While we were staying in Rock Springs, Wyoming, we noticed that there was a restaurant named Emperor of China and they had a buffet. 

Now, while Rock Springs is a fairly good sized community, its main claim to fame is the fact that there isn’t anything within two hundred miles of the place.  So, it has a lot of hotels and fast food restaurants and caterers more to travelers who are too tired to make the trip to the next major community.

Rock Springs, itself, is more of a red neck community and offers food that is more meat and tators, so seeing a Chinese buffet seemed a little out of place. 

I doubt that there is any appreciable Asian population in the area and there certainly isn’t any china town.  Any Asians in the area are probably descendants of the Chinese who built the railroad.

So, what is this leading too?  I doubt that the food at the Chinese buffet would be very good according to Chinese standards.  In fact, I suspect that it would probably be in the same category as La Choi.  So, I think that the operative word in the Chinese Buffet is Buffet.

A buffet would fit in well with the community.  An all you can eat would be ideal for the meat and tators crowd.  Egg drop soup, Sweet and Sour chicken; you’ve got a Chinese buffet.  Throw in some macaroni and cheese and some meat loaf; you’re golden.

Don’t get me wrong, I have eaten at a lot of Chinese buffets over the years and some were very good.  But most were not.  When I have found it hard to find good Chinese food in China Town in San Francisco, I doubt that I am going to find good Chinese food in Rock Springs, Wyoming.  Sorry.