crab legs, oysters are only like 11 bucks lol

@Timinator62

6 жыл бұрын

The clown with Aussie/Zealander accent makes me think they AREN'T talking about the U.S.A. anyway, I live in a VERY popular California tourist spot and the Chinese Buffet is only around $13.00...burger and fries and drink will set you back about $11.00 at a burger joint..so the Buffet is well worth it.

@orthotech9758

6 жыл бұрын

I have eaten in Chinese buffets in Queens for under $10. I don't know where they are eating Chinese for $30.

@raverOFgod316

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, here they are! Fml

@hrdkorebp

6 жыл бұрын

They said a "nice" buffet

I personally adhere to the "4 plate" strategy. Two plates for meat, one plate for righteous carbs that you HAVE to have and the final plate for dessert.

you guy just ruined so many things for me. from fried rice to diet coke, im scared now to eat at Chinese buffet 0_0

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

9 жыл бұрын

Emely Corniel lol there are good ones

@emelycorniel1395

9 жыл бұрын

Lol its cool how you guys responded to me

@faerianna9145

9 жыл бұрын

In my experience, any good chef would tell you to never make fried rice with fresh rice unless you run out of leftover rice. Fresh rice has too much moisture to stirfry properly. The dryer leftover rice makes a much better fried rice. Absorb the soy sauce and not get soggy. Think of it like tiny sponges. ;-)

@tytyq2

9 жыл бұрын

Emely Corniel I am a Chinese I go to eat Chinese food in Chinese restaurant too, rice over night is ok as long as they are not the left over from what people eat on the table, I eat fried rice in Chinese restaurants all the time. Oil can not be changed for a month, if oil being cooked too long, the oil would get burnt and cause a big fire, in a very busy restaurant usually oil have to be changed within 3 days, in a very slow restaurant oil usually being changed within a week, that all depend on how much they cook, I worked in American hotel Holiday Inn before, a lot of time cooking oil being changed in 5-7 days. I am a Chinese I love broccoli, in a Chinese restaurant broccoli is cooked by the Chinese way, very delicious.

@haokun12

9 жыл бұрын

Emely Corniel to be fair, it's not just chinese restaurants, it's restaurants in general :(

$20-$30 I've NEVER paid that much for a buffet in my life! $10-15 tops!

@SAM59846

7 жыл бұрын

most I paid was 20

@mironignacio5969

7 жыл бұрын

IVE PAID 50. rip korean bbqs

@jamiewillis774

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Helms At the Chinese buffet where I am it's $7 for my age ?-13 and $12 for Adults and $10 for Pensioners

@rachelwilkinson9301

7 жыл бұрын

I pay about $35 for my family of three (2 adults and a 4 yr old) when we go to the Chinese buffet for dinner (and it's a good one with sushi and hibachi), less if we go at lunch time. Even if we pay the extra $5 per person for the all you can eat crab legs on the weekends it still is under $50.

@bcaye

7 жыл бұрын

Merlin Young, those prices are pretty standard for a very good buffet, maybe you never went to one.

Yeah , god forbid you just eat what you like and are hungry for

@borumir

6 жыл бұрын

exactly

@jp3813

6 жыл бұрын

If you want specific meals, might as well just go to a restaurant.

@Reids0me

6 жыл бұрын

They explicitly said at the beginning of the video that this was a guide for people that want to get the most value out of their meal. If you want to just fill up on carbs, go right ahead, but you just spent 18 bucks on 8 dollars worth of fried rice and soda.

@donaldwilliamfry

6 жыл бұрын

Reidsome The best "value" is eating a meal that you enjoy. I love broccoli and chicken dishes. I also love Chinese tea. I am not fond of crab legs. Some of the things I like are on the list. Other things are not. I eat what I like, which makes the meal the most value for my visit.

@jp3813

6 жыл бұрын

+Donald Fry Then a Chinese restaurant is the best choice for you instead of a buffet.

wtf so just eat crab legs and hot tea ?

@joaquimrodriguez8961

6 жыл бұрын

yes!!

@alexclark4792

6 жыл бұрын

I could easily eat $200+ worth of crab in a sitting, most of the weight is in the shell.

@cookingwithkingfletch3339

6 жыл бұрын

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@will.a.benjamin

6 жыл бұрын

These guys are stupid. It's a buffet, eat whatever the hell you want.

