Why Chuck Woodruff always takes pizza home froma Chinese buffet

Armando Arturo
   The only buffets you see now days are Chinese ones and the food they mainly offer is a combination of both Chinese dishes and American simple fare. Chuck Woodruff is our other food writer here and often we discuss food. chuck says he can never resist trying pizza in a Chinese buffet just because it is there and he also said that he will take a bunch of slices home in a napkin hidden in a pocket in his trousers. Chuck says for the expensive all you can eat price he deserves to have a special free midnight snack of old soggy pizza from a Chinese buffet no less. As far as buffets in general I cannot tell you how many times I have been disappointed crisscrossing America to walk into a place that has a buffet name only to see the bizarre statues and Chinese lettering once you walk inside. I happened to be in Peru, Illinois a few weeks back and saw this place called master Buffet and from the looks of outside the place it seemed to be another average restaurant and an independent buffet style. The place is a Chinese buffet typical of many places of this genre with old food left out on the tray where the food is no longer hot and just stays warm under lighting. Unlike Chuck I can easily bypass the spare ribs and pizza at this place and the Chinese food was nothing to write home about this place. Chinese buffets much lie the few American buffets still around are nothing but cafeteria food of thawed out food from the package of some mass food processing plant from all across the country. These places serve little of quality tasting food and are really indistinguishable from one another all seeming to have the same dishes come from the same source. Chuck says the pizza usually tastes from the same place high schools would put out and rarely does the pizza from a Chinese buffet resemble anything higher than the Dominos chain. Chinese buffets are best to avoid unless you really don't give a shit about the quality of food you put in your body. the only good thing at Chinese buffets are usually the hot young female relatives of the family run business working at the family business on a dime. They are always nice to look at compared to the food and other customers gourging themselves.