USA Buffet Springfield Missouri Leaves Old Coot Delighted and Sated

*************** UPDATE ***************

Latter part of January 2013… arrived to sate my HUGE hunger and saw no vehicles in the parking lot. No lights inside. Sniff. Closed when it should be open.

Tried again a few days later… nope. No shoveling in enormous quantities of MANY different food-types.

Only the good die young?

USA Buffet

300 East Battlefield Springfield, MO 65807
883-8800

South side of Battlefield Road across from the Big Lots!, Food-4-Less, and CiCi Pizza stores.

Taking over the location one occupied by the Foo Kee Chinese buffet American Buffet is a marvelous addition to Springfield dining.

The two serving tables offer a multitude of choices.

Standard American fare such as mashed potatoes, fried chicken, salisbury steak and many more choices.

Then there is the small USA-style “Mexican” food offerings that allow you to create your own dishes of that food style; tacos, taco salads, etc. The burritos looked really yummy but with so many choices I will have to wait for the next visit to try the Mexican food.

Making this buffet unique is that along with American and Mexican-type foods there is also a bounty of Chinese food offerings!!!

Every item from the Chinese section tasted delicious to me. Yummy!!!!

All the standard Chinese offerings are present. I especially enjoyed the crab Rangoon that used minimal fried dough surrounding the creamy. tasty center. No BIG “wings” spreading out from the gooey center with these yummy fellows!!! A fine way to obtain maximum taste while reducing calorie content.

There is also a sushi section and a Mongolian barbeque area that appear to be typical in their offerings but I was so busy eating the delicious offerings at the main buffet I did not try those offerings.

While eating all the ingredients were tasty and appear to be of high quality.

No gristle in the chicken nor hard bits of bone in the salisbury steak and the fried chicken was large and meaty and fried excellently. The thin breading had just the right amount of “crunch” for me and seasoned well… enough to taste but not overpower the meat.

The fish was lightly breaded and tasted good. My memory is far from perfect but I believe there was also non-breaded fish offered; my favored way since the calories from breading are avoided. I always look at the fish offerings since cheaply-bought fish usually shows that it is the “cheap stuff” by the off-colors upon it. If I had seen that at American Buffet I would have remembered that!!!

There are several vegetable and soup offerings along with a small desert area I did not sample. I was too full from the yummy meats, mashed potatoes, Chinese goodies and other plate-filling gustatory delights.

I will make another trip and try to get some pictures and comment about other aspects of this new-to-Springfield non-chain, locally owned purveyor of good things to eat!!!

Coot Condoned Cooking Style

The drool-inducing video below will assuredly compel you, propel you to rush to your shanty’s cooking area and commence assembling your own marvelous meal.
.

Practice Food Safety Folks

 

 

Do some reading.

Lots of information on the Web.

Avoid food poisoning.

Or take a chance and you may be on the next video as another dumb way to die.

Bye!!!

Eat for Existence, Eat for Health, Eat for Fun and Eat for the Joy of Eating!!!

The Foo Kee Chinese buffet departed the planet awhile back.

The sagging economy was surely a partial reason and perhaps the rent for the larger-than-needed building and its prime spot on a major thoroughfare eased the passing of the mighty-fine food I devoured there when it was open.

The building sat empty for several months.

Then, abruptly, looming upon the horizon I saw the new sign.

“American Buffet” the letters shouted out to me and everybody else who bothered to look away from the mobile electronic device their grasping paws were clutching and absorbing all their minute brainpower and awareness of self and surroundings; even many of the disgusting creatures driving their vehicles.

With immense sadness I drove past the new food provider in the building once housing the lamented Foo Kee.
Various economic and physical restrictions required my not pulling into the parking lot, prancing in and partaking of the vittles awaiting.

Hunger Control

Your ever-helpful Disgruntled Old Coot knows how those hunger pangs can ruin a diet.

Sometime a person needs a little assistance to ignore those desires for between-meal snacks or eating more in one sitting than is wanted or needed.

To assist those of you trying to shed some lard I offer this handy hunger control device:

 

.

Eating for Two if You Are Pregnant.

“For every one of your cells, 10 microbes live inside you”

 

“What’s up, buddies?”  Slide 3 in a “slide show” titled The 7 Biggest Mysteries of the Human Body

 

Consider the oft-heard declaration that pregnant females are eating for two.

I haven’t heard it said of males but here atop the Ozark Plateau of southern Missouri I do see many males who could easily pass as pregnant due to the enormous bulge above their belt-line thrusting forward to the point their belly meets people before they do.

Even if not pregnant all of us are eating for two…and many more!!!!

 

Inedible but Food Related

Hi Folks!!!

My liver quivers with unadulterated delight akin to sinking my real, original and fake, plastic teeth into a tasty chunk of food.

 

Well, not THAT much but your Disgruntled Old Coot in his shanty is still pleased that you made the trek to visit.

Or maybe you arrived by accident.

Anyway, since you are here it is time for:

 

 

Despite what the handy graphic declares the word tossed at you will not be weekly.

This momentous event may be a one-time occurrence.

Okay… pay attention. The word is:

 

Ort

 

“What the heck is ort?” I imagine the thronging crowds mumbling amongst themselves.

Maybe you already know the word’s meaning so good for you!!!

If not… you, too, can be among the few, the proud, the food eaters of the world who know the meaning by going ———>  HERE

 

Now go forth and impress the masses of unknowing cretins who have somehow been able to exist either unaware that word exists or if they did know of its existence had no idea of its meaning.