@HeilRay

6 жыл бұрын

Beni McAltair How are they stupid if they eat wat they want?

i do what i want except for the salad thing, I won't get any, don't worry lmao

@wadewilson3309

7 жыл бұрын

Alisson Tafur I can eat at least five dishes of fried rice and low mien; also I skipped the salad too 😂 I also hate seafood so why would I eat seafood if I hate it?

@alissan69

7 жыл бұрын

Wade Wilson true girl I only eat lo mein, rice and steak and broccoli with spring rolls and many Americanized Chinese food things, I don't like seafood either lol

@faizindawala9199

7 жыл бұрын

Alisson Tafur sr

@vexotoniks

7 жыл бұрын

Alisson Tafur lol ok good

@piotrrasputin6443

6 жыл бұрын

Alisson Tafur stfu

I have no idea if anyone's ever done this before, but if you're ever at a Chinese buffet, and if they have these sugary biscuits, get some of those. then, just take a little bowl or something and fill it with this red sauce. it's sweet and kind of tangy, so it might be sweet and sour sauce ... I don't really remember. it's been awhile since I've been to a Chinese buffet. but anyway, I usually take the biscuits and dip them in it and eat that as a kind of dessert. this is probably another one of those things that I'm doing wrong, but it tastes soooo good.

@michelleevans5531

8 жыл бұрын

I will definitely try that next time! That sounds yumm!

I can't get over the poopurri commercial before the video!🤣🤣 might need a bottle of that after eating at the buffet!

I always try to sit facing the buffet, if it's a large buffet with lots of tables I sit where I can watch for my favorite items. This way I can hit the table right after the steamed dumplings come out, or they just refreshed that tray of seafood. This also lets you get a good idea of whether this is a well maintained buffet (fresh safe food) or if you will be needing to stop for some antacids on the way home, because you see if they pull the old trays or just leave it there with some fresh stuff put on top and you can see how often they are checking the trays and replacing them in general too.

As a chef i can say that it is not only Chinese buffets that reuse leftover food from the day before. Almost all buffets are using left over food, not all but most. But there are reasons for it. First of, if we don't do this we will throw away lots of food which is a shame. And it is just leftovers, so they should be perfectly fine to eat... that is if the chefs are competent in what they are doing. Second thing is money, if we can reuse the leftover food from the week instead of throwing it away, we will save quiet a lot of money to, food aint cheap.

@Stubert222

6 жыл бұрын

If people come in and just eat the crab legs , or prawns then othee food gets neglected.... i agree sometimes you need to be able to reuse stuff due to this. Frankly if you ask me anyone who loads up on only one item at a buffet misses the point of a buffey all together and also makes ot harder for the restaurant to present a balanced buffey choice.

@pedrorodriguez2914

6 жыл бұрын

Food taste better the next day.

Actually...I think it's best to eat whatever you want, despite what other people think. If you like food with broccoli in it, that's cool. If you like rice with noodles, have some rice with noodles. I know some people have a tradition or a way of eating, but we're all different.

@ethandagamer255

8 жыл бұрын

I dont think you understand, you can buy as much as you want at stores and fill up faster with those, but then your just eating things that are not chinese. In fact you could get that stuff at hometown buffet and not be judged, then do it. But not in a Chinese restaurant, your be getting judgmental looks. and pluse why come to a Chinese restaurant I mean buffet when I could just go to an American restaurant and get that stuff that are chinese.

@ethandagamer255

8 жыл бұрын

+string master *plus

@matcharon

8 жыл бұрын

+Bexy Evans I agree with you! There are some flavors that you can't get unless you're at one of those Chinese buffet restaurants!

@chancejewson1516

8 жыл бұрын

who cares if they give you judgmental looks...If they do they don't deserve your money. (if you mean the customers, I rarely see any Asians at a "Chinese buffet") then again, who cares what others think! Your there to eat and enjoy yourself, not care what some strangers think about you.

@aarwonable

8 жыл бұрын

+Chance Jewson I go to buffets when I want to eat a lot of good food and I want to get my money's worth. The first thing I aim for is sushi. Fuck anything that's only veggies (except spring rolls, they're great).

Food tips, food tips, FOOD TIPS!!! GOING IN MY FOOD TIPS PLAYLIST! Thank you both for these golden words of wisdom!!!

I’m guilty of eating all of the things you tell us not to eat, but it’s soooooo gooooood!

You take all of crab leg and you been here 2 hour so you go now.

@CMTZ1

7 жыл бұрын

specopsbrat 😂

@agentsasha2480

7 жыл бұрын

specopsbrat HAAAA LOL!;I DIED, CAME BACK AND LAUGHED AGAIN!

