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Skriven 2011-08-09 03:47:08 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
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Eventually we pried ourselves from the substantially more
luxury than we'd anticipated and headed to the reputedly pretty
good Asian Buffet in Canton, 20 miles up the road, which is,
actually, pretty good.

On the way a small detour to see places important in Backus
history and a larger one owing to a bridge out on the main
road to Canton.

Nancy is well known here. Louie the waiter took good care of us.

Seafood seems to be the specialty here, and, though most if
not all of it is frozen, and some of it is preprepared,
generally quite good.

My first plate
octopus salad - very chewy, but well flavored; big slices of
jalapeno helped a lot

fried shrimp - standard, 30-40s enveloped in a pretty savory
fishsticklike batter such as Mrs. Paul or Gorton used to
make; not bad

salt-pepper shrimp - not substantially spicier than the
above and way saltier

shrimp cocktail - the same shrimp, set in melting ice and
consequently very bland

stuffed shrimp - ditto, wrapped in salty cornbread stuffing
and fried to an underwhelming hushpuppylikeness

fried squid - odd; white rings with a dark band. Maybe
a different species from what I'm accustomed to. In any case
reasonably crisp, reasonably tender, and not bad

fried frog legs - quite decent; Gail even admitted that they
were palatable (though I get the feeling that she won't
be eating them again any time soon)

a couple steamed Manila clams - pretty tasty though
previously frozen

a piece of red roast boneless spare rib - I scanned this and
saw what I thought was a fatty piece; though it didn't fit
with the rest of the plate, I figured it wouldn't stay long.
So I swooped down upon it. It was a fatty piece.

By this time my plate was pretty brimfull, so I passed on the
carve-it-yourself roast round of beef, which was sort of medium
rare. I figured I'd check it out later.

My second plate

more fried shrimp; more fried squid

a snow crab leg - not bad at all

a piece of avocado and fish big maki - decent

a piece of white fish nigiri, which I didn't care for;
there was a reason why it was last on the platter

two pieces of spicy salmon maki - pretty good if meager

two bites of beef with broccoli - standard

a couple more frog legs

a bite of orange chicken - way sweet way battered
breast meat, overcooked, unpleasant

a bite of "General Tso's" chicken - an odd dark
brown sauce that tasted of mushrooms and wasn't
too bad. The chicken was overbattered but at
least not overcooked

a bite of Asian roast salmon - good flavor but steam
tabled rather too long.

I passed on the Bourbon chicken, which looked particularly
gooey; and by this time, the roast beef had largely stewed
on the steam table and was no longer at all attractive to me.
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