Anonymous · 2026-07-07 09:50 [#4941][report] My hometown Chinese place is still around but the family that ran it left for NYC after their daughter graduated in my class. The different owners just aren't the same and neither is the food. They had some of the best rangoons, Mongolian beef, and General Tso's. They even had the lil fried sesame balls filled with red bean for a dessert. Could be worse OP. I'd rather it be gone than be a shell of what it once was. Miss it all the time desu
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 10:43 [#4947][report] My favorite asian buffet burnt down
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 11:18 [#4951][report] >>19077 why and where
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 11:43 [#4955][report] >>19078 Sorry. That was me stuffing the rice down the cracks of the booth. Since they won't put out just sashimi or use less rice in the rolls, I gotta do something with it.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 11:54 [#4958][report] Suddenly our towns stray cat population has exploded.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 12:06 [#4962][report] >>19085 And that's a good thing.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 15:31 [#5010][report] >>19083 Doubt it. They'd been going for a decade
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 16:15 [#5020][report] >>19077 I'm sorry to hear that Anon. I'll remember your plight next time I go to my own local Chinese buffet. Broader discussion topic: what's the strangest dish that your local buffet has on the regular? Mine does chicken katsu with a peanut butter sauce. It's surprisingly good.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 16:26 [#5031][report] >>19089 Mine has that dish, I actually like it.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 17:02 [#5046][report] I don't think mine ever will. They are just too good of a value proposition compared to surrounding options.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 17:05 [#5047][report] >>19086 cats are NOT girls
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 17:25 [#5051][report] >>19077 My nearest closed but the other two are just a mile farther down. One of them expanded in September, buying an abandoned store next door. Somehow, they stayed in business while renos were being done. >>19085 lmao The two I just mentioned are in the same shopping plaza, across the lot from each other and there's a huge cat colony behind said plaza. Like HUGE huge. White bitches that ain't got shut going on in their lives go back there and build little houses and shit and feed the cats.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 19:48 [#5097][report] >>19077 My local chinese buffet got a new owner and his daughter at the cashier immediately started to recognize me as a regular and always chat with me whenever I come
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 20:09 [#5101][report] >>19077 At least it didn't have a shift in quality that was tangible immediately when it happened, and you thought it was a fluke, but when you got raw chicken the second time, it was confirmed by reviews to have completely changed into a shitty ass restaurant, rather than the best chinese food you ever had.
>>19080 my consolences
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 20:11 [#5102][report] >>19091 Don't be so sure, anon. There are two instances of similar restaurants suddenly just changing and being shit.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 20:16 [#5104][report] >>19077 Shame. Where else can you get this exact kind of pizza? It seems specific to Chinese buffets. No other shitty pizza is quite like it.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 20:30 [#5109][report] >>19080 Same thing happened to ours. It was well lit, hot and fresh food and it was clean. Fastfoward 8 years and new owners. Place got dim, food didn't seem as fresh and was clearly food company processed and the staff were rude as fuck. Funny thing about those bean balls, had a Cambodiain coworker eat 54 of those bastards on top of his three plates. Asian ladies were all pissed off.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 21:48 [#5153][report] >>19097 Its rare that you can visibly see the hate and contempt that went into a cooked food
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 22:01 [#5158][report] man they gotta stop killing games. fuck live service how’re you gonna finish the achievements now??
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 22:18 [#5163][report] >>19097 Just make your own, anon. That crust is unmistakable.
Anonymous · 2026-07-07 22:48 [#5172][report] >>19077 Mine's still running, but the quality went down after the father of the family running it retired. From 1991 until 2016, I had access to the finest pork fried rice ever created. So, I guess this is growing up.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:42 [#5216][report] >>19077 I'll never understand the economics of buffets. All it takes to bankrupt them is for one fat person, even a compeitor eating maliciously, to buy a ticket, sit down and start eating to seriously damage their razor thin margins
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:44 [#5217][report] >>19077 Sorry anon I was the one who threw up in the Chinese buffet bathroom
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:46 [#5219][report] >>19105 They charge by plate or weight.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:54 [#5221][report] >>19107 Not in any buffet I've ever been to. Its usually one set price per person and all you can eat, though I'm sure lardfats have been kicked out before >YOU LEAVE, YOU GO NOW 肥猪, IT SAY ALL YOU CAN EAT NOT YOU CAN EAT ALL
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:57 [#5222][report] >>19105 >eating maliciously This made me chuckle
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 00:58 [#5225][report] >>19108 Here you sit down, order a drink, then go to the buffet and pick what you want. The waiter comes periodically asking if you want a refill or are you finished and they give you the bill.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 01:00 [#5226][report] >>19077 Could be worse, a new chinese buffet opened nearby a week before covid. I heard they were amazing having bao buns and all kinds of cool stuff most places don't have. But I didn't get a chance to go right away and then shtf and by the time I got to go later on they were a hollow shell and worse than the already established buffets. I'll forever seethe about what I missed out on.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 01:09 [#5231][report] >>19108 YOU SCARE MY WIFE
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 01:20 [#5233][report] >>19105 Buffet near me is $30 on weekdays for lunch and $50 on saturdays just for the buffet. I can go through 4 overflowing plates but that's at most $15 worth of food. Plus when I get $4 bottomless coke it's not more than 25 cents worth of syrup.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 04:25 [#5299][report] >>19077 There's only a couple chain ones left near me. It's sad, all the classic Chinese restaurants are dying because their kids don't want to continue the business. Even the factory that made the almond cookies all the places used closed. Now we only have authentic Chinese restaurants opening instead of the comfy version
i-Anon !AWEsomEEEE · 2026-07-08 04:26 [#5300][report] >>19077 have u tried the taiwan hotpot intsead?