@NutsandBoltsAuto

6 жыл бұрын

This happened to us a few years ago. My family and I went crazy with the seafood. Didnt touch much else... the people didnt like it. Oh, well.. i paid to eat what i want and how much i want of it :D

@visitor3756

6 жыл бұрын

specopsbrat Hahaha. You eat mo vegetables No you can't bring sleeping bag here. You go home.

@edwardgiver

6 жыл бұрын

No. I will eat my body weight in crab legs.

So basically boils down to: drink tea and go for the meat dishes? So I've been doing it right all along! :)

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

The buffet Zen is strong within you

What I learned. Just sip some tea and don’t eat anything.

I enjoyed this video because I figured this stuff out ages ago. Depending on the buffet and what's available, I have a certain rotation. I eat five set courses, each spanning several plates. The trick is to do smaller servings on each plate. Never pile! The third course is always wanton soup broth with a lot of green onion. It really stimulates my appetite and gets me ready for the back half. By my calculations, at my nearest buffet, for the admission price of 10.99 I eat what would cost well over $100 dollars if purchased at a grocery store and prepared at home

Hey Mike, sorry to tell you that you're partially wrong about the very last (secret) tip. If you have had very good fried rice, chances are the rice was actually cooked the day before. There are lots of higher end restaurants that actually precook rice and store them in the fridge to be used the next day for their fried rice.

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

yea true the fried rice is not the best example lol but as someone who's worked in Chinese restaurants, I'm telling you guys, do not eat there early in the day, there are a lot of things picked out from the night before and re-served. - Mike

what's the point of overstuffing yourself? just get a good meal that you enjoy,

@theuglykwan

8 жыл бұрын

+SEAN L Next to filial piety, not getting your moneys worth at a buffet is a chinese taboo. lol

@benpholmes

8 жыл бұрын

+SEAN L Exactly! My goal would be to eat an enjoyable meal and sample whatever I can--not to try to cheat the restaurant out of as much money as possible.

@jonnyfink6117

8 жыл бұрын

for some reason people think overeating is a gain in more than early death

@SiddiqueSukdiki

8 жыл бұрын

you stuff yourself with lots of food because that's what you pay for, if you want to eat less then you can buy the food for whatever it's worth. Not saying you have to stuff yourself, but why pay for more if your not gonna eat more?

My son worked for a local Taiwanese restaurant when in high school. We learned a lot in eating and saute ing . Living next door to a Korean family also helped. I grew up in NJ and learned to be a great Italian cook. So now you know how I run my kitchen, LOL! And my family members know what their favorite dishes are and my son that worked for the restaurant still has a very nice kitchen set up for oriental faire. Now THAT is called American Melting Pot Quizine! And it certainly is not the end of my story because I also served in Germany and learned German Choc Cake at its best; schnitzel and sauerkraut, too.

Thanks for the tip on what to eat in the Chinese Buffet, I find it very useful.

I hit the sushi HARD as soon as I walk in the door. And Hibachi

@godfreybuquet2272

6 жыл бұрын

I never eat steak in a Chinese restaurant, especially buffet. The meat is tough even if it is raw.

@tubastuff

6 жыл бұрын

One of the better Japanese restaurants I ever ate at was run by a guy from Taipei. He figured it was more profitable to hire Japanese cooks than open another Chinese restaurant. Smart guy.

@staffoffice

6 жыл бұрын

LOL, that's a losers bet!!! All that rice stuffs you fast.

@lisachavez3538

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Gilbert me too

@bevrosity

6 жыл бұрын

Steve Gilbert same. sushi first then traditional "chinese" dishes.

hahhaha this makes us sound SO cheap!! (but it's true lol) ps. my mum would make us skip the previous meal to make us extra hungry and yes, would scold us for taking fried rice, forcing us to eat more prawns even if we didn't like it! .. haha.. I learnt from a young age ;)

You guys are great! Thanks fur the super information!

My favorite thing at a buffet is maifun, but I always start with the broiled white fish. In fact, at any restaurant one of the hardest things to cook correctly is fish. You can always tell if the cook is good at their job by how well the fish is cooked.

All fried rice is day old rice. It makes the best fried rice because it dries and doesn't stick.

@BJGvideos

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, pro chefs advise it.

Note: Soda has been shown to actually make you MORE hungry and thirsty.. so.. you end up eating more. Also.. who the fuck goes to a Chinese buffet to watch calories?

@alexanderwesterstahl

7 жыл бұрын

Soda making you more thirsty is bullshit.

