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09 March 2009

Today, I got bored & restless and wen't wandering through the neighborhood. I found myself hungry and stopped in at this place for a buffet lunch.→[More:] Among the usual 'Chinese-American' steam-table items was something bread-covered identified by the sign on the sneezeguard as 'Frank In A Blank.'(I am not making this up) I looked at it for a few minutes and a passing attendant said "That turkey!" I nodded thanks, but decided against partaking. Instead, I had a helping of 'Casino Clam.' (this either). That tasted OK, but I am now haunted by the mental image of a free-cocktail-swilling mollusk sitting in front of a roulette wheel saying "C'mon! Big Money! Big Money!"

Queens is a strange and wonderful place.

post by: jonmc at: 17:30 | 6 comments

Are you going to visit all the restaurants that Stynxno rates one star?

posted by mullacc 09 March | 18:29

I didn't read that review until after I got home and googled the place. I had seen the place aroubd the neighborhood and figured 'what the hell,' for a cheap lunch.

posted by jonmc 09 March | 18:37

lol. awesome.

it seems like the place actually tried something different. when i went, there was no attempt to be funny or interesting. there was only the attempt to make everything look as if it was cooked in an off-site betting bar, left to soak up the atmosphere for a decade, and then warmed up underneath some lights.

posted by stynxno 09 March | 19:01

Dude, I don't think they were trying to be funny today either. There was a guy at the table behind me who looked like Burt Young in Rocky wearing thick glasses and coveralls gorging himself on what looked like raw clams and oysters*.

*which, no, I was not crazy enough to anywhere near, not in that joint.

posted by jonmc 09 March | 19:06

The top of that place looks like a roller-coaster.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 09 March | 22:32

Oh, man...I LOVE shitty buffets. I'm so going now.

posted by kkokkodalk 10 March | 13:54

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