So we took Nat & Blythe for dinner at the No.1 Oriental Buffet last night. Same idea as the Nawaab - all you can eat for a tenner - but this time with Chinese food instead of Indian. Fantastic! For us, the best part of any Chinese meal is the crispy aromatic duck, and here they have a corner of the restaurant devoted to assembling your pancakes - a huge plate of shredded duck, a tureen of Hoisin sauce and large dishes full of shredded spring onions and cucumber. The Szechuan chilli beef was to die for too, not to mention the crispy chicken and the excellent ribs.
One of the great things about buffet-style restaurants like this is the chance to try new stuff without incurring any extra cost, which was a relief when I discovered the fish with ginger and spring onions had almost no flavour at all, and one of the noodle dishes tasted like the smell of newly-pasted wallpaper. This made everyone laugh until they actually tried some. Then they laughed even louder when they agreed it was a perfect description of the flavour.
Back home we turned the lights down low and the home cinema volume up high and settled back to watch Forrest Gump followed by Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, accompanied with lots of ginger beer and ... no nibbles. We were all still stuffed!
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Hey! I *liked* those noodles ;o)
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