@LoyaFrostwind

7 жыл бұрын

The carbonation in soda will fill up your stomach with air. Stick to plain water. Also caffeine (in tea, coffee and most sodas) is an appetite suppressant.

@iLikePotato3s

7 жыл бұрын

Loya Frostwind well don't u just burp to get it out and usually I can drink a lot of soda but I feel full with water lol

@joaquimrodriguez8961

6 жыл бұрын

idiots!

@virginiaconnor8350

6 жыл бұрын

- JAVA - I prefer to drink hot tea and a glass of water with my meals. Soda just doesn't go with Chinese meal. Be care of eating the imitation crab-I got very I'll eating this ( It's the sorbitol in it that make you sick, same stuff in sugar-free gum, etc.). Have no problem with real crab or seafood as long as It's fresh. I like ginger at the end of my meal and fruit-instead of cookies or ice cream-for dessert. Also, don't fill up on the fried stuff and bread. Eat the baked or broiled meats and veggies instead.

Thanks for the info... I learned a lot.

I do check out the buffet first to see what I like. I can't eat much at once, and rarely get a second plate, so it is good to know what is available. Thanx for the tips!

My tactics, pick a chinese buffet with actual sushi. Nigiri, rolls, handrolls that all use salmon, tuna, eel and other high quality fish. I won't mention the Buffet I go to in California, but all I do is eat the sushi. I get plate after plate full of sushi till I am wicked stuffed. By the end of the night, I ate well over 60 dollars worth of sushi and only paid 30 bucks. I can also spend the same amount and just go to all you can eat sushi bar, but the tips bring the price up to around 40 bucks. Well worth it in my opinion, cause at the sushi bar I can get all the specialty rolls I want, all the nigiri I want and other various rolls. Do your homework on sushi prices, you will never pay per roll again once you learn the all you can eat sushi restaurants. Location is key. No restaurant tips from me for Orange County, I keep them to myself. These places are jewels, super clean, super friendly staff and excellent food. At the end of the night, you go home stuffed and ate over 100 dollars worth of sushi for 40 bucks. When I go with a friend, just imagine 2 large guys eating till they can't eat no more. We highly believe we were the reason for a restaurant closing in Brea,CA. Can't say for sure. We just know we went there every Wednesday, ate 100's of dollars of sushi for 20 bucks each and by the third or fourth week they closed the restaurant and changed to just a bar. Sad day for us at the time, but we found other jewels. Happy Buffet eating. :)

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

You are a true buffet warrior

@madelinegarden

10 жыл бұрын

uuummmm sushi is japanes

@NyttAura

10 жыл бұрын

That makes me think of a place in my city that opened about a year and a half ago. The place I go to has all you can eat sushi freshly made to order. They also have a hot bar with some standard things (some extra neat stuff) but I have learned from a lot of experience there to go for the gold and stick almost with the sushi. If I go there on a weekday for the lunch buffet, I can get unlimited sushi (and hot bar) for about thirteen bucks. It is heavenly. Glad to know there are other places out there like this :).

@stephaniechan4773

10 жыл бұрын

Whenever I go to sushi buffets and get like the salmon or eel, the ones that have fish sitting on top of a little thing of rice, I just eat the fish and leave the rice. I can eat lots maor dat way *^*

@stefansojka8747

7 жыл бұрын

sushi is Japanese not Chinese

i spend money to eat what i want. i eat what i want.

@comixdiscomix

8 жыл бұрын

Seriously, I can't stand when people say we're doing something the "wrong" way...

"But I like broccoli" "No!😯" 😂😂😂😂😂

Wow I feel pretty good! I knew most of these facts. I don't usually eat the fried rice because I love steamed Jasmine rice!

What Chinese buffet costs $20-30???

@Police-Officer-Fan-Club

7 жыл бұрын

That's the dinner price for "adults," depending on where you live. I guess the pricing system is hit or miss...

@Troacoli

7 жыл бұрын

Not anywhere in Kansas.I don't think I have ever paid over $12 at Chinese buffet.

@yaimiana

7 жыл бұрын

They are from NYC prices are pretty high there.

@Dancingqueen2700

7 жыл бұрын

+yaimiana Very true.

@canb4736

7 жыл бұрын

Seattle it cost about the much

These rules are the golden rules at any buffet. Avoid the veggies and starches and attack the meat section.

thank you very much, I'll try

Getting ones moneys-worth at the Chinese Buffet is good info. These are some great tips.

I thought this was going to be more about etiquette than about how I can be a bigger fat ass than I already am..... still, ty for the tips ÷)

@joaquimrodriguez8961

6 жыл бұрын

shack it baby don't break it.

