I absolutely hate Chinese buffets, they all feel like feeding troughs to me.

Of course, we take all our candidates out for Chinese food these days, but its kind of expected since we are in Beijing. Sometimes its difficult dealing with some foreigner's dietary restrictions (orthodox, vegetarian are hard; halal is quite easy).

I mentally substituted "dim sum" for "a chinese buffet" because the latter just doesn't make any damn sense to me.

Maybe he lives in a deprived part of the country where "Chinese buffet" is the best Chinese food?