{"id":208,"date":"2007-06-04T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T04:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-06-04T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T04:31:08","slug":"emperor-of-china-buffet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Emperor of China Buffet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While we were staying in <st1:place><st1:city>Rock Springs<\/st1:city>,  <st1:state>Wyoming<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, we noticed that there was a restaurant named Emperor of China and they had a buffet.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now, while <st1:city><st1:place>Rock Springs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is a fairly good sized community, its main claim to fame is the fact that there isn\u2019t anything within two hundred miles of the place.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city><st1:place>Rock Springs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, 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.<span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I doubt that there is any appreciable Asian population in the area and there certainly isn\u2019t any china town.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Any Asians in the area are probably descendants of the Chinese who built the railroad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So, what is this leading too?<span>\u00a0 <\/span>I doubt that the food at the Chinese buffet would be very good according to Chinese standards.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>In fact, I suspect that it would probably be in the same category as La Choi.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>So, I think that the operative word in the Chinese Buffet is Buffet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A buffet would fit in well with the community.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>An all you can eat would be ideal for the meat and tators crowd.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Egg drop soup, Sweet and Sour chicken; you\u2019ve got a Chinese buffet.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>Throw in some macaroni and cheese and some meat loaf; you\u2019re golden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Don\u2019t get me wrong, I have eaten at a lot of Chinese buffets over the years and some were very good.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>But most were not.<span>\u00a0 <\/span>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.\u00a0 Sorry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; While we were staying in Rock Springs, Wyoming, we noticed that there was a restaurant named Emperor of China and they had a buffet.\u00a0 Now, while Rock Springs is a fairly good sized community, its main claim to fame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-3m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}