Buffet at the Jin Feng

Buffets are wonderful. You get your choice of many different delicious foods, and can fill your plate again, and again. In America, we will choose our restaurant based on the size of the buffet.

The Jin Feng buffet is a big buffet, so our group was more than excited at the possibilities. Our memories of Chinese buffets in America were rich with sweet and sour sauces and delicious egg rolls.

Sadly, we discovered that the edible (in our opinion) choices were very few. The Chinese consider many things to be delicious that we consider being, well, trash.

So far, the Jin Feng has offered us fried intestines, whole stir-fried frogs in a black broth, cold jellyfish, and duck head floating in…something. We haven’t been interested in these choices.

There are some familiar foods…prepared in unfamiliar ways, however. The fried egg is more un-fried than it is fried (no, not just “runny”) and the bacon is warmed, but that’s as much effort as they put into it. The bowl of boiled eggs looks good until you realize that they have been boiled in tea.

Where are the egg rolls???

Hmmm.

To be fair, they have offered some really good foods. The almond muffins have been my breakfast favorite. The buffet offers plenty of fresh fruits, also. But, you can’t eat almond muffins for every meal, and honestly, an apple a day is a little too much fruit for me.

We’ve thought about trying to cross town to find KFC. It is located in the same area as Walmart, though, and that experience is still too fresh on our minds. Also, we’re a little worried that a Chinese KFC may not be as selective in which chicken parts to make extra-crispy.

We’ve heard the buffet offered at the White Swan hotel in Guangzhou is very “westernized”. Hopefully, that doesn’t just mean that the eggs aren’t boiled in tea.

I’ll let you know.