@Cstyle27

6 жыл бұрын

Sky lol, me too!!!

I like how Ben yells out "Number three!" while holding up one finger.

Thanks for the info

What if my goal at the buffet is to enjoy what I like eating vs lowering the restaurants profit on purpose?

@JJ-rf7dg

3 жыл бұрын

LOL.

@kitty4536

3 жыл бұрын

To be honest Chinese buffets have extremely thin profit margin if any. All those near me are closed after at most a couple of years. There's just no money to be made unless there are a lot of "dumb" customers or strict dieters.

@g1122123

3 жыл бұрын

Then you’re white

@basil7292

2 жыл бұрын

@@kitty4536 I know one around here that's been open like 10, went there when I was a kid and its still open

1. Meat 2. Meat 3. Meat 4. Meat 5. Meat 6. Meat 7. Meat 8. Meat 9. Meat 10. Ain't nobody got time for vegetables.

@adadada9536

8 жыл бұрын

In toronto ,it might be

@josephteller9715

6 жыл бұрын

All meat, no veggies Truckerguy1983 and you'll be constipated for days afterwards.

I go eat 2 fat ass plates of lo mein then a pound of general chicken with white rice about 3 to 4 pounds of shrimp almost 7 pounds of crab legs then at the end I get 2 plates 1 with nothing but fried stuff the other with all of the meats I didn't get.

@xxklokxxcolt

7 жыл бұрын

I'm 6'3 and weigh 285 I've been told to stop getting crab or I will have to pay again.

@Sticky_Ricky

7 жыл бұрын

I got kicked out of one once. Then another made me pay for lunch and dinner because I was there for too long. I really wasnt though, maybe an hour. Ate a shit ton of crab and frog legs so I know thats why they did that

@xxklokxxcolt

7 жыл бұрын

they don't want to see me and you at the same spot I'm telling you lol

@Sticky_Ricky

7 жыл бұрын

Based off your first comment I think we could shut a buffet down no problem lol

@xxklokxxcolt

7 жыл бұрын

Haha seems to be but all you can eat shouldn't be just a saying they should actually mean it

When I go to a Chinese buffet, I eat what I like, and do not worry about being judged. For me money is not what it's about, its the quality of my dining experience. Oh and did you know most of the so-called Chinese food served here in America is actually a fusion of Southern Asian and French cooking. Early Americans thought that all Asians were Chinese.

love these tips,tricks and hacks. have any recipes that you could share if we did not want to go to a chinese buffet ?

honestly I'm not sure that's enough to stop me from liking general tso's

How does one focus on the crab and scallops and not feel like you're putting the restaurant in bankruptcy?

@misterbleedinggums

7 жыл бұрын

Because if they knew how to manage a business, they would either limit it or increase the price of the buffet.

@exqueue3813

7 жыл бұрын

One person isn't going to put a restaurant out of business. And they control how quickly the food comes out. If everyone is eating all the crab legs, they just don't bring any out for 5 minutes, and people eat other things and fill up while they wait.

@robertabarnhart6240

7 жыл бұрын

You do what my sister does and don't care. She will eat 3-4 plates of nothing but crab legs. And that's after she's filled up on the other foods.

@lordkrishnastolemyheart5485

7 жыл бұрын

Because the cost of eating there costs more than a pound of expensive seafood.

@havu2236

7 жыл бұрын

Erwin Schrödinger maybe she likes crab legs. Everyone here are saying eat what you like.

Finally something I have always done right .lol Thank you for sharing .

thanks nice video !

I'm diabetic, so I'll take my diet coke and save my carbs for the food.

@darkapothecary4116

7 жыл бұрын

diet coke is worse for you. diabetics fall for that one all the time. you are safer to drink half of any soft drink than 'diet' drinks

@sassynachnicole

7 жыл бұрын

Erin May Diabetics don't seem to understand that diet sodas do exactly the same thing as sodas with sugar because your body treats the fake sweeteners the same as real sugar when they're drank as much or more than regular sodas. It's not good for you and it definitely isn't better than regular soda.

@darkapothecary4116

7 жыл бұрын

nicole atkins it is all about that title basically if it says diet then it must be for people on a diet.

@allistrata

7 жыл бұрын

I'm almost certain that all or most of you don't have to poke and stab yourselves with lancets and syringes all day long. Diet soda does nothing to my blood sugar. Diabetics are already deprived of anything that tastes good. I'm not giving up the occasional diet coke as a treat.

