food food food...

i just got back a little while ago from a goodbye lunch for a friend of mine who's going back to england in two days. we went to an all-you-can eat buffet in one of qingdao's five star hotels. there for about 12 dollars you get as much as you want of western, japanese, chinese, korean, and indian cuisine. to tell the truth, the western and indian food is ambitiously fancy yet somewhat mediocre, however, it's the only indian food, and basically some of the only western food that isn't poorly done pizza and spaghetti, so it's always nice to do for a splurge every once and awhile. however, cash splurging is only one kind of splurge, it's more the food splurge that's deadly; i am writing this in a sleepy stupor, and feel no desire to eat for the next week. we all had about 8 courses each, all involving a mixture of sushi, cheese, bread, roast beef, samosas, tandoori chicken, pretzels, salad, croissonts, raw salmon, cheese cake, chocolate mousse, ice cream, coffee and fruit salad.
though one quick note; the roast beef was tender and flavorful, and the rye rolls were firm and chewy, a nice change from the soggy and tasteless "french bread" many bakeries and western restaurants sell.

well, off to take a nap now.