EATS: Chopsticks Restaurant

Nothing like a nice buffet to finish off a rather cold Saturday. 

The Chopsticks Restaurant is an Asian-inspired (mainly buffet) restaurant in Stockholm. It is located around Centralstation and the city center. 

We had dinner here last night and we got the buffet! 

TIP: If you're going to a buffet, take a small (additional emphasis on SMALL) sample of the things you would like to try. Try all of them if you wish, but take a SMALL SAMPLE. Then if you like some stuff, get more of those. Maximize the variety, and don't just stick with 1 thing to eat. That's why it's a buffet: for you to sample everything (and to eat lots). 

PLATE 1: Clockwise from top: Beef (?) noodles, deep-fried shrimp, chicken, fish fillet and a dumpling.

WORST PHOTO QUALITY AWARD goes to me.

NOM NOM NOM! Everything on this plate was great, but the noodles.... I can't explain how I don't like them though... The shrimp and the dumplings were the best! The chicken was fine, but if you're going to eat the chicken in this restaurant, don't be surprised if the whole tray is finished within two minutes... Just saying. 

PLATE 2: Sushi Platter! 

Slightly improved photo.

My favorite was the salmon and the crabstick sushi. I quite like the seaweed (?) wrapped one too... The cucumber inside it gives it a little kick. The rest were "eh", not quite up to par with the others. 

The next plates were mainly just more of the shrimp and the dumplings and the chicken. Then I had dessert, 3 medium scoops of raspberry ice-cream from their ice-cream bar. 

They also had a selection of uncooked meat and vegetables, where you can pick your favorites and let the chef cook it for you live. I didn't chose that option though, I wanted my food right away. 

Price wise, I think it's quite steep. SEK 820 (US$ 126) for a buffet for four.... 

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EATS: Bamboo City Asian Buffet

In my previous blog-post about Stockholm's Changing of the Guard and Old Town (click here to view), I said that we ate in Bamboo City, which is a buffet restaurant located in Drottninggatan. 

I think that the price for buffet for adults is SEK 158 and SEK 128 for kids. I just based it on the sign above, so I'm not sure...

While we were seated, we ordered three Pepsi's and a water which was served in less than five minutes. We then went to get some food from the buffet. There were a wide variety of options to choose from, from deep-fried goodness, to a fruit and ice-cream bar to a bar where you get your own raw food and let the cooks cook it for you.

My first plate was sushi. Below (clockwise from left), I had a sushi roll filled with mango and crab, a crabstick wrapped rice roll, a shrimp (?) topped rice roll and salmon sushi.

The crabstick sushi was the best, as I love me some awesome crabstick. I wouldn't say that the salmon one was good, because it tasted gooey and was like gelatin. It also kept falling from the rice blob.                                      

My second plate was dim-sum. I didn't take a picture because it looked so good that I just had to eat it before capturing. I had steamed and deep fried shu-mai, a deep fried dumpling and a boiled fish dumpling.

Everything was very good, with the exception of the boiled fish dumpling which tasted like water. Loved the deep fried shu-mai, basically because I never had one of those in a long while. The deep fried dumpling was disappointing though, because it was kind of chewy and not crisp.

My third plate was "randomly Chinese". (Clockwise from middle) I had some fried rice, deep fried shrimp, a squid cracker, deep fried chicken and two spring rolls.

The deep fried shrimp, chicken and the squid biscuit were exceptional. If you ever go here, don't miss those. The rice was "ehh" as I couldn't taste anything besides the corn kernels. The spring rolls were fine...

I then grabbed a fourth plate, which was a plate just with the deep fried shrimp, the cracker and the chicken. I called this the "favorites platter". I then grabbed a watermelon slice, a fried banana, some ice cream and maple syrup for dessert.

Overall, I think was the dining experience was above-average, although the placing of their buffets were not exactly up to par. The main buffets and the place where you get the raw food to be cooked are in the left of the restaurant, the fruit bar at the right, and the Chinese food and deep-fried stuff on the back right of the restaurant, near the restrooms.

Speaking of restrooms, they were nasty. Toilet paper everywhere. Not very hygienic at all. Half of my appetite was lost.

Value for money? I think it's too steep. It should've been SEK 100 for adults, SEK 70-80 for kids. Or is that too low to make a profit?

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Bamboo City (Chinese/Mongolian Buffet) 
Drottninggatan 28
Stockholm 111 51 
Norrmalm, Sweden 
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