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YoshidaYui

(45,542 posts) Sun Apr 26, 2026, 01:23 AM Yesterday

North Korean Defector Reacts to Her First American Buffet!(Austin)🇺🇸

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North Korean Defector Reacts to Her First American Buffet!(Austin)🇺🇸 (Original Post) YoshidaYui Yesterday OP

I love these sisters. Hanaya writes so eloquently and Ina is a riot and a half! fierywoman Yesterday #1

So happy seeing her so happy. multigraincracker 21 hrs ago #2

I can scarcely imagine how girls - or anyone, for that matter - from NK would feel about this custom. BobTheSubgenius 16 hrs ago #3

I had to stop going to buffets. I would invariably eat too much, and apparently knew the First Rule Of Buffet, BobTheSubgenius 16 hrs ago #4

fierywoman

(8,612 posts)

1. I love these sisters. Hanaya writes so eloquently and Ina is a riot and a half!

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2026, 02:39 AM

Yesterday

multigraincracker

(37,858 posts)

2. So happy seeing her so happy.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2026, 07:35 AM

21 hrs ago

BobTheSubgenius

(12,244 posts)

3. I can scarcely imagine how girls - or anyone, for that matter - from NK would feel about this custom.

Reply to YoshidaYui (Original post)

Sun Apr 26, 2026, 12:09 PM

16 hrs ago

France is a far cry from NK, and our hotel concierge of many years ago in Paris was gobsmacked by the idea of a salad bar. Staring slackjawed and very deliberately saying "All...you...want????"

BobTheSubgenius

(12,244 posts)

4. I had to stop going to buffets. I would invariably eat too much, and apparently knew the First Rule Of Buffet,

Reply to BobTheSubgenius (Reply #3)

Sun Apr 26, 2026, 12:21 PM

16 hrs ago

long before I heard it uttered. "You don't stop eating at a buffet when you're full. You keep going until you hate yourself."

What an experience that must have been for those two. First run through the salad area, and they probably had as much vegetable content as they would in a week in NK.

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