"Once again I found myself on my own and going to my mother's annual turkey curry buffet. Every year she tries to fix me up with some bushy-haired, middle-aged bore, and I feared this year would be no exception." -- Bridget Jones's Diary (2001)
So disappointing. Our last morning at the hotel in Vegas and looking for food before the flight home - a long day. We wanted something in the hotel and easy, so the buffet seemed to fit the bill. It was a decent price and had a wide variety. They let us look at the spread before paying to make sure we were interested. The buffet looked good and we had just missed the cheaper price (breakfast). But, in 30 minutes the food would be changing over, so we decided to go for it.
We paid, came in and sat down. Our waiter took drink orders and off we went. There were breakfast items still and some lunch items were starting to come out - but some of the labels were wrong. I got a plate of breakfast items and went back to the table. The waiter brought coffee and waters (iced tea for one of us). Unfortunately, the coffee was bitter - no amount of cream and sugar would help.
The breakfast items were pretty good - eggs, corned beef hash, bacon and blintzes. After I finished my small plate, I went back for lunch items - it was after 1130 - so the new items should be out. Well, they were, but nothing was labeled. A chef was walking around and slowly adding the signs. I slowly walked around and got items that were labeled (or were obvious). There were items like lasagna and meat balls and then a large Chinese section (orange chicken, sweet and sour pork, fried rice, dumplings, stir fry veggies, etc) and char siu bao. So everything I got was okay so-so. The steamed pork bun was good on the inside, but the dough was wrong on the outside. Never let the white-folk make the Asian food. I can hear my sister-in-laws Mom telling me that I shoul not have expected much.
Anyway, the food did not sit well in my stomach the rest of the day and on my flight. Not a buffet I would go to again and certainly not worth the price. But in a pinch, if it was your only choice, give it a shot. My standards are just higher than theirs.