[Los Angeles] [Buffet] Souplantation

Souplantation
8491 West 3rd St.
Los Angeles, CA 90048-4124
(323) 655-0381
http://www.souplantation.com

Souplantation五月份推出了草莓月，有草莓沙拉和瑪芬，還有草莓綠茶和檸檬汁，這次來吃午餐發現盤子和碗都變好小喔！不過東西還是一樣好吃。

I received a promotional e-mail from Souplantation in May about their special strawberry month.  There was also a coupon attached with the e-mail, buy 1 meal plus 2 drinks and get 1 meal free.  Since I love strawberry (and coupon), Dr. Park and I came here to get some strawberry salad for lunch.


All You Can Eat Buffet (Lunch) ($7.99/person)

The first think we noticed was that the plates are much smaller now.  I guess they want to do some portion control since food cost is higher now.  But I'm not really sure if that tactic works.  Since the plate is so small, we just took two plates and probably ended up taking more food.  Almost all customers did the same, too.



For my first plate, I got their special strawberry salad.  It had a tangy strawberry vinegarette dressing.  Really yummy salad.  I also made my own spinach salad with some of my favorite salad items.  Tasty and also healthy.



My second plate was for prepared salad.  My favorite was the broccoli salad.  It was sweet and crunchy.  Tasted so much better than cooked broccoli.  They had a new Thai rice salad.  The rice was so watery I didn't like it a bit.



They only served two pastas that day, spaghetti and macaroni & cheese.  I also grabbed some cooked veggies, one baked potato to share with Dr. Park, some cheesy bread, and of course the special strawberry muffin.  The muffin had big chunks of strawberry in it.  It was so good I went back and got one more.



Dr. Park loves corn bread.  He always gets this.



Just like the plate, the soup bowl also got a lot smaller.  But I guess then I'll try two soups instead of just having one. haha....  Clam chowder is always my favorite at Souplantation.  So creamy and full of clam and potato.



Also got some French onion soup.  The soup was good, but a bit too salty.  But I think French onion soup is supposed to be salty, oui?



We had to order two drinks to get eh buy 1 get 1 free deal.  Dr. Park ordered coffee.  I ordered a regular drink and was given a cup.  The drink station has soda, juice and iced tea, but I was only interested in their special strawberry drinks.  The first one I got was strawberry green tea.  It had a really pretty pink color that made me go "awwww.... pink....".  Yes, I like pink.  The green tea didn't really taste like tea, but more like strawberry juice.  It was sweet and refreshing.  I hope they would serve this tea all the time.



After finishing the strawberry green tea, I tried another special drink, strawberry lemonade.  It tasted like fresh strawberry and lemon.  But it was really sour... maybe because I just had the sweet strawberry tea.  We both like the strawberry green tea better.



When I come to Souplantation, if I don't get their soft served ice cream, then I would feel like my meal is unfinished.  They don't have swirl anymore.  So I had to mix my own vanilla and chocolate together to make my own sundae.  No matter how full I am, just need to eat this for a proper ending of the meal.



The original location of this branch is under construction right now.  I'm not sure if the move to this next door location was temporarily, but I actually like the "lofty" feeling at this new site.

If you like Souplantation, I highly suggest you go to their website to sign up for their free e-mail newsletter.  They often offer coupons to their member.  This month they are having a special cherry menu.  We will definately go try it out.

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