@allistrata

7 жыл бұрын

Sugar.Starch Fat slows the absorption of sugar into the blood. And potatoes, corn, bread, pasta, rice, all of it might as well be served in a sugar bowl with a skull & crossbones on it because everything delicious is freaking poison for diabetics.

i'm not gonna eat something that i don't like just because its expensive, lol

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

what do you like on a Chinese buffet?

My mom used to take me and her friends to Chinese buffets 3 or 4 times a week and then would ask me where did our week’s money went? Thank god she got tired of going to them and gained a bit of patience with me so I could explain why we shouldn’t be going there that many times in a week. Or any other restaurant.

Woah, I actually really liked this video! I always had an idea that some foods fill you up faster, but I always get this feeling at the end of the buffet like I could've gotten more bang for my buck. Now I know what to head straight for!! XD (Also: always go to buffets during their lunch or dinner rushed because you know everything's gonna be fresh. Everyone wants those HOT fluffy doughnuts fresh out of the oil, not 20-minute doughnuts where the oil's soaked in..).

Who fucking cares? Just go, eat what you want, pay for it and leave?? Who strategizes what they're gonna eat, unless you're cheap.

I don't care if they are leftovers. I am an animal

@full95one

7 жыл бұрын

I actually prefer some foods the second day. it lets the flavors marry in *some* cases. fried rice is one of them. I like second day lo mien too.

@mikehunt6215

7 жыл бұрын

fUll 951 even if other people were eating the fried rice the day before and the Chinese placed them back in the buffet?

@full95one

7 жыл бұрын

Mike Hunt yeah. that's how second day food is consumed. the other people are not eating directly out of the serving tray. just using a giant serving spoon. I totally understand your distrust of other human beings and/or consuming one day old food. but I've yet to see anyone shove their bare hand into get some rice or just plop a chair down and start eating at the serving tray. I have eaten meals I've saved for over a week at times from the fridge. I just use my senses, and if it looks and smells good and the first bite taste fine. I'm all over a week old food item from the fridge. let alone one day old food. I don't think it's of the highest standard a restaurant can hold but it does not surprise me a buffet of all food serving establishments would practice saving good food from one day to the next. it's in thier interest to have the freshest items available and if they put something out that doesn't please the customers taste, made fresh or yesterday. that's on them.

@jeffchan3064

7 жыл бұрын

Second day pasta is the bomb. Eating it rn

@agentsasha2480

7 жыл бұрын

Jeff Iz GAWD LoL, that's mom says about spaghetti!

but I like broccoli...NO! LMAOOOOOOOO

General Tso was a real person. He just had nothing to do with the chicken.

@HandsomeRich83

6 жыл бұрын

John Goff Was going to say the exact same thing, thank you sir.

@alidajones2308

6 жыл бұрын

How could they not have known that and still pass themselves off as knowledgeable?

@jonkienlen7332

6 жыл бұрын

Wrong sir, he was a chicken, and a magnifecent general until that pecker-face lost his leg at osinakwaetaka, in a onion field

@iliketowatchvideos47

6 жыл бұрын

John Goff never heard of it

"but i like broccoli!" "NO" Made me laugh harder than i probably should have!

I know they cook general tsos in dark oil but I eat in anyways😂

@thedude4795

8 жыл бұрын

dark oil sound like gutter oil

@ztezmaxim2683

8 жыл бұрын

tasty though, all the same

Going to out local Chinese buffet tomorrow. Craving it! 😋

This is the most non-serious and yet real strategic video I've probably ever seen :P

I disagree with everything you say. I go to a buffet and eat what I like. It's my wasted money after all.

30 bucks for a buffet lunch here is 7 bucks like 11 for dinner

@masterstoner666

7 жыл бұрын

also I already knew all these tips. I'm very relived that this is also common practice I though I was just a greedy ass hole

@immposter

6 жыл бұрын

Same prices here to!

@jonathanlemon544

6 жыл бұрын

There's different types of buffets based on ratings.. One star buffet is a lot different than say a three or four star buffet. Here in Houston there's many different priced chinses buffets. Our Chinatown is huge though so if youre in an area with a low populace of asian Americans than you're less likely to find really good Chinese buffets. We even have Vietnamese buffets here and Korean bbq buffets so I'm just lucky haha

@HikeForLife23

6 жыл бұрын

$60.00 for a family of 3 here where I live

nice! great tips.. thanks

Just watched about 6 - 10 of your videos. Loved all of them ... lost count on how many. Learned a lot about the Chinese Buffet , thanks for the info. My wife, a Filipina, is now telling me that she knew most of those things already because she worked in a Filipino restaurant previously and most restaurant have a lot of the same way of recycling food. Any way, would you please do a video of Filipino grocery stores and or restaurants so I can have a few things to say about them to her. Can I be notified when you post it?

