Ancient Chinese secret

Check out this story about a woman who was banned from a Chinese restaurant in Des Moines for being too picky. I guarantee she was a fattie, too. I've seen some pretty crazy shit in Chinese places, man. I went to one that made everything on the buffet out of chicken ... including the Mongolian. Not Mongolian Chicken. Not Mongolian Beef. Just Mongolian. You ask the owner "what's this?" "Chicken." He'd say in most hostile tones. I've never been to a Chinese buffet regularly that didn't start out pretty good and then start cutting corners and lowering quality until they weren't worth going to any more. They'll open with four shrimp dishes that kick ass and after a year or so they're down to one breaded shrimp dish they clearly got pre-packaged from a box. The Chinese Buffet (actual name) in Council Bluffs was down to one decent shrimp dish: salt and pepper shrimp. It was made of three ingredients. Last time I was there they were serving some kind of ranch shrimp from a box and calling it salt and pepper shrimp. They did this twice and I haven't been back since.

And why are they all called China Buffet, King Buffet, Jade Garden or Dragon House? Those four names must account for 95 percent of all Chinese restaurants.