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Thanks to its quality and variety, seafood buffet is gradually becoming the top choice for every family gathering, friend get-together, birthday celebration, or company party. This article summarizes some tips for enjoying seafood buffet that enthusiasts often share!
Seafood buffet is currently favored by many discerning diners. A seafood buffet meal is not cheap, typically priced from 300,000 VND onwards. The seafood buffet is extremely diverse with a menu of up to hundreds of dishes, usually including both seafood and non-seafood items. Depending on the restaurant, seafood items may include crabs, clams, shrimp, squid, scallops, snails, etc., prepared in various styles such as steamed, boiled, grilled, stir-fried, fried, and salt-roasted. Non-seafood items include salads, appetizers, salads, fried foods, grilled foods, rice - noodles - vermicelli, hotpot, desserts, etc., added to the menu to keep the buffet from becoming monotonous.
1. Seafood Buffet Appreciation Culture
- At a busy buffet restaurant, it's important to wait for others to finish before taking your turn. Avoid pushing, shoving, or rushing.
- When it's your turn, quickly grab your food to make room for others.
- Resist the urge to get food for your friends, even if it looks delicious and you want your family to enjoy it. Let them make their own choices and enjoy the buffet experience.
- Avoid holding utensils or plates in front of others while eating.
- When you've finished eating from a plate, crossing the fork and knife in an X on the plate signals that you're done with that dish. The server will then come to clear it, allowing you to choose another dish.
- The principle of selection and enjoyment when dining at a seafood buffet
- A buffet meal can last around 2-3 hours. Start by taking a walk around the food counters to see the entire menu and find your favorite dishes.
- Follow a sequence when choosing dishes: appetizers, steamed-boiled dishes, grilled-mixed-fried-stir-fried dishes, hotpot, rice-noodle-pasta dishes, desserts.
- Start with light appetizers like salads and fresh rolls to stimulate your taste buds and digestion. Then, enjoy steamed and boiled dishes to savor the natural flavors, especially of seafood. Follow with grilled, stir-fried, and deep-fried dishes, hotpot, rice, noodles, and pasta. These dishes are often oily, and dishes with sauce can make you feel full and bloated quickly. Finally, indulge in desserts to complete a perfect meal.
- Avoid overeating dishes like fried rice, stir-fried noodles, pho, and vermicelli, as these dishes can quickly make you feel full (vermicelli or noodles with broth). Furthermore, these dishes are often available at cheap prices outside, which can prevent you from enjoying many other delicious dishes.
- Eat slowly, avoid taking too many dishes, and don't overload your plate. When getting food, take only what you can eat to avoid boredom and food waste. Take no more than two plates at a time, each with a maximum of 2-3 dishes. This is important and reflects part of your culture. Avoid taking too much of one dish to enjoy a variety of foods instead of just a few dishes that make you feel full.
- Try unfamiliar dishes first to make sure they suit your taste before eating them.
- Common mistakes in combining foods that can harm your health when eating seafood buffets
- Avoid eating fruit desserts immediately after seafood as it can cause irritation leading to stomach pain, nausea, etc. Opt for sweet desserts like cakes and pastries instead.
- If you have fruit for dessert, absolutely avoid fruits rich in vitamin C such as kiwi, guava, persimmon, grapes, strawberries, watermelon, papaya, grapefruit, sugarcane, oranges, tangerines... after eating some shellfish like shrimp, crab, squid, clams, snails... This combination can be toxic to the body.
- Avoid drinking beer, carbonated drinks, and green tea during and after eating seafood as they can increase the risk of gout, arthritis, stomach pain, indigestion...
4. Some other notes when going to eat seafood buffets
- It's not advisable to go to a seafood buffet alone as it can be quite boring.
- Avoid choosing a seafood buffet if you are a picky eater or allergic to seafood.
- If you don't have much time (at least 2 hours for a buffet), make plans with family or friends for another occasion.
- Feeling uncomfortable, experiencing digestive issues.
- People with diabetes, hepatitis, obesity... should also limit and pay close attention to their health when dining at buffets in general and seafood buffets in particular.
- Wear comfortable, loose clothing for easy movement and food collection.
I hope these experiences are truly helpful to you. Wish you delicious meals, warmth with friends and family!
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