Predictably, the pastas were overcooked (sitting there in the sauce) yet the pesto was quite nice. Yup, not exactly a ringing endorse ment of the food but the potatoes were very creamy and garlicky. Believe it or not, the most memorable item from this section was the mashed potatoes. At the very start, there is a mix of items which included Candied Yams, Garlic Mash Potatoes, Corn on the Cob, Broccoli, Spaghetti with Meat Sauce, Shanghai Bok Choy, Pesto Penne, Rigatoni in a Cream Sauce, BBQ Ribs, 5-Spice Chicken, Braised Brisket and Basa with an Orange-Tarragon Cream. On an adjacent wall to the entrance, we find the Hot Food stations. Much like any other casino buffet, the layout of the restaurant is designed for that purpose. With so few non-Asian buffet options in the GVRD, we can now look to the casinos. With that in mind, I finally made it out to The Buffet at the River Rock Casino. Yes, we can certainly get seafood at these places yet at a cost of $30.00+. In the GVRD, we find very few of these types of buffets other than the Sunday brunch variety such as The Hotel Vancouver, Pan Pacific, Waterfront, Sutton Place and Metrotown Hilton. Even with tempered expectations, it is still very hard to 'like' buffet f ood unless the ingredients are top quality such as seafood (especially served cold since it cannot further cook and become like rubber). Yup, none of the aforementioned restaurants are on anybody's culinary radar. Then we have others that remind me of my childhood (see: Royal Fork and Uncle Willy's). Others are just out of plain stupidity such as Kawawa. Of course, some are done for blog purposes like Kisha Poppo and Sui Sha Ya. Really, it isn't but I seem to visit one every now and then. 'A buffet is never the best option to experience good food'.

Sounding like a broken record or merely just a shoddy CD player made in China, I seem to chime the same tune over and over again.

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