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All-you-can-eat with a buffet you assemble yourself and a cook who stir-fries it. A Dutch formula.
How it works
You fill a bowl at the buffet with raw ingredients, hand it in at the wok station, and get it back cooked. Alongside runs a sushi belt and fried snacks.
Why so large here
Chinese-Indonesian restaurants have existed in the Netherlands since the 1920s and were long the only foreign cuisine. The wok formula grew out of that in the 1990s.
The time limit
Usually two hours, printed on the receipt. Not a suggestion: staff keep track.
What it is not
Not Chinese cooking as found in China. A Dutch hybrid, like the bami disc, and none the worse for it.
For groups
Birthdays, work outings, families with children. The fixed price per head makes settling up simple, which explains the popularity.
Where to look
On city edges and by shopping centres, where there is room for large halls.
Where to try it
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