$30 for a buffet? Yikes, its only $9 where I live. How about eat what you want.

Here, Ill shorten this video down to one sentence: Don't eat anything that sounds good to you.

@full95one

7 жыл бұрын

no, the shortened version is : eat all the protein

@Sticky_Ricky

7 жыл бұрын

Okay fuck head. I'll be sixty, killed by cancer and I'll make sure its known in my will that I want to be burried next to all of the trendy health nuts who were decapitated in car accidents at 28. I hate to break it to you little guy but that paleo diet wont get you out of here alive. See what I'm saying? Let people enjoy life however they want. My grandpa has smoked since he was nine and still drinks at seventy-five. A client at my old job died at 97 and still had his grandson sneak him McDonalds and Jager until the day he died, still very well avle to get around and think for himself. My ex girlfriend did none od those things and had a relatively healthy diet. Guess what? Shes about to die if pancreatic cancer.

@Sticky_Ricky

7 жыл бұрын

Nah nevermind, lets take those precious moments a healthy diet will supposedly give us and use them to troll on KZread. Makes sense.

@full95one

7 жыл бұрын

***** don't worry. we'll continue to murder animals in mass every second of every day. and kill some more just for fun. we all do strive for healthier diet. but this is a video about buffet. like Mikey said. this is about eating for fun. not a daily lifestyle

@ad1v9

7 жыл бұрын

You are the most condescending piece of shit I have ever met

Makes perfect sense, thank you.

Well you guys have changed my mind about going to a Chinese Buffet ever again. I will have Chinese food, just not from a buffet. I happen to frequent places that I can see into the kitchen. So I know my food is fresh. Thanks for the heads up.

Seafood, sushi and prime rib - that's all you'll ever need at these buffets.

@524rdsxfn

10 жыл бұрын

Eh don't really like prime rib love sushi and general tso's or orange chicken

There's a great documentary called The Search For General Tso. It's an interesting history of US styled "Chinese" food. Worth the watch if you're into documentaries.

@johnboykins2723

8 жыл бұрын

The Chinese are just trying to give us all heart disease so they can take over the country, right? I've seen what they really eat as the buffets are closing down. They wouldn't touch what they serve.

@docphibz739

7 жыл бұрын

But yet it still proved that it is an original Chinese (Taiwan) dish.

@1001011011010

7 жыл бұрын

John Boykins the stuff on the buffet is white people food, they usually eat some soup or something. Then again those refilling the buffet were Hispanic and the restaurant was probably owned by Vietnamese people but still.

@docmobuquet5084

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks. Always waning to learn.

@touruuu2752

6 жыл бұрын

Greg Noblin o

Thanks & welcome to Saskatchewan Canada, you must have seen all that HERE

This actually helped out.Now I know all the tricks behind these Chinese buffets to rip you off your money.

My favorite trick with a chinese buffet is, find the one that's in its "Grand Opening". Chinese buffets and restaurants suffer from what I call "Six Month Syndrome". They put all of their money and effort into that first six months that they're open. The food will be the best quality, cooked by people they're paying very well, who are new to that restaurant and haven't developed any problems yet. After six months, the cashflow problems start, because they've been shoveling cash into the place hoping to build a clientele. Now the scrimping starts, and the first things to go are -- those attentive servers who come often to replenish your tea (they get their hours cut back and some get fired), the really good cook they're paying enough to buy a Tesla (if he hasn't already quit because of some real or imagined slight), and the food quality will slide. The oil gets changed less often, the grills cleaned less often or less well, and the grease traps are let slide longer. They don't buy that prime cut of meat, they buy the next grade down. They switch the fried chicken dishes like General Tso's (sorry, I love it so much I make it at home now) from the white meat Americans love to dark meat, because it's cheaper. Frankly, I think the dark meat tastes better. They also cut the meat smaller and put more breading around it. After one year, they have lost so many good cooks, they have their third-string cooks on as the first string. The food is edible and sometimes even good, but it's uneven and sometimes disappointing. Those steam trays aren't getting changed out as often, and some of the food on the line is, for buffet food, very old. You have trouble finding your server because she's probably out back having a cigarette, or sitting in a disused section of the restaurant texting her boyfriend. She doesn't care what you think, and a smile is the furthest thing from her face. At a year and a half, the cashflow has gotten so bad, they can't afford to pay anyone anymore. They may have gotten some health department fines for a dirty kitchen, because that Greek cook can't be bothered to clean up after himself. Yeah, they've gone so far downhill on cooks, they're hiring rejects from the gyros house down the street. He has no clue how to cook Chinese food, but he's winging it from a cookbook. So the place closes "for renovations". Yeah, the renovation is to find a new crew that has money to reopen the restaurant "under new management". This starts the cycle over again. Meanwhile, the people who have been leaving the restaurant all this time are working at the new restaurant six blocks over that's still in month two. Go there now.

