Originally Posted by mosburger

I have had a few interesting experiences with buffets on social occasions in Japan and Korea. As locals are hypersensitive of the picture they present to others, buffets are regarded as potential minefields for losing one's face. Take too much, eat too quickly or in the wrong order and you might be considered a person of poor manners and upbringing who does not "belong".

Of course, overseas countries are considered out-of-bounds recreational areas in these two cultures so buffet behaviour there is a different story alltogether...