In the West we believe we are cured of fright with the viral phenomena linked to food, but in Asia they do not fall short either. These days the controversial issue of chinese networks has been the video of a group of twenty-somethings who have devastated with the free buffet from a place in Qingdao, in the eastern province of Shandong, where they ate non-stop for four and a half hours.
The images were shared in the local medium Bailu -something like the Chinese Google-, and it has spread like wildfire throughout the Asian country. On May 3, six men and one woman, all friends in their 20s, accessed the shandong restaurant around 5:00 p.m., staying inside until closing, at 9:30 p.m. The place, a free buffet restaurant, allows you to eat and drink all you want at a price of 160 yuan per person, about 21 euros To the change. And these youngsters made the most of it.
They are striking in the video more than 300 shells and dozens of dessert bowls that the group was accumulating in several tables, a grotesque image that has caused a lot of rejection among the users who have shared the news. One of the protagonists Zhang, has pointed out that, in addition to those crabs and mango and durian desserts, they gave a good account of salmon, prawns, crayfish, meat and other sweet dishes. But he does not consider that they were excessive, since at his age it’s normal have such an appetite
“We digest food quickly,” Zhang told Chinese media. “That night, at midnight, a friend of the group said that I was hungry again. He wanted to go out again to eat more, but since it was too late, he didn’t do it “. The young man tells that he wanted to eat that day shellfishbut being so expensive, they chose to go to an open buffet where they had no limit for their voracious stomach.
According to an employee, in theory diners can only stay a maximum of two hours, but that day there were so many customers that they got confused by checking the time of the young people. The attitude of the group, eating as if there were no tomorrow, has caused a great rejection among the Chinese communityboth for showing solidarity with the local and for considering the excessive exhibitionism they display to be a lack of education.
As they point out in South China Morning Postthe country tries to combat waste stopping excessive consumption of food, apparently something common in buffet-type places, where more dishes are served than they can consume. After passing a law that would reduce these excesses, the Chinese try to eat as much as possible to exceed the price of the menu, and there have even been cases of customers trying to sneak food.
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