Very interesting I was eating the whole time

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

Kelina Ruiz nice!

I do most of this already. There's a few things I didn't know, but most of it I just do as a matter of course.

Thanks for the meal.

Who spends $20-30 at a Chinese buffet? I've never spent more than $13 at a Chinese buffet for dinner including crab legs. Lol

@PsychoFisho

6 жыл бұрын

The better ones, with real sushi, larger snowcrab legs, crayfish and clams in shell, are $17 to $21, regardless of location in the U.S. Used been going to the low end buffets.

Everytime I plan on going to a chinese beffet I make sure I workout a lot before hand. Not only does this make me able to eat more, but it also helps me digest the food much easier. So I dont get an upset stomach from eating a lot. I am not sure if this works for others, but it works for me. :D thanks for the info btw. I didnt know some of that stuff. The beffet here only serves caffeinated drinks so their customers would eat less, because of the caffeine so I dont drink anything when I go there. However if they serve lemonade then you must get that. Its better than tea because it helps you digest food much better and it stimulates your appetite. So you eat more. Stay away from the caffeine drinks!!! Caffeine is known to make people not want to eat. That is why some buffets only serve drinks with caffeine in it... Its also good to drink a glass of water before you go there. It may make you eat less, but it will help with digesting the food. Well thats all I know...

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

good strategies

@Heathensauce

10 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@donnk

10 жыл бұрын

hey are u related to joe whitaker

@Heathensauce

10 жыл бұрын

No im not donnk, but I am related to satan though.

great content guys! :D Also why does the background music sound so familiar?

Gave me a full battle plan based on his Way of eating lol!!

Broccoli is not used in real Chinese dishes? oh lord, come to Hong Kong or Southern China, there are many dishes with broccoli. LMAO.

@greengiant7241

6 жыл бұрын

Yep!! You are right, I spent three years in the orient and there was quite a bit of broccoli.

@virginiaconnor8350

6 жыл бұрын

Wing C I like broccoli-and beans-but I will go around getting all day.

@nobodyimportant2470

6 жыл бұрын

A better way of putting it would have been that it isn't part of traditional Chinese dishes. Broccoli is from Europe and was introduced through trade. It started to be added later because it was cheap and filling.

@Fazzel

6 жыл бұрын

Did you know Broccoli was also the producer of the James Bond movies?

@will.a.benjamin

6 жыл бұрын

These two guys are idiots and this video is a joke.

but the best fried rice is made from day old white rice.

@johnware6272

6 жыл бұрын

Its the only way i have ever made it.

@TheNabob57

6 жыл бұрын

True. My wife is full filipina and eats LOTS of white rice. There is always some leftover for her to make fried rice with whatever is in the fridge to add in -- egg, onion, diced beef hot dog (I love my Nathan's), and recently some diced pepperoni we got from the italian deli. Mmmm. goooood flied lice!

@borumir

6 жыл бұрын

you can dry it out on a sheet pan in your oven on the lowest setting checking it and stirring every 15 minutes or so

Great vid

Interesting tips 👍

Lol, great logic here. Eat for fun... but don't eat or drink these things cause you will be judged by people who believe you should "eat for fun."

i literally go out and eat the exact things he said not to eat xD hahahaha the american struggle is real.

@NTDOffTheGreatWall

10 жыл бұрын

Michelle Sparkle rebel

@stephieh3235

9 жыл бұрын

lol I eat those too. And then I end up only eating steamed rice and dumplings. whatever. (I don't eat salad or general tso's though, because I can't stand it.

This video changed my life!

The very best strategy is to fill up a styrofoam plate with the good stuff like skewered chicken, peanut chicken, mushrooms and so on and take it home. They weigh it and you pay substantially less than if you eat it in the restaurant. At our local eatery I get $10 worth of stuff that's good for 2 to 3 meals. I make my own tea and egg drop soup.