…Suck!
Cold food are either frozen or not cold. Hot food are either over cooked or just lukewarm or both. I don’t know what so many Hong Kongers see in buffets. If the shear mass of food is what interest them, try ALF’s job - be a Sanitary Engineer.
I have a Holiday Inn membership for 2 years now. Avenue Restaurant is why I joined the membership. They used to have everything a la cart for HKD$178 a 2 course lunch or HKD$198 for a 3 course lunch. The food was great. Since May, they have changed to a buffet appetizer with a la cart main course and desert. So now, all appetizers are room temperature and every dish is left in a mess. I am not renewing my membership with Holiday Inn after the membership runs out.
Has anyone notice how Hong Kongers take their food in a buffet? Has anyone seen how locust eat?
Part of the reason of having an a la cart instead of buffet is to see how the chef had the food prepared. Each chef has his own style and it changes according to his mood. It’s a visual presentation in itself and it’s an essential part to increase one’s appetite. Yet every time I have a buffet in Hong Kong, I just have one feeling - I want to get out of this pigsty!
And then there is this Buffet Club, a membership for an annual fee, when dinning with one of more friends in a buffet from several hotels or restaurants, there is a 20% discount on the bill excluding the service charge. This club kept call me at least once every fortnight asking me to join them. They had just called me again just now. Bloody annoying. Hack, one can get some 10%-20% and sometimes even 30-50% discount from selected restaurants with a credit card alone; and most credit cards don’t charge any annual fees these days!
Oh OK, maybe there is one selling point on buffets for Hong Kongers afterall… one can have an unlimited number of line-up free of charge in any buffet. Hong Kongers love lining up for some unknown reasons. Maybe they like arguing with Mainland Chinese people. Mainland Chinese people love butting in line-ups.
WhaUSay?!