i-Anon !AWEsomEEEE · 2026-07-08 04:28 [#5302][report] >>19114 >only have authentic Chinese restaurants opening blame tony the cuck for that.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 04:29 [#5304][report] >>19105 It's a law of numbers thing it's yes you're gonna have maybe one fat ass that will double the cost of the food but you're also going to have tons of normal people that you can charge the shit out of. Basically casino economics
>>19089 >what's the strangest dish that your local buffet has on the regular? No more Chinese buffets near me but when I’d first go I remembered thinking >>19097 is weird (but makes sense for kids)
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 04:40 [#5312][report] The chinese place I went to in high school all the time shut down. I used to think I had a special relationship with the owners and it was our little secret. They'd give me free shit for no reason. Then I talked to my dad about the closure and he literally started crying manly tears. Apparently it wasn't just me. Real family run chinese restaurants are one of the best things in life.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 04:53 [#5320][report] >>19105 I heard your dad went to a restaurant and ate all the food in the restaurant and they had to close the restaurant
i-Anon !AWEsomEEEE · 2026-07-08 04:54 [#5321][report] >>19119 >They'd give me free shit for no reason. Then I talked to my dad about the closure and he literally started crying manly tears.
your dad cucked them didn't he?
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 04:57 [#5324][report] >>19121 I am not sure the exact scenario you're implying but most likely yes. Yes, he did.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 09:54 [#5355][report] >>19077 i WISH every chinese buffets would close: i'm tired to go there and see my asian bf gorging himself, getting fat weeks after weeks, it's sickening to watch (really disheartening, he was a twink years ago... NOT anymore!!!)
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 11:52 [#5365][report] >>19077 How many fat guys did it take?
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 15:15 [#5404][report] >>19108 In central business districts, there are numerous buffets that do by weight only (a very, very small number do AYCE, but they're not as common). By plate? Never seen that but by weight is extremely common. I took a friend to one back in 2019 or so because I told him how it was the best, most varied buffet ever. He conceded the point after getting japchae, Jamaican jerk pork, corn batter fried shrimp, collards with smoked turkey and some other shit all on the same plate. I told him to get the crab meat egg rolls and he lost his fucking mind at how good they are. If you get there in the morning to grab a quick muffin or something since it's a deli/bodega that just happens to have a buffet, you can see the grandma sitting in the back near the self service water thingy stuffing the egg rolls herself using canned crab meat.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 21:46 [#5457][report] The one I liked closed years ago. They had a way smaller selection but everything was quality. The only ones around me now have unlimited selection but it's all garbage.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 23:09 [#5482][report] >>22098371 Please do not google image search who this person is.
Anonymous · 2026-07-08 23:33 [#5487][report] >>19108 YOU BEEN HERE FOUR HOUR!
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 00:08 [#5500][report] >>19119 >goyslop fast food shuts down >dad sheds tears over it Americans literally WEEP when their fast food goes out of business. Literal pigs crying that they have slightly different slop filling their troughs.
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:33 [#5616][report] >>19077 Sympathies, Anon. We lost all the ones in my area (IllAnnoys, with Governor Jabba The Hutt Pritzker) during the Great WuFlu DemPanic when kike Pritzker forced all the restaurants to either shut down or do outdoor seating for something like six months.
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:34 [#5619][report] >>19087 Only two more weeks and I can quit wearing this full-body MOPP suit!
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:35 [#5623][report] >>19092 If only Elon would fund research into making genetically altered catgirls. ;_;
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:37 [#5624][report] >>19105 Fat people can't stuff themselves all at once, Anon. Their stomachs get compressed by all the surrounding blubber.
If you watch those competitive eating challenges, the people who "win" them are usually seriously skinny.
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:40 [#5626][report] >>19114 >all the classic Chinese restaurants are dying because their kids don't want to continue the business. I guess that explains why I haven't been able to find a single decent Chinese restaurant since I moved back to the U.S. three and a half years ago. Seriously, they all absolutely suck now.
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:43 [#5627][report] find a non-local one... move to vegas, they have like 6+ of them in a 5 mile radius.
Anonymous · 2026-07-09 05:46 [#5628][report] >>19128 https://www.lifeofonion.com/index.php?title=Emo_Charlie ?? Big deal, some character an actor or comedian or whatever plays.
Anonymous · 2026-07-10 07:56 [#6227][report] >>19080 You should've married that bitch and overtaken the family buisness
Anonymous · 2026-07-10 07:59 [#6229][report] >>19105 The steadiest stream of their incomes comes from take out, where you just fill up a box or two and pay by weight. Probably half of all people just do that as they'd rather eat at home than in the place. This is garunteed profit
Anonymous · 2026-07-10 08:05 [#6230][report] I had one called the super buffet which I didn't realize at the time because of my innocence but it was a money laundering operation It was only $8 and the food was really good It also had a tremendous square footage and very few tables. Just a lot of empty space on the floor looking like a hotel lobby Then one day it just vanished. Like over night it was just completely stripped and closed