Open Buffet Warfare?
caromich | Aug 31, 2008 | | 3 Comments
For three years’ running I have been invited to attend a galaIftar at one of the more upmarket venues you have listed but, quite honestly, Open Warfare might be considered a more appropriate description than Open Buffet of these events. I fully understand that (a totally misplaced)fear of the food running out before one has taken one’s fill is the reason for the frenzied pushing and jostling but the sight of lamb-greased rice-covered spoons shoved into the Creme Caramele and Chocolate Cakesin rabid attempts to ensure one obtains adequately sizedportions is enough to turn one’s (empty) stomach. And how about that recurring habit of taking a bite of a sambusak,or baklava, disdaining the filling, and replacing it on the buffet’s serving plate; do they imagine that some other hapless attendee would be happy to consume their leavings, or what? Should not hotel staff beable to enforce the use of serving utensils without fear of snarling reprisal?
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Great article ya…
What would be great if you could publish a list of restaurants that offers a set menu for Iftar, rather than the open buffet.
To avoid the “open warfare”
good god, what kind of buffet’s do you guys attend? lol yeah i have to agree that people here do get kinda vicious when the call for sunset prayer rings in the air, and people forget about ramadan’s true spirit and let it die without a second thought. although you can’t stereotype every open buffet as a “warzone”. some are just worse than others.
Open Buffet War is at its worse in big conferences or conventions. Because of my job I attend plenty of Microsoft conferences that feature open buffets for the lunch break. Guerrilla warfare indeed! The Microsoft staff were humorous about it as well. In the survey we filled out at the end of the day, they listed “free food” under possible reasons we